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Students As Choice-Makers: Developing Altered Consciousness As An Aspect Of Design And Global Citizenship Literacy, Steve Keirl, Susan V. Mclaren Jul 2013

Students As Choice-Makers: Developing Altered Consciousness As An Aspect Of Design And Global Citizenship Literacy, Steve Keirl, Susan V. Mclaren

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Choice, as an aspect of existence, may be taken for granted or it may not exist at all. Choice may be complex, simple, false, or not apparent. Choices can be quantitatively and qualitatively different. There are ironies of choice in that profusion of choice can mean confusion of choice. Equally, and perversely, those who have choices can also enjoy the privilege of not choosing – itself a choice. Design is a site of choice-making – not only within the nuances of design processes but also for the role it plays in identity formation, social being, politics, and global interactions. This …

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Multiculturalism As An Approach To Prepare Egyptian Government School Students For Microscholarship Through Art Workshop, Walaa Kassem Jul 2013

Multiculturalism As An Approach To Prepare Egyptian Government School Students For Microscholarship Through Art Workshop, Walaa Kassem

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Egypt today needs to build a modern democracy while respecting its own heritages and those of others. We should therefore invest in developing multicultural notions of peace that will help different people and nations to understand and respect each other. This would reduce conflict. Art enables students to express themselves and to convey information about their cultures. For this reason, this aspect of education may be considered to be one of the most important in promoting mutual understanding with other cultures, and achieving peace. The concepts of multiculturalism, cross-cultural empathy, awareness, responsibility, participation, personal achievement and mobility reveal to us …

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The Imaginative Approach: Characteristics Of Craft Artisans’ And Design Trainers’ In-Depth Cognitive Levels During A Design Training Program, Deny W. Junaidy, Yukari Nagai Jul 2013

The Imaginative Approach: Characteristics Of Craft Artisans’ And Design Trainers’ In-Depth Cognitive Levels During A Design Training Program, Deny W. Junaidy, Yukari Nagai

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This paper investigated and discovered the differences that exist between craft artisans’ and design trainers’ in-depth cognitive levels during the use of the imaginative approach in a design training program. We employed a concept network method based on the associative concept dictionary to extract the verbalized thoughts of four craft artisans and four design trainers. We then identified semantic relationships based on factor analysis. Our findings revealed that craft artisans tended to activate lower in-depth cognitive levels and design trainers tended to generate deeper in-depth cognitive levels. Our study demonstrated that craft artisans tended to place greater focus on aspects …

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Which Way Is Up? Space And Place In Virtual Learning Environments For Design, Derek Jones, Peter Lloyd Jul 2013

Which Way Is Up? Space And Place In Virtual Learning Environments For Design, Derek Jones, Peter Lloyd

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The role of ‘place’ in design education is essential in providing a structured learning experience that can be trusted and which allows dynamic social connections to emerge in the development of reflective practice. With increasing demand for distance and online learning resources, this paper considers how such a sense of place can be arrived at using ‘virtual architecture’. Analogies with physical architectural space – for example ‘homes’, ‘forums’, ‘studios’, ‘libraries’ can be useful, but in many ways the opportunities for design learning in virtual architecture go far beyond what is possible with physical architecture. We describe how the virtual architecture …

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Adapting The Front-End Of Innovation To Its Context: A Methodological Approach, Alexis Jacoby Jul 2013

Adapting The Front-End Of Innovation To Its Context: A Methodological Approach, Alexis Jacoby

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The Front-end of Innovation (FEI) is the innovation process phase where new products are defined prior to development. The outcome of this process is of great importance for the innovation and design phases that come after the FEI (Backman et al., 2008). The FEI is a lightweight process with a huge impact on the New Product Development (NPD) process that follows the FEI. Still, the FEI is considered a difficult to manage process, both in industry and academia. Although FEI is mainly considered a strategic process, it could benefit from a more design driven approach where divergent thinking is implemented …

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Practically Creative: The Role Of Design Thinking As An Improved Paradigm For 21st Century Art Education, Delane Ingalls Vanada Jul 2013

Practically Creative: The Role Of Design Thinking As An Improved Paradigm For 21st Century Art Education, Delane Ingalls Vanada

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Art and design education hold a unique role in preparing the kinds of innovative, balanced, synthetic creators and thinkers needed in the 21st century. This paper sheds shed light on how learner-centered art classrooms, that incorporate design thinking as a balanced process, can better develop the overall learning capacity of students. In a mash-up between mixed model research involving the impact of learner-centered pedagogies on visual art students’ balanced intelligence and reviews of literature surrounding the promotion of depth and complexity of knowledge, new conceptual frameworks are offered. Towards a vision of fostering deep, connected, and independent thinkers, the author—as …

