projects
My First Prototype
Details
- Category
- prototype
- Location
- Salem, Indiana
- type
- low fidelity
- Date
- circa. 1990
introduction
this page contains images of the first prototype i ever developed. i was 9 years old at the time.
Experience Concepts
Details
- Category
- experience design
- Course
- Experience Design
- Date
- Spring 2011
Introduction
This page contains concepts generated during Erik Stolterman's Experience Design Course.
Coolness Research
Details
- Category
- Experience Design
- Research
- Independent Study
- Date
- May 2011 - Present
Introduction
This page contains content related to my independent study on the cultural significance of 'coolness' for HCI.
Tablet Textbook
Details
- Project Team
- Jingya Yu
- Pascal Lola
- Shad Gross
- Vincent Lewandowski
- Course
- Interaction Design Practice
- Date
- November 2010
Introduction
This page contains the prototype created for a tablet Biology Textbook.
Tripod Monster
Details
- Category
- Prototype
- Location
- Bloomington, IN 47403
- Course
- Advanced Prototyping
- Date
- October 2011
Introduction
This is the result of a prototype redesign swap. Originally designed by Holly Jiang (see image below).
Turtle Coat
Details
- Category
- Textiles
- Course
- Advanced Prototyping
- Date
- December 2011
Introduction
This coat was designed during an advanced prototyping course to study the use of arduino hardware/software.
Museum Installation
Details
- Category
- Experience Design
- Project Team
- Leo Pak
- Mudit Mittal
- Shad Gross
- Vincent Lewandowski
- Date
- April 2011
Introduction
This Page Contains Materials related to a museum installation designed for Erik Stolterman's Experience Design Course.
Social Mitigation Cards
Details
- Category
- Prototypes
- Research
- Masters Thesis Capstone
- Date
- Spring 2012
Introduction
These cards were designed to help people mitigate social situations with greater subtlety.
Cultural Probe
Details
- Course
- Research Methods for HCI
- Project Team
- David Tan
- Jeff Wain
- Joanna Mueller
- Vincent Lewandowski
- Date
- October 2010
Introduction
This Cultural Probe was designed for Shaowen Bardzell's Research Methods for HCI course to assist mothers whose children have left to study abraod.
Meaning and Form
Details
- Course
- Meaning and Form
- Category
- meaning making
- through digital imagery
- Date
- Spring 2011
Introduction
This page contains images created during Eli Blevis's Meaning and Form course in order to study the influence of digital imagery for meaning making in HCI
Roommate Chore Game
Details
- Course
- Research Methods for HCI
- Project Team
- David Tan
- Jeff Wain
- Joanna Mueller
- Vincent Lewandowski
- Date
- November 2010
Introduction
This gameboard was created as a conceptual prototype to convey the design our team derived through our ethnographic research of a household of 4 roommates.
Phonebooths Repurposed
Details
- Category
- Experience Design
- Repurposed Architecture
- Location
- Indiana University Memorial Union
- Tree Suites Conference Lobby
- Date
- Fall 2010
Introduction
This page contains before and after images of a personal project to repurpose and render useful, booths originally constructed for the use of pay phones. Now repurposed for use of new types of media devices.
Study Abroad Posters and Postcards
Details
- Category
- Print Design
- Graphic Design
- Client
- Indiana University
- Kelley School of Business
- Date
- July 2011
Introduction
This page contains images designed for Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to advertise their Spring 2012 Study Abroad Programs.
Typography
Details
- Category
- Typography
- Graphic Design
- Software
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe inDesign
- Date
- Spring 2011
Introduction
This page contains images created during Tom Walker's Graphic Design for Interaction Designer's to study typography.
Movable Type
Details
- Category
- Typography
- Graphic Design
- Course
- Graphic Design
- for Interaction Designers
- Date
- Spring 2011
Introduction
This page contains images from project created in Indiana University's Type Shop.
Illustrations
Details
- Category
- Graphic Design
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Sketching
- Date
- Spring 2011-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to my illustration practice. Many of these illustrations are studies in color, conceptualization, perspective
line weight, and overall visual literacy.
Handmade Stuff
Details
- Category
- Repurposed Goods
- DIY Culture
- Furniture Design
- Woodwork
- Electronics
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Prototyping
- Material Culture
- Material Construction
- Date
- Fall 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to my crafting of everyday objects, repurposing/restoring of unused objects, and design of objects using various materials.
Backpack Satchel
Details
- Category
- Textiles
- Purpose
- Material Culture
- Material Construction
- Prototyping
- Fashion Design
- Date
- Spring 2010
Introduction
This page contains content related to a backpack/satchel I constructed from various textiles. The design is inspired by a Patagonia brand design.
Handmade Clothes
Details
- Category
- Textiles
- Purpose
- Material Culture
- Material Construction
- Fashion Design
- Prototyping
- Date
- Spring 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to clothes I constructed from various materials for my personal use and fashion conceptualization/prototyping.
Knitted Items
Details
- Category
- Textiles
- Purpose
- Material Culture
- Material Construction
- Fashion Design
- Prototyping
- Date
- Fall 2006-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to items I have knitted for personal use and fashion conceptualization/prototyping.
Video
Details
- Category
- Media Experiment
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Sketching
- Prototyping
- Film Culture
- Visual Literacy
- Date
- Fall 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to various film projects I have undertook related to stop motion animation and short film making.
featuring a kimball carnival electric organ, and matt shuff on a fender semi-hollow telecaster through a fender performer 1000 tube amplifier.
video shot on a canon powershot SD1400IS. featuring a red flashing LED inside a large punch-style balloon.
[sample track from Futrical recorded for Flux Balcony's second album, 'Futrical']
Moving Pictures
Details
- Category
- Media Experiment
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Sketching
- Prototyping
- Photography
- Animation
- Date
- Spring 2011-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to experiments with making these animated .gif images using Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Photos
Details
- Category
- Photography
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Sketching
- Visual Literacy
- Design Documentation
- Date
- Fall 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains content related to my photography practice. Used much like a sketchbook, these photographs help provide design insights to deepen my understanding of the world around me and convey that meaning in subsequent designs.
Blogs
Details
- Category
- Media Interests
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Writing Culture
- Cultural Archiving
- Insight Generation
- Essay Writing
- Date
- Spring 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains links to various blogs I am currently maintaining related to interaction design, everyday life, and ethnography.
Mind Maps
Details
- Category
- Media Documentations
- Purpose
- Meaning Making
- Sketching
- Documentation
- Research Archiving
- Ideation
- Date
- Fall 2010-present
Introduction
This page contains mind maps I have created throughout the course of my Human Computer Interaction Design masters program.
MY SELF
Introduction
I’m currently a graduate student of human-computer interaction design in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.
I like to tinker, make, play, and think critically. Among other things, in the past ten years I have maintained Navy helicopters out at sea, studied philosophy and religion, worked on a farm, educated grade school children, played in rock bands, and made my own clothes.
skill set
- Photoshop
- 85
- Fireworks
- 50
- Illustrator
- 85
- CSS
- 30
- HTML
- 70
- inDesign
- 85
CV / RESUME
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make contact
contact information
- phone
- 812-620-0817
- address
- 701 W. Dodds St., Bloomington, IN 47403
- vlewandowski@gmail.com vlewando@indiana.edu