Mark Baskinger
Mark Baskinger is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. His work spans across graphic, product, interaction, and environmental design with expertise in aesthetics, semantics, semiotics and expressing information through product forms to make interaction understandable and intuitive. His research focuses on how products communicate through their form language, behavior and context to inform interaction and shape user experience. He has published papers on the “language” of designed artifacts, visual “noise” in product design, tanglible interaction, and methodologies of visualization. Mark has also conducted Drawing Ideas workshops in numerous conference and business contexts, where he makes design drawing and visual thinking accessible to a broader audience and demonstrates strategies for using hand drawing methods to foster collaboration in design processes. He is currently working on a book titled “Drawing Ideas” with William Bardel, principal of Luminant Design.
Mark’s work has been featured in design publications and international magazines, and has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), I-Space Gallery (Chicago), the Krannert Museum (Champaign, IL) and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery (Carnegie Mellon University). His work is also included in the permanent art collection of the University of Illinois. He has won numerous design awards from International Design Magazine (ID) and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and holds multiple product patents.
In addition to his appointment at CMU, he co-directs The Letter Thirteen Design Agency, an interdisciplinary design firm that deals in the design of products, spaces and graphic communication.
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