Design Perspectives

Emily Tenzer Santoro, Adjunct Instructor at Pratt Institute, Queens College and New York University and SUN/FIT, brings her background in anthropology (BA, Barnard College, 1984) to the culture of graphic design. This feeds her understanding of the social codes that factor into design projects. **Audio only**

Jack Yan will address typography's impact on branding, the cultural aspects of branding, and nation branding. He will also speak about his work as a director of the Medinge Group, a think-tank in Sweden devoted to cutting-edge humanitarian branding. **Audio only**

Dr. Pi'ikea Clark will address how Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi University is attempting to expand design education through indigenous knowledge and a focus on social, educational, economic and cultural sustainability and the needs of indigenous communities.

How can interaction design contribute to innovating business models?



The very model of how to make business is at play in most innovation projects today.

The essence of Design Factory is its unique blend of creative, meeting and social spaces. Design Factory also hosts research projects for industry and nurtures start-up companies in the adjacent 'Venture Garage'...

Dr Gregory updates and augments key concepts, terms and new developments to bring them forward in relation to 3rd generation Cultural Historical Activity Theory... a lively and notable area over the past 10 years with significant uptake in design research, interaction design and other design domains.

"A thing found is a found thing; das ding an sich, the thing-in-itself, is altogether something else. We know chair before we know this chair. We know chair-ness and yet there is no such thing-in-itself, as a chair..."

"A thing found is a found thing; das ding an sich, the thing-in-itself, is altogether something else. We know chair before we know this chair. We know chair-ness and yet there is no such thing-in-itself, as a chair..."

Internationally renowned design academic, Dr Wendy Suiyi Wong reviews graphic design in China over the last three decades in the third of a series of free public lectures hosted by Swinburne University's Faculty of Design.

Current research indicates that leading designers draw on common cognitive patterns in their work. To examine this phenomenon, Nigel Cross draws on reports and observations of creative design by outstanding designers...