Painting the Kitchen Tables: Exploring women's domestic creative spaces through publication design

Brown, Ruby; Steagall, Marcos

doi:10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.692

Cited by 9 publications

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“…This project is framed as a practice-led visual artistic design project, that seeks to respond to a research question through creative practice in the field of Visual Communication Design (Brown & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Chambers & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Falconer & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lewis & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Li & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lum & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Shan & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Mpofu & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Michie & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Van Vliet & Mortensen Steagall, 2020).…”

Section: Design Methodologymentioning

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Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment

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Steagall

2023

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This article explores contextual research and creative design methodologies to understand the relationship between the researcher’s embodied approach and the produced artefact. The question of: ‘How might I honestly depict my own embodied textural world to awaken others?’ frames the project in a way which allows the designer/researcher to produce work organically and honestly. Encompassing different navigational directions and frameworks of information allows personal understanding to pervade through. The ideas of place, nostalgia, storytelling and texture are explored throughout the physical artefacts of a textural archival book ‘Awaken’ and a series of posters. The methodology of a heuristic-led enquiry activated by embodiment enabled the translation into something more significant than an abstract thought. Exploring the contextual knowledge of texture and its multi-sensory ability, nostalgia and embodiment, frames the project in the broader context allowing for a critical work commentary.

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Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment

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2023

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“…The study is framed as practice-led research within the larger field of Visual Communication Design. There are many examples of graphic design practitioners developing practice-led research that then inform actual artefact -a process which points to practice as a method of research and outcome (Ardern & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Brown & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Chambers & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Falconer & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Li & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lum & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Shan & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Michie & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Mpofu & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Van Vliet & Mortensen Steagall, 2020).…”

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Less than 5mm — The unseen threat: A practice-led investigation into micro-plastics effects on coral reefs

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Steagall

2023

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This article presents an artistic practice-led research project that asks: How can communication design be used to raise awareness about the effect of microplastics on coral reefs, encouraging a shift in the mentality of single-use plastic? The study highlights the scale of the issue of micro-plastics, where environmental pollution stemmed from the throw-away society, intending to ignite action – from micro-plastics to micro-changes. An opportunity arose to visually communicate how such a desirable product, the micro plastic, is destroying ecosystems. The project employs a reflective inquiry methodology supported by a heuristic approach, surfacing the tacit and the experiential to heighten self-awareness within the researchers' practice. This approach enables the researcher to draw connections between the subconscious and unconscious mentality, challenging the stigma and pre-existing assumptions. The project explores risograph printing, a digital screenprinting method, complimented with the use of laser cutting to encourage the reader to engage with the artefact and shift the mindset from unconscious buying patterns to become a conscious consumer. In exploring these methods, the project draws on visual inspiration through contextual knowledge. Gathering information and understanding the scale of the issue contributed to the originality and the essence of artefact. The design artefact takes the form of a risograph publication design, embracing the tactility and sustainable practices of the risograph printer in responding the research question. The artefact encompasses the essence of microplastics, uncovering the truth that lies within its aesthetic appearance. Significantly, the project is a conscious, self-reflective inquiry that contributes to the field of knowledge surrounding designing for good, and to giving the ocean personhood. It contributes to discourse about practice-led research in graphic design to engage the reader in behaviour change.

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“…The study is framed as practice-led research within the larger field of Visual Communication Design. There are many examples of graphic design practitioners developing practice-led research that then inform actual artefact -a process which points to practice as a method of research and outcome (Ardern & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Brown & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Chambers & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Falconer & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lewis & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Li & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lum & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Shan & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Michie & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Mpofu & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Van Vliet & Mortensen Steagall, 2020).…”

Section: Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…O estudo é enquadrado como pesquisa conduzida pela prática dentro do campo mais amplo de Design de Comunicação Visual. Existem muitos exemplos de profissionais de design gráfico desenvolvendo pesquisas práticas que então informam artefatos reais -um processo que aponta para a prática como um método de pesquisa e resultado (Ardern & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Brown & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Chambers & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Falconer & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lewis & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Li & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Lum & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Shan & Mortensen Steagall, 2023;Michie & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Mpofu & Mortensen Steagall, 2021;Van Vliet & Mortensen Steagall, 2020).…”

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Inside dyslexia: the contextual knowledge and methodology of a practice-led research through typographic design and autoethnography

2023

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There is increased interest in recent literature on the disfluency effect in an effort to contextualize the outcomes for typography research that is grounded in functional readability. Recently, a small group of typographic and legibility researchers have begun to call for more collaboration to generate knowledge that is useful and practical ( Thiessen, Beier & Keage, 2020). This article presents a practice-led design research project that utilises iterative drawing and typographic arrangements through an autoethnographic approach, to convey personal experience with dyslexia. The project reflects on the question: How can iterative drawing and typographic composition be used to graphically express one’s subjective dyslexic learning experience? As a secondary question that is particularly focused on practice, is how the project can contribute to provide insights to a non-dyslexic audience of the word comprehension and typographic disfluency facing people with dyslexic conditions. The research is informed by a range of contextual practice, practitioners, and literature, into the states and conditions of the dyslexic experience, the use of typographic adaption and Risograph printing. The project is grounded as a practice-led approach, where creative practice and research are complementary but distinctive. The research is based within the world of concern defined by practice while the practitioner researcher is at the centre of the research (Vear, 2022). To elicit a dyslexic perspective, the project employs autoethnography as a strategy for gathering and evidence interpretation through a critical illustration and typographic design process. The research contributes to current discourses to areas such as those related to the typographic principles of visual cuing and emphasis as well as other broader areas such as how we may be able to determine threshold for disfluency, and what impact graphical distractions have on the disfluency effect.

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Painting the Kitchen Tables: Exploring women's domestic creative spaces through publication design

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment

Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment

Less than 5mm — The unseen threat: A practice-led investigation into micro-plastics effects on coral reefs

Inside dyslexia: the contextual knowledge and methodology of a practice-led research through typographic design and autoethnography

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