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Design Ethics Education: A Survey Of Yuntech University Student Opinion On Design Ethical Standards, Yingying Lee, Manlai You, Ming-Ying Yang Jul 2012

Design Ethics Education: A Survey Of Yuntech University Student Opinion On Design Ethical Standards, Yingying Lee, Manlai You, Ming-Ying Yang

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper reports on the results of a student opinion survey on design ethical standards in National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Yuntech) in Taiwan. A sample of 250 Year-4 students, 168 females and 82 males, at the College of Design in Yuntech University was accessed for this study. They came from five types of design department: Industrial Design (ID), Visual Communication Design (VCD), Architecture & Interior Design (AID), Digital Media Design (DMD), and Creative Design (CD). At the time of survey, students of ID and CD had completed the compulsory “Design Ethics” course, while students of VCD, AID …

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Designer As Author Activist: A Model For Engagement, Steven Mccarthy Jul 2012

Designer As Author Activist: A Model For Engagement, Steven Mccarthy

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Public discourse has long been enlivened by graphic designers who harness their creative skills and ideas to political, social and cultural issues. Iconic examples populate the canon of American graphic design history over the past century: designs for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and ’40s, Lorriane Schneider’s 1967 poster “War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things,” Gran Fury’s AIDS awareness campaigns during the 1980s, and carrying the concept into the new millennium, Shepard Fairey’s recent “Obama Hope” posters. However, historical emphasis has often been on the individual design artifact, with secondary consideration of the contextual …

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On Drawing In Mass Media Contexts, Mario Minichiello Jul 2012

On Drawing In Mass Media Contexts, Mario Minichiello

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses the role of the author’s drawing practice as applied to mass-mediated contexts. That is, the use of drawn imagery as a paradigm of analysis and expression of ideas published in various print and screen media. It seeks to explain the rationale for both the author’s individual, and editorially collaborative decision-making through the methodological framework of an Action Research model. In each case this is a ‘reflective’ process, which also helps examine how the images were developed in response to problem solving. The paper includes Action Research reflection on data collected in collaboration with filmmaker Solon Papadopoulos about …

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Design Process And Organisational Strategy: A Storytelling Perspective, David Parkinson, Erik Bohemia, Joyce Yee, Neil Smith Jul 2012

Design Process And Organisational Strategy: A Storytelling Perspective, David Parkinson, Erik Bohemia, Joyce Yee, Neil Smith

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper explores the relationship between design process and organisational strategy through a storytelling perspective by providing a literature review; firstly, in relation to society in general; establishing a contextual background to the research. Secondly, by relating this to a) how designers and design researchers examine storytelling within design process, and b) how organisational strategists theorise storytelling. Then finally, through comparing and contrasting the literature, unearth the relevancies of using a storytelling perspective and uncover opportunities for understanding how design process impacts organisational strategy. It is apparent that certain underlying principles in adopting a storytelling perspective when employing organisational strategy …

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Mobile Marketplace Designing Digital Devices To Connect Rural & Urban China, Francesca Valsecchi, Serena Pollastri, Yongqi Lou, Diego Dalia Jul 2012

Mobile Marketplace Designing Digital Devices To Connect Rural & Urban China, Francesca Valsecchi, Serena Pollastri, Yongqi Lou, Diego Dalia

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper describes the methodology and process of an ongoing research project, conducted by Studio TAO and Tongji University with Nokia, to demonstrate how digital communication devices can help bridge the social gap between rural and urban China. Rapid growth, substantial socio-economic changes, and massive migration from the countryside to the urban areas, are creating an imbalance in the urban-rural system. No visible value is given to activities and resources related to the countryside. Young people move to urban areas to find a job to economically sustain their families; social fabric is weakening and traditional practices and local skills are …

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Stillness As A Competence Of Design Intelligence, Fernando Rojas, Nicholas Spencer, Stuart English Jul 2012

Stillness As A Competence Of Design Intelligence, Fernando Rojas, Nicholas Spencer, Stuart English

