“Media archaeology—the tightly interconnected history of visual culture and imaging technologies.”
Design is not only about the future, but about what was created before and dissappeared through the ages.
I found this great and provocative project at Kickstarter:
“The NeoLucida is a 19th-century optical drawing tool updated for the 21st century”
“Service design has established itself as a practice that enables industries to design and deliver their services with a human-centred approach. It creates a contextual and cultural understanding that offers opportunities for new service solutions, improving the user experience and customer satisfaction.”
From the Design Portal editor´s: Writing from Brazil, where the Industrial Design — Product Design profession is not acknowledge formally by the Goverment. Designers have decades figthing to make it a formal profession. In addition, this process take us to a second issue, some designers are supporting the Government, “You need a Design University Diploma to be a designer”. On the other hand, designers are also against saying that “What makes a good designer is no the University, we are closing the doors to all the designers that don´t have a formal course, and they are great too”.
This article speak to those:
My answer is yes and no. Let me explain with more detail.
Design is getting more and more complex by the day. It´s no longer only industrial — product and graphic design, it´s now UX, UI, webdesign, apps-design, also going 3D and generative design and its intersection with engineering, nanotechnology, biotechnology. With its inherent complexity alone, the needs are growing exponentially also, it´s not only local anymore, it´s going global, such as a designer in the US that wants to solve health, housing issues in Africa.
Going back to the question above, the Design University is very important because of only one reason:
Let´s say that you are a great designer with no Design Course or a professional from other field working now with design. Let me explain you why you don´t need a Design Course:
You don´t have the time or the resources to go back to school, or you are already a untraining designer with good experience and portfolio?
My advice: Focus in the “back-design” issues to be a better “design professional” — the creative process, innovation, design thinking because:
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