PENNY W. STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES

March 15, 2007

David Small

Big Thinking at the Small Design Firm

By taking advantage of the computer's ability to display dynamic, flexible, and adaptive typography and imagery, the Small Design Firm, headed by David Small, invents new ways for people to read, interact with, and assimilate information. In combining innovative visualization with architectural space and well-designed physical interfaces, the firm creates potentially limitless spaces. In his presentation, Small discusses the firm's history of innovation and focuses on the interplay between computer technology, dynamic typography and information design.

Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.

Video

• Watch/download the podcast of this lecture in iTunes.

Selected Bibliography

• Small Design Firm Inc.
• Stream of Consciousness: An Interactive Poetic Garden
• Galilee, Beatrice. "Nobel Intentions: In his Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, David Adjaye compensates for an absence of objects with a procession of artistically sealed rooms laden with ideals." Frame 48 (Jan/Feb 2006).
• Hall, Peter. "Starting Small: Step by step, David Small's design innovations are moving technology off the screen and into your life." MetropolisMagazine.com (March 1, 2003).
• Small, David and Hiroshi Ishii. "Design of spatially aware graspable displays." Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 367 – 368, 1997.
• Small, David and Cynthia Yoon. "Bringing the Web back into the Building." Abstracts – Museums and the Web Conference (2002).
• White, Tom and David Small. "An interactive poetic garden." Conference on Human Factors in Computing, Los Angeles, California pp. 335 – 336, 1998.