Angela Blachnitzky
Lecturer
Angela.Blachnitzky@vuw.ac.nz
Teaching: DSDN112 | DSDN142
Diplom: Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Background:
Background in Visual Communication Design. Industry experience ranges from commercial webdesign, usability, behavioural interaction design to graphic branding design. Angela founded the German design office Gesstaltungsland in 2004 and headed the German web-design department of Cable & Wireless, an international telecommunication company 1996-2001.
Research:
Angela's main research interests are Digital Media Design Basics and how to teach them as well as interaction design for children. For current investigations in the New Zealand custom of taking interior furniture outside, please see www.outside-culture.co.nz
Recent conference oral contributions:
- “UbiBall: A Ubiquitous Computing Game for Children”, MindTrek conference, Tampere, Finland, 30. September 2009
- “Digital media foundation courses: new ways of teaching established content”, ANZAAE art educators conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 21. April, 2009
- “ICT – how can the design of online applications help to serve the needs of gifted children”, Reaching forward – National Conference on Gifted Education, Rotorua, New Zealand, 15. March, 2009
Exhibitions:
- “outside culture”, photographic solo exhibition, Toi Poneke Gallery, Wellington, August/ September 2008
Journal articles:
“outside culture”, Journal of New Zealand Studies, ISSN 1173-6348, December, 2008
See also www.blachnitzky.co.nz