Friends, ChucKians, artful designers, lend me your ears! For the past three years, and thanks to a Guggenheim Fellowship, I have been quietly working on a new book about design and technology, art and life. The book -- ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME (A MUSICOMIC MANIFESTO) -- explores design as the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy. It breaks down computer-mediated instruments, tools, games, and social experiences in everyday life, and elaborates 100+ tacit principles of artful design. It's all in there: ChucK, laptop orchestras, Ocarina, video games, wacky computer music interfaces, audiovisual design, and a whole lot more. Published by Stanford University Press, ARTFUL DESIGN was created entirely in the medium of a (full-color, 488-page) photo comic. This is a book for anyone who has ever been curious about how we shape technology, and how technology shapes us. It's nerdy. It's philosophical. It's a core dump of my brain in comic form. And it's coming out next week. See for yourself: https://artful.design/ The chapters: https://artful.design/chapters.html Pre-order the book now, and it will be at your doorstep next week! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1503600521/ https://artful.design/buy.html Do you know anyone else who might be interested in this book? Please share this with them! Keep on ChucKin’ -- and I'll see you in the book! Ge! ~~~ Ge Wang Associate Professor Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy) Stanford University https://www.gewang.com/ ~ Co-founder, Smule ~~~
