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Spring semester 2010 for the School of Design+Media at Philadelphia University is over! Classes are finished, reviews completed, and my grades turned in! Perhaps now I can get back to this blog. At least I updated the header image with the above spider web. View previous header images.

Philau is closed for Thurs. I had already assigned work to my students in case of closure and am glad they don’t have to be on the roads today. What with computers and plenty of heads up most people in my field can work from home—when they aren’t shoveling out! Don’t know if that’s a [...]

and it’s still snowing in Philadelphia! The mayor has closed down the city – all bus service is stopped, highways closed and Philadelphia University is planning on starting at 10:00 in the am.

Kaitlin should be working on her cheesy type project but instead she is reading my blog. What’s a teacher to do?

Philadelphia University where I teach had its second annual Day of Service today. Classes were canceled and students and faculty were expected to choose from a lengthy list of projects, a worthy cause they would work on. Some were quite organized and some were less so. I joined a group who knit hats for premature [...]

School started this week. I teach two courses at Philadelphia University. Graphic Design at the sophomores level and an elective, Digital Imaging. It’s a long day 8–5. Every year I loose my voice the first day.( It comes back by the second.) I like working with the students. They keep me fresh and hopefully I [...]

I’ll be speaking on Color Theory at The Quiltmakers of Boyertown this Wed (tonight) with my friend and partner in crime, Professor Jane Likens. Our presentation covers the physical properties of color, methods to study color and how different colors influence each other. We feel that it is most important to understand the first bit, [...]

This spring a friend and client, Jeanne Ruddy whose dance trope, Ruddy Dance is located in Philadelphia, choreographed a work called Oceans 1:Wetlands dealing with environmental problems facing the NJ Wetlands. Jeanne’s passion is contagious and as a result I gave my Philadelphia University Graphic and Digital Design sophomores a project to design an advocacy [...]

Oh my, it’s been a very long time since I wrote anything here. I tell my clients that they shouldn’t start a blog or pod cast unless they are sure they can devote the time to it and its obvious I speak from experience. Since my last entry we went to Grand Manan, have had [...]