Programme

In a simulation of the design practice participants are requested to design a solution for a customer. The journey to the final design leads them through a "maze" every designer has to go through: how to get the required information from the customer? Designers are forced to think about their way of working: to design their own design process.

The design game originally was made for the curriculum of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Students for graphic design learn that not asking the right question or not thinking about the design process itself, never leads towards appropriate design. The design game create a small virtual world that hold all aspect of the real designers practice. Interested how your customer feels: play the game. Interested how your designer thinks: play the game.

Anyone can participate: designers, typographers, students, or non-designers. Fun for everyone!

Additional to the game Petr van Blokland will reflect on the game results in relation to the daily practice of a designer and extentions will be made to disciplines as programming and artificial intelligence, whereas the connection to game theory easily can be made.

Petr van Blokland (1956) studied at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1979 he graduated cum laude and worked as an intern at Total Design in Amsterdam and Studio Dumbar in The Hague. From 1980 until today he was designer and partner in Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens in Delft. To specialize himself he studied for several years at the TU-Delft department Industrial Design. From 1984 until 1989 he taught at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem. Since 1988 he is a teacher at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department and the post-graduate course Type & Media of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. With Claudia Mens he was co-founder of the Health Agency (publisher of on-line medical information) which he/they left in 2006.

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Interaction Design and Human Computer Interaction Workshop

16 June 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus

“Interaction Design is about designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives” (Sharp, Rogers and Preece, 2007)

Human computer interaction (HCI) is a component of Interaction Design, focusing on the design, implementation and evaluation of interactive computer systems and issues encountered in these processes.

Most people today spend a significant part of their lives in front of a screen, interacting with a computer to get their work done, to communicate, to hold meetings, to socialize with friends, to play games, and so many more. Therefore this interaction has to be carefully studied so as to be supported by a well designed interface to offer an optimal user experience.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners whose work is related to interaction design and human computer interaction.

Topics to be presented/ discussed include:

* Interaction Design and Devices

* Interaction Design and the Web

* Social Interaction Design

* Affective Aspects in Interaction Design

* Prototyping Methods
* Evaluation and Usability
* HCI in eLearning
* Pervasive technologies in HCI
* HCI education

* Accessible Interfaces

For general questions about the workshop contact Aimilia Tzanavari [Tzanavari.a@unic.ac.cy] or Panayiotis Zaphiris [panayiotis.zaphiris@cut.ac.cy]

Aimilia Tzanavari holds a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom (2001). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Multimedia, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. She has worked as a Special Scientist (2006-2008) and a Visiting Lecturer (2002-2004 and 2005) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor (2001-2002) at Miami University, OH, USA. She conducts research and publishes in the areas of human-computer interaction and e-learning and has served as program committee member and reviewer in various European and International workshops and conferences. She has participated in numerous research projects supported by the European Commission holding research and management positions.

Panayiotis Zaphiris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts. Panayiotis has a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Wayne State University, USA. He also has an MSc in Systems Engineering and a BSc in Electrical Engineering both from University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has worked for a number of years at the Centre for HCI Design of City University London where he reached the rank of Reader in HCI. His research areas are in the area of Human Computer Interaction, Social Computing and Inclusive Design with an emphasis on the design of interactive systems for people with disabilities.

Τhis workshop is called DanceTypography and its aim is to connect the art of writing with the rest of our body, to bring us into a different relationship with type and typography by learning the correlations of the Alphabet (letters) to the different bodyparts (organs).

Through various exercises of improvisation the participants are to create their own typographical synthesis, by using their bodies as the main tool, their voices and the space around them.

Participants are required to wear relaxed clothing and to join the workshop with an open heart.

Magdalena Papanikolopoulou has studied graphic and typographic design at the London College of Printing, and classical and modern dance at the De Pian Dance school.

She has worked as an Art Director in various advertising agencies and has created many corporate identities, Museum and exhibiton signage.

Magdalena has taken part as an artist in many group exibitions, as well as a performer in various art festivals.

She is a full time professor at the Technical University of Athens, teaching graphic design, and is interested in the development of free expression of man through calligraphy, speech and body exercises.

The w/kshop will take place at studio A22.
Please, bring your laptops on Wednesday 16 June.
Please, install the demo version of Fontlab:
http://www.fontlab.com/fontlab-font-editors/fontlab-studio-8212-professional-font-editor/download-fontlab-studio.html

The successfull two-day workshop on typeface design, which had been taken place at the University of Nicosia last year, constitutes the basis for this w/kshop as well. The contemporary approaches towards the creation of typefaces will be discussed and evaluated as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the digital design tools.

Gerry Leonidas is lecturer in the Dept of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK and Course Director of the MA in Typeface Design. He is practicing designer of Greek and Latin typefaces and a regular consultant on typography and type design. He has published book reviews and articles on typography and is currently completing a PhD on the relationship of the design processes of Greek and Latin digital typefaces.

Lecturer in the Dept. of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK and Course Director of the MA in Typeface Design. He is practicing designer of Greek and Latin typefaces and a regular consultant on typography and type design. He has published book reviews and articles on typography and is currently completing a PhD on the relationship of the design processes of Greek and Latin digital typefaces.

Binding images is the theme of the workshop; the final product will be an idiosyncratic photo album. Participants will be asked to bring their own, personal photos, which will inspire them to work creatively on the project.

Vangelio Tzanetatou has ran with great success the bookbinding workshops in the 2002, 2004 and 2007 ICTVC conferences. The final artefacts produced give high pleasure to the participants and provide a firm basis for further exploration and development.

Vangelio has studied bookbinding and book restoration at the London College of Printing. Over the past fifteen years she has been working in the rare book restoration field as well as a bookbinder designer. Some of her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Greece and in other European countries.

Vangelio Tzanetatou has originally trained at the EOMMEX Workshop of Bookbinding as an Art, she has further studied bookbinding and book restoration at the London College of Printing (Btec. Higher National Diploma in Design/Bookbinding) and History of the Book at the University of London (MA in the History of the Book).

She has worked as a binding restorer for private collectors, the Gennadius Library and the Library of The Norwegian Institute in Athens. She has curated Bookbinding exhibitions at the Gennadius Library. Her creative work as a designer bookbinder exists in private collections in Athens and New York and is housed at the Municipal Library of Athens, the Royal Library of Denmark and John Ryland's Library in Manchester. She has participated in a lot of group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has been a prize winner for many times.