Overview of an article that focusses on a mid-1980s television advertisement for the Yellow Pages, which aims to inform engagement with and reflection on current and future challenges to the design and communications industry from the digital revolution.
Category: Design & AI
Issues that relate to graphic/communication design and artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning and related issues.
Challenges of using AI tools for creating design education materials
Examining ChatGPT's role in design education and assessing its benefits and challenges for course material creation, limitations in context and creativity, and discussing the need for human educators in design teaching over and above any potential benefit of AI text generation.
Digital threat or design opportunity? Embracing the creative challenges of disruptive technologies
Discussions around AI continue upwards and onwards. For designers, the challenges of AI and automation are increasingly acute. But are they a threat or an opportunity?
Graphic design research, poetry & ChatGPT
Passing an academic design research abstract through Chat GPT and musing on the outcomes.
Graphic design and interactivity: still a paradigm shift for graphic designers?
Twenty years ago, just after the turn of the 21st century, graphic designers were still coming to terms with interactivity as a form of communication design. This article looks back and ponders what has changed and considers the future of graphic design research, practice and interactivity.




