Communication & Graphic Design Research
Academic discussions about graphic and communication design
Despite a healthy market, graphic design is statistically invisible, complicating the profession‘s research discourse and its adaptability to technological change. The need for clearer definitions and understanding of graphic design remains critical.
Design’s most valued qualities – imagination, craft, criticality – are being quietly stripped out as the discipline is sandboxed and packaged up. What happens when design forgets how to imagine?
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.
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.
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?
Communication & Graphic Design Research 
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