DRS Biennial Conference Series

According to Cross (2006), designing can be viewed as a form of intelligence so that its competences can be identified, clarified and cultivated. This paper reviews and extends existing design literature by refining the language that describes design-intelligence and the identification, clarification and cultivation of design-intelligence competences. This document also reports on an initial study that used an Enhanced Reflective Practice Reporting Template within the context of professional practice to highlight: a) the value of improving a designer’s professional inner self-awareness through reflective practice enhanced with non-analytical mental training techniques, and b) that such processes can aid access to a …

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Typography Matters When Designing Onscreen Reading Materials For Dyslexic Learners, Myra Thiessen Jul 2012

Typography Matters When Designing Onscreen Reading Materials For Dyslexic Learners, Myra Thiessen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

With the digital technology that is now available for e-readers an opportunity is presented for tremendous advances to be made in how learning materials are designed for children with dyslexia. Because users have the flexibility to customize presentations the learning materials that are developed for digital reading devises have the potential to be more effective than those generated in more traditional print formats. Previous research has shown that differences do exist in the way that readers interact with content that is presented onscreen as opposed to that in print formats; however, we know relatively little about these differences and as …

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Perspectives On Industrial Design In Singapore, Paul Wormald Jul 2012

Perspectives On Industrial Design In Singapore, Paul Wormald

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Singapore has progressed significantly in the area of design over the last ten years. This paper is concerned with the discipline of industrial design in Singapore. The paper reports on research into the topic which has employed literature review and structured interviewing of design professionals across the spectrum of practice, education and government policy. The paper attempts to provide an overview of how industrial design has developed, and its potential future role in the country. Industrial design was originally viewed as a servant of indigenous manufacturing industry, and particularly of large overseas multi-national corporations which the Singapore government attracted to …

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A Pilot Study To Investigate The Disconnection Between Researched Theory And Creative Practice In Visual Communication Research Projects, Jesvin Puayhwa Yeo Jul 2012

A Pilot Study To Investigate The Disconnection Between Researched Theory And Creative Practice In Visual Communication Research Projects, Jesvin Puayhwa Yeo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Research will play an important role in art and design education as the number of art and design research degree student increases. Yet ‘the relationship between creativepractical work and research protocols still remains a contentious issue’ stated Hockey. The missing link between researched theory and creative practice has been unable to develop the depth and relevance of students’ creative practice. From the perspective of Asian undergraduate studies, this paper seeks to explore students’ abilities and knowledge of research methodologies. This paper is not proposing a method or a solution to bridge the disconnection between researched theory and creative practice. But …

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Learning From Media Studies Theory And Design Practice: Using The Interpretive Nature Of Film Media For The Communication Of Tacit Knowledge In Design Research, Tom Barker Jul 2012

Learning From Media Studies Theory And Design Practice: Using The Interpretive Nature Of Film Media For The Communication Of Tacit Knowledge In Design Research, Tom Barker

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper investigates the interpretive nature of film media as a format for tacit knowledge communication in design research. Film is already utilised in this capacity for documentaries and fictional films and the theory of tacit communication is well understood in the field of media studies. Lessons from the use of film in design practice, although more typically used for explicit communication, are also considered. The paper sets the historical context of film theory covering narrative, documentary types, aesthetics, and drawing on semiotics and rhetoric in design. The author describes two case studies: extensive design research was summarised into a …

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Intuitive Interaction And Older People, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Doug Mahar, Gudur Raghavendra Reddy, Simon Lawry Jul 2012

Intuitive Interaction And Older People, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Doug Mahar, Gudur Raghavendra Reddy, Simon Lawry

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Older people often struggle with using contemporary products and interfaces. They show slower, less intuitive interaction with more errors. This paper reports on a large project designed to investigate why older people have these difficulties and what strategies could be used to mitigate them. The project team found that older people are less familiar with products that they own than younger ones, while both older and middle aged people are less familiar with products that they do not own than younger ones. Age-related cognitive decline is also related to slower and less intuitive performance with contemporary products and interfaces. Therefore, …

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Designing Next-Next Generation Products And Services: A Design-Led Futures Framework, Martyn Evans Jul 2012

Designing Next-Next Generation Products And Services: A Design-Led Futures Framework, Martyn Evans

