Research / Theory
Research Associations
Practice
My practice began as a classically trained painter illustrator. The dawn
of digital technology made a nonsense of many of the assumptions the practice
had historically formed itself around. So after a period of reading, reassessment
and retraining I started working as in a variety of VisCom fields: digital
illustration, animation, interaction design, print graphics and on one memorable
occasion I designed a trophy for an awards ceremony.
Which was fun and financially remunerative but kept bringing me up against
internal domain specific beliefs paraded as truth. Working as a design academic
has allowed me to spend some time examining these beliefs and their origins.
For those who are curious about what my practice click
here.
Blogs
I have in the past maintained several blogs, not always with happy results.
Now I only keep two blogs going; one's called The
Hole in Graphic Design. It's concerned with my more speculative
theories about culture, visual communication, and philosophy. This disclaimer
doesn't mean that I don't stand by these thoughts, mearly that I can't currently
prove them to the high standards that the academic world demands.
The other blog is Graphic Jazz which reviews the pointless use of graphic craft designed to impress peers while doing nothing for the user. This makes me happy.
Read them as provocations and go on from there. The blogs are Creative Commons
No Derivative (nd) licence. You can copy and quote, you can cite, but you can't
derive work from it. The title of the 'Hole' blog is from an observation that the theoretical base of visual
communication has a damned big hole in the middle of it.
Sorry for obscuring the details, webcrawlers, don't you know?
Creative Commons No Derivative (nd)licence.
