Up Till Now

My name is Sam. If I had one defining aspect for those who first meet me, it would be that I am strikingly tall, but the purpose of this blog is not about my stature - I just like to be able to have a mental image of people - so there is your hint.

I have known that Industrial Design was my calling since 8th grade, when I read about it in a magazine for 8th graders whose moderately overbearing parents thought they would like to read about depressingly overachieving students with a marked lack of meaningful childhood experiences. I thought most of the magazine was a complete waste of my time, but the little sidebar excerpt about ID finally let me apply a sense of purpose to my potpourri of seemingly divergent interests. After making it through the doldrums of high school and nearly two and a half years of college, I find myself here.

I am a 3rd year Industrial and Interaction Design major at Syracuse University, and happily so, since Freshman year was an intensely awkward period, and in retrospect, so was a majority of my 2nd year. The reason for the blog is that now in my 3rd year, I am starting to make sense of my self and what I do, and aside from the obvious benefits of documenting my experience, I am hoping that it will allow me to explore who I am as a designer.