MSc Black Country Day Trip: February 2015
MSc Design & Transport students Yafei Wang, Karthik Satheesh and Wan-Ju Hsieh travelled to Dudley and the Black Country Living Museum, Tipton via Wolverhampton by train, tram and bus on Friday 20th February 2015, accompanied by tutor Peter Atkinson and his family.
The School is delighted to announce that Patrick W. Jordan has been appointed as Visiting Professor in Industrial Design. Amongst other activities Patrick will be co-supervising a PhD on automotive design with Coventry University. The project, which will be run in conjunction with the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), looks at people’s psychological reactions to design and at how vehicles can be made more emotionally appealing. Patrick has extensive experience of working in the automotive industry. Clients include Nissan, Volvo and Renault. He has recently supervised a project on the branding of cars and what makes them appealing and also examined a PhD in this area at Delft University.
A charming animation about design by Johnny Kelly for makeshapechange.
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