Margaret Rynning

• Professor (Associate) at Kristiania University College

Today’s graphic design students embody inspiration from sources associated with globalisation, not least online, as well as local impulses from everyday life. In this article, we draw upon the work of two student groups – one in Norway, one in Singapore – to investigate the relationship between input and how they are used to design the packaging of...

This paper explores participatory design through the use of prototypes as boundary objects. Empowering underprivileged Zimbabwean village women through design, based on the woman's own local craftsmanship and finding tools for the women to help themselves is the main goal of the project. Jewellery design prototypes created in Scandinavia has been b...

Scandinavians are some of the most digitally connected people in the world. However, the ubiquitous connectedness and globalization seems to pull Scandinavians towards a need for increased local awareness. This paper taps into how Norwegian graphic designers and design students appear to oppose the omnipresent digital impact in their lives. This r...

This paper explores the powerful combination of graphic design and visual identity branding together with speculative design. Via discussion of three student projects the paper demonstrates how this combination can be used to comment on problems and current practices in western world societies. I argue that speculative scenarios often are influence...

This paper inquiries into how we, as humans in the Global North, envision troubling scenarios of future interaction with technologies. Selected student projects in graphic design and art direction, within a Nordic university college setting, explore speculative future visions. The works address concerns about how technologies increasingly permeