AUSTRALIA • Adelaide’s graphic heritage: The quintessential contested colonial city

How is heritage communicated across various scales of the Adelaide city region? In this project, a graphic heritage perspective is utilised to highlight the contested identity of Adelaide as a quintessential colonial city. Through collaboration with the University of South Australia, the SIDA Foundation, and The David Roche Foundation collection, the project provides the opportunity […]

PHOTOGRAPHY • Photomaps

Multiple viewpoint photo composites, or photomaps, are commonplace, but critically and popularly overlooked. They bring together principles from information graphics and geographic visualisation and combine them with the image-making technologies of photography. Well known examples include the ubiquitous panorama and aerial composites such as Google Map’s Satellite View, with a history that extends back to […]

PLACE BRANDING • Tracing Shanghai: A graphic heritage and creative industry education collaboration

Tracing Shanghai is a collaborative educational initiative between Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts, and Tongji University College of Design and Innovation.  As part of the collaborative creative industries dimension of the Repositioning Graphic Heritage research project, the initiative encourages designers to be inspired and look at the city as a source of visual-aesthetic inspiration by […]

FASCISM • Designing the Latina Landscape

What role did design play in the creation of the Latina Province in Fascist Italy during the early twentieth century? This pilot study explores the integrated design perspectives that contributed to the creation of the Latina Province (formerly Littoria Province), Italy, in the early twentieth century. The visual character of the written discourse, visual images, […]

MONUMENTS • The Anti-War Memorial

Through case study analysis of World War One remembrance activities, this research examines the intrinsic politics of war monuments. The military executions of World War One—in which hundreds of soldiers were court-martialled and executed for cowardice and desertion—remain controversial, without consensus or established collective narrative. This research examines historic negotiations with the subject, and notes […]

SIGNAGE • City of Westminster street nameplate, London

The creation and subsequent appropriation of the City of Westminster street nameplate design in London shows how urban graphic objects might evolve to serve a multitude of purposes. These range from the utility of labelling roads to the demarcation of London’s theatre district and local immigrant community, commercial merchandising, heritage signifier, to cultural expression as […]

URBAN COLOUR • Colour in Urban Places: A Case Study of Leicester City Football Club Blue

This project presents an empirical investigation on the process of place-making through colour design at a local level. The guiding research question is how does colour contribute to constructing place identity in urban environments?  The research comprises a case study inquiry of the Leicester City Football Club (LCFC) in the United Kingdom that directs the […]