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Publication date | 1/01/2003 |
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Host publication | Proceedings of ICED 03, the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design |
Editors | Anders Folkeson, Margareta Norell, Ulf Sellgren, Klas Gralen |
Publisher | Design Society |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (electronic) | 1904670008 |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Event | 14th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2003 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 19/08/2003 → 21/08/2003 |
Conference | 14th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2003 |
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Country/Territory | Sweden |
City | Stockholm |
Period | 19/08/03 → 21/08/03 |
Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED |
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Volume | DS 31 |
ISSN (Print) | 2220-4334 |
ISSN (electronic) | 2220-4342 |
Conference | 14th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2003 |
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Country/Territory | Sweden |
City | Stockholm |
Period | 19/08/03 → 21/08/03 |
The paper provides an insight into the minds of eight of the world's most celebrated designers. The eight designers have been drawn from a number of design centres throughout the world and selected on their current contribution to contemporary design practice and thinking. Using traditional semi-structured interview techniques [1], the paper explores what makes the world's top designers critically and commercially successful? The paper also seeks to identify whether these designers adopt a unique approach to their design work? Moreover, the paper questions whether the designers possess a special something in their genetic make up or DNA, which makes them flourish in the contemporary design world? Utilising the Watson-Crick model of living organisms [2] as a speculative model for each designer's "cultural DNA", the paper illustrates the significant design-related cultural influences which the designers possess and draw on in their work.