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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. individually and collectively.”.

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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.) What’s the value of a writing workshop for designers? What’s at stake here?’”

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

Ten years later, Nielsen & Norman would publish Usability Engineering (1993) , and a year after that, the first edition of Handbook of Usability Testing (1994) would help to drive the work into clearer and better-understood practices. Buchanan) of design than industrial design. Interaction was a “higher order” (cf.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

He shares analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann. First published in 2009, this book was updated in late 2017 to incorporate emerging trends and technologies.

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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.

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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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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible. He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. A fascinating look at the possible future of design. Buy the book.