Jenny OdellInterview
Conceptual artist
Adapted from Jenny Odell's interview on Uses This, published 14 February 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Wherever my studio happens to be at the moment, I keep a 22" Cintiq monitor to cut things out on.
I use an Apple Magic Mouse I found at the dump and which connects to my computer as "Laura's Mouse." I also rely on a pair of Bose noise canceling headphones my dad gave me six or seven years ago that have been slowly falling apart.
Lastly, I want to give a shout out to my very satisfying Alvin Draf-Tec 0.5mm mechanical pencil, which I use with a regular black spiral bound notebook.
Communication
Productivity
I often give talks that have a lot of GIFs and videos, so Keynote's been useful.
Design
Photoshop is my mainstay, for cutting things out and making animated GIFs.
I use InDesign to make books sometimes.
Storage
I use Dropbox to (attempt to) sync things among my several computers.