✍ Process Blog

"Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates." - Lauren Conrad Read

"Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me." - Kaui Hart Hemmings

I BLOG THEREFORE I AM Throughout this semester you will keep a process blog solely for this class. Consistent documentation of your creative process is key to developing a professional practice; it provides a record of your journey from rough idea to polished prototype.

Keeping a thorough log, on a consistent platform, of your inspirations and research; motivations and setbacks; sketches and preliminary builds can be beneficial to your creative, academic and long term success in a variety of ways. A process blog allows you to:

• articulate your ideas more clearly and concisely through the steady exercise of writing and researching.

• reflect upon the flow and evolution of your ideas over time.

• accumulate a breadth of material to share with a public audience, so that the narrative of your work is conveyed thoroughly and holistically.

• provide an audience, institution or investor, numerous vantage points (personal, conceptual, critical, and technical) from which to view your work.

• retrace your steps along a timeline, should your current trajectory prove unsuccessful.

• find inspiration for future projects, from unexplored threads in your earlier project documentation.

• streamline the workflow of your future projects.

Throughout this semester you will document weekly on your process blog all of your written, data, photographic, sound & video research and implementation. The I & D process blog should be specific to this course (not a pre-existing, personal or other course blog).

You have a few publishing options:

• Create a free blog on any platform that you are familiar with, for example: wix, squarespace, weebly, tumblr, blogger, wordpress, medium

• Create a dedicated wordpress via http://wp.nyu.edu

  • If you don’t already have NYU server space, please contact Elton Kwok, [e-mail], IDM's Technology Director to get directions on setting up your space.

Once you have created your process blog share the url here.