Drawing Landscape Elements From Reid: Landscape Graphics

2017

Strategy document for the interpretive messaging, communication methods and curatorial story for the National Capital Exhibition, Canberra. Authored by Dr Toni Roberts for Studio Mether and the National Capital Authority. Graphic Design by Studio Tweed.

2017

Postage stamps and letters are sent as a unit, allowing their public and private narratives to arrive in parallel. Both the practical and theoretical components of this research explore these narratives, treating letters and postage stamps as both personal and impersonal objects of communication. They are archival objects of national and personal history and of an era that is slowly fading. This research does not reinforce the different modes of communication offered by postage stamps and letters, but rather unpacks and compares, from a personal perspective, their many layers of meaning.

This paper describes a web system designed to provide spatially oriented audio descriptions of an image for visually impaired users. The system uses a hardware-independent platform of the technique of multimodal presentation of images. Visually impaired users interact with an image displayed on the screen while moving the cursor – with a mouse or a tablet (pen or finger touch) – and listening to the audio description of previously marked areas within the image. The paper also describes the usability evaluation performed with five participants and its main results. Generally, the five participants accomplished the usability test tasks and could better understand the image displayed. The paper also describes the main findings and discusses some implications for design, suggesting some improvements.

Visual Culture in Britain

This essay looks at Kitaj's little known work for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 'Art & Technology Programme'. The work he produced there, a multi-media installation called 'Lives of the Engineers', which incorporated sculpture, prints, photographs, and textiles, dealt with the industrial revolution, technology and their legacies. Much of this work is now lost but an excavation of the remaining written and photographic evidence reveals the work was a meditation on the industrial revolution and that certain key images resurfaced in his later work.

2009

This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analysing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design.

Visible Language, 2018

Indigenous creative expressions are ingrained with knowledge, through an inherited visual language of signs and symbols learnt from within culture, grounded in country and identity. The power and strength of this knowledge remains embedded across diverse creative mediums, contemporary tools and technologies. Yet the application of digital drawing within remote Indigenous contexts remains largely unexplored. This research sought to understand a Western Arrernte perspective of digital drawing, through examining the digital creative outcomes of Indigenous youth from Ntaria – a remote community located on Western Arrernte Country in the Central Desert of Australia. Reported here, are findings on the students’ use and understanding of these new tools as they moved from analogue to digital drawing for the first time. Introducing design tools to young adults from Ntaria enabled an exploration of digital drawing as a vehicle to develop ‘designerly styles’ as they re-imagined drawing in a digital way. What emerged from this project was a space for young adults from Ntaria to express their identity and give voice to their contemporary experiences. Ntaria ‘designerly styles’ are embedded within Western Arrernte cultural practice and reaffirm traditional visual language within a digital landscape. Results further reveal digital drawing can engage and foster the development of design-based creative practices for young people living in remote contexts, as well as longer-term economic and enterprise opportunities.