RSS

September 22nd, 2009 - 9:53 am § in Exegesis

Miscommunication: Understanding my current teaching practice

It seems very ironic and strange that after working during so hard during my Masters at discovering, understanding and developing knowledge of teaching in graphic design I am currently in a teaching within an institutional environment that is in antithesis of my own research. Ahh…the revelations o[...]

September 21st, 2009 - 2:48 pm § in Exegesis

Graphic Design Teacher (Exegesis)

Some comments about my research: “…I took Roberto’s Masters to be a demonstration of the hypothesis visual communication, or in particular, the graphic novel format, is an important way of negotiating the complexities of communication design education reform given the cultural poli[...]

September 18th, 2009 - 9:04 am § in Exegesis

Stop the presses!

Hello avid followers. It’s time to get back at reading my blog posts. It’s been a hairy ride with my Masters and all but it is all coming to a close. I passed my examination and next week will be submitting my final amendments. So stay tuned! I will be posting my exegesis magazine for [.[...]

August 12th, 2009 - 2:10 pm § in Reviews

Poynor

Heard Rick give a presentation this evening about design—or some trendy words that some people like to label design Design thinking and Critical design. It’s funny though, the crowd was very tight lipped about the whole thing. I guess Melbourne designers are much like the Canadian mentalityâ[...]

May 24th, 2009 - 12:52 pm § in Research Progress

Examination

Dear Faithful readers. As you might understand by now, I haven’t been adding any posts lately. Please excuse the laziness. I have been preparing for my final examination for my Master of Communication Design degree. This coming Friday, May 29th I will either come out of the presentation with t[...]

April 6th, 2009 - 8:59 am § in Research Progress

Using visualisation to help understand research outcomes

Currently, I’m writing a paper on the above topic. It is a paper long overdue from some past research work that I was involved in. In the paper, I discuss how graphic visualisation techniques and reflective practice can substantially inform research outcomes of a given project. In a way this p[...]