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Tim Parsons is a design writer, critic and product designer. He has taught design for over ten years at universities in Britain and America. His articles and essay have been published in Blueprint, ICON, Crafts magazines and the design encyclopedia Phaidon Design Classics and his book Thinking:Objects - Contemporary Approaches to Product Design was published in 2009 by AVA Academia. As a designer, he has worked with manufacturers in Britain and Europe and exhibited widely, including at The Design Museum, London. Tim is currently Associate Professor in Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and authors the design writing blog Object Thinking (http://objectthinking.wordpress.com/) Read less