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OPOKU, ERIC VERNON
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UIVERSITY, ZARIA.
Email: opokueric2003@yahoo.com
THE INCREASING VITAL ROLE OF DESIGN IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
ABSTRACT
Design and designers are continually expanding the discipline, adding new dimensions and adapting to the changing economic, social and environmental circumstances. What implications does this have for the future? The emphasis of this paper is on the understanding the importance of the changing roles of design within the design process as it relates to product development.
Introduction
John Heskett (2002) once wrote that the history of design can be seen as a process of layering in which new developments are added over time to what already exists. This layer, he further states, is not just a process of accumulation or aggregation, but a dynamic interaction in which each new innovative stage changes the role, significance, and function of what survives.
According to Newbury (1996) design is a creative activity whose aim is to establish the multi-faceted qualities of objects, processes, services and their systems in whole life cycles. Therefore, design is the central factor of innovative humanization of technologies and the crucial factor of cultural and economic exchange.
Design seeks to discover and assess structural, organizational, functional, expressive and economic relationships, with the task of:
* Enhancing global sustainability and environmental protection
* Giving benefits and freedom to the entire human community, individual and collective
* Final users, producers and market protagonists
* Supporting cultural diversity despite the globalization of the world
* Giving products, services and systems
Design concerns products, services and systems conceived with tools, organizations and logic introduced by industrialization. The adjective "industrial" put to design must be related to the term industry or in its meaning of sector of production...
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UIVERSITY, ZARIA.
Email: opokueric2003@yahoo.com
THE INCREASING VITAL ROLE OF DESIGN IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
ABSTRACT
Design and designers are continually expanding the discipline, adding new dimensions and adapting to the changing economic, social and environmental circumstances. What implications does this have for the future? The emphasis of this paper is on the understanding the importance of the changing roles of design within the design process as it relates to product development.
Introduction
John Heskett (2002) once wrote that the history of design can be seen as a process of layering in which new developments are added over time to what already exists. This layer, he further states, is not just a process of accumulation or aggregation, but a dynamic interaction in which each new innovative stage changes the role, significance, and function of what survives.
According to Newbury (1996) design is a creative activity whose aim is to establish the multi-faceted qualities of objects, processes, services and their systems in whole life cycles. Therefore, design is the central factor of innovative humanization of technologies and the crucial factor of cultural and economic exchange.
Design seeks to discover and assess structural, organizational, functional, expressive and economic relationships, with the task of:
* Enhancing global sustainability and environmental protection
* Giving benefits and freedom to the entire human community, individual and collective
* Final users, producers and market protagonists
* Supporting cultural diversity despite the globalization of the world
* Giving products, services and systems
Design concerns products, services and systems conceived with tools, organizations and logic introduced by industrialization. The adjective "industrial" put to design must be related to the term industry or in its meaning of sector of production...