Design Shanghai: 27th February – 2nd March 2014
Course Director of Interior Design Bob Verheijden is currently in Shanghai to launch two pieces of furniture that he has designed for the University’s planned PHNIX Collection in collaboration with local craft manufacturers Sitting Firm.
Design Workshop from Marieke de Vogel with students from Product Design: 10th February 2014
Marieke de Vogel with the third year Product Design students
Marieke de Vogel, Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Design from The HAN University in Holland delivered a ‘pressure cooker’ workshop to our third year Product Design students during a recent trip to the UK. At the moment she is researching adult play with smart designer toys in modern ludic times. The aim of this workshop was to create a playful interactive collaborative experience with the emphasis of developing toy designs. The workshop used padlet (an interactive message wall) and Facebook to support the research, development and evaluation stages of the design process. The students had to design a ‘blank canvas’ toy with a background story and posted the results to a specially opened Facebook page for this occasion. ‘Bob’ the alien from Daniel Frances had the most likes and vas taken forward for development by the entire group.