Artisan Social Designer, a new gallery and concept store in a converted grocery store in Paris, is giving traditional craft a makeover.
The venue, called Artisan Social Designer, showcases works by artists who use classical skills — like blowing glass, metal work, macramé, embroidery or carpentry — to create sleek, contemporary objects.
He gained a lot of experience on Facebook applications as a Senior Social Designer for CBS Interactive, and even went on to assume the role of Associate on the Facebook Developer Network team for about a year before starting Appbistro.
Amongst all this, New York "social designer" Nikolas Bentel has released a new project involving mirrored protest signs that Bentel says "are expressly designed to prevent police from hurting protestors by using the effects of a mirror".
Rather than using design to produce visible things, such as objects or images, social designers apply the principles of design thinking to address social, political and humanitarian crises.
Our choices include lots of smart men, but also women, like Neri Oxman and Daisy Ginsberg, who are working on the frontier of design and science, and the pioneering social designers Hilary Cottam and Emily Pilloton.
The new genre of social designers are contributing to the decisions by applying the design process of research, analysis, visualization and communication to, say, improving the quality of social services, often working in collaboration with other specialists to do so.
Ms. Cottam and her colleagues are at the forefront of the increasingly influential discipline of social design, whereby designers collaborate with specialists from other fields, like ethnographers, psychologists and anthropologists, to try to develop more efficient, inspiring and cost-effective ways of dealing with social problems.
"Abstract" also leaves out a category sometimes referred to as "social" design — work by designers, across a number of disciplines, who try to apply design thinking to problems that can't be solved in a way that improves some profit-driven client's bottom line.
Formed on an analysis of design practices, the behaviour chain model stipulates that social network designer's ultimate aim is to encourage users to adopt the social network site by entering a phase of true commitment.
His upbringing was typical of the English upper class, but a master at Imperial Service College, a private school he attended, introduced him to the works of William Morris, the eminent 19th-century social theorist, designer and printer of fine books.
