Designer Presentations
GDES-270 spring 2020 (David Ramos, American University Design)
ramos@american.edu · office hours
With the move to an online format, you should now turn in a slide deck with headlines and captions.
Give a short presentation about a notable designer or design firm. Tell us about the designer’s work and how they have affected the broader field of design. Share examples of the designer’s projects.
Details
New for online format Create a slide deck of 10–20 slides, with headlines and captions. Share this slide deck as a PDF, or as a link to a public version of your presentation. You can use any software you like.
- Include visual examples like images, video, or physical examples.
- Choose and design your visual materials with care.
- Create a slide with citations for all of your sources and images.
Do ask me for suggestions, research guidance, and advice about the presentation itself. I am happy to watch practice runs of your presentation.
Designers
- April Greiman
- Bill Moggridge
- Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Charles Joseph Minard
- Chip Kidd
- Deborah Sussman
- Emmett McBain
- John Maeda
- Josef Müller-Brockmann
- Lance Wyman
- Louise Fili
- Luba Lukova
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Malcolm Grear
- Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger
- Massimo and Lella Vignelli
- Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell
- Paula Scher
- Raymond Loewy
- Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko
- Saul Bass
- Tobias Frere-Jones