1. Innovation and Design Thinking:
Art Education in the 21st Century

2. Framework for 21st Century Learning
Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Crayola, Dell, Intel, Lego,
National Education Association, and Others

3. Design thinking can help students become successful
adults with the 21st century skills of creativity and
innovation, critical thinking, and problem solving, and
communication and elaboration.

4. Daniel Pink is the guru of
design thinking. He
believes the future will be
won by those who use the
right side of their brains,
the side that is emotional
and creative.

6. SchoolArts’
2008-2009
themes were
based
on
Daniel Pink’s
A Whole New Mind

7. Design thinking is engaging to students.
Design thinking promotes visual literacy.
Design thinking provides meaningful
opportunities to collaborate with others.
Design thinking is another validation of
the importance of the arts.
Design thinking can lead to careers in the
arts.
Who can teach it better than art
teachers?
Why Should Art Teachers Teach Design Thinking?

8. Design thinking is a process for practical, creative
resolution of problems or issues based around the
building up of ideas. It is about the design of objects,
information, environments, and experiences. It is not
about the elements and principles of art and design.

9. IDEO: We are a global design consultancy.
We create impact through design.
“We’re interested in design that creates a positive impact in the world.
With human-centeredness as a core value, we have no interest in designing
anything that intends harm.”

11. Design thinking is the way we approach the
world when we imagine exciting new solutions
for the future.

12. IDEO’s Rules for Effective Brainstorming
Work collaboratively. The more brains, the better!
Defer judgment. There are no bad ideas at this point!
Encourage wild ideas. It’s the wild ideas that often inspire
the breakthrough insights!
Build on the ideas of Think “and” rather than “but.”
Others.
Stay focused on topic. You get better quality output if
everyone is disciplined.
One conversation at a That way ideas can be heard and
Time. built upon.
Be visual. Try to engage the left and right sides
of the brain.
Go for quantity. Set an outrageous goal and surpass it!

13. A Call to Expand
Art Education to Include
Design Education:
Information Design
Object Design
Environmental Design
Experience Design

15. We are a global design consultancy.
We create impact through design.

16. http://www.ideotoylab.com/balloonimals.html

17. Object Design
Designers must be able to design objects that are not only
functional but are also beautiful or emotionally engaging.

19. The Dr Skud Fly Swatter from Alessi.
“Designed by French designer Philippe Starck, it may seem
crude to wield a fly swatter but it is a far more ecological
response than an insecticide spray! To counteract the savagery
of the blow, Dr Skud wears a delicate human face. A tripod
enables him to stand erect like a small guardian angel!”

20. Toy Designs
from Japan

21. Zolo Toys
“It is our goal to create imagery
and products that are genuine
in spirit, bold in attitude,
becoming to the eye,
and meaningful in truth.”

22. KAWS

23. Automotive Design

24. Information Design

25. Game Design

26. Website Design

27. Experience Design

29. Environmental Design

31. Bilbao Guggenheim
by Frank Gehry

33. Designers have the unique ability to make us want
things we didn’t even know we wanted or needed.
Sustainable Design

34. Retail businesses such as Target and IKEA
have built their reputations and success
on the basis of selling well-designed objects.

35. Good design and good designers can help
invest work with meaning and create
more critical consumers.

37. How can you have your students use design
thinking in the classroom?
Have students work collaboratively to
build upon each others’ ideas.

38. Have Students Incorporate Technology to Create Projects and Collaborate from a Distance

39. • interior design
• product design
• garden design
• automotive design
• environmental design
• website design
• fashion design
• architecture
Have Students Apply Design Thinking Processes to Art
Problems Using Real World Scenarios.

40. Personal Spaces
Explorations in Art, Grade 4
www.dentonisd.org/nwalkup

41. Explorations in Art, Grade 2

42. Dennis Hwang

43. Rainforest Habitat
I chose this doodle because the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants
and animals. I love everything except spiders and snakes, but I would still save them.
Makenzie Melton, Age 9, Grade 3 El Dorado Springs, Missouri
National Winner for 2010
“Rainforest Habitat”