Category Archives: Design Education

Useable Design History

About 1999, I participated in a small design history conference at Rochester Institute of Technology and presented this lecture and following workshop for design teachers. There are specific design examples mentioned; you probably know them or can find them easily … Continue reading

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Review: Paul Rand, Conversations with Students

Review of book for Eye magazine.

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Design as System/Food as System

As the first junior level design studio in our new curricular structure in 2008, Silas Munro and I took Food as our subject. This conference presentation describes the studio content and teaching method, and provides student examples.

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Indian Design Education review

Following my Fulbright to India in 2001, teaching at four different Indian design schools: National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Guwahati (Assam), Srishti Institute of Art and Technology (Bangalore), I wrote a comparative article … Continue reading

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Typography in Indian Languages

Following my four months teaching as a Fulbright lecturer at four institutions in India, I wrote an article about the typography project I had adapted for the four design programs. The article was published in Visible Language, vol. 37, no. … Continue reading

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Graphic Design curriculum change at NC State

This diagram (clearer in paper) is the framework for the new Graphic Design curriculum at NC State, rolled out beginning in fall 2007. Silas Munro and I taught the junior studio on “Systems” in fall 2008 and reported on the … Continue reading

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