Patricia Moore’s Remarkable Career Designing for a Better World

Design Milk is thrilled to share the primary lecture of the 2023/2024 tutorial yr of the Vignelli Heart for Design Research Design Conversations Lecture Collection that includes Patricia Moore of MooreDesign Associates. On this Design Dialog, distinguished industrial designer and gerontologist Patricia Moore talks about schooling at RIT and her profession, together with her early years as a designer working with Raymond Loewy and being the one feminine designer within the design studio. She discusses her work in common design, specializing in designing for the aged and folks with disabilities.

Patricia emphasizes the function of design in enhancing high quality of life and addressing societal points corresponding to inequality and sustainability. She additionally particulars her collaboration with Julia Childs on a design for the long run kitchen, in addition to her collaboration with Sam Farber on OXO Good Grips, which gave kitchen utensils the power to be extra comfy, usable, inclusive, and common by design. Patricia went on to share her involvement with the Phoenix Gentle Rail challenge, which she noticed as a chance to be an awesome equalizer for folks with disabilities. Watch her discuss in full under to study extra about her outstanding profession that’s spanned over 40 years!

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Patricia discusses her work that focuses on designing for the aged and folks with disabilities.

A picture of Patricia’s early design days as the one girl that’s shared throughout her Design Conversations lecture.

Designer Patricia Moore

To study extra about The Vignelli Heart for Design Research at RIT, they’ve launched digital entry to the archives via Google Arts & Tradition, becoming a member of over 2000 cultural establishments from world wide. The preliminary launch contains practically 900 excessive decision pictures of artifacts from the archives in order that now anybody with entry to the Web and Google Arts & Tradition can search the Vignelli archives or browse it by coloration or chronological order.

This lecture is introduced with the help of RIT’s MAGIC Heart.

This lecture collection is made doable partially by the generosity of RIT Alumnus, Chris Bailey and Bailey Model Consulting

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in images from SCAD and may often be discovered looking for classic wares, doing New York Instances crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.