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Designing for an Imperfect Future

Designing for an Imperfect Future

By Ligature Journal

All design is being designed for the future. The work being designed may enter its appropriate domain—public or not—in a few minutes, days, months or years. All are in the future.

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The Invisible User

The Invisible User

By Ligature Journal

In theis article we turn from our usual Invisible Designer and look, instead at when Users are not considered adequately. The Invisible User Problem—and it is a problem—is a great source of imperfection. And that imperfection can be harmful and dangerous.

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Brave Novel World

Brave Novel World

By Ligature Journal

[Novel] ecosystems that are the result of deliberate or inadvertent human action, but do not depend on continued human intervention for their maintenance.

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One to Watch with Eric Tieng

One to Watch with Eric Tieng

By Anne Vu

We’ve become quite adept at linking the idea of design with the digital realm, but design doesn’t only just live...

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Indigenous Engagement, Human Connection and the Designer

Indigenous Engagement, Human Connection and the Designer

By Anne Vu

Well designed places should encourage human connection. With the world becoming increasingly digital and human connection decreasing due to the...

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Designing for Vulnerability by Natasha Ballantyne

Designing for Vulnerability by Natasha Ballantyne

By Anne Vu

This article is the full and extended version of the one that appears inside issue nine. On any given night,...

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Design and Reinvention in 'The Minds Eye'

Design and Reinvention in 'The Minds Eye'

By Anne Vu

Walking through the doors of The Victorian Artist’s Society to see The Mind’s Eye was like stepping into Australia’s rich...

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Imagination and narrative and place

Imagination and narrative and place

By Anne Vu

Felix Oppen | Graphic Designer | tiliquapress.com  We live in a world full of things that we can see, touch,...

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Arthur Koutoulas on Touch

Arthur Koutoulas on Touch

By Anne Vu

Arthur Koutoulas | Interior Design Consultant | arthurkoutoulas.com  Each and every material has its own unique finish, inherent colour and...

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Simplicity with Kevin Finn

Simplicity with Kevin Finn

By Rosie Cass

Kevin Finn | Graphic Designer thesumof.com.au Keeping things simple sounds so easy. But it’s not. It’s incredibly difficult to achieve...

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NO THING IS SIMPLE

NO THING IS SIMPLE

By Rosie Cass

Cameron Tonkinwise | Philosopher & Design Educator dasaufnahme.wordpress.com | @camerontw  A violin is a fairly simple device: four strings suspended...

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EMERGING DESIGNER – Sarah McColl

EMERGING DESIGNER – Sarah McColl

By Felix Oppen

SARAH McCOLL | SERVICE DESIGNER | @smccolldesign  When you talk to designers about how they found their way into the...

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