Perpetual Student

Explorations in learning, ideas, and design by E. John Love

Tagged: education

On Design: Fulfilling the Urge to Learn and Create 0

art / design / learning

On Design: Fulfilling the Urge to Learn and Create

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs usual, I’m in the midst of a few different processes at the same time, all self-imposed. I moved on from my last full-time job in March, and in the past couple of months, I’ve been going through a personal re-evaluation of my skills as well as my professional identity. It’s that whole “changing my job/career/identity” mental anguish process wherein, periodically, I rattle my own cage and see what settles out from the upheaval.

On Design: Visual Literacy in Interface Design 1

learning / research

On Design: Visual Literacy in Interface Design

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring my art education at Emily Carr College in the 80s, I took a unique opportunity to study visual literacy under the college’s Dean of Education, Tom Hudson. This research and study involved developing...

Reflections on a multimedia career… 1

art / design / interdisciplinary / literacy / media / visual

Reflections on a multimedia career…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAll through my post-secondary education (which was four frantic, sleep-deprived, incredible years at art college), I never knew exactly what I wanted to do in art and design.

Now, 21 years after graduating from the ECCAD four year program and receiving my diploma in fine arts, I look at the preponderance of digital media and information systems in the world around me, and I’m amazed at how much that culture and technology have converged, and have even seemed to become practically inseparable.