https://scaruthersknight.com/home daily 1.0 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/2fea7bc8-959b-4730-ab92-416e7c8bd49d/PNCA-MFA-2021-Thesis-DSC_9664-web.jpg Home - Designer Geologist Educator specializing in design for science communication, applied systems thinking, and educational design https://scaruthersknight.com/work1 daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://scaruthersknight.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://scaruthersknight.com/building-blocks daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/3133ee39-2a78-4029-a99c-a25e614aa8ce/Copy+of+IMG_9867.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/9bbaf675-b61d-4613-989e-8e83473f22bd/Copy+of+IMG_9869.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/2be66f2a-5bd4-47a0-b3d5-80d54ef52bd1/Copy+of+IMG_9853a.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/5cb5cf37-8037-43ea-8d53-a39d46fe6799/Copy+of+IMG_9860a.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/fc58ec7b-7772-46b2-b994-ff229a3b0225/BB-Gif.gif Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/47ce6d16-b9ab-4fb1-8865-eadf59da5239/Copy+of+IMG_9852.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/90a183d2-d104-46e4-b527-08c6cb8a628b/Copy+of+IMG_9862.jpg Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/rock-love daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/91e1efc2-6a23-44eb-8fc2-7d21dddf1e18/2021-04-08-scaruthersknight005-3.jpg Rock Love - Make it stand out Polymer clay and sand ‘not-rocks’ Not-rocks encourage participants to reevaluate and ‘unknow’ rocks. Rocks seem to be the simplest and most basic of objects, but few people take the time to consider everything they don’t know about a rock or rocks in general. Rocks hold more than they can communicate, but perhaps by contrasting rocks with not-rocks, we can understand something deeper about rockishness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641941958586-U8ST9N157KRYMWQ4OLT9/2021-02-25-scaruthersknight%40pnca.edu-013-Edit.jpg Rock Love - Make it stand out ‘Not -Rocks’ Materials that have a sensory or material relationship to rocks but are not actually rocks, or are rocks that have had their rockishness modified or diminished in some way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/d32fee6c-ec26-4245-a3f0-486153b9f443/IMG_1616+rev2.jpg Rock Love Adopted Rock A rock that participants have a pre-existing relationship with. Something that has spoken to them and that they have a story about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641941839543-FS6M6MYZN8DBRXZ8WNKM/Thesis+3.30.2144.jpg Rock Love - Make it stand out Charismatic Minerals Collectable-quality mineral specimens, unusual and eye catching which might be at home in a collectors display case or even in a museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641944806977-Y54NZ7CVZ2TJKDQXAGUJ/2021-02-25-scaruthersknight%40pnca.edu-004-Edit.jpg Rock Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/79976c67-07d3-4643-83fb-8e219d0ee220/01_Key+Rock+Love+2.jpg Rock Love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/experiments-in-paper-engineering daily 0.75 2022-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/b7452903-1b1c-4e79-9dbc-83be511027a8/IMG_3072.JPG Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/86ab98f6-c6cb-4e80-a25c-2f5be2adf239/Copy+of+IMG_9942a.png Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/8a0b8d48-6aa4-4319-aef7-81b769a5b03b/Copy+of+IMG_9924.JPG Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Miura Ori Folds This is a part of my ongoing experimentation with permutations of Miura Ori folding. Here I am exploring how to incorporate a Miura Ori folds into a folio to encourage interaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/db4facfa-623f-4f5e-b085-8d6738e44d18/Copy+of+IMG_9944+a.png Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/a791a63c-a2eb-44a0-9957-c19a4aab8abf/Copy+of+IMG_9943a.png Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/bab173c4-c811-4135-be4f-e4a65e0db675/Stardust_1.gif Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/2558a22a-6bcf-4d39-b3ec-66dafde69918/Cube-GIF.gif Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/4e217b78-e9c7-4b34-ac35-f5bf82e63576/01_Key+Paper.JPG Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/99214c8f-3404-4276-8d95-85eb9473194a/Hex-GIF.gif Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/dont-panic daily 0.75 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1c9a11fc-40ca-43f2-8dbd-6e996ac6e728/IMG_4352.jpg Don't Panic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/fb743127-151f-4ec8-826e-e53c82a8d9dc/DP+01a.png Don't Panic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/bee-bee-pdx daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/458c0693-8f1d-43f6-9509-790333bed152/01_Key+Bee+and+Bee+PDX.png Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/e73089d7-ea45-4139-a6ff-5076bb28fa18/IMG_0229.jpg Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/ef803b63-7430-4899-97e4-643267f25d18/IMG_0271.JPG Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/913291c0-c8a4-4e35-a132-d1b69cbd5528/Modular.gif Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/653d35f8-279c-4335-9e8f-9b19d78f0e28/Mod+Hive+Revision.jpg Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/half-moon-kingdom daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://scaruthersknight.com/on-research daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://scaruthersknight.com/unsettled-earth daily 0.75 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/75eb6301-b202-4c7e-9fea-7d26aafd77d5/Untitled-1.gif Unsettled Earth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/c4e963dc-77bb-48b1-8a22-c9c661662f04/09.jpg Unsettled Earth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/f233fc3a-2eaa-4738-80ab-78a98004df8f/10_Key+What+Counts.jpg What Counts? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/book-arts-projects daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://scaruthersknight.com/information-design daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://scaruthersknight.com/about daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/7fa19700-3cb0-4005-b06f-5cd73ec76eac/Rev+Venn+2.