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Within the design industry there has been much promotion of how designers can engage with future oriented projects yet, there has been little investigation within academic design research of the methods employed. In some ways much of the discourse coming out of design practice is commercial propaganda - with the sole aim of generating new business. The design industry is good at communicating what future focussed services it is able to offer yet the methods employed are shrouded in a similar level of mystery (and scepticism) as those employed by a magician or shaman. Commercial sensitivities mean that the design …

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Communication, Saint Mary's College Of California Jul 2012

Communication, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

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Nation Branding: Developing A Visual Identity Handbook For Graphic Design Practitioners In Malaysia, Debbie Siew Siew Gan, Douglas Wilson, Anthony Crabbe Jul 2012

Nation Branding: Developing A Visual Identity Handbook For Graphic Design Practitioners In Malaysia, Debbie Siew Siew Gan, Douglas Wilson, Anthony Crabbe

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents a project developed during the course of a PhD investigating the role graphic design can play in the national branding of emergent nations such as Malaysia. Contemporary Malaysian society and culture was reviewed in the context of present views of globalisation and postcolonialism, and the phenomenon of “glocalisation” emerges as an important one in Malaysia. The need for a design handbook was suggested by the findings of a variety of design research methods that were used to identify the nature of graphic design practice in Malaysia, including the examination of the national governmental framework of design practices …

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Tailoring Snack Food Package Design To Children As A Health Communication Strategy, Sunghyun R. Kang, Debra Satterfield, Joanne Lasrado, Richard Gonzalez, Nora Ladjahasan, Gregory Welk, Cynthia Wiley Jul 2012

Tailoring Snack Food Package Design To Children As A Health Communication Strategy, Sunghyun R. Kang, Debra Satterfield, Joanne Lasrado, Richard Gonzalez, Nora Ladjahasan, Gregory Welk, Cynthia Wiley

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The excess consumption of unhealthy snack foods by children and young adults has been shown to increase their rate of development of obesity, as well as decrease their likelihood of meeting current U.S. nutritional recommendations. Nutritional messages on snack food product labels have been traditionally evaluated almost exclusively from the perspective of the verbal content of the message. While such messages are important for communicating factual information, they do not address the potential significance of the visual qualities of that message in appropriately communicating with the target audience. The visual properties of the nutritional messages are critical in their ability …

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The Multimodality And The Communication Of Explanation Graphics: Three Analytical Approaches On Safety Guides, Tingyi S. Lin Jul 2012

The Multimodality And The Communication Of Explanation Graphics: Three Analytical Approaches On Safety Guides, Tingyi S. Lin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The purpose of explanation graphics is to present processes, quantities, and phenomena. In many cases such as facial expressions, emotional effects, and spatial relations, there is great potential for graphics to explain things and relations in clearer and more sophisticated ways than mere texts can. From the viewpoint of visual information, well-planned and sophisticated graphics can tell stories and make complex ideas clear (Holmes, 1984; Jacobson, 1999; Wurman, 1989; Tufte, 1983/2001). Effective and efficient guidelines for successful explanation graphics can help people make good decisions quickly. For example, explanation graphics for safety can rescue people. Most people usually do not …

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Visualizing Transformation, Pia Pedersen Jul 2012

Visualizing Transformation, Pia Pedersen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Transformation, defined as the step of extracting, arranging and simplifying data into visual form (M. Neurath, 1974), was developed in connection with ISOTYPE (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) and might well be the most important legacy of Isotype to the field of graphic design. Recently transformation has attracted renewed interest because of the book The Transformer written by Robin Kinross and Marie Neurath. My on-going research project, summarized in this paper, identifies and depicts the essential principles of data visualization underlying the process of transformation with reference to Marie Neurath’s sketches on the Bilston Project. The material has been …

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Design Case Studies: Never Let The Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Story!, Seymour Roworth-Stokes Jul 2012

Design Case Studies: Never Let The Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Story!, Seymour Roworth-Stokes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper argues that the primary advantage of the case study, its ability to reveal insight into ‘real-life’ contemporary phenomena (the here and now) set against critical incidents, happenings or events over time (cause and effect), could be undermined by a lack of methodological rigor and sound empiricism in design research. Often the ‘one off’ is reported as a ‘case’ without the critical insight or analytical discourse necessary to derive sound theory from practice. A systematic audit of design case studies in four of the leading design research journals has been undertaken along with a detailed analysis of the type, …

