Are you a design student or graduate finding it hard to access or find your place in industry? Well, with over 185,500 design practitioners in the UK alone that's not surprising!
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Welcome to the Studio Unbound!
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Founded in 2009 by University of Dundee Master of Design graduate Lauren Currie, and design writer, consultant and 'networker extraordinaire' Kate Andrews, the Studio Unbound is an initiative aiming to introduce students, graduates and educators to the creative power of social media.
Together as Studio Unbound, Kate and Lauren explore the power of digital networking, demonstrating tools that students can use to move ideas forward, form networks with practitioners around the world, and build a reputation before and after graduation.
In highlighting creative people all over the world using social networking to their advantage, Studio Unbound discuss the dynamic, conversational value of new digital technologies and illustrate how ideas of teaching and learning need to move away from the confines of the classroom or studio towards other, often ad-hoc and virtual venues.
Focusing on the ever growing possibilities and opportunities that the digital world presents, Studio Unbound demonstrate that during a time of mass communication change, design courses must change with it if they are to stay relevant.
Studio Unbound is not all about Twitter or Facebook, but about breaking down preconceptions of social media technologies, into an incredible value system that can enable us all to find both an individual voice, and collaborative practice.
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“For the designer to become a producer, she must have the skills to begin directing content, by critically navigating the social, aesthetic, and technological systems across which communications flow.”
- Ellen Lupton, 1998. The Designer as Producer.
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(read less)Are you a design student or graduate finding it hard to access or find your place in industry? Well, with over 185,500 design practitioners in the UK alone that's not surprising!
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Welcome to the Studio Unbound!
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Founded in 2009 by University of Dundee Master of Design graduate Lauren Currie, and design writer, consultant and 'networker extraordinaire' Kate Andrews, the Studio...
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