by Celia Wood | Oct 16, 2020 | Capstone
My readings this week have focused on some of the basics of effective graphics. Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information states one of the foundational elements of data graphic design as focusing on the story the data tells, rather than the details of...
by Celia Wood | May 29, 2020 | Independent Study
Over intensives, the marine biology group took a week long trip to Woods Hole, MA to visit the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL). This trip really solidified my interest in biology and gave me a taste of what studying biology in college and beyond might look like. I was...
by Celia Wood | May 26, 2020 | Independent Study
I discovered that the animators behind Garden Party released another short film this year called Maestro. The film is short, less than two minutes, but it demonstrates the same insane level of realistic detail as Garden Party. In Maestro, an orchestra of woodland...
by Celia Wood | May 22, 2020 | Independent Study
After the Sunday runway show in January, Dr. V and her daughter came up to talk to me and look at my dress. At one point she said to her daughter, “Look, it’s like a storybook,” and explained the progression of the silhouettes to her. This got me thinking about the...
by Celia Wood | May 19, 2020 | Independent Study
Looking more into this artist’s work, I found he has some really interesting projects, including a series of “alien bonsai trees” created with L systems and a series of 3D forms based on Ernst Haeckel drawings. These works show the extent that L systems can be crafted...
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