[Sigia-l] Lansdown Lecture: Simp! - Per Mollerup on Design and Simplicity - LONDON Wed 28 March at 16:45

[Stephen Boyd Davis]

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Lansdown Lecture: Simp! - Per Mollerup on Design and Simplicity

+ Date: Wednesday 28 March 2007

+ Time: 4:45pm for one hour

+ Location: Middlesex University, London: Cat Hill Campus: Room 97.

Admission is free.

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Lansdown Lecture: Simp!
Prof. Per Mollerup on Design and Simplicity
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The Lansdown Centre, in association with Design at Middlesex University,
presents a lecture by a distinguished international visitor, professor of
design and design practitioner.

As the world gets more and more complicated, simplicity becomes a quality in
increasing demand. We all seek simplicity in smaller or larger measures. We
strive to create simplicity at work and in our private lives. For shorter or
longer periods of our lives we may opt for "the simple life" as a relief
from a complicated everyday. Per Mollerup discusses the whys and the hows of
simplicity in design.


About the speaker:
Dr. Per Mollerup is a Professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He
is Managing Director of Mollerup Designlab A/S, a Copenhagen-based graphic
design office working primarily with identity and signage.

Prof. Mollerup has written a number of books on design including:

+ Marks of Excellence, The history and taxonomy of Trademarks, Phaidon,
London 1996;
+ Collapsibles, A design album of space saving objects, Thames & Hudson,
London 2000;
+ Wayshowing ­ A Guide to Environmental Signage. Principles & Practices,
Lars Müller, Baden CH, 2005.


His article Simplicity appeared in a recent issue of Design Research
Quarterly Vol.2 No.1 2007 http://www.designresearchsociety.org



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Any enquires to Stephen Boyd Davis:  s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk

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Forthcoming Lansdown Lectures:

+ Bamber Gascoigne - Tuesday 17 April 2007
Founder, HistoryWorld

Bamber Gascoigne is famous for having been the presenter over many years of
the TV quiz show University Challenge, but he has also spent much of his
time since then developing a modular history of the world. He has now
transferred this in various innovative forms to the Web.


+ Jon Kingsbury - Wednesday 25 April 2007
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BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting Corporation?

Jon Kingsbury explores why the BBC needs to change radically and what its
options are for the next 5 years.


+ Paul Brown - Tuesday 1 May 2007
Paul Brown, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience
and Robotics and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex on
Drawbots: Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition

Paul will talk about the Drawbots project and the philosophical and artistic
issues of mechanised artwork, set in the context of his own long-term
artistic investigations.






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Stephen Boyd Davis 
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom 
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
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