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Jacques R. Giard is Professor of Design and Director of Cross-College Programs in the College of Design at Arizona State University. He was director of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada for ten years prior to coming to ASU. Professor Giard received his undergraduate education in furniture design in Montreal (1969), graduate studies industrial design (engineering) in Birmingham, UK (1971), and a Ph.D. from Concordia University in Montreal (1987). Professor Giard has extensive professional design experience in Canada with various design agencies and manufacturers. As an educator and scholar, he has had over 50 articles and papers published in various journals and magazines in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was the lead design researcher with Price-Waterhouse in a $500,000 Government of Canada investigation on the Canadian design sector (1995-96). Professor Giard was national president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers and a member of the organizing committee for the ICSID 97 Congress, The Humane Village, prior to coming to the USA. He is the author of Design FAQs, an introductory textbook on design published by The Dorset Group.

Design Statement For me, design is about two things and two things only: people and experience. Despite what is often published in the popular media, design is not solely about designers nor about ‘cool’ things because without people and experience design has no purpose, and without purpose it is useless.

Jacques R. Giard, PhD