Sketchbook Print

As a member of the British Academy, Early Career Research network, I was invited to contribute a research poster to the one-day event held at the V&A Museum, Dundee. Title of work: Sketchbook Print Medium: Screen print Research question: What relevance do analogue processes hold for contemporary Communication Design practice in a post-digital age? Through practice-led research, I critically reflect on previous practice and explore alternative future approaches to Communication Design through craft and materiality. My research explores materiality and the tacit knowledge in craft and making in a contemporary context informed by research such as Pamela H. Smith’s Making and Knowing project at Columbia University, Fraser Muggeridge’s PhD Thesis, “A knowing wrongness: innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional approaches” and Robert Sennett’s ideas expressed in ‘The Craftsman’. I adopt a practice-led approach as defined by Smith & Dean (2009). I am the principal investigator for the School of Design ‘Print’ research cluster.