Teaching
My teaching consists of lectures, workshops, seminars, critiques, demos, portfolio surgeries and tutorials in further and higher education design and critical theory. I am a member of the IFL (2010-11) and the UCU. I received my MA, PGCE (2003) in post-compulsory (16+) education training from Greenwich University focusing on art and design.
Financing education is a potentially complex network of support. Funding one’s education is not an easy process nor is it often a fluid or continuous financial stream. I am grateful for help from the AHRC for my Masters and Doctoral studies, as well as from my parents for food monies and from the local education authorities. With the situation of raised fees and a changing fee structure the delivery of education is indeed changing. It is a delicate path that has been woven in today’s financing of the British educational system. I appreciate enormously those that have supported my education and professional development.
Courses:
Workshops for Industry – Visualising Complex Data, London College of Communication, UAL, London
MA Graphic Design, UCA, Epsom
MA Fashion Design, UCA, Epsom
BA Fashion, Music and Lifestyle Journalism, UCA, Epsom xxxxIink to journals
BA Online Journalism, UCA, Farnham
Foundation Diploma, Graphic Design and New Media, UCA, Epsom
Foundation Diploma and National Diploma, West Thames College, Middlesex
HnD Graphic Design, West Thames College, Middlesex
Access Graphic Design, West Thames College, Middlesex
Course Topics
- Visualising Complex Data
- Personal Ethics for Media and Design Professionals
- Forms of Talk
- A Brief History of the Internet
- The Bikini and the Atomic Bomb
- Site and the Environment (exploring in a whistle stop – Happenings, the Situationist International, mapping, surveillance, panopticons and shelter)
- Object (exploring in a whistle stop art and design artefacts, things and readymades)
- Body (exploring in a whistle stop health; ergonomics and the user; as well as ‘naked and the nude’, sexuality, gender and race)
- The Internet, Audiences and Viral Marketing
- Modernism and Postmodernism for Media, Fine Art, 3D Design, Graphic Design, and Fashion
- Group Dynamics in Project Work in Journalism
- Mapping and Diagramming Readership
- Marxist, Semiotic and Demographic Analysis
- How to construct an Argument and Essay Tips
- Trace and Move – back to basics how to understand digital layering through print
- Sticky instructions – instruction and information design and the web concept of ‘sticky’
- Headlines and Straplines – copy writing for designers
- Semiotics for Design – image analysis and sketchbook research
- Viral Marketing – storyboarding, affinity mapping and wireframes
- Curating and Exhibiting Graphic Design
- Project briefs explore a wide range of themes such as water, oil and light, dust, instruction and inclusivity, Japanese-horror and Korean-horror.
