Category: History & Futures

Week 12 Lecture & Resources Thoughts on Resources & Lecture The two case study videos provided food for thought – the projects they reflect both seem to have been very successful in terms of design and effectiveness. Dumb Ways to Die, the awareness campaign for rail safety (see above) was a great example too, showing… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 12: Promote & Test

Week 11 Lecture & Resources Thoughts on Resources & Lecture Research Graffiti as Public Art This is an interesting art project I came across in the Leith area of Edinburgh, which aims to highlight and encourage discussions around the topic of women feeling safe in communal spaces. It has only appeared in very recent times,… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 11: Design & Develop

Week 10 Lecture & Resources Design… is a practice of material and immaterial making, but its mode of being-in-the-world is generative, speculative, and transformational. A designer must project forward into a potential future to launch an artifact that will, if all goes right, transform a near present and rewrite our future.” (Clarke 2017: 87) The… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 10: Society & Purpose

Thoughts on Week 9 Lecture & Resources My lecture notes for Week 9. This week’s lecture was certainly thought-provoking. I can absolutely see the merit in the Service Design approach to solving a design problem – taking into account how exactly a product or service will be used, along with examining who the target user… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 9: Service Design & Saving the World

Thoughts on Week 8 Lecture & Resources Read-Only Memory As a fan of retro video games, I found this week’s lecture by Darren Wall of Read-Only Memory very engaging. In the past, gamer culture has often been overlooked and ridiculed, but it’s been interesting to witness a gradual shift in perspective and the growth in… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 8: Design & Critique

Thoughts on Week 7 Lecture & Resources The lecture this week provided an absorbing insight into creating, developing, growing, publishing and evolving a magazine. It was particularly interesting to hear Angharad Lewis talk about her writing process, as well as how she and Caroline Roberts adapted the printed Grafik magazine and transitioned it to become… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 7: Content Review

Thoughts on Week 6 Lecture & Resources Chanel No. 5 Book Through watching the above interview with Irma Boom, I learned more about the particulars of how she went about creating the book she designed for Chanel in celebration of the fashion house’s famous Chanel No. 5 fragrance, as well as its creator, Gabrielle “Coco”… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 6: Research & Curate

Thoughts on Week 5 Lecture & Resources Irma Boom The podcast/interview above features Dutch book designer Irma Boom in conversation with industrial designer Stephen Burks of New York gallery Friedman Benda, as part of their Design in Dialogue series, recorded on 10th February 2021. I found it really inspiring to learn more about her design… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 5: Written Communication

Thoughts on Week 4 Lecture & Resources The Bomb Sight project, when described, sounds like an interesting historical census of the locations of the bombs that struck London during the 1940-1941 Blitz, but it’s when you see the data presented in a visual way that you really get a sense of the vast number –… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 4: Projecting a new perspective

Thoughts on Lecture & Resources Onformative created a highly visual data wall for the Swedish digital payment solution company Klarna, which is ever-changing, as it reflects data in real time – I like this idea because it’s a really unique way to display statistics and truly brings the information to life, as well as showing… Continue reading History & Futures – Week 3: Big Data