BRANDING + IDENTITY
Locating Design in a Cultural Flux
by Bonne Zabolotney Dean of Design + Dynamic Media// Few designers contest the idea that we cannot measure the success or failure of any design until the context in which it was created is fully understood. Understanding context, however, requires a knowledge of the culture in which the design in question is situated. In his [...]
Pleasure and Pain: Constructing an Accessible Vision of Design History Through a Novel Lens
by Michele Guimond// ABSTRACT// The book Pleasure and Pain: 70 Years of Graphic Design, produced for a second year communication design project, intended to create a form that offered a unique and interesting way to look at the history of graphic design that was engaging for an audience of non-designers. This was achieved using categories [...]
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN
Interpretation of Memory Through Communication Design
By Dara Wren// ABSTRACT// The Polaroid SX-70 was a device that became a symbol of family memories for Stefan in Sherry Turkle’s book, ‘Evocative Objects’. This essay was a starting point to design a transformative object based on the essay ‘The Polaroid SX-70 Camera’. The design intent was to transform the emotional relationships to memory [...]
Interaction Design: an evolving approach to design for user experience
By Jim Budd, Associate Professor, & Sara Salevati, MAA Candidate// ABSTRACT// The role of design in today’s world is dramatically shifting as social, cultural, and experiential factors begin to play a more dominant role in the complexities of day-to-day life. This article frames out key elements of a design strategy to address these challenges.
SUSTAINABILITY
Crafting Sustainability from Mass Production
By Jacquie Quenneville// ABSTRACT// The question of how co-design techniques and sustainability can complement each other serves as this journal article’s central research question. Particularly, this article explores a business proposal by designer Jacquie Quenneville and her collaborators, which examines how sustainability can be applied to toys (specifically dolls) by transforming the linear manufacture-to-disposal path [...]
Hydroponic Agricultural Retrofitting in Urban Spaces: a Transformative and Collaborative Design Process
by Jennifer Cook// ABSTRACT// The project discussed in this article focuses on the transformation of existing vacant residential and commercial urban spaces into agricultural spaces utilizing hydroponic growing methods. The intent of the project was to examine how this process could be profitable for landowners and benefit the city as a whole. Through an investigation [...]
