This feature is continued from yesterday… ——————————– 8. Have a Back Up Plan I know you have experienced this scene: first your eyes get really wide, you start beating on the keyboard, palms are sweaty … re-boot … re-boot! Then come the tears. The file is corrupted, missing, blank, accidentally written over (take your pick). [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Michelle Osburn Renn’
Top 10 Ways to Survive Thesis (Part III)
Posted in alumni advice, Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice, tagged alumni advice, Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Top 10 Ways to Survive Thesis (Part II)
Posted in alumni advice, Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice, tagged Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This feature is continued from yesterday… ———————— 4. Do not skip class. In a perfect world you always get to class on time, you have completed all assignments, you are well rested, not hungry, and eager to learn. However if one or all of these are not the case … go to Thesis class anyway. [...]
Top 10 Ways to Survive Thesis (Part I)
Posted in alumni advice, Harrington Alumna advice, Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice, tagged Harrington Alumna advice, Michelle Osburn Renn, Thesis Advice on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may remember the Barcelona Trip feature from the beginning of this year… if not, check it out! Introducing Michelle Osburn Renn, Harrington ID Alumna, once more… Michelle has pulled together some advice for surviving your Thesis class! ————– While I am officially (and gratefully) a Harrington Alumna, one year ago I was just beginning [...]
Lessons from Barcelona: Leaving a Design Legacy Contd.
Posted in Antonio Gaudi, Michelle Osburn Renn, Modernismo, Sagrada Familia, tagged Antonio Gaudi, Michelle Osburn Renn, Modernismo, Sagrada Familia on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I wrote about the precautions Gaudi took to leave behind adequate visual descriptions of his work. In that same vein, most instructors of the Advanced Detailing class tell us to create our drawings so that a contractor could understand what we want even if we are not there to explain. I do not believe [...]
Lessons from Barcelona: Leaving a Design Legacy
Posted in Antonio Gaudi, Michelle Osburn Renn, Modernismo, Sagrada Familia, tagged Antonio Gaudi, Michelle Osburn Renn, Modernismo, Sagrada Familia on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gaudi anticipated the need to leave behind a direction for the next generation to follow for the continuation of his design in the Sagrada Familia Church, and did it with study sketches and many, many scale models. If you are interested, here is a nice summary of the construction process of the Sagrada Familia at [...]

