Design Journal, Volume 3, Number 4 available

The fourth issue of Volume 3 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available.

Volume 3, Number 4 contains:

• A Survey of Industrial Design Graduates’ Employment by Ming-Ying Yang, Manlai You, Chun-Yu Guo and Yung-Ping Chou.
• Context, Continuity and Texture in the Designed Environment: Bridging Psychoanalysis and Design by Lisa DeBenedittis.
• The Impact of Urban Design Elements on the Successes and Failures of Modern Multi-family Housing: A Comparative Study of Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago and HanGang Apart Complex, Seoul by Jae Seung Lee.
• The Shaping of Persian Urban Environment by Fatima Abbas Zadeh, Ahmad Bashri, Hasanuddin Bin Lamit and Nasser Mohseni.
• Visual Communication Skills for Business and Engineering Students by Siu Kay Pun.
• Craft-based Techniques as Heuristic Tools for Visual Investigation: Redefining the Role of the Handmade within Graphic Design Process by Claude Marzotto.
• Migrating Designs: Matching Product Evolution to Social Migration by Rizal Rahman and Chris Rust.
• Playing in the Courtyard: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Designing Space in the Heart of the City by Andrew Buss and Leslie Elkins.
• Back to the Future: “Cuboctahedron” Revisited by Hakan Hisarligil and Beyhan Bolak Hisarligil.
• Communicating Design: 750 First Year Engineering Students, a Writer-in-Residence and an Artist-in-Residence by Marjan Eggermont and Sarah Lockwood.

• Managing Product Performance through Design Engineering: Condition Monitoring in Automated Organisations by Kasim Randeree.
• Design as Information: How May Design and Information Relate? by Jennie Andersson and Carina Andersson.
• Towards a Conceptual Model for an Assessment of Multimedia Characteristics on Design Students’ CAD Learning Performance by Mosa A-Rahman and Lamine Mahdjoubi.
• CAD Web Enhancements for Fashion Design: Using Computer Tutorials to Teach Design by Insook Ahn and Marie Botkin
• How can Urban Design Bring Strangers Together? by Patricia Simoes Aelbrecht.
• Effective Ways of Teaching Interior Design with Community Linkage by Maria A Sipos.
• “Factors Contributing to the Design of Geographical Indication logos for Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Products” by Sumittra Sriviboone.
• Beyond Reality: Designing Within the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment by Cezary Gajewski.
• Building Design to Improve the Ease of Wayfinding in Unfamiliar Public Buildings by Ching-Lan Chang and Steve Fotios.
• An Experimental Design Matrix that Prevents Narrow Minds in Design Education by Wujun Wang.
• The Art of Subtraction on Interactive Designs by Yueh Hsiu Giffen Cheng.
• Guiding Interdisciplinary Design Collaborations in the Studio Classroom by Shea Tillman and John Chad Duncan.
• Theory of Deferred Action: Exploring the Boundaries of and Between Socio-Technical Systems Design by Nandish V. Patel.
• The Notion of Game as Part of Urban Design Practices by Socrates Stratis.
• Cultural and Aesthetic Factors in Power Plant Design Preferences by Faizul Shamsudin, C.J.H. Midden and Florian G. Kaiser.
• Design Education in Russia: The Experience of the Master of Design Course by Nickolay Garin, Svetlana Usenyuk, Maria Panova and Denis Kukanov.
• A Quantitative Comparison between the Formal Complexity of Le Corbusier’s Pre-Modern (1905-1912) and Early Modern (1922-1928) Architecture by Josephine Vaughan and Michael J. Ostwald.
• Language, Form and Deception: The Unwritten Design of AG Fronzoni by Gabriele Oropallo.
• Gestalt Laws of Perception: Using Gestalt Theory to Improve Print and Electronic Designs by Lisa Graham.
• Prototyping as a Method in the Design of Playful Objects by Astrid Lubsen.