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Results for Date: January 2017
  • Brianna Coren Hutchison
Hello! My name is Brianna Hutchison. For a brief introduction, I am a Design Lab Resident, Electrical Engineer in training, and a martial artist who recently had knee (ACL reconstruction) surgery. I love spending time in nature, going on adventures, and learning new things.

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The Keeper of Secrets Book Cover
  • Pam MacKintosh
A beautiful story following a 1742 Guarneri del Gesú violin and the men (and boys) who loved her.
Orson Welles on set of Citizen Kane with camera visible
  • Philip A Hallman
Join us next Monday (30th January) for a lecture with Harlan Lebo, author of Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey.
  • Rebecca M Chung
L2P Project (Lead to Pixels): Dr. Rebecca M. Chung

If someone sees a book image on a screen, are they truly reading a book? If not, then how can digitization be used to transmit the material and historical features of reading? The materiality of the text connects the creation of that text to its historical moment. Historical context is as much about paper composition, assembly techniques, enclosure styles, and chemical composition—as about dates or places or names. The L2P project works on reconstructing the material characteristics of a text embedded in its historical moment—both type and ornaments, by combining book history research, digital images, and printing technologies from letterpress to electronic.

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Several students place their hands on loudspeakers filled with percussion instruments.
  • Eleanor Daftuar
A quick look into what was happening in Design Lab 1 on the morning of January 24, featuring a course offered through the Living Arts program.
  • Pam MacKintosh
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood tells the story of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah's childhood in South Africa.
IWW flyer "Industrial democracy"
  • Julie Herrada
Preserving the history of labor movements has been core to the Labadie Collection’s mission since its very beginnings more than a century ago. In 2016, two important collections on 20th century labor organizing have been arranged to better facilitate research. The Joyce Kornbluh Collection (3.25 linear ft.) and the Don Stewart IWW Collection (3 linear ft.) conserve evidence of the regular confrontations between workers, corporations, and government throughout the past hundred years.
  • Rashun Jamal Miles
RJ speaks about his first semester as a Design Lab Resident.
Practice for Life Cover Image
  • Pam MacKintosh
Ever wonder about the myriad decisions and changes colleges students go through during their four or so years? Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College helps answer those questions.
Cover of Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley
  • Vicki J Kondelik
In the latest entry in Alan Bradley's mystery series featuring Flavia de Luce, a twelve-year-old chemistry genius in 1950s England, Flavia returns to England after being expelled from a boarding school in Canada and finds out her father is ill with pneumonia. Her sisters give her a less than warm welcome, and to get away from the house, she carries a letter from the vicar's wife to a wood-carver, only to find the man dead, hanging upside-down from his bedroom door. She conducts her own investigation of the murder, and finds a connection between the murdered man and an author of children's poetry, who also died mysteriously.