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/66977291-4321-4e7c-93a1-aa1b2e5b7e2c/IMG_4509.jpeg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2022-01-24 https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio/dontpanic monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/fb743127-151f-4ec8-826e-e53c82a8d9dc/DP+01a.png Work - Don't Panic - Make it stand out I created Don’t Panic: Your Squishy Robot Friend in response to a brief which required the creation of a ‘robot’ which could be assembled by an adult with no help or supervision, within 20 minutes. The final deliverable included the robot parts, the necessary tools, and a set of detailed instructions for assembly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1c9a11fc-40ca-43f2-8dbd-6e996ac6e728/IMG_4352.jpg Work - Don't Panic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio/buildingblocks monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/fe486dfc-8803-41eb-90c1-cf34e9d1ea82/Copy+of+IMG_9853a.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/9bbaf675-b61d-4613-989e-8e83473f22bd/Copy+of+IMG_9869.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/90a183d2-d104-46e4-b527-08c6cb8a628b/Copy+of+IMG_9862.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/5cb5cf37-8037-43ea-8d53-a39d46fe6799/Copy+of+IMG_9860a.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/fc58ec7b-7772-46b2-b994-ff229a3b0225/BB-Gif.gif Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Building Blocks is folded so that the reader has to follow a spiral path to read it. Page numbers and a magenta guide line help readers follow along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/47ce6d16-b9ab-4fb1-8865-eadf59da5239/Copy+of+IMG_9852.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/3133ee39-2a78-4029-a99c-a25e614aa8ce/Copy+of+IMG_9867.jpg Work - Building Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio/paper monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/86ab98f6-c6cb-4e80-a25c-2f5be2adf239/Copy+of+IMG_9942a.png Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/2558a22a-6bcf-4d39-b3ec-66dafde69918/Cube-GIF.gif Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/b7452903-1b1c-4e79-9dbc-83be511027a8/IMG_3072.JPG Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/8a0b8d48-6aa4-4319-aef7-81b769a5b03b/Copy+of+IMG_9924.JPG Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Miura Ori Tessellation Folds This is a part of my ongoing experimentation with permutations of Miura Ori folding. Here I am exploring how to incorporate a Miura Ori folds into a folio to encourage interaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/99214c8f-3404-4276-8d95-85eb9473194a/Hex-GIF.gif Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/bab173c4-c811-4135-be4f-e4a65e0db675/Stardust_1.gif Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Flexagon Flexagons are fascinating structures that transform simple two sided paper into a circular multisided form. In this example I used the flexagon shape to tell a brief circular story of the interconnectedness of matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/db4facfa-623f-4f5e-b085-8d6738e44d18/Copy+of+IMG_9944+a.png Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/4e217b78-e9c7-4b34-ac35-f5bf82e63576/01_Key+Paper.JPG Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/a791a63c-a2eb-44a0-9957-c19a4aab8abf/Copy+of+IMG_9943a.png Work - Experiments in Paper Engineering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio/rocklove monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/91e1efc2-6a23-44eb-8fc2-7d21dddf1e18/2021-04-08-scaruthersknight005-3.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out Polymer clay and sand ‘not-rocks’ Not-rocks encourage participants to reevaluate and ‘unknow’ rocks. Rocks seem to be the simplest and most basic of objects, but few people take the time to consider everything they don’t know about a rock or rocks in general. Rocks hold more than they can communicate, but perhaps by contrasting rocks with not-rocks, we can understand something deeper about rockishness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/79976c67-07d3-4643-83fb-8e219d0ee220/01_Key+Rock+Love+2.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out The goals of Rock Love are to spark curiosity about rocks and Physical Earth, to notice how humans are in relationship with Physical Earth, and to initiate a practice of observation of Earth materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641941958586-U8ST9N157KRYMWQ4OLT9/2021-02-25-scaruthersknight%40pnca.edu-013-Edit.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out ‘Not -Rocks’ Materials that have a sensory or material relationship to rocks but are not actually rocks, or are rocks that have had their rockishness modified or diminished in some way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641944806977-Y54NZ7CVZ2TJKDQXAGUJ/2021-02-25-scaruthersknight%40pnca.edu-004-Edit.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out Rock Love is packaged in a plain box to elicit a feeling of intrigue and excitement upon opening . None of the materials of the kit are visible except the hand lens. Opening the kit should feel like opening a gift, eliciting a sense of curiosity and play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/d32fee6c-ec26-4245-a3f0-486153b9f443/IMG_1616+rev2.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out Adopted Rock A rock that participants have a pre-existing relationship with. Something that has spoken to them and that they have a story about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/1641941839543-FS6M6MYZN8DBRXZ8WNKM/Thesis+3.30.2144.jpg Work - Rock Love - Make it stand out Charismatic Minerals Collectable-quality mineral specimens, unusual and eye catching which might be at home in a collectors display case or even in a museum. https://scaruthersknight.com/portfolio/beeandbeepdx monthly 0.5 2022-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/458c0693-8f1d-43f6-9509-790333bed152/01_Key+Bee+and+Bee+PDX.png Work - Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Bee & Bee Digital Rendering This digital rendering shows off the Bee & Bee’s special features. It is a modular design and can include as few elements as one sealed Bee-First module, one Harvest drawer, and two native bee modules to which complete the stack. If the hive needs more space additional Bee-First and Harvest modules can be added. The Bee-Frist module has a plexiglass front which allows the keeper to inspect the bees inside. The Harvest drawer has a viewing window on each side so the bees can be seen without removing the Honey bars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/ef803b63-7430-4899-97e4-643267f25d18/IMG_0271.JPG Work - Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/8fffa401-0ad3-47ff-b56e-7e867953d891/IMG_0229.jpg Work - Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/913291c0-c8a4-4e35-a132-d1b69cbd5528/Modular.gif Work - Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61db766336d43333229acd77/653d35f8-279c-4335-9e8f-9b19d78f0e28/Mod+Hive+Revision.jpg Work - Bee & Bee PDX - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.