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Graduate Student, Visual Arts
About
Bio – Ria (Heila Maria) van Zyl
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Ria van Zyl started her career in 1985 as communication designer and product co-ordinator. After this she spent time at Woolworths, a South African retailer, in the capacity of Packaging Co-ordinator and Technologist before starting her own communication design consultancy. Ria joined the University of Pretoria in 1999 as senior design lecturer and researcher.
She completed her Master’s Degree at the University of Pretoria with a dissertation on developing a service quality framework for the communication design industry. She currently teaches several brand and design management modules for business and other students, and is busy with Doctoral studies and design research.
She published several articles and conference papers, and wrote a “pocket” book in 2007 aimed at the SMME market and entrepreneur: Brand your business. Looks are important.
Ria is married and lives in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with her husband and two children.
Areas of Interest: interdisciplinary collaboration, design and production, designer-client relationship, strategic design and brand management, design theory and research, development of the professional practice of design and design for development.
Contact Information
| Address: | Port Elizabeth |
| Telephone: |
083 270 6910 |
