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Beijing Design Week 2011:a tricycle modified by Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna mimics the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water.
Monthly Archive for September, 2011
The latest issue of of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal includes:
- A Passage to the Printed Package Graphics of Bengal by Shatarupa Thakurta Roy and Amarendra Kumar Das.
- To Design or Not to Design: How Do We Find the Best Interior Design Students? by Amy Crumpton and Beth Miller.
- Pedagogy with a Conscience: Sustainable Teaching through Graphic Design by Saeri Dobson.
- Designing a Design Research, Enterprise and Innovation Agenda: The Role of the Design Direction Initiative in Stimulating a Community of Inquiry, Learning & Practice by Michele Rusk.
- Principles of Physical and Virtual Design: Attracting Potential Customers by Hengameh Ahmadi Nezhad and Elham Fariborzi.
- Design Principles for Energy-Efficient Envelopes of Tall Office Buildings by Mohammad Mehdi Ghiai and Mansoureh Tahbaz.
- The Green Product Design Network: Focusing on the Role of Materials in Product Design by Kiersten Muenchinger.
- Hijab Style Preferences in Urban Iranian Women by Kathy Mullet and Fatemeh Fakhraie.
- See, Think, Learn, Change, Do: A Project Approach to Moving from Design Education to Design Thinking by Amy Johnson and Rukmini Ravikumar.
- Design Strategies towards High Performance Market Rate Housing: The 125 Haus in Utah by Joerg Ruegemer.
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The fifth issue of Volume 5 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available.
Volume 5, Issue 5 contains:
- A Philosophical View on Digital Media Design by Vanda Correia.
- Generative Growth and Sustainable Design: Courtyard Housing Design Competition by Kyriakos Pontikis.
- Teleworking and the Adaptive Reuse of Urban Interiors: The Fragmentation and Re-concentration of the Workplace by Barbara Camocini.
- Interaction Design in High-stakes Domains: The Impact of Design at the Intersection of Expertise and Technology by Axel Roesler.
- Designing for the Famous: Psychology of Building a Brand in Haute Couture Shoe Design and Fashion by Simon B. N. Thompson, Yasmin Hussein and Natalie Jones.
- The Industrial Designer as Mediator and Semiotic Translator: Mediating Client’s and User’s Needs by Jonathan Ventura.
- Framing Futures for Visual Communication Design Research by Ian Gwilt and Jennifer Williams.
- Empathy for the Most Vulnerable: Reducing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed by Michael Elwell and Deana McDonagh.
- Using Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Community Building and Regeneration by Michele Rusk, Gina Poncini and Pauric McGowan.
- The Importance of Cross-discipline in an Undergraduate Graphic Design Curriculum by Kimberly Melhus.
Continue reading ‘Design Journal, Volume 5, Issue 5 now available’
Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology edited by Lisa Graham is an interdisciplinary volume featuring written sustainability research by accomplished design practitioners, researchers, and educators selected from the recognized peer-reviewed scholarly journals Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal; The International Journal of the Arts in Society; The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability; The International Journal of the Humanities; and The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society.
Contents:
PART I : SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Lisa Graham
A Class on Contemporary Design Issues
Eric Benson
Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel
Scott Thomas Boylston
How Technology Can Help Designers Meet Their Social Obligations
Simon Downs
PART II : SUSTAINABILITY IN ARCHITECTURE
Lisa Graham, Curtis Fain
Designing Healing Experiences for Staff, Patients, and Visitors in Healthcare Facilities
Lisa Graham, Curtis Fain
David Grierson
An Attitude and Philosophy that Informs Architecture
Paul Zorr
PART III : INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKS
Ethics, Sustainability, and New Practice
Lisa Graham
From the Natural, Through the Artificial, To the Un-Natural
Viveka Turnbull Hocking
Carmela Cucuzzella
Barbara Colombo
22-25 September 2011
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Following its successful debut appearance at this year’s Salone del Mobile, Milan, designjunction london, will showcase the very best in global design during the London Design Festival.
Under the creative direction of celebrated British designer Michael Sodeau, designjunction london, will take over the impressive surrounds of Victoria House (Holborn, central London) with over 2,000 sqm of exhibition space.
Bringing together a stellar line-up of leading UK and international lighting and furniture brands, the event is set to excite, inspire and challenge anyone with a passion for design.
designjunction will be open from Thursday 22 September – Sunday 26 September from 11am to 6pm. More…