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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: My journey in design
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I bgaen to be fsaeaitncd by psilatc, so I spent four mohnts making eight plastic boklcs perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress. Because of that, I became ietrsneted in blue tape, so in San Francisco, at C.C., I had a whole exhibition on blue tape. I made a whole iaotlnitslan out of blue tape — blue painters' tape. And at this pinot my wife kind of got weorrid about me, so I stopped doing blue tape and began to think, Well, what else is there in life? And so computers, as you know, these big computers, there are now tiny computers. They're littler computers, so the one-chip computers, I began to program one-chip cperutoms and make objects out of P.C. boards, LEDs. I began to make LED sculptures that would live inside little boxes out of MDF. This is a series of light boxes I made for a show in Italy. Very simple boxes: you just press one btuotn and some LED interaction occurs. This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp: it's sort of a plastic rice lamp; it's very friendly. I did a show in London last year made out of iPods — I used iPods as a mtaraiel. So I took 16 iPod Nanos and made a kind of a Nano fish, basically. Recently, this is for Reebok. I've done shoes for reobek as well, as a kind of a hobby for apparel.
Open Cloze
I _____ to be __________ by _______, so I spent four ______ making eight plastic ______ perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress. Because of that, I became __________ in blue tape, so in San Francisco, at C.C., I had a whole exhibition on blue tape. I made a whole ____________ out of blue tape — blue painters' tape. And at this _____ my wife kind of got _______ about me, so I stopped doing blue tape and began to think, Well, what else is there in life? And so computers, as you know, these big computers, there are now tiny computers. They're littler computers, so the one-chip computers, I began to program one-chip _________ and make objects out of P.C. boards, LEDs. I began to make LED sculptures that would live inside little boxes out of MDF. This is a series of light boxes I made for a show in Italy. Very simple boxes: you just press one ______ and some LED interaction occurs. This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp: it's sort of a plastic rice lamp; it's very friendly. I did a show in London last year made out of iPods — I used iPods as a ________. So I took 16 iPod Nanos and made a kind of a Nano fish, basically. Recently, this is for Reebok. I've done shoes for ______ as well, as a kind of a hobby for apparel.
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- plastic
- fascinated
- button
- blocks
- point
- material
- interested
- worried
- began
- computers
- reebok
- months
Original Text
I began to be fascinated by plastic, so I spent four months making eight plastic blocks perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress. Because of that, I became interested in blue tape, so in San Francisco, at C.C., I had a whole exhibition on blue tape. I made a whole installation out of blue tape — blue painters' tape. And at this point my wife kind of got worried about me, so I stopped doing blue tape and began to think, Well, what else is there in life? And so computers, as you know, these big computers, there are now tiny computers. They're littler computers, so the one-chip computers, I began to program one-chip computers and make objects out of P.C. boards, LEDs. I began to make LED sculptures that would live inside little boxes out of MDF. This is a series of light boxes I made for a show in Italy. Very simple boxes: you just press one button and some LED interaction occurs. This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp: it's sort of a plastic rice lamp; it's very friendly. I did a show in London last year made out of iPods — I used iPods as a material. So I took 16 iPod Nanos and made a kind of a Nano fish, basically. Recently, this is for Reebok. I've done shoes for Reebok as well, as a kind of a hobby for apparel.
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