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Need to workshop a research abstract? Get feedback from peers and experts in the field of communication design? Apply to participate in the online Academic Abstract Writing Program 2026 at Design Incubation.

https://designincubation.com/call-for-submissions/cfp-academic-abstract-writing-program-2026/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

What is the Olympic experience from a designer's perspective? Come for a conversation this Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST to discuss design in sports with Olympian, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, at Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Kelly's work has been disseminated internationally through exhibition, design award, conference, and publication, and is included in several permanent collections. She is a 2-time Olympic rower, a 2-time Olympian Artist, and a Member of the IOC's Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

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What is the Olympic experience from a designer's perspective? Come for a conversation this Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST to discuss design in sports with Olympian, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, at Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Kelly's work has been disseminated internationally through exhibition, design award, conference, and publication, and is included in several permanent collections. She is a 2-time Olympic rower, a 2-time Olympian Artist, and a Member of the IOC's Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

What is the Olympic experience from a designer's perspective? Come for a conversation this Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST to discuss design in sports with Olympian, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, at Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Kelly's work has been disseminated internationally through exhibition, design award, conference, and publication, and is included in several permanent collections. She is a 2-time Olympic rower, a 2-time Olympian Artist, and a Member of the IOC's Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Ever wonder how design researchers discover ideas they further investigate?

Robert's transdisciplinary research explores urban heritage through the lens of graphic design, under the guise of urban graphic heritage.

Known also for his interest in graphic design studies, he has led several funded projects with NGOs in Australia, Brazil, China, South Africa and United Kingdom.

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Ever wonder how design researchers discover ideas they further investigate?

Robert's transdisciplinary research explores urban heritage through the lens of graphic design, under the guise of urban graphic heritage.

Known also for his interest in graphic design studies, he has led several funded projects with NGOs in Australia, Brazil, China, South Africa and United Kingdom.

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Ever wonder how design researchers discover ideas they further investigate?

Robert's transdisciplinary research explores urban heritage through the lens of graphic design, under the guise of urban graphic heritage.

Known also for his interest in graphic design studies, he has led several funded projects with NGOs in Australia, Brazil, China, South Africa and United Kingdom.

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Lesley-Ann investigates how positionality, lived experience, and local knowledge shape design inquiry and how design researchers can cultivate agendas that are responsible, relational, and grounded in context. Across her global practice in the Caribbean, Brazil, the U.S., and Canada, she champions pluriversality, social change, and the expansion of who gets to produce design knowledge.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Lesley-Ann investigates how positionality, lived experience, and local knowledge shape design inquiry and how design researchers can cultivate agendas that are responsible, relational, and grounded in context. Across her global practice in the Caribbean, Brazil, the U.S., and Canada, she champions pluriversality, social change, and the expansion of who gets to produce design knowledge.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Come join us Friday, April 17, 2026 at 1:00pm EST for a research panel discussion, Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA).

Lesley-Ann investigates how positionality, lived experience, and local knowledge shape design inquiry and how design researchers can cultivate agendas that are responsible, relational, and grounded in context. Across her global practice in the Caribbean, Brazil, the U.S., and Canada, she champions pluriversality, social change, and the expansion of who gets to produce design knowledge.

https://designincubation.com/design-events/designing-your-research-agenda-dyra-5-1/

#designresearch #designthinking #designtheory

Congratulations to @aggietoppins - Thinking Through Graphic Design History is the winner of the 2025 @designincubation Communication Design Award for Published Scholarship! 👏👏👏

The competition jury’s comments in full:

“This is an expansive work of great significance. Aggie Toppins employs a rigorous methodology that is timely and relevant. Richly theorized with profound examples, the book’s accessible writing and lively, sectioned layout will make it digestible to students.

The author - who holds and MFA degree rather than a PhD - researched, wrote and designed the book, which demonstrates deep skills in both graphic design as a practice and graphic design as an intellectual discipline worthy of explanation by an astute historian.”

Congratulations to @aggietoppins - Thinking Through Graphic Design History is the winner of the 2025 @designincubation Communication Design Award for Published Scholarship! 👏👏👏

The competition jury’s comments in full:

“This is an expansive work of great significance. Aggie Toppins employs a rigorous methodology that is timely and relevant. Richly theorized with profound examples, the book’s accessible writing and lively, sectioned layout will make it digestible to students.

The author - who holds and MFA degree rather than a PhD - researched, wrote and designed the book, which demonstrates deep skills in both graphic design as a practice and graphic design as an intellectual discipline worthy of explanation by an astute historian.”

This project was the 2025 Design Incubation Educators Awards runner-up recipient in the category of Teaching.

https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/generative-ai-for-visual-communication-designing-human-centered-ai-first-pedagogy/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

This project was the 2025 Design Incubation Educators Awards winning recipient in the category of Teaching.

https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/design-in-the-posthuman-age-biomorphic-typography/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

This project was the 2025 Design Incubation Educators Awards winning recipient in the category of Scholarship: Research Publication.

https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/thinking-through-graphic-design-history-challenging-the-canon/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Winner of the Design Incubation Communication Design Awards 2025 in the category, Creative Work.

https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/challenging-patterns-of-supremacy-provocations-from-collective-pedagogy-practice-and-organizing/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Call for graduate student research in communication design. Submission deadline: Mon, Mar 30, 2026. Event: Fri, Jun 26, 2026.

https://designincubation.com/call-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-colloquium-12-3-virtual-summer-graduate-panel/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Call for communication design abstract submissions. Deadline: Mon, Mar 30, 2026. Event online Fri, Jun 26, 2026.

https://designincubation.com/call-for-submissions/colloquium-12-3-virtual-summer/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Please join us in congratulating the the recipients of the 2025 Design Incubation Communication Design Awards. Our sincerest thanks to the esteemed jury.

https://designincubation.com/publications/awards/2025-design-incubation-communication-design-educators-award-recipients/?utm_source=instagram-business&utm_medium=jetpack_social