Designers who ignore research run the risk of becoming mere tools for communication rather than bold voices. Design Studies, a collection of 27 essays from an international cast of top design researchers, sets out to mend this schism between research and practice. The texts presented here make a strong argument for performing rigorous experimentation and analysis. Each author outlines methods in which research has aided their designwhether by investigating how senior citizensreact to design aesthetics, how hip hop culture can influence design, or how design for Third World nations is affected by cultural differences. Contributors also outline inspired ways in which design educators can teach research methods to their students. Finally, Design Studies is rounded out by five annotated bibliographies to further aid designers in their research. This comprehensive reader is the definitive reference for this new direction in graphic design, and an essential resource for both students and practitioners.
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In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint. Websites, magazines, books, and television have all honed in on ever-diversifying subcultures, hoping to carve out niche audiences that grow savvier and more narrowly sliced by the day. Consequently,the discipline of graphic design has undergone a sea change. Where visual communication was once informed by a designer's creative intuition, the proliferation of specialized audiences now calls for more research-based design processes.
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This anthology of 24 previously published and new essays is an engrossing and diverse primer in design's theroetical dimension -- Print, September 2006
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Audrey Bennett is a College Art Association professional development fellow and associate professor of graphics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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As a new university design teacher I found this book quite helpful in the initial stages of curriculum planning. The book has a wide variety of essays and case studies touching most areas of communication and multimedia design.
The specific examples of how other teachers have structured their classes is inspiring, in particular the case studies in the back section titled "Human Centred Design". The extensive and descriptive "Cultural Studies Bibliography" is a wonderful resource for further study into the areas of design research, strategy and education.
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directed storytelling, user research methods, user archetypes, design problem definition, visual sessions, divergent search, design education programs, graphic design education, visual communication design, design educators, sociocultural elements, analytic inference, mediating messages, contextual design, shaping belief, graphic design programs, cultural mass, design discourse, design inquiry, interactive narrative, communication designers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hip Hop, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Basic Books, Cambridge University Press, United States, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, University of California Press, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Windows Personas, Wire Design, John Wiley, Jorge Frascara, African American, Bay Press, Harvard Business School Press, Oxford University Press, South Africa, Academic Press, Confidence Scores, Martin Luther King, Meredith Davis, Nairobi Participant New!
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- Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design by Gunther Kress on 4 pages
- Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel in Front Matter, page 197, and page 240
- The Psychology Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman on page 411, page 423, and page 443
- Primer of Visual Literacy by Harold B. Dondis in Front Matter, page 115, and Back Matter
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte on page 429, and Back Matter
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