Paprika! Folds
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2018-2020
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Design Education
Published on January 9, 2020
Most would agree that there are some core design methodologies and skills that can easily be transmitted to students (the Design Thinking framework, the basics of typography, etc.), but are these skills alone sufficient to produce a capable design professional? If not, what is missing? What other formative experiences are important in this developmental process, and how are they currently addressed in our educational system?
The Value of Design
Published on March 28, 2019
As design receives the stamp of approval from consulting firms—catapulting it and its relatives (Design thinking! Creativity! Iteration!) into the ether of buzzwords, the new status quo raises some interesting provocations: Can design be quantified, appraised and used as a variable against which to run financial regression models? What are the ethical implications of the appraisal of design by consulting behemoths? And finally, how can designers wield this information to regain their agency?
