Jason Richburg

About Jason:

Jason Richburg is a VCD graduate student at Kent State with a BFA in graphic design from The University of South Carolina. For fun he digs around through old junk at flea markets, thrift stores, antique malls, and select dumpsters; and roams the land searching for the next, best meal of his life. His professional focus is on innovation in design education, and he is passionate about working with foundations level college students.

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Blog:Recognizing Real

Recognizing Real

Peg Leg Sam may be the realest person many of you will ever see. The realness of the man goes much deeper than any effect that his life as a huckster and a drifter could ever have. He bears the realness of the sweltering, depressed rural south. This is a quality of authenticity that resolves…

Blog:Automotive Design and How Things Might Be Okay

Automotive Design and How Things Might Be Okay

I’ve said for some time that I’m impatient for the day when alternative fuel vehicles that haul ass are commonplace (I’ve been holding out for a hybrid Subaru WRX, but I doubt it). I hate the idea of driving a tiny, slow, electric car the rest of my life. I have to admit though, that…

Blog:Technology design and how we’re going to die

Technology design and how we’re going to die

I was motivated to write this blog entry because I stumbled upon the above video of a robot created four years ago by a German company called Festo. Four years ago?! The first thing that crossed my mind was, What the hell is this thing, and why isn’t it delivering my pizza already?

Blog:The Master’s Voice

The Master’s Voice

This incredible video was created by Hornet Inc., and will be screened at the Pictoplasma 2012 Berlin conference held in April. I have to admit, I love Pictoplasma. I have been buying Characters in Motion ever since I watched the first DVD in a time and sequence class years ago. Animators are a special bunch…

Blog:Shapes and Texture and Bryce

Shapes and Texture and Bryce

I would like to introduce you to Bryce Wilner. He’s friend of mine living in Chicago, but originally from Virginia (by way of South Carolina). And he’s one of the most visionary young people I have ever met.

Blog:Walt Whitman and Inspiration

Walt Whitman and Inspiration

The immediacy, accessibility, and deliberacy of Walt Whitman’s poetry is something that anyone who designs communication could look to for inspiration.

Blog:Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie

A little over a week ago, a man died whose name you may have never heard, but whose work you would recognize instantly (and probably from a very young age).