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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Commodity of Trade in Contemporary Design
AU - Innella, Giovanni
AU - Rodgers, Paul Anthony
PY - 2017/9/6
Y1 - 2017/9/6
N2 - The recent growth of festivals, media, and events associated the designindustry has had a major impact on the way we conceive, produce, distribute andconsume design. This is reflected in the way designers now work, which includespreparing photo-shoots, organizing exhibitions, and creating and disseminatingpress release materials. Similarly, the network of actors involved has changed, ashas the trade of expertise and services they offer. Typically, this includesphotographers, commissioning agents, curators, patrons, journalists, and PRpersonnel amongst others. This research expands the notion of conventional designprocesses, highlighting the key roles that media and event organizers now play incontemporary design. This research provides significant insights on the nature of adesigner’s media profile within the contemporary design industry. In so doing, theauthors have developed two tools for analyzing contemporary design processes andthe trade occurring in commissioned design projects that will be presented in thepaper.
AB - The recent growth of festivals, media, and events associated the designindustry has had a major impact on the way we conceive, produce, distribute andconsume design. This is reflected in the way designers now work, which includespreparing photo-shoots, organizing exhibitions, and creating and disseminatingpress release materials. Similarly, the network of actors involved has changed, ashas the trade of expertise and services they offer. Typically, this includesphotographers, commissioning agents, curators, patrons, journalists, and PRpersonnel amongst others. This research expands the notion of conventional designprocesses, highlighting the key roles that media and event organizers now play incontemporary design. This research provides significant insights on the nature of adesigner’s media profile within the contemporary design industry. In so doing, theauthors have developed two tools for analyzing contemporary design processes andthe trade occurring in commissioned design projects that will be presented in thepaper.
KW - Design process
KW - design critique
KW - Trade
KW - Media
KW - visualization tools
U2 - 10.1080/14606925.2017.1353012
DO - 10.1080/14606925.2017.1353012
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - S647-S668
JO - The Design Journal
JF - The Design Journal
SN - 1460-6925
IS - Suppl. 1
ER -