Author: Colin Budd

Adversarial Design and Social Impact

A new course offered this year, INFO 4240: Designing Technologies for Social Impact has quickly won a spot in my top five favorite classes at Cornell University. Among the long list of reasons to love...

Welcome to the Coffee Hour

[Note: Post updated on August 2013 to reflect the club’s close.] Cornell University’s INFO 2300: Intermediate Web Design course offers as much to students in its class as it does to those outside of the...

Bringing the Farmer’s Market Online

One of Ithaca’s most loved traditions is the weekly farmer’s market which offers everything one could need from humble, handcrafted goods to delicious, farm fresh vegetables. Embracing this tradition yet helping to bring it...

Generative Music, Art, Poetry

Few things ease the “sting” of paying tuition like attending a course and learning from a professor that truly captivates your imagination. While I’m sure I’ll have the pleasure of finding more courses and...

2036: VIVIFI

Pronounced “vivify,” this video was created in a weekend for my Introduction to Digital Media course at Cornell University in Fall 2011. The project required students to create a new reality within which they...

Drawing Project: Urbanization

For my second Intro to Drawing project at Cornell University, I was assigned to create a map based on an imaginary location and advance that concept to the greatest extent possible. The result is...