Category Archives: Research

Face Forward in Dublin

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Alison Black

The Face Forward conference on typography was held at the beautiful campus of the Institute of Technology in Dublin over two days last week. CIDR member Keith Tam presented his work on Chinese–English bilingual document design. Keith gave an overview … Continue reading →

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‘Reading to do’ workshop

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Alison Black

                      Welcome to visitors Ann Bessemans, Kevin Bormans and Maarten Renckens, from PXL, Belgium, Ann Marcus Quinn from the Department of Technical Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland, Theresa Schilhab from … Continue reading →

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Our research reaching a professional audience

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Alison Black

Jeanne-Louise Moys’s doctoral research features in Design Week’s recent post on ‘Searching for new perspectives in typography’. Design writer Rick Poyner highlights some of Jeanne-Louise’s early findings and their implications for typographic research and practice. When Jeanne-Louise started her research … Continue reading →

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Growing design research from PLanT (Partnership in Learning and Teaching) projects

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Alison Black

Jeanne-Louise Moys is leading a collaborative staff and student project – ‘Typo-resource’ – to develop a hub of online resources for our graphic communication students. Although a teaching development project, it draws on our strengths in user-centred design to explore … Continue reading →

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From the archive: A comparative evaluation to explore the effects of document design principles

Posted on June 22, 2015 by

In our new section ‘From the archive’ we are highlighting papers that are ‘worth going back to’, that we hold in hard copy here in the Department but may be hard to come by in any other way. Some of them … Continue reading →

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Visual text structure: How does it help people find information?

Posted on May 28, 2015 by

In the month of June, we will be conducting a study that will look at visual structure on electronic texts. We are recruiting participants who are 18 or over who have English as their first language and who have lived … Continue reading →

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