Now that I am about to make work I am aware of the different ways of interpreting the role of a designed account. There are visualisations that seek to a) analyse, b) reflect, c) explain; and visual accounts of research that i) locate, ii) conceptualise, iii) substantiate; and images that are 1) diagrammatic, 2) rhetoric, [...]
I have finally got around to the stage that I can begin to design visual accounts of my own research, so that I can explore some of my ideas. Already from the first critique about initial ideas, it became clear how different the process of engagement with my studio colleagues will be in comparison to [...]
I would like to pretend I wrote this paper with the full title “The Reservoir: towards a poetic model of research in design”, but a friend Terry Rosenberg wrote it and I often reference it, so am posting it here since students are always asking me for it. The full-paper (with diagrams) is online but [...]
It is with some reservations that I post the notes from my Graphic Design Masters I completed back in 2001. I guess the disclaimer is just that I wrote it a while back and have changed my opinion about a few things since. Even though I cannot bare to re-read what I wrote, I still [...]
This is my first conference paper that I wrote with Tim Marshall for the European Academie of Designers conference in Barcelona, 2003. The paper Poetic Process and Professional Practice looks into how the academy might participate in the development of design knowing that is relevant and useful to the realities of the design profession. It [...]