Drew Cogbill | Thesis Blog

My time at Parsons and thesis are finished, so this blog will now exist purely as an archive.

Pigeon and my work in mobile phone applications continues to live on, and I plan on launching a new blog soon.  In the meanwhile, I’m posting to twitter.

I complete my MFA in Design and Technolgoy studies a week from tomorrow, and will be graduating a few days after that.  It has been wonderful to work on Pigeon at Parsons.  I’m hoping to launch Pigeon as a full time venture moving forward.  Pigeon will start by focusing on US immigrants and the people that matter to them back in their home countries.  I’m currently exploring running Pigeon as a for-profit that has an eye on social investment (perhaps as a registered B Corp).  We’ll see what happens, but I’m excited for the next step.

I’ve been working on my resume.

I just found out that Weekness, a game I developed with Rabia Malik and Yumi Endo, has won the Forum Nokia Mobile Game Competition!

It’s Greek to me, but often it’s Chinese.  Sometimes though, it’s heavenly script.

via White African

Kate Beaton’s comics are wonderful, especially the nonesense ones.  Her site is a little broken right now, but she has links to her things elsewhere. (via Joana).

I’ll be Pigeoning from Belize starting tomorrow for the next 3 weeks.

Happy New Year!

Hear you on Pigeon.

via Joe

My fellow DTer Erik Burke is in the New York Times for a mural he did in Bushwick!

Democracy in America: Convergence Center at Park Aveune Armory is a Creative Time project featuring 40 artists exploring political themes running Sept 21-27.

Sharon Hayes’s Revolutionary Love 1 & 2 recreated public, group speeches at the recent RNC and DNC.  The content o the speech was quite beautiful, but the design of the space to engage you in this content was especially important to me.  When I approached the installation, I heard this crowd of chanting voices;  the environment felt very cultish to me.  After entering the space, however, I felt totally at ease and, more importantly, like I was at the protests.  Hayes strategically placed multiple screens and speakers each with one voice around the room in such a way that allowed the protest to be bigger and more meaningful than it perhaps was when it was carried out in real time.