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You Can Creat Any Characters' Headpiece from Scratch!

Printing a custom case for my modular synth

Ithaca is the first of a trilogy of feminist retellings of The Odyssey, focusing on Odysseus' wife Penelope. She is presented as a strong ruler of the island kingdom of Ithaca during her husband's absence. When the island is attacked by pirates, Penelope organizes an army of women to fight them. At the same time, she has to put up with her many suitors and her sulky teenage son Telemachus.

A 3D print of a product called the "Mood Pal" developed as a part of an interaction design class.

Mittens made as a gift using the design lab sewing machine from a pattern acquired through etsy.

Join the seed library in our kick-off event of the 2025 growing season! Saturday and Sunday, January 18-19, 10am-2pm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens (Greenhouse #3).

As part of a broader product accessibility initiative in Library Information Technology, the team behind the library’s website undertook a number of remediation efforts based on the findings of the site’s baseline accessibility evaluation. The work demonstrates how accessibility remediation can also be an opportunity for code clean-up, usability improvements, and refreshing design elements.

Join us next Thursday, 16 January between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!

The Special Collections Research Center is delighted to announce a new exhibit featuring a selection of private press books and artwork from the collection of Bill Heidrich, a long-time supporter of the University of Michigan Library. The display will open next week in the Hatcher Library Exhibit Room and will be available from January 13 to April 30, 2025.

This blog post summarizes a quick, low-tech, and timely way to assess your instruction. I write about my version of a “one minute essay” adapted as a feedback form on slips of paper, and how I use the responses to circle back with the students and faculty after the class. I reflect on how this approach, which I’ve used over the past ten years, has changed my instruction and allowed me to be more receptive to all kinds of feedback.