University of Applied Arts Vienna Stefan Zinell Design Investigations is a course that that uses critical thinking, investigative research, material prototyping and conceptual speculation to design objects, experiences, stories and systems. Students explore the designer’s role in dealing with real-world challenges, probing the limits of our current reality while addressing the future of design andContinue reading “Design Investigations”
Category Archives: Communication and presentation
Intergenerational games
Advertising Design, Hong Kong Design Institute Eddie Lau Recent project brief for students to design a card game to promote athletics in Hong Kong that may also connect different generations of users to play together. Students started with studying the classic portrait card game that seniors experienced in their younger age and then develop new gameContinue reading “Intergenerational games”
Join collective clothes
Universität Für Angewandte Kunst, Wien Elisabeth Fröhlich Students had to develop a new method to produce clothes, inspired by ‘Join Collective Clothes. This is a modular system inviting people to create clothes together. An open-source manual explains how to make the four different shapes that together create a complete outfit. Each person can modulate theContinue reading “Join collective clothes”
Visualization + idea generation
Archana Surana ARCH College of Design, Foundation Course in Art / Design. A six-week module was fast tracked in two weeks. I made it into a collaborative project with a treasure hunt of talent in the neighborhood. Foundation level students had to present their understanding of the talents they had found in the neighborhood inContinue reading “Visualization + idea generation”
Fear & (C) loathing
Ellen McCartney California Inst. of the Arts, BFA 1 Experience Design & Production Design Year 1 n a class titled Fear and (C)loathing, students explore five topics that trigger emotional reactions, and those responses are being expressed throughout the creation of a dress. The topics they explore are War and Sports, Biological and Artificial, Spiritual,Continue reading “Fear & (C) loathing”
