Writing Design

Editorial note: This piece is an educator’s personal reflection. Thoughts gathered from a single lived experience. The following are issues…

Writing can feel like a never-ending existential exercise. An exercise in coming up with a new idea or a new revelation. As an academic, I…

I was encouraged to free-write for 30 minutes about “The idea I keep coming back to” as a prompt from my writing accountability group…

It’s 8:55 am Monday. I’ve got Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” playing on Spotify, and a glass jar of water and a mug of lukewarm tea at my left…

We went into lockdown on March 13th. 2020. I know that my world will never be the same after, as a designer, an educator, a parent and a…

Writing is painful! I find so many excuses to stop me and to justify not writing.

Over the past twenty years of my academic career I have embarked upon unrealized long-term research and writing projects once, twice…

Only recently graphic design was deemed a scholarly pursuit rather than a trade. When I graduated from OCAD in Toronto, Canada it was 1998…