Second, we need to educate designers and social change advocates alike about leveraging the power of these media while maintaining integrity to their cause and its message.
His wife, Tae Kyoung Lee, a Yale-educated designer, now 31, soon joined the practice.
"Decorators know where the safe is hidden," said Celerie Kemble, a Harvard-educated designer who grew up in the business (her mother is Mimi McMakin, the Palm Beach decorator) and whose own New York City firm is more than 15 years old.
"Designers are the start of everything and if we can educate the designer to make better choices then they can become agents of change for the entire industry," says Hannah Jones, vice-president of sustainable business and innovation at Nike.
The incredible success of the Apple iPod, iMac and iPhone, designed by Jonathan Ive, a British designer educated in the UK, is not a consequence of the hardware.
Without understanding the design process, design students have no way of understanding a design problem, or how to add constraints in order to better shape the problem into something that is manageable.We need to find a way to educate future designers, providing them with a firmer grasp of design processes and a variety of methods - in other words, comprehensive expertise of a medium.
In order to overspread a successful sustainable design of products and services, it is necessary to educate engineering designers at university and along life.
April Ferry, the costume designer, educated herself about the era's fashions, making surprising discoveries.
Minsu Kim, a designer educated at the Royal College of Art, has decided to turn this notion on its head by creating The Illusion of Life, a machine that imitates perhaps the most intimate form of human communication: the whisper.
