Colloquia
Design Incubation Colloquium 9.2: Annual CAA Conference 2023 (Virtual)
Presentations and discussion in Research and Scholarship in Communication Design at the 111th Annual CAA Conference 2023
Fellowship
Design Incubation Writing Fellowship 2021
A three-day virtual workshop facilitating academic writing and publishing for designers.
Awards
The 2022 Design Incubation Communication Design Awards
2022 Design Incubation Educators Awards competition in 4 categories: Creative Work, Published Research, Teaching, Service
Design Events
Designing Your Research Agenda 2.1
Design scholars and researchers discuss various aspects of their research agendas
Call for Participation
CFP: 2022 Design Incubation Communication Design Awards
Colloquium 9.2: CAA Conference 2022 Call for Submissions
Colloquium 9.1: Kent State University, Call for Submissions
Ask the Expert
Ideas for Interactive Online Design Instruction
How important is it for an author to have a significant social media presence and to demonstrate that to the publisher?
Can an author approach more than one publisher at the same time?
Recent Abstracts
Sustainable Design Pedagogy: A Fifteen-Week Case Study of Sustainable and Climate Design Methodology and Outcomes
A look at foundational systems thinking.
The Limits of Control: Nonhierarchical Modes of Making, Decentering the Designer
Exploring the creative networks between graphic designers and their collaborators — human and non-human.
Graphic Design and Authority: How the Design of Documents and Signage Creates, Endorses, and Authenticates Power Structures
Visual authority can be used to validate any endeavor.
Chicano Independent Publication Masthead Design
Made during research visits at university libraries in Texas and California, hubs of the Chicano movement.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design: A Diachronic Investigation Into the Word ‘Design’
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.