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Collective Inquiry into the Visual Essay

AIGA Design Educators Community 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship

Written by AIGA Design Educators Community and Edited by Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Liese Zahabi

Michigan Publishing Services, 2023

The essays in this publication are the outcomes from the inaugural AIGA Design Educators Community 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship. Nineteen fellows worked both individually and collaboratively to interrogate the idea of the visual essay, to support and give critical feedback to each other, and to ultimately research, write, and design a visual essay for this publication. Once created, these works went through an initial peer-review process specific to visual essays conducted both in-person and online as part of the AIGA National Design Conference in Seattle, Washington from October 20-22, 2022. Once the feedback was collected and shared with the fellows, a first draft of the visual essays was achieved. These essays then went through a more traditional academic peer-review process, leading to the final versions of the essays you see here.

The topics and outcomes presented within these pages represent a wide range of ideas and visual language, from examining our negotiations with nature, using design as a tool to address issues of racial justice and civic engagement, exploring the reproductive life-cycle through the lens of a designer, concepts centered on the idea of the visual essay itself, and many others. Each essay takes into account the characteristics of visual language as a powerful mechanism for delivering a message.

As facilitators of this inaugural fellowship, the AIGA Design Educators Community is pleased with the outcomes and see this publication as a reminder and perhaps starting point for further elevating creative and scholarly research in the discipline of graphic design.

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Dialogue

Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: Decipher, Vol. 1

Written by AIGA DEC, Edited by Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt and Omar Sosa-Tzec

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Decipher 2018 was a hands-on design research conference by the AIGA Design Educators Community in partnership with the new DARIA Network (Design as Research in the Americas). The conference brought together 228 people from 12 countries to address crucial themes of defining, doing, disseminating, supporting, and teaching design research.

Hosted by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the
University of Michigan, Decipher:

Connected emerging and experienced design researchers in academia and beyond
Gathered and shared best practices, resources, tools, and exemplary research matter
Helped participants hone research plans and writing skills
Created opportunities for dialogues to foster mentorship and collaborative connections

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Dialogue

Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: Decipher, Vol. 2

Written by AIGA DEC, Edited by Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt and Omar Sosa-Tzec

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Decipher 2018 was a hands-on design research conference by the AIGA Design Educators Community in partnership with the new DARIA Network (Design as Research in the Americas). The conference brought together 228 people from 12 countries to address crucial themes of defining, doing, disseminating, supporting, and teaching design research.

Hosted by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Decipher:

Connected emerging and experienced design researchers in academia and beyond
Gathered and shared best practices, resources, tools, and exemplary research matter
Helped participants hone research plans and writing skills
Created opportunities for dialogues to foster mentorship and collaborative connections

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Dialogue

Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: SHIFT

Written by AIGA DEC, Edited by Liese Zahabi

Michigan Publishing Services, 2022

Dialogue is the ongoing series of fully open access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Committee.

Although each conference varies in theme, issues of Dialogue contain papers from DEC conferences which focus on topics that affect design education, research, and professional practice.

Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialogue on behalf of the AIGA DEC.

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Dialogue

Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: SHIFT{ED}

Liese AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)

Michigan Publishing Services, 2024

Dialogue is the ongoing series of fully open access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Committee.

Although each conference varies in theme, issues of Dialogue contain papers from DEC conferences which focus on topics that affect design education, research, and professional practice. Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialogue on behalf of the AIGA DEC.

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