Monthly Archives: January 2008

The chosen metaphor is… 0

Today I had my critique with Elouise to decided on the metaphor that I will begin the final design and will implement as a prototype. I like the metaphor “Life is a Highway” and the Bamboo Forest. They are very similar in how they look. Elouise liked the peacock one. Now I have to admit, […]

Brainstorming the Peacock metaphor 0

During my critique yesterday, Elouise Oyzon (who is my Capstone Committee Chair) made a comment on the last metaphor that I showed. She said something along the lines of “Wow. That’s very you.” and “There’s a lot that can be done with this metaphor”. The metaphor that she was talking about was the Peacock. Even […]

Other things to do… 0

Besides developing the metaphors, there are many other things I need to work on during my capstone. They are: Books: Need to be read and returned. Need to decide which ones to buy. I need to make my list and order them. I’m an avid reader and some of them aren’t that technical – so […]

The 1st Critique 0

Yesterday morning, I had met with my capstone committee to go over my 5 metaphors.  Overall, it went well and I received a lot of great feedback. The next step is to further develop the metaphors that I find interesting.  Therefore, I will be developing 4 out of the 5 metaphors.  I will be dropping […]

Yet another revision 0

I’ve revised (yet again) 2 out of the 5 metaphors. The tree metaphor was originally going to be a tree with an up-close view of branches and leaves depicting time. During my search, for images and inspiration for the trees I found it difficult and could not figure out a good way to depict the […]