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Design Perspectives Lecture Series


  • Jack Yan

    Typography and Branding

    Presented by: Jack Yan

    Content:
    Jack Yan addresses typography's impact on branding, the cultural aspects of branding, and nation branding. He also speaks about his work as a director of the Medinge Group, a Swedish think-tank devoted to cutting-edge humanitarian branding.
    Date:
    4 August 2011
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 47.3Mb | Duration: 1:05:28
  • Emily Tenzer Santoro

    New York Vernacular

    Presented by: Emily Tenzer Santoro

    Content:
    Adjunct Instructor at Pratt Institute, Queens College and New York University and SUN/FIT, brings her background in anthropology to the culture of graphic design. This feeds her understanding of the social codes that factor into design projects.
    Date:
    20 July 2011
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 67.49Mb | Duration: 56.00
    • Presentation Format: .PDF | Size: 21.14Mb | Duration: 00.00
  • Pi'ikea Clarke

    Expanding Design Education through Indigenous Design

    Presented by: Pi'ikea Clark

    Content:
    Dr Pi'ikea Clark addresses how the Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi University is attempting to expand design education through indigenous knowledge and a focus on social, educational, economic and cultural sustainability and the needs of indigenous communities.
    Date:
    3 June 2011
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    • Video Format: .M4V | Size: 523.39Mb | Duration: 43.45
  • Jacob Buur

    User-Centred Design

    Presented by: Jacob Buur

    Content:
    How can interaction design contribute to innovating business models? Jacob Buur presents cases of "tangible business modelling" in which various design materials and contraptions are used to engage groups of people in devising new business models.
    Date:
    20 April 2011
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    • Video Format: .M4V | Size: 523.39Mb | Duration: 43.45
  • Kalevi Ekman

    The story of the Aalto University Design Factory, a passion-based co-creation platform for learning and entrepreneural action

    Presented by: Kalevi Ekman

    Content:
    Design Factory is the context for innovative programs in product development, international design business management and technology innovation at Aalto University, Helsinki. Kalevi Ekman the Director of Design Factory shares the story behind the essence of Aalto University's Design Factory.
    Date:
    10 March 2011
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 72.4Mb | Duration: 1:17:08
  • Judith Gregory

    Activity theory as a "trading zone" for design research and practice

    Presented by: Judith Gregory

    Content:
    Design embodies ideas about the world, yet the nature and provenance of these ideas may not be obvious either to designers or users. Dr Gregory will update and augment key concepts, terms and new developments in relation to 3rd generation Cultural Historical Activity Theory.
    Date:
    29 November 2010
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 71.61Mb | Duration: 59:35
  • Keith Russell

    Chocolate Bread, Sacred Rice: Continental Ways of Looking at Things

    Presented by: Keith Russell

    Content:
    "In designing we are always seeing things in their potential and realised specialness." Communication and design philosopher, Dr Keith Russell calls this special way of seeing things, the "Continental approach".
    Date:
    4th November 2010
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 93.11Mb | Duration: 52:48
    • Video Format: .M4V | Size: 667.26Mb | Duration: 1:04:31
  • Wendy Wong

    Chinese Graphic Design History in Greater China since 1979

    Presented by: Wendy Wong

    Content:
    As a new generation of young Chinese designers emerge to gain international recognition in various fields of design Dr Wendy Wong reviews graphic design in China over the last three decades.
    Date:
    4th November 2010
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 49.76Mb | Duration: 1:08:54
  • Nigel Cross

    Understanding Design Thinking (Lecture 2)

    Presented by: Nigel Cross

    Content:
    While we often speak of design ability as a mysterious gift or talent, there is even more to this mystery than many people realise. Nigel Cross draws on research into the processes of designing, with an emphasis on understanding creative aspects of design.
    Date:
    28th October 2010
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 78.47Mb | Duration: 1:05:11
  • Nigel Cross

    Creative Thinking in Design (Lecture 1)

    Presented by: Nigel Cross

    Content:
    Current research indicates that leading designers draw on common cognitive patterns in their work. To examine this phenomenon Nigel Cross draws on reports and observations of creative design by outstanding designers.
    Date:
    27th October 2010
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    • Audio Format: .MP3 | Size: 64.04Mb | Duration: 53.07


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