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Paola Antonelli on the designers’ role

Johnny Holland interviewed Paola Antonelli, the design curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art (see Design and the… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 23 January, 2010. Filed under In general and tagged .

About the International Journal of Communication

An open door (photo from http://www.sxc.hu/)

Reading a post by Carlos Scolari about the publication of his paper on ‘→

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 17 September, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , .

roericht.net

I found yesterday the wonderful website of Hans (Nick) Roericht. He was a student/lecturer at the hfg ulm and later on at the hdk Berlin.… →

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 7 August, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

A fine line: a book by Hartmut Esslinger

A fine line

Without any doubt, frog design is one of the biggest and more interesting design bureaus in the world. With… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 15 July, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

World maps that change our vision

I came across Worldmapper a couple of years ago while I was preparing a tutorial at the Design Studies Department. For some reason,… →

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 30 June, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

Design and the right-brain

A whole new mind

Daniel Pink is an american author who has been writing about Design and the right-brainers. On his book –→

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 23 May, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , , , .

Design aids knowledge

visuwords

A short research paper I wrote for the Master in Theory of Communicational Design in which I compare different ways… →

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 8 May, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

Being authentic

Taken from Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules, this poster explains the difference between authenticity and originality claiming than the later… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 April, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

Design and optimism

In the introduction to the Design conference Changing the Change (Torino 10th, 11th, 12th July 2008) the designer… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 4 April, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , .

Notes on The Sixth Language

Robert K. Logan, a Faculty member of the Department of Physics at University of Toronto, writes on several topics that are relative to our profession… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 January, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , .