What is it about?
The article argues that the use of trained actors as ‘proxy designers’ created a refractive form of defamiliarisation, allowing previously obfuscated narratives about graphic designers’ perceptions of stakeholders to emerge. The study presents an educational prototype to inform research into graphic design and other disciplines with everyday practices that appear obfuscated or elusive to research.
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Why is it important?
Graphic design is at an acute stage in its ongoing evolution, as it faces challenges from automation and the democratisation of design, leading to changing workplace practices. This brings new challenges to graphic designers’ relationships with stakeholders and to their levels of design capital within the creative process. This study contributes to a growing understanding of the under-researched professional practice (and informs the nascent academic discipline) of graphic design.
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If you've found that investigating graphic designers (or even other creative disciplines) difficult to research, then this methodological approach might give you some new ideas.
Dr Yaron Meron
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Re-performing Design, Exchanges The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, October 2020, University of Warwick,
DOI: 10.31273/eirj.v8i1.701.
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