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Here is the table of contents for the 2011 Summer issue. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.
FRONTIERS OF DESIGN
- Commentary: Design History Appreciated
by Bill Buxton - The Brave. The Bold. The Crazy.
by Chris Hosmer, IDSA, guest editor - Balancing the Emic and the Etic: An Ethnographer of Design Reflects on Design Ethnography
by Joachim B. Lyon - Consider This: Designing for the Emerging Markets
by Dan Edwards and Geoff Waite - Empowering the Next Wave of Change Makers: A Conversation with Kiran Sethi of the Riverside School India
by Chris Hosmer, IDSA - Creative Collaboration at the Frontier
by Kevin Grady - Designing Science
by Viren Jain - Living in Beta: Prototyping China
by Chris Hosmer, IDSA - A Life-Changing Opportunity: Embedding Design within an Indian Nonprofit
by Ramsey Ford and Kate Hanisian
FEATURES
- The Industrial Design Rx for Health Care: New Frontiers in Design
by Aidan Petrie, IDSA - Inspirations from the Past: American Design & Style Trends
by Tony Kawanari, IDSA - Design is to Doing as Learning is to Thinking
by Doris Wells-Papanek, IDSA