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Metaphorically Speaking

  • March 6th, 2010
  • Posted in Reading . Thoughts

In 1980 George Lakoff and Gregg Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. The book made the case that most of our thinking is largely metaphorical in nature; that we directly apply our understanding of the less abstract to the more abstract. Their description of metaphoric language as reflective of a thinking mind irrevocably situated in [ READ MORE ]

Thesis Prospectus Introduction

  • February 26th, 2010
  • Posted in Thoughts

Interactivity is most commonly described in terms of a conversation.1 While useful in separating the study of complex interactivity from that of traditional static forms, this description is of little use to those designers who wish to get a hand on the design of such interactivity. Some reasons for this can be found in where [ READ MORE ]

Ian Bellomy...

...is a graduate Interactive Design and Game Development student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He's diligently engaged in a long standing and self destructive attempt to make sense out of the make believe land of metaphor beyond the computer screen.
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