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The Provocative and Prescient Work of Archie Boston Jr.

Eye on Design

Boston’s long tenure as a professor and eventual chair of California State, Long Beach’s Visual Communications program began in the late 1970s after he received his Masters at the University of Southern California. During his time in academia, Boston became a leading and award-winning design educator. “I

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Where did this interaction come from??—?a brief history of interaction design

UX Collective

In 1965, Schoffer also presented the plans for a cybernetic city at the Jewish Museum in New York demonstrating that for Schaffer the ability to program not only sculptures but the whole urban area offers the idea of a dialogue between technology and environment. CYSP sculptures were the main instances of the cybernetic art movement.

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What’s the value of a writing workshop for designers?

UX Collective

The act of storytelling strengthens empathy and provides perspective on how objects are imbued with meaning (A version of this article first appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Innovation , the quarterly of the Industrial Design Society of America.) Students write two 300-word essays? Back at my desk, I started digging into its past.

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Women You Should Know in Graphic Design History

Tuts Plus

Marian Bantjes, GQ Italy cover, October 2009. Irma Boom is a Dutch graphic designer who has designed over 300 books and been described as The Queen of Books. Her approach to design is experimental, not only when it comes to layout but also to the book as a tangible object. There’s a sense of care in each line.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Packed with great examples of innovative thinking in graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration, architecture, product design, furniture design, industrial design, animation, digital design, car design, engineering, art and fashion. Buy the book. Logotype by Michael Evamy. Buy the book.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

In 2010, for me, it was still custom work: paper-based mobile app prototypes, Craigslist-ad user recruiting that pointed to separate survey provider, manual phone or email follow-up for scheduling, in-office test sessions, cash incentives in an envelope, webcam input recording programs, and unfortunate hours of clipping quotes in Quicktime.