May 2009, Editor's Notes
Back from a long hiatus
After many months we are back!
In the last 10 months, I quit a job and started a new company. Additionally, I have been writing a book for O’Reilly Media, Designing Social Interfaces, and this has consumed every free moment of my evenings and weekends over the last 8 months. This means that my photography and this magazine have suffered. But with the business humming along and the book in editing, I can bring my attention back to the important things in life – pinhole photography.
We come back with an interview by Benjamin Wooten with William Christiansen who mills beautiful pinhole body cap shutters in his workshop in Wisconsin. Check out the shutters and the examples from different cameras. I have one of the 4×5 shutters and can attest to how cool they are.
Our featured artist is Laura Campbell, who brings us a beautiful series of pinhole images from the California Desert.
The end of this month also marks the 3rd annual f295 Symposium in Pittsburgh. The line up looks great and should be a terrific conference. I only wish I was able to go myself, but alas, I have other commitments. If you attend, let me know—I’d love to get a recap from folks.
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Erin Malone
Erin Malone, Principal at Tangible ux, has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing web and software applications, social experiences and system-wide solutions. Prior to Tangible, she was at Yahoo! where she led the Platform User Experience Design team and was responsible for building the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and for providing design expertise to the popular YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). Additionally, she led the redesign of the Yahoo! Developer Network, oversaw the redesign of Yahoo!’s Registration system, designed cross-network social solutions, developed the ux team’s Intranet and other cross-company initiatives.
Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL leading a range of community and personalization initiatives; Creative Director at AltaVista responsible for the AV Live portal and community tools and Chief Information Architect for Zip2 which produced a custom content management system for local city guides, entertainment guides, maps and yellow pages, including New York Today for the NYTimes.
She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, a role she served for 5 years. She is the author of several articles on interaction design history and design management and a founding member of the IA Institute. Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University (1986), Greenville NC and an MFA in Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1994), Rochester NY.
She is the author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish for O’Reilly Media and its related site designingsocialinterfaces.com.
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How do I get a workshop posted on this site? I will be giving a Pinhole Workshop this in Newport, Oregon on July 11-12 and I am trying to get the word out. I wasn’t able to find a way to submit the information. Any help you could give me would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you – Kurt Norlin