Mr James Berry

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants/Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
• Contact

Biography

Qualifications:
Bach Industrial Design UCAN (Australia)
Post Graduate Research Certificate (2 years) Kanazawa Bijutsu Kogei Daigaku, (Japan)

Experience:
James has worked in Australia and Japan as a product designer, educator and producer of furniture and sculpture. His work is held in permanent collections such as the National Gallery of Australia and Kazuhiro Tamura mountain sculpture garden in Japan.

Teaching experience:
He joined the University of Western Sydney in 1999 as a lecturer delivering and developing teaching material for Design & Technology and Industrial Design degrees.

Prior teaching experience was with Parsons School of Design New York, Japanese affiliate school (Kanazawa International Design Institute) as head of product prototyping dep. Product design lecturer and core team member at the inception of the product design course.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

300305 Design Studio 1
300302 Industrial Graphics 1
300315 Industrial Graphics 5
300459 Major Project Commencement
300460 Major Project Completion
85032 Industrial Design Project (Commencement)
85033 Industrial Design Project (Completion)

Current research interests:

• Podcasting for the design studio - future teaching materials for sutdio classes
• Semantics analysis as a tool for product development
• 110km to work, 110km home - visual essay of the Northern Road
• Teaching aesthetics in product design education
• Rapid prototyping as a design studio tool
• Future products, the intersection between high-end art, craft and design

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Grants/Current Projects

Industry projects current and past:

• Joint 4th year student project with Minto bases company Advanced Metal Products. Sheet metal furniture - future systems.
• CSIRO - 4th year Honours supervision - Interface, console and technical package housing
• Health habit - co-supervising 4th year projects for Aboriginal housing

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Awards and Recognition

Yokoyama Foundation's Postgraduate Scholarship (Tokyo, Japan)

2nd prize, Kirin International Sculpture Park Competition (Ishikawa, Japan)

Included in Vogue Living Aust story: 'Leading Lights of Contemporary Design'

Work used for set design on 'Beyond 2000' network television

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Publications

Berry, J. "Overcoming the complexity of teaching form and detail aesthetics in product design education". International conference on engineering and product design education, 2008, Barcelona.

Berry, J. "Exhibition, included in Hard Edge". National Gallery of Australia, 2004.

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