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?
Design has never been more visible – yet rigorous design practice is increasingly absent. This post examines how design thinking and its offshoots hollowed out the discipline, replacing craft, critique, and accountability with process, abstraction, and performative mediocrity.
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.
Some reflections on design interview methods and creative practice resesarch.
Communication & Graphic Design Research 
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