I chose to do this work because I believe that today?s industrial designprofessionals lack in their task of creating aesthetic experiences and aestheticdiversity.With my work, I want to question why the majority of today?s technical, massproducedeveryday products have such a similar design expression, andwhy alternatives are so few. Most of all, I take a critical attitude to today?sstereotypical industrial design aesthetics that I would describe as technical,masculine, and unnecessarily complex.I have designed a number of products that show alternative aesthetics in thissegment and as such I have chosen the vacuum cleaner. The idea is that mydesign will serve as an eye opener and demonstrate that there are alternativesto today?s homogeneous market.The result is three vacuum cleaners claiming three alternatives to currentofferings.

The research of today shows that natural environments are importantfor children's physical and mental development. It alsoshows that children often opt out of the traditional equipmentplaygrounds have to offer. By breaking the boundary betweenthe playground and park, is it possible to create a new spacethat will encourage rather than demand play? Through gatheringinformation and talking to landscape architects, Designers,and children, I realized that today's parks already have environmentsand objects that could be used for playing. But whatthey need is something that makes the environment even moreinviting for children to play.

This treatise analysis what functions light has in theater. It was inspired by Rosalinda Krauss essay Sculpture in the Expanded Field but builds mostly on the following three books Linda Essig Lighting and the design idea (2nd ed), Nigel H. Morgan Stage lighting for theater Designers and Francis Reid The stage lighting handbook (6th ed). It discovers nine unique functions of light (performance style, dramatic style, image,illumination, 3D space, 3D form, selectivity, environment, atmosphere) and develops a graphical mapping of them based on a mapping by Reid. The functions performance style, dramatic style, image are superior the others.

This project is a deepening in how the space in psychiatric care setting can promote and improve thepatient?s well-being. The aim with this study was to create a manual for architects and the care to takepart of. This would consist of different aspects of how the space can be created for a more secure,care taking and healing space. With help of the manual the study would continue by creating a healingpatient room in a psychiatric clinic.The main questions were; can we create an environment which improves the healing process for thementally ill? What are the factors that we need to consider to creating a room for psychiatric care?This study only looks at the patient room, the common room and how the environment can affect theiremotional and physical well-being.By taking part of already made studies in this subject or similar, making my own studies by visitingpsychiatric departments and exploring how the spaces there contribute or not contribute to the healingprocess of the patient.

Dagens spel kräver hela tiden mer resurser i en konstant växande och mer detaljerad spelvärld. Det är därför intressant att titta på alternativ till att Designers manuellt placerar ut innehåll i en värld. Problemet som tas upp är om det är möjligt att kombinera generering av procedurellt innehåll i form av en skog med att låta en användare kunna påverka denna generering. Problemet delas upp i två delar där en utveckling av en arkitektur sker genom att utvärdera existerande skogsmodeller och sedan implementera arkitekturen. Slutligen sker en utvärdering av modellen genom att analysera ett antal scenarier.

This thesis examines how techniques from place marketing, developed to market places, can be used in the process of designing a visual identity for an institution. The thesis is a case study of the development of a new visual identity for the public art institution Malmö konsthall. The essay presents Malmö Konsthall, defines the term visual identity and describes the main principles in place branding. I then define target audiences and key values, discuss the application of place marketing principle and go through the design process of the new visual identity. The process showed that theories about flagship buildings, signature design and signature districts have the biggest influence on the design.

Denna rapport innehåller en undersökning av vilka aspekter som är avgörande för att en systemutvecklingsprocess leder till slutprodukter med väl användbara gränssnitt. Rapporten innehåller dessutom ett antal riktlinjer för hur en systemutvecklingsmetod kan förbättras med avseende på användbarhet.För att genomföra undersökningen har jag valt att utvärdera hur två systemutvecklingsmetoder, SSADM och IDM, hanterar användbarhetsaspekter. Jag har utvärderat dessa metoder utifrån följande frågeställningar: om de stödjer gränssnittsdesign, om de är iterativt användarorienterade, om de involverar Designers med speciella gränssnittskunskaper, om de har fokus på användarna, om de innehåller tidiga och kontinuerliga tester av användbarhet, om de har en integrerad utveckling samt om de innehåller stöd för prototyping. Det som framkommer i rapporten är att ovanstående frågeställningar till viss del är avgörande för att säkerställa slutprodukter med väl användbara gränssnitt. Förutom ovanstående aspekter är det dessutom av vikt att ta hänsyn till användbarhet i samband med kravinsamling och kravanalys.

Mitt arbete är ett sökande efter en skapandeprocess som passar mig. Jag riktar blicken utåt för att hitta nya sätt att göra på och att ge fler möjligheter i mitt eget skapande och i förlängningen komma närmare mitt eget sätt att skapa. Genom intervjuer med verksamma kulturutövare inom olika media, såsom Designers, en serietecknare, en musiker och en poet söker jag efter nya möjliga metoder och processer. Liksom de personer jag intervjuar vill jagmed mitt skapande dela med mig av berättelser sprungna ur mitt jag och ursprung. Jag vill berätta för att väcka tankar, minnen och reflektion.Min utgångspunkt är metodiken som förespråkas på Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies samt litteratur om skapande och jaget som utgångspunkt.

