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Mr Peter Schumacher
Position: Program Director: Industrial Design Mr Peter Schumacher
Division/Portfolio: Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
School/Unit: Louis Laybourne-Smith School of Architecture and Design
Campus: City West Campus
Office: K3
Telephone: +61 8 830 20361
Fax: +61 8 830 20211
Email: Peter_dot_Schumacher_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Peter.Schumacher


Communication Research Institue of Australia - David Sless the director is my Masters Supervisor

IsoDraw a very powerful Technical illustration software package, used for my Masters Research project.

Motivation. Creating wheelchairs for developing countries. My masters project involved designing pictorial assembly instructions for the flat pack WroldMade chair.

Scott McCloud's web site - The Author of Reinventing Comics & Understanding Comics.

International Furniture Fair Design Competition - 2002 - Bronze - Flight Screen

International Furniture Fair Design Competition - 2005 - Finalist - Gyorin

I teach the following courses

ARCH 2008Industrial Design Studio 3
ARCH 2009Industrial Design Studio 4
ARCH 3046Advanced Industrial Design Theory
ARCH 1022Introduction to Ergonomics

Qualifications

Bachelor of Architectural Studies The University of Adelaide, 1989-1991

Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) Hons. The University of South Australia, 1992-1995

Research interests

  • Pictorial Assembly Instruction Design - My Master Thesis discusses the design of PAIs for users in developing countries.
  • Design for Usability - Particulaly the use of usability testing as an element of the design process.
  • Furniture Design and Making - The main focus is making in timber. See the IFDA web site for successful compatition entries.



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