Design Week
Adrian Shaughnessy Freelance
-
Visual design students today
Tue, 28 Jun 2011
Guest blogger Adrian Shaughnessy shares the ten things he thinks you should know about today’s visual design students.
-
After the wild party
2 June 2011
Diversity in the shops is all very well, but an overabundance of choice is just likely to be counterproductive, rendering us frazzled and indecisive. Adrian Shaughnessy urges restraint
-
Stay on the fringe
7 April 2011
Of course we have to understand our clients’ businesses, but it’s vital to maintain an outsider status to give our talent for ’design thinking’ free rein, argues Adrian Shaughnessy
-
Where is the verve?
3 March 2011
Is it possible to combine design flair with technical nous? asks Adrian Shaughnessy. Even the media-savvy Swedes struggle to pull it off, he finds, on a visit to Stockholm’s Hyper Island
-
Type cast
3 February 2011
Once the preserve of experts, typography has gone mainstream with everyone getting in on the act. Yet there is still a place for design professionals to do it better, says Adrian Shaughnessy
-
Sham parade
2nd December 2010
Why are we saddled with such God-awful and implausible TV shows as The Apprentice, and why has advertising lost its wit and verve? Adrian Shaughnessy has had enough
-
Making connections
4 November 2010
Good design usually stems from a collaborative approach, so why does our education system continue to fetishise the idea of personal authorship? asks Adrian Shaughnessy
-
In tune with reality
16 September 2010
The ability to sex things up is an essential part of a designer’s repertoire, says Adrian Shaughnessy, but there are dangers in straying too far from the truth - just look at the world of PR
-
The ultimate result
3 June 2010
Redesigning a mere country? We must go further and design nature itself, if we are to avoid environmental disaster, argues Bruce Mau. Adrian Shaughnessy is spellbound by the master
-
For FCSD's sake...
6 May 2010
The Chartered Society of Designers’ push for an accreditation scheme is rather anachronistic, suggests Adrian Shaughnessy. Surely there are more relevant issues it should be looking into?
-
A painterly touch
01 April 2010
We should have moved beyond the can-design-be-art debate - for without the creative impulse there is no design. So why is it rearing its head again? asks Adrian Shaughnessy
-
Solutions aren't enough
07 January 2010
As we enter a new decade, Adrian Shaughnessy thinks clients should give designers more creative freedom - for without it we’d never have had the iPod
-
Payback time
01 October 2009
Many designers treat interns as a convenient source of unpaid labour. However, Adrian Shaughnessy argues that we shouldn’t forget to give something back
-
Natural selection
Interaction Design Supplement
Digital technology appears to be driving human evolution, now that we’re starting to outsource our long-term memory needs and abandoning our sense of self to the Internet. Should we be worried? asks Adrian Shaughnessy
-
Creative fallout
03rd September 2009
Public disagreement within our profession is rare, but a recent spat has convinced Adrian Shaughnessy that design has much to gain from a bit of argy bargy
-
For the common good
06th August 2009
As big business bows to consumer expectations of ethical behaviour, Adrian Shaughnessy says the time has finally come for social design to set the pace
-
A new dawn beckons
09th July 2009
Some consultancies are witnessing signs of economic recovery, but the design landscape has changed forever. Adrian Shaughnessy looks at what the future holds
