{"title":"The Design Process Seen Through the Eyes of a Type Designer","authors":"S. Beier","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.6199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.6199","url":null,"abstract":"Through a historical overview of the influence designing had on the early days of printing, the paper finds the English printer and typefounder John Baskerville (1706-1775) to be the first real known type designer. Based on this assumption, the paper presents a model for how a contemporary design process is carried out, and reflects upon the relationship between this and the way Baskerville might have worked in the development of his historical innovating typeface style.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"103 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131790138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design Education for Local Development","authors":"Pernille Askerud, B. Adler","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.12813","url":null,"abstract":"In the western part of the world, the concept of design is increasingly perceived as a central means of how we organize the world and imbue it with (cultural) meaning, rather than a quality attached to material objects. In this article we are interested in what concept of design is implied in typical design training activities in different cultural contexts (Morocco, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Singapore). Inspired by the questions that have arisen in connection with project experience and research done by the authors in many countries, this survey outlines approaches and efforts to establish design competence with a particular paradigm to the fostering of sustainable economic and cultural development in local communities. Having worked with development projects involving various aspects of design, we have chosen to study projects with clear design goals as examples of how diverse the interpretation of the concept of design can be. These observations may stimulate an awareness of the important impact of notions of design in terms of innovation and cultural diversity and may even give rise to more research into these issues.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117142378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Design A phenomenological contribution to the quiddity of design presented in geometrical order","authors":"Stéphane Vial","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.5137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I4.5137","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests defining three criteria to differentiate design and non-design, using the concept of effect in a phenomenological perspective. The central concept of this article is the concept of “effect of design,” defined as a three-dimensional result that occurs through usage and turns it into an “experience-to-live.” The three dimensions of the effect of design are the “ontophanic effect,” the “callimorphic effect” and the “socioplastic effect.” This approach is presented in the form of a philosophical manifesto in the geometrical style inspired by Spinoza’s Ethics. This article includes 1 general overview of the issue, 5 definitions, 3 axioms, 3 hypotheses and 3 developments.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114124028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE AESTHETICS STEPS Differentiated Approaches to the use of Aesthetics in the Design of Spaces","authors":"Tine R. Ebdrup","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122155953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green Aesthetics in Clothing","authors":"K. Niinimäki","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I3.3653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I3.3653","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach to understanding green aesthetics in clothing and design-for-sustainability that unifies existing theories and describes aspects of green aesthetics. The aim of this paper is to define the dimensions of aesthetic perception in design and commodities, and while doing so the focus is on green aesthetics in clothing. Hence the approach is made on the basis of aesthetic discourse yet with a multidisciplinary view. On the basis of this paper parallels between green aesthetics in design objects and the definition of design-for-sustainability can be drawn, merging aesthetic attributes with environmental values.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134546995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A foray into not-quite companion species: design experiments with urban animals as significant others","authors":"L. Jönsson, T. Lenskjold","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3957","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the project, Urban Animals and Us, as a journey - or foray - into the ‘terrain vague’ between people and (other) animals with whom we share urban space. Through three design experiments developed around speculative prototypes and co-design tools, we attempt to bring ’wild’ urban animals - like magpies and gulls into contact with the residents of a senior retirement home, to explore what new practices can arise between, otherwise, unconnected life-worlds. We expand the notion of companion species from philosopher of science Donna Haraway and begin to position the current project within a growing interest in animals in contemporary design research. Through analysis of the design experiments and the subsequent discussion, we argue, that a foray into interspecies relations, can inform the practical research agenda, and, help to re-articulate the dominant anthropocentricity of design research.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"435 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122804881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetics and the Art of Engineering","authors":"P. Boelskifte","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I3.3121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I3.3121","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering involvement with aesthetics is vital for the creation of innovative and successful products in today’s fast changing world. This paper discusses the nature of this involvement historically and in the present, and goes further to argue that aesthetics plays a central role in the creative process itself. Thus, if engineers are involved in the creation of products, or if they wish to become more creative, it is important that they be sensitive to the aesthetic implications of their work and also to their personal aesthetic capabilities. This paper will also examine a few of the reasons why the importance of aesthetics may be difficult for the engineering profession to acknowledge primarily based on A survey into textbooks used in educating mechanical engineers and engineering designers with the aim to identify and finally a possible paradigmatic change in the engineers approach to aesthetics is presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114673460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing as Thought: Ideation in Narrative Film Design","authors":"Welby Ings","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3983","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses drawing and interior dwelling as enstasic methodological practices that reach potentials beyond those available to thinking prescribed by the written word. In discussing the means by which the short film Munted (Ings 2011) was drawn into being, it suggests that drawn approaches to the design of filmic narratives might enable the designer to reach in unique ways, into ideation and outwards into the communicative content and appearance of the text.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123239583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking Through the Architecture Studio: Two Models of Research","authors":"Michael Jasper","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3969","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares and contrasts two approaches to the university architecture studio as a contribution to discussions around design-led research. The first is the sequence of undergraduate studios undertaken under John Hejduk (1929-2000) at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, the second, the postgraduate Urban Design Studio at Cornell University, Ithaca, as directed by Colin Rowe (1929-1999). Student work is used to illustrate studio character, project type, and the diversity of architectural-urban problems addressed, ranging from Hejduk’s Nine Square, Cube, and Juan Gris studios to Rowe’s grid and fragment studies, infill or completion problems, and overall field or city scale projects. The paper highlights important differences in scale and project type while at the same time revealing a shared pedagogical and philosophical belief in abstraction, autonomy, and formal exercises in contrast to studios which emphasise functional brief, site specific studies, structure or building systems. From this it is conjectured that the Hejduk and Rowe approaches constitute exemplary models of studio-based research in architecture.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115778825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New experimentalism in design research: Characteristics and Interferences of Experiments in Science, the Arts and in Design Research","authors":"D. Steffen","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3974","url":null,"abstract":"Commonly the term “experiment” is in the first place associated with science, systematic methods and strict principles for the sake of knowledge creation. Nonetheless, the term is widely used across the boundaries of science. The arts attribute artworks likewise as experimental – a usage that is often claimed to be metaphorical, since experiments in the arts (including design) lack the essential attributes that define a scientific experiment. Currently, research in the fields of science studies and literary science has revised these established conceptions as well as the primacy of the scientific experiment. The philosophical approach of New Experimentalism relativizes the deductive conception of hypothesis-testing experiments and argues for a broader view. Studies in literary science and cross-disciplinary comparison between the arts reveal an age-long experimental tradition and also common characteristics of experimental work in these fields. Awareness of these developments is essential for design researchers, theoreticians and historians in order to position, theorize and argue for design experiments accordingly. The essay suggests avoiding a narrow, one-sided view of experiments in design and design research and points to the potential of practice-led design research to reconcile the “two cultures” that shape the field.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133688352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}