Author: Derek Jones

  • Design Council Spark 2017 – Do you have an idea?

    Design Council Spark 2017 – Do you have an idea?

    The Design Council Spark initiative will open on 12 September 2017 and is open to anyone with a good idea which they think would make a great product. Financial and mentoring support is available to support the development of finalists. Details are available on the Design Council Spark site here http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/design-council-spark  

  • LearnXDesign Conference 2017

    LearnXDesign Conference 2017

    (Cross post from the DRS website) The fourth international DRS / CUMULUS / ED-DESIGN Conference on Design Education – LearnXDesign 2017 – was held at the end of June 2017 at Ravensbourne in London, UK.

  • Another tool for checking what you know

    Another tool for checking what you know

    In addition to Gil’s great post on How to spot fake news, here’s another toolkit well worth investing in – the (bear with me) Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies poster, freely available in pdf here So, the next you read a newspaper piece or watch anyone debating or presenting anything, see if you play…

  • OpenStudio at the Guardian HE Awards

    OpenStudio at the Guardian HE Awards

    Sadly OpenStudio didn’t win the Guardian University Award for Digital Innovation – but the winner and other runner up were more than deserving. In fact it’s great to see that all three runners up had more to do with embedded practice than simply showing off the next technology. That’s a healthy sign, in my humble…

  • OpenStudio Shortlisted for Guardian University Award 2017 !

    OpenStudio Shortlisted for Guardian University Award 2017 !

    OpenStudio has been shortlisted for a 2017 Guardian University Award in the Digital Innovation category. OpenDesignStudio first appeared way back in 2008 in the module T189: Digital Photography module and was then re-purposed for the first presentation of U101: Design Thinking, as an online design studio and portfolio tool, where the use of it demonstrated…