A Few Minutes of Design
This new set of cards offers 52 activities intended to ?Spark Your Creativity.? The cards run the gamut of design, from typeface to architecture, divided into colour-coded suites on different themes. Their appearance is engaging?colourful, with attractive, vivid photographs. Unfortunately, the activities are less so. This reviewer field-tested the cards with two groups: a gathering of architects, and a family of kids who aren?t especially focused on design. The response was lukewarm, which is not what you want from a set of cards meant to excite people about design.
The set is by Emily Campbell, who has a background in design and the design education of children. Perhaps for this reason the cards serve more as a meditation on what makes design tick, rather than engaging users in the design process. Many of the tasks seem condensed from what might be a week-long project?for example, look for forms in a picture of an engine, and then create a new form based on them. Distilling this to an ostensibly five-minute task robs it of its potential richness. The bigger problem is that the assignments (because this is what they often feel like) use examples of design?a set of icons, a typeface?as the basis for instructions like ?What rules would govern the shape of nos. 2 and 3" Draw them.? There may be such a thing as ?design principles??this set seems to assert that design should be logical and pleasing. But that?s not where design generally starts.
A few of the problems are ope...
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