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Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms, Les Hooper, Sue Fraser Welch, Natalie Wright Jul 2013

Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms, Les Hooper, Sue Fraser Welch, Natalie Wright

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This paper presents an Australian case study entitled “Designing Futures”. It examines a six month multidisciplinary design program offered by a large coeducational, inner-city state school in Queensland in 2011. The program extended an already successful and innovative school-based design curriculum and involved students in Philosophy, Science, Mathematics and English classes, as well those in Art and Design. Additionally, there were 5 full-day workshops where students combined a wide range of skills to brainstorm, design and create sustainable solutions. The design thinking used in this program was based on the concepts of metadesign, design activism and design futuring. “Designing Futures” …

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Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns, Siri Homlong Jul 2013

Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns, Siri Homlong

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In different areas of handicraft and textile production, teachers, researchers, purchasers and others have to judge products based on different factors such as function, aesthetics, taste and so on. The whole process of designing – from ideas and visions to finished product – includes aesthetic judgements: In the first planning phase, several sketches are made that can later be changed, adjusted and further developed. When a product is finished, further judgements are needed: designers and artisans evaluate the result of their efforts, teachers judge the works of pupils or students and purchasers or consumers judge the suitability of the textile …

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Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles, Monika Hestad, Jamie Brassett Jul 2013

Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles, Monika Hestad, Jamie Brassett

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There has been increased interest in design and ‘design thinking’ in recent times. This has led to the development of a number of interdisciplinary courses where non-designers have the opportunity to learn so-called ‘design thinking’. However, ‘design thinking’ is an ambiguous concept, which is challenging when trying to apply it in non-design learning and teaching contexts: notably, for this study, innovation management. The aim of this study has two aspects: first, a conceptual one, to articulate what ‘design thinking’ means in context of a design-driven approach to innovation management; and second, a more practical one, to consider how it could …

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Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education, Gabriel Hernández Jul 2013

Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education, Gabriel Hernández

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This paper discusses the importance and role of values in design education. As design scenarios constantly change, so do values pertaining to design. Design education should be ahead of those changes, however the theoretical development of design has not given values the same importance as other issues. This paper presents a theoretical framework to help understand the role of values in current design learning. It provides a general comprehension of how values affect both designing and design outcomes, thus aiming to offer arguments that strengthen the awareness and importance of ethical and moral issues in design education.

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Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education, Julie Haslam, W. Rod Cullen Jul 2013

Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education, Julie Haslam, W. Rod Cullen

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In 2007 the UK National Audit Office reported retention levels as an important factor in measuring university success. It also reported institutional variations in withdrawal themes concluding that some differences were likely to relate to how well individual institutions were helping students to deal with the challenges of study in HE. As a great deal of research has found retention to be related to student satisfaction, and this in turn to be primarily dependent upon student preparedness and their expectations many institutions have focused on enhancing this area of the student experience. This paper raises awareness of the predominant role …

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Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students, Robert Harland Jul 2013

Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students, Robert Harland

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What language should feature in assessment criteria for international students? How do students reflect on assessment feedback to allow the creation of effective action plans for future learning? Have universities adjusted their assessment methods sufficiently to match the increased demand for studying abroad? What can art and design contribute to these issues? These are some of the questions this paper seeks to address by reporting on recent pedagogic research at the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, in the United Kingdom. Language use is at the heart of this, and yet, it has been overlooked as an essential tool that …

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Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton Jul 2013

Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton

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Motion Graphics is relatively new subject and its methodologies are still being developed. There are useful lessons to be learnt from the practice in early cinema from the 1890's to the 1930's where Agile thinking was used by a number of practitioners including Fritz Lang. Recent studies in MA Motion Graphics have accessed some of this thinking incorporating them in a series of Motion Graphic tests and experiments culminating in a two minute animation “1896 Olympic Marathon”. This paper demonstrates how the project and its design methodology can contribute new knowledge for the practice and teaching of this relatively new …

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Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?, Målfrid Irene Hagen Jul 2013

Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?, Målfrid Irene Hagen

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This paper presents a small pilot study on Bachelor of Design educations which initiates a larger research on some problems within design educations and consequences of changes and school reforms in Norway during the last decades. Design programs of study are popular and the number of schools which offer these programs in Norway has increased since the 1990s. However, the premises for what a design study program should include as well as criteria for getting entrance to higher design educations have changed. This is particularly the case with newly established design educations at several University Colleges. While some study programs …

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About The Design Research Society, Christian Guellerin Jul 2013

