Rafiq Elmansy is a designer, academic, and book author. He teaches design at the University of Leeds and is the Programme Leader for the MA Design. His expertise is in design thinking, design for health, interaction design and behavioural design. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Design Research Society (FDRS), and an Adobe Education Leader.
For over twenty years, he has worked in the design industry and had the privilege of contributing to the design strategies of esteemed clients such as Adobe, UN, World Bank, Adobe, and Schneider.
Over the last century, many incidents have provided examples that innovation and creativity can play an essential role for an organization in the midst of crisis. They can be applied to redesign a company’s structure and devise a more innovative process that leads to products that meet both creativity and business needs. In this article, Rafiq Elmansy will talk about one interesting example of this: LEGO, the world-famous toy manufacturer. By studying its crisis, lasting from 1993 to 2004, we’ll answer two main questions: Can creativity and innovation help an organization in its time of crisis? And can studying cases such as LEGO’s reveal a model for the broader role of creativity in an organization for other enterprises to follow?
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With time, Arabic calligraphy began to be used in architecture, decoration and coin design, and it continues to develop both in traditional methods as well as in digital and computer-generated arts. Arabic calligraphers from around the world continue to develop their own styles and artwork based on existing scripts and their own letters and scripts. Free modern scripts contribute to the art just as much as traditional scripts have done.
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