The Beat uses Instagram pictures users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google StreetView location to help explore topics in a new way. Try it!
This is a project of the Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University.
Feel free to explore your own beat by putting a new topic in the search box.
http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/
Everyday I discover another treasure within Rutgers.
Take a look at this mapmaking resources and toolbox.
3D printing event at makerspace, last Thursday was fun and inspiring. This is a weekly event, you can always join Rick Anderson at 35 Berrue Circle Piscataway Township, Thursdays 8 pm.
The size of the printer is 6 in. x 8 in. x 6 in. so largest module of your design should not exceed these dimensions. Printer uses ABS, PVA or PLA. These filaments are available in limited colors and our makerspace is not carrying them all but you can take a look to all availbel colors from makerbot store.
Basically the printer reads from a software called MakerWare allowing to read from an .stl or .obj file. You should prepare your model in of these formats. Autodesk123D and Tinkercad seem to be the most commonly used software for this purpose but as a designer I would also suggest using Rhinoceros or ZBrush. Rhinoceros has already started a RhinoFabLab.
One of the most popular and free 3D drawing software is SketchUp, actually it doesn’t really save or export .stl but here is a tutorial to convert from prepared by makerbot.
For inspiration and watching some modalities and limits you may spend some time on THINGIVERSE.
Here is a message from Amee:
Undergraduate Annual exhibition – Open Call for Art Work 2012
You are invited to submit one work on the theme of “Systems”.
(You can find great examples for inspiration in the Zimmerli’s group show “Art=Text=Art” and the work of Ruth Vollmer, who used mathematics and the Fibonnacci series/sequence to produce her abstract sculpture.)
Both BA and BFA students are encouraged to submit one piece each; all are accepted.
The exhibition will be on view from Monday, October 29th – Tuesday, November 13th, 2012.
The opening reception is Wednesday, October 31st, from 5-7pm.
The show will be curated and installed by the BFA Thesis class (Section 1) and participating students should bring their artwork to the Visual Arts office from Monday, October 15th – Thursday, October 18th between the hours of 10am-5pm.
SUBMITTING IS EASY:
Let’s make a great show!
Amee Pollack
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Visual Arts
Mason Gross School of the Arts
A makerspace is growing inside Rutgers. It is located at 35 Berrue Circle
Piscataway Township. In the space they are running Make Your Makerspace events on Wednesday evening, and a 3D printing night Thursday after 8pm.
As design area faculty we are going to visit their October 18th, 3D printing event at 8pm. Please join us if you like.
To see what a makerspace is:
http://makerspace.rutgers.edu/content/what-are-makerspaces
and its critiscm:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/us/worries-over-defense-dept-money-for-hackerspaces.html?_r=0
Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German and English Edition)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Art of the Digital Age
Network Art
Graphic Design: A User’s Manual
Visual Strategies
Arduino Cookbook
Processing
Inventing the Medium
Beautiful Visualization
Graphic Design New Basics
Processing
S, M, L, XL
Visualize This
Form + Code
Wayshowing
Information Graphics