About The Design Research Society, Christian Guellerin

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When asked on numerous occasions to comment on design and design research, I’ve always been very careful, if not harsh, with regards to certain research projects whose content and/or approach seemed to fall short on the front of the relevant things in design. My reaction hit even closer to home in France where design is absent from academic disciplines, and design research has yet to really take off. I have to admit, nonetheless, that the strides undertaken by several universities abroad and continued by DRS have swayed me into believing that there really is an area that craves further learning …

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Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel Jul 2013

Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel

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Research on design pedagogy has shown that students progress through a variety of barriers on the path to becoming a successful design practitioner, and that frameworks for explicit reflection can be beneficial to the development of design students. Schön uses the concept of reflection-on-action to describe one form of reflection on design practice, with the eventual goal of improving design processes and judgment. In this study, sketching is used as a form of reflection-on-action in a first semester intensive course in interaction design (IxD). This sketch reflects the student’s current understanding of the “whole game” or holistic view of design …

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Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray Jul 2013

Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray

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Critique is considered to be a central feature of design education, serving as both a structural mechanism that provides regular feedback, and a high stakes assessment tool. This study utilizes informal peer critique as a natural extension of this existing form, engaging the practice community in reflection-in-action due to the natural physical co-location of the studio environment. The purpose of this study is to gain greater understanding of the pedagogical role of informal critique in shaping design thinking and judgment, as seen through the framing of Bourdieu’s habitus. The methodology of this study is informed by a critical theory perspective, …

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Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties, Maria González, Javier Peña Jul 2013

Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties, Maria González, Javier Peña

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Materials now have the ability to transform energy, to adapt to the environment and to mimic effects only previously possible for nature. They change their properties with external stimuli and provide different perceptions depending on environmental conditions. This dynamism then converts the materials into pure mechanism, pure machine, pure image and pure feeling. The relationship of the person who works with the material, engineers, designers, etc. is no longer so direct. This connection based on experience, on a physical and perceptive knowledge of the materials is today mainly abstract. This fact hinders material selection, as it focuses on the technical …

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Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez Jul 2013

Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez

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According to the National Survey of Students' Performance (Enade), held every three years by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, the Design course of University of Santa Catarina is now rated as second best in Brazil. The course objective is to provide facilities for the training of professionals able to operate in dynamic environments and diverse, capable of intervening in society to the criteria of innovation, environmental responsibility and entrepreneurship, offers students the mastery of techniques, methods and specific tools project. Currently the UFSC Design course works with a curriculum structure divided into three main nuclei divided as follows: Introductory, Project …

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Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study, Tanja Golja, Lynette Schaverien Jul 2013

Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study, Tanja Golja, Lynette Schaverien

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While design researchers use diverse approaches to study designing, non-designers face specific impediments in adopting these research approaches in their quest to gain design knowledge. Recognizing such challenges, this paper outlines how one education academic engineered a first-person methodology to investigate the nature of designing. Through undertaking a learner-researcher study in an undergraduate architectural design basics subject, learning about design through learning to design, she tracked her developing design ideas and crystallized a view of architectural designing as a three-phase heuristic for value selection: imagining possibilities, interpreting ideas to form architectural principles and distilling quality. Her subsequent small-scale test of …

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What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants, Michael Goatman, Louise Moody Jul 2013

What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants, Michael Goatman, Louise Moody

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There are currently a wide range of Higher Education Industrial Design courses available in the UK. In the present era, a wider breadth of narrative has developed within the subject, and as a result the content of industrial design educational offerings varies considerably. The paper assesses the industry view of Industrial Design as a discipline from the perspective of those employing university graduates. These views illustrate a change in the discipline, and this is considered in respect to current education practice. The choice of entry courses for the student wishing to embark on a career in the subject has also …

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Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity, Elena Enrica Giunta, Agnese Rebaglio Jul 2013

Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity, Elena Enrica Giunta, Agnese Rebaglio

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Italy draws lots of refugees from the Mediterranean regions: in 2010, Milan received more then 850 people in its welcomely Centres. Municipalities, citizens but also professionals must be involved in the collective answer to such a kind of phenomenon. The ephemeral nature of the settlement in the Centres, the precarious conditions of staying, as well as the variety of tenants’ identities (multi-ethnical and gender turns) shape a new research field of great, social, importance which challenges the designer to imagine new strategies and tactics for collective living. These reasons convinced a multi-disciplinary group (designers, social workers and environmental psychologists) to …

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From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio, Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia Jul 2013

From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio, Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia

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“Tutor-led” design education has been argued to be a system where lecturers are at the centre of teaching & learning activities and where educators’ tastes strongly influence students’ outcomes. Design education has also been argued not to prepare graduates for working in highly complex professional capacities synonymous with the contemporary era. We argue the role of tutors in tutor-led design education to be a factor in this. The Global Studio runs Web 2.0 enabled industry sponsored international collaborations between students. One aim is to introduce learners to “complex project situations” and consequently to prepare them for contemporary working life. It …

