The Current iPad App, designed by Emily Carr communication Design Students Bree Galbraith and Max Olson, under the guidance of professor Celeste Martin, is now available for download on iTunes! This is an exciting new …
Hilary Collins’ Creative Research: The Theory and Practice of Research for the Creative Industries
Cléa Lautrey
I begin with a poignant excerpt from the work reviewed in this essay as a basis for reflection and synopsis:
“The overall aim of design research is to develop an accessible, robust body of knowledge that enhances our understanding of design processes, applications, methods and contexts”
Hilary Collins is the Director of Postgraduate Studies at Euromed, Toulon, France. A great part of her experience lays in teaching research methods within various creative industries, including undergraduate and postgraduate design management. Collins’ area of particular interest revolves around identity and its relevance within the contemporary built environment of the 21st century (Collins, 2010). Read the full story »
Review of Stuart Walker’s “Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning”
Andrea Husky
I will begin my review with a citation from Stuart Walker’s “Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning” …
Review of Julka Almquist and Julia Lupton’s “Affording Meaning: Design Oriented Research from the Humanities and Social Sciences”
Lily Orcsik
Julka Almquist, a PHD student at University of California (Affording Meaning, 2011), and Julia Lupton, a professor …
Review of John Chris Jones’ ‘What is Designing?’
Hanna Stefan
Welsh designer, John Chris Jones, is one of the founders of the design methods movements. ‘What is Designing’ is only an exert, albeit an introduction, to his …
Review of Dipti Bhagat’s “The Tube Map”
When speaking of design in the BBC series, “The Genius of Design: Ghosts in the Machine,” and Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds,” Industrial designer Dieter Rams and ‘Father …
Review of Elzbieta T. Kazmierczak’s ‘Meaning Making: From Making Things to the Design of Thinking’
Elzbieta T. Kazmierczak is a designer, artist, assistant professor and department head at State University of New York at Buffalo (Spinks, …
REVIEW OF GUI BONSIEPE’S DESIGN AND DEMOCRACY
Jessica Carson
Emily Carr University of Art & Design (SOCS 309-F002)
Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, a horizontally organized resistance movement dedicated to restoring democracy in America, I am compelled to …
Review of Cal Swann’s “Action Research and the Practice of Design”
Lindsey Kenler, SOCS 309 F001
Cal Swann, now retired, holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University. However, his area of focus is not limited …
The documentary “Touch the Sound. A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie” is an invigorating sensory experience that emphasizes the underlying message of the piece. It is a documentary that, through the work and example of …
