CCT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Systems Engineering, Typography, Wicked Problem
12 Sep 2017
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Cct204 lec 01: introduction & symbolic + visual communication. Every category has constraints (limits; certain size, taste, etc. ) Design thinking: the theory: targets wicked problems (problems with no definite solution, it"s up to us how we process and define the problem as well as come up with a solution for it. When you"ve created something innovative, you"ve simplified things. A design can fall in one or more of the above mentioned categories. Significance of overlapped areas: certain categories overlap. I. e. certain hospitals made like homes (support life, improve life) According to richard buchanan: four areas of design: design of symbolic and visual communications. Typography, advertizing, book and magazine production, illustration, photography, filmography, film and tv. Communicating info. ideas. arguments through a new synthesis of words and images that is transforming the bookish cultures" of the past: design of material objects. Clothing, domestic objects, tools, instruments, machinery, vehicles.
