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Design for Behavior Change: Ethics & Trending

by Carnegie Mellon January 5, 2011

By Kim Dowd "Design for Behavior Change" is a trending theme in our graduate studio this year. We call it different things—"A New System for This" or "A Game to Foster That," but the basics are the same: People have a habit (e.g. driving to work) People should change habit (biking to work) Encourage habit [...]

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Design’s Affective Lens

by Carnegie Mellon December 22, 2010

[Editor's note: from time to time we'll be setting posts in some new web-safe typefaces that we're test driving for Monotype. The body copy of Kelly's post is set in Memphis Medium and her byline is in Trade Gothic. To read more about about that arrangement go here]. By Kelly Nash During the academic year, I [...]

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A Question of Materials

by Carnegie Mellon December 15, 2010

By Juliana Diaz This fall term, I was given the opportunity to be a teaching assistant for our sophomore industrial design (ID) studio class, called Generation of Form. Personally, I have no experience designing three dimensional objects. On the other hand, I have spent the past six years working in print and on the web. [...]

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Design Beyond Design

by Carnegie Mellon December 8, 2010

By Gretchen Pinard I decided long before I applied to the Communication Planning and Information Design graduate program here at Carnegie Mellon that I no longer wanted to be a practicing designer. At least not in the traditional sense. Seems an odd decision, doesn’t it, applying to obtain a Master of Design degree with no [...]

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Can I Just Be Called a "Designer," Please?

by Carnegie Mellon December 1, 2010

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Sarah Calandro Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple design skill sets that Carnegie Mellon Design graduates tap into: graphic, information, communication, web, interaction, industrial, and user-interface design, along with creative nonfiction writing, photography, animation, and the list goes on. Every time I come home to Baton Rouge, I find [...]

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Social Impact by Design: A Reflection

by Carnegie Mellon November 17, 2010

By Aliya Maria Baptista Several of us at Carnegie Mellon are working on projects for our Social Impact by Design class. My project partner, Chelsey Delaney, and I reached out to collaborate with a local Pittsburgh organization, Earthen Vessels Outreach (EVO), an organization that works with youth in some of Pittsburgh’s rougher neighborhoods through after-school [...]

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A Maker’s Philosophy

by Carnegie Mellon November 10, 2010

By Norman Lau When I have time in the middle of my day, I like to make things with little bits of clay—you'll know my studio desk by the menagerie of clay animals parading across it. But there is something deeply satisfying about the act of making. I believe it gives a different part of [...]

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Rally of the Rhetoricians

by Carnegie Mellon November 3, 2010

By Chelsey Delaney Amidst a crowd of (I swear) over 300,000 people at the Rally to Restore Sanity Saturday I did the opposite of what was being advocated: I panicked. Somewhere in the mess I had lost my friends and my purse, and though I still had my cell phone, the density of the flock caused [...]

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Design: The Human Profession?

by Carnegie Mellon October 27, 2010

by Jeanette Leagh Last night, I went to the symphony in downtown Pittsburgh. I’m not a classical music buff, but an evening away from the studio is a welcomed escape. It was Rachmaninoff night, and the soloist was Russian pianist, Olga Kern. In the dimmed opulence of Heinz Hall, I momentarily drowned my thesis concerns [...]

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Strategic Conversation: A Design Tool for Collaboration

by Carnegie Mellon October 20, 2010

By Lauren Chapman Design is a culture of collaboration—but what happens when different values, or different visions, clash? Imagine two large institutions, collaborating on a project. One company has a strict, conventional culture, while the other is very relaxed and organic. How can the two come together, working towards a shared vision? This is where [...]

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