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Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education, Koray Gelmez, Humanur Bagli Jul 2013

Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education, Koray Gelmez, Humanur Bagli

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This study focuses on a brand new type of user research as a part of a design project conducted in 2012 Summer School Project Studio in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. Students are required to get information from an open Facebook profile by concentrating on its demographics (age, gender, and nationality), descriptive attributes, mottos, likes, dislikes, hates, beliefs, activities, work attitudes, holiday attitudes, socializations and favourite objects etc. They are expected to propose some keywords and concepts to describe the persona after learning from the Facebook profile. By depending on these keywords, they …

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The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning, David W. Garrett, Tracy Bhamra Jul 2013

The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning, David W. Garrett, Tracy Bhamra

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This study focuses on challenges students face in learning through problem-based activities, in UK higher education in design for sustainability. Social theories of learning indicate the highly significant but possibly problematic nature of such social contexts for learning, a view underlined by psychological perspectives on potentially significant aspects of the learning process. In particular, the relevant development of identity is considered to play a centrally important role in learning, including in building expertise in tackling complex design problems. A key aspect of identity theory concerns the properties of self-evaluation during meaningful activities, and this suggests an important emphasis in examining …

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From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao Jul 2013

From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao

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This paper is to introduce an enhanced teaching and learning experience, which brings people in different location to act in the same spectacle, a real-time building together rather than only verbal communications in front of the screen. The “e(ating) meeting – Project of the VISIT 2012” is a teaching project undertaken in the year 2010~2013, and is a cross-cultural long-distance learning and collaboration experiments between two international universities. The objectives of this collaborative project are to develop and experiment new teaching approaches and tools through an intercultural and interactive platform in art and design. This paper unfolds the process and …

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Teaching The Design Of Narrative Visualization: Using Metaphor For Financial Literacy And Decision Making, Aaron Fry, Jennifer Wilson, Carol Overby Jul 2013

Teaching The Design Of Narrative Visualization: Using Metaphor For Financial Literacy And Decision Making, Aaron Fry, Jennifer Wilson, Carol Overby

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The authors provide a scholarly definition for metaphor-rich, story-driven “narrative visualization,” and assert the importance of this methodology in contemporary design education. They propose “narrative visualization” as especially useful in promoting financial literacy: a context in which design can both facilitate understanding and possibly influence behavior. This emotionally-engaging means has the potential to affect the “System 1” intuitive decision-making processes that Kahneman and others have identified as the primary drivers of financial behavior.The case study here presents a recent design course that was customized to teach “narrative visualization” in a financial-literacy context. Student work from that course is examined through …

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Hooked On Peers’ Drawings: Learning Through The Visual Wildfire, Nina Scott Frisch Jul 2013

Hooked On Peers’ Drawings: Learning Through The Visual Wildfire, Nina Scott Frisch

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Children’s drawing activity has been theorized as traces of cognitive and biological development, with cultural variations as minor sources of visual and traceable influence. Even though present, less research has been done on documenting the social aspect of drawing; seeing drawing as visual communication between children. This aspect of drawing development, or learning, is visually traceable, but is still often neglected because children´s drawings can be seen in light of a discourse emphasizing the individual solitude and expression of the professional artist. Collection of drawings, observations and interviews took place in one elementary school art room for one academic year …

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Social Networking As A Mentoring And Engagement Tool Between Design Alumni And Early Design Students, Lisa Fontaine Jun 2013

Social Networking As A Mentoring And Engagement Tool Between Design Alumni And Early Design Students, Lisa Fontaine

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In graphic design education, there is an increased need to integrate design thinking, with less focus on the designed ‘object’ and more focus on its message. Realities of the contemporary profession mandate the development of broad thinking skills; students need to begin viewing themselves as problem-solvers first, imagemakers second. The Alumni Mentor Initiative was devised to introduce beginning graphic design students to design thinking as it manifests itself in practice. Using the LinkedIn website, 80 alumni from the university’s graphic design program were identified and asked to participate in an online mentoring program. Each was matched with one beginning student, …

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Development And Pathology Of Graphic Design In Iran, Berhrouz Foladi Jun 2013

Development And Pathology Of Graphic Design In Iran, Berhrouz Foladi

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Graphic Design is an aggregative art and has a huge function in its international field. But, in Iran there isn’t any correct understanding of that because the different branches of this amazing art has not separately been defined and utilized to make the people see and receive its effect in their life environments. The graphic designer has to be like a working machine and does work in all of the branches alone to propound the functions in society. Although the designer knows all of these branches, such as designing a logo, they are not supposed to be included in her …

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