Greetings, and welcome to my first post in Makeshift Media!
This blog will function as a place to record all of the things I think about while I’m riding my bike to and from work every day this summer. Also, to share my adventures over the next year while I’m on leave from Hampshire, and as a sandbox for Div III brainstorming. And I will post my pictures, videos, and art projects.
Makeshift Media is my new, sorta.. umbrella name for my design business, projects I do, and possibly my future community arts center. I like the definition of makeshift meaning “improvised: done or made using whatever is available,” and it’s many other potential connotations: Make (it yourself, art, new friends, etc) Shift (gears, your ideas, etc).
Things I will post about on this blog:
> graphic design, typography, fonts, etc.
> technology, internet culture, new media, etc.
> education, social justice, politics, etc.
> what I’m obsessed with at the moment
> observations of ordinary things
> things I think you should know about
> pumpkin muffins!!
> my pictures, art projects, and videos
I will also keep up a page of things I recommend, à la McSweeney’s Recommends. More pages and other recurring features to come later. I will probably steal more ideas from McSweeney’s, like lists and open letters to people or entities that are unlikely to response.
I hope you enjoy reading it, and if you do, you should comment. (And if you don’t, you should also comment and tell me why!)
-Molly
