Dundee's Future Green Thinking Winner
Future Green Thinking Winner: Dundee Geography student Craig Frew."Creating environmentally-friendly solutions for everyday livingAn adaptation of the Neighbourhood Watch scheme, the Environmental...
View ArticleReplacing remote controls with gestures
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View ArticleRecycling trucks printed with textile patterns
Visit TreeHugger for the full story - some great-looking vehicles!
View ArticleNew timetable for level 2 Design Studies 2009/2010
This timetable is a work in progress but shows how next year's programme is shaping up.You can view it full screen by clicking on the spanner icon (or "wrench" if you're American!)
View ArticleFollow us on Twitter
As you can see on the right hand side of the page, we've been making a lot of use of Twitter to pose quick links to stories from around the web. It's also a great way to connect to other designers,...
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This video was directed by Bang-yao Liu at Savannah College of Art and DesignLiu says on his YouTube page:"This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is...
View ArticleToo many anecdotes, not enough data
Joshua Porter: "If we’re not careful we’ll start making design decisions based on a single person’s opinion, not fact."Read the whole article for useful advice on the difference between anecdote and...
View ArticleDesign students: think diagonally
Lauren Tan, who gave a talk for The Design Council at this year's New Designers, sums up how design students need to see beyond their discipline when it comes to making career choices:A friend once...
View ArticleClothes made from coffee
From The Guardian: Ethical fabric isn't restricted to hemp and bamboo. An innovative range of sportswear is now being made out of old coffee grounds, reports Sanjida O'ConnellMost of us need that...
View ArticleNext Level Dundee
Next Level Dundee is a digital media collaboration event for anybody not currently working in the creative industries. Entrants will work in teams over the course of a week to produce a game, audio,...
View ArticleSet texts for Dundee design programmes (level 2, semester 1)
It's that time of year again when students are thinking about starting their new courses. The excitement, the keen sense of anticipation (surely that's the same thing?)... now's the time to get a head...
View ArticleAssembling bodies
Tall or short, large or small - the human body comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and that is perhaps why it has been interpreted in so many different ways. Cambridge University's Museum of...
View ArticleMap/Territory
Designer Timo Arnall's concept video shows the potential for augmented reality mapping.Personally I don't think you'd ever see a guy using this - they'd never want anyone to think they were lost! If I...
View ArticleSemester 1 Mind Map
Level 2 students on the Design Studies module will be using mind mapping to create an overview of their reading and help with idea generation. It's just one of many techniques you can use for this sort...
View ArticleWhy should students blog or use Twitter?
This year we're going to ask new level 2 students to keep a blog to post their research and thoughts on reading, lectures and seminars - as well as show off their design work to the world.I asked my...
View ArticleBeing a critical student
A good, brief video from the University of Leicester on what we mean when we ask you to be "critical"
View ArticleGeorge Kembel: Awakening Creativity
You can select individual chapters at the for a.tv website
View ArticleDesign Council calls for change in how design is categorised
Basically, design is more closely related to science, engineering, technology and maths than it is to art... especially in terms of what it offers the economy and society.(I happen to agree, but what...
View ArticleThe Fun Theory
How do you get more people to take the stairs? Turn them in to a piano...
View ArticleDesign Thinking diagram
This great image (click on it for a larger version) and explanation of Design Thinking comes from Stanford University's K-12 Lab Wiki (see link below) UNDERSTAND Understanding is the first phase of the...
View ArticleFlexible Love - folding chairs with a difference
Sana Aziz, a level 2 jewellery student at Dundee, found this video of an innovative approach to folding furniture. Seems to answer quite a lot of needs - easy to store away, able to be used in lots of...
View ArticleCalling all jewellery students and graduates
I would like to introduce you all to Vanilla Ink. It is a new initiative founded in 2009 by Kate Pickering who studied Jewellery and Metal Work at Duncan of Jordanstone and then went on to study a...
View ArticleDesktop apps for blogging
Writing a blog in a web browser interface can be a pain. Fortunately there are lots of desktop applications that allow you to write your posts, save them for later, post them then edit them to your...
View ArticleChange is coming...
It's been a bit quiet on here recently, for all sorts of reasons (one of them being that Twitter seems to have taken over as a means of sharing links quickly).But over Christmas I'm hoping to move this...
View ArticleWe've moved!
This blog has now moved to another site, so please update your bookmarks etc to point to our new URL: http://designstudies2010.wordpress.com/
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