Monthly Archives: December 2015

Zwart’s Het Boek van PTT

For inclusion in Steven Heller’s 2011 “I [heart] Design” I wrote about one of my favorite designs: an ingenious book for the Dutch post, telephone and telegraph office. Some spreads below.      

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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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Indian Design History, a provocation

At a design history conference in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2004, I presented a paper discussing some problems of design history in post-colonial cultures. You can see the images shown in this rather large powerpoint.

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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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Introduction to Lella Vignelli

Two Swedish designers, Samira Bouabana and Angela Tillman Sperandio, started the Hall of Femmes series in 2009, publishing as Oyster Press. They have profiled Ruth Ansel (2010), Lillian Bassman (2010), Janet Froelich (2010), Carin Goldberg (2010), Paula Scher (2011), Tomiko Miho … Continue reading

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