Entries from April 2007

April 22, 2007

Meeting Questions and more

What is Communication Design?The Denmark’s Designskole (Danish School of Design) defines design as a systematic, methodological process of visual and expressive ordering. Others such as Professor Bruce Archer from the Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University coins the term design as “starting with the general and working down to the particular.” The term communication [...]

April 22, 2007

Recent List

The Nature of Research into Design and Design EducationProfessor Bruce ArcherIdater, Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University, 2007
Educating Designers in the Digital AgeMervyn KurlanskyDigital Creativity1998, Vol. 9, No. 4 pp. 218-222
Manifesto for a Digital BauhausPele EhnMalmo University SwedenDigital Creativity1998, Vol, 9, No. 4 pp. 207-216
EditorialDigital Creativity1998, Vol. 9 No. 4 pp. 193-197Lone Malmborg
Circles of [...]

April 10, 2007

Review: Design education

Design Schools 101Ellen ShapiroPrint, March 2004.
This article covers an overview of some challenges that are being faced now in graphic design education. Shapiro, quite frankly states the openness of discussion of this topic with various higher educations design institutions. Her main point was that these prominent institutions seemed to be caught in a tug-of-war act [...]