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Drawing Out: How Designers Analyse Written Texts In Visual Ways, Zoë Sadokierski, Kate Sweetapple Jul 2012

Drawing Out: How Designers Analyse Written Texts In Visual Ways, Zoë Sadokierski, Kate Sweetapple

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses the methods practitioner-researchers use to analyse written texts. Much attention towards the written word in design discourse is directed at typography – how words are used visually to communicate meaning. This paper considers the written word from a different perspective. Here, we aim to reveal how designers analyse written texts for research and ideation. We describe a range of methods we have developed through our own research and practice, as well as analytical approaches other practitioner-researchers use. There are many approaches to the analysis of texts – for example, semiotic (Kress and van Leeuwen 2001, 2006), content …

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Enrollment Report, Summer 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis Jul 2012

Enrollment Report, Summer 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Summer 2012 for Illinois State University

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A Cup Is A Corpse: A Thesis Project Implementing An Experimental Approach To Visual Communication And Advocating The Concept Of Slow Design, Yu Fen Kung Jul 2012

A Cup Is A Corpse: A Thesis Project Implementing An Experimental Approach To Visual Communication And Advocating The Concept Of Slow Design, Yu Fen Kung

Theses

Based on the dissection of the phenomenon of coffee culture and the introspection of the negative environmental impact from the overwhelming usage of paper coffee cups, this thesis explores a design approach to advocate the paper coffee cup issue in an educational and experimental way. A Cup Is A Corpse is a thesis that defines the possibilities between environmental topic and design resolution. It is an advertising campaign targeted on local coffee shops, providing fundamental knowledge of the paper coffee cup matter to regular consumers. A slow design approach is applied to the final design application for the reason of …

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Visual Resistance: How To Challenge Brand Messages Visually, Daria S. Kempka Jul 2012

Visual Resistance: How To Challenge Brand Messages Visually, Daria S. Kempka

Master's Theses (2009 -)

No abstract provided.

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 24, 2012, Barry Strassler Jun 2012

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 24, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

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Automated Content-Based Video Analysis And Management, Engin Mendi Jun 2012

Automated Content-Based Video Analysis And Management, Engin Mendi

Theses and Dissertations

Rapid expansion in the use of digital videos as an information source has led to a significant increase in the availability and the amount of video data. Multimedia applications use and generate large volume of complex video data sets. Since manual indexing, searching, browsing, and retrieval of relevant information are both computationally expensive and time consuming, efficient and reasonable mechanisms that can perform these operations are needed. This dissertation sorts out the challenges of video processing for automated content-based video analysis and management. More specifically, the work presented here include temporal video segmentation to partition video sequences into shots, extracting …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 17, 2012, Barry Strassler Jun 2012

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 17, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

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Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2012, Eastern Washington University Jun 2012

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2012, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2012

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Eng 1001g-003: Composition And Language , Roxane Gay Jun 2012

Eng 1001g-003: Composition And Language , Roxane Gay

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

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Murray Ledger And Times, June 15, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times Jun 2012

Murray Ledger And Times, June 15, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 94], University Of North Florida Jun 2012

The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 94], University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

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Visual Form And A Typology Of Purpose: A Peircean-Based Approach To Visual Information Design Pedagogy, Christina Laraine Perkins Rosenquist Jun 2012

Visual Form And A Typology Of Purpose: A Peircean-Based Approach To Visual Information Design Pedagogy, Christina Laraine Perkins Rosenquist

Theses and Dissertations

Visual information design is a vital part of modern communication. Currently discussion is occurring in most disciplines to determine more effective ways to incorporate visual information design into all their communication, including website and document design. These discussions typically focus on elements of traditional graphic design that tell the student what is "good" graphic design; however, traditional graphic design depends on trial and error, luck, and best practices, with only rare attempts to construct general principles. Selection of visual elements is usually based on designer preference rather than any consistent conceptual framework or empirical support for design decisions. Another approach …

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