Procedural Content Generation innebär att spelinnehåll genereras automatiskt för att dels minska arbetsbelastningen hos Designers men också för att öka variationen i spel. Ett användningsområde för detta är rumsbaserad bangenerering där banor byggs upp av fördefinierade rum. Målet med det här arbetet var att implementera och jämföra tre olika algoritmer som kan åstadkomma detta; Binary Space Partitioning, Shortest path och en evolutionär algoritm. De kriterier som algoritmerna utvärderades på var tidseffektivitet, variation och möjligheten att nå alla rum. Resultatet visade att Binary Space Partitioning och Shortest path var de två algoritmer som var bäst lämpade att användas i ett spel där genereringen ska ske under körtiden.

Portable IT devices such as laptops, smart phones and computer tablets are becoming ever more ubiquitous. At the same time, the population of the Western world is growing older, with aging bringing about changes with regards to individuals' physical and mental capabilities. These facts raises important questions about how well suited these devices are for use by elderly people. This study focuses on the cognitive aspects of the devices' usability, using the concept of mental models to analyze the users' understanding of a computer tablet. It also draws upon theory of graphical user interfaces in its analyses.

Use of lighting is crucial to make public urban places available during dark hours. Landscape architects participate in planning of lighting, but during our education there is very little taught on the subject. Through this study we approach the subject of lighting by looking into lighting methods for urban plant materials during winter. In this thesis we look into ways to emphasize the visible characters and experiences of urban plants during winter season using light. Target audience are landscape architect students and landscape architects without knowledge of lighting. The part of the thesis that describe basic conditions for, and visual characters of plants can be useful to lighting Designers without knowledge in this subject. Working methods used were the following: ? Pre-study about light and lighting techniques through literature and dialogues. ? Compiling important visual winter plant characters through photography and literature. ? Outdoor light experiments with plants.

Bakgrund och frågeställning: Betydelsen av design ökar allt mer. Studier har visat att en stor andel företag har uppmärksammat att design bidrar till en mängd positiva effekter, men trots detta finns det en avvaktande inställning till design inom många företag. Då yrkesgrupper förväntas arbeta allt närmare varandra vid produktutveckling innebär skilda åsikter om design problem. Samarbetet mellan yrkesgrupperna kan ses som något positivt då grupper med olika erfarenheter och synsätt kompletterar varandra och således kan nå bättre resultat genom samarbete. I praktiken har detta samarbete dock visat sig vara problematiskt eftersom de olika aktörerna vid produktutveckling haft svårt att kommunicera och förstå varandra.

A brush of paint on a grey compound wall can mean so much more than simply an addition of colour. It can meanan appropriation of public space, a shared public space enclosed by a wall now ?owned? by someone. It can meanan arisen conflict leading to debate about the right to use public space.The Wall Project is a Mumbai based beautification project that uses paint and outdoor walls to brighten uptheir city. The Urban Typhoon workshop is an activity set up in self-evolving neighbourhoods where municipalinterference is scarce.

This study presents an alternate viewpoint to the strive to overcome the gap between research and practitioners within paper prototyping in interaction design. Earlier research identifies three aspects of this gap, which is:Practitioners being unaware of interaction design methods and theoriesPractitioners being aware, but choosing not to apply these methods and theories, due to time, budget and constraints of labourPractitioners and research having different perspective on similar design issuesOur study was done by carrying out qualitative interviews with interaction Designers based on two digital design bureaus. One of the bureaus has an expressed link to research: the other has not. Our hypothesis is that the gap would manifest as a difference in work practice between the two bureaus.Our study shows that the two bureaus have similarities in work practice and that this work practice is based on scientific methods and theories, but is adapted to fit the client and/or the project. We conclude that the overcoming of the gap might not be necessary.

Abstract: The fashion industry is perhaps the most unpredictable one where change occurs very rapidly. In order to be attractive and interesting in this competitive industry, a brand must constantly be up to date and differentiated from other brands to attract the consumers. This has given rise to an increasing growth of brands that cooperate for marketing reasons and more specifically, clothing retailers that perform designer collaborations with exclusive Designers to create limited collections.Studies describing the effects of those collaborations on the retailers brands are rare and especially from a consumer perspective. Since H&M has been a pioneer in designer collaborations and has done it more times and for more years than any other retailer we have conducted our study on their case. Our intention was to investigate how the designer collaborations have affected the brand equity and image of H&M, if the collaborations have increased the willingness to pay for H&M's other ranges and if they have affected H&M's ability to extend its brand to higher price segments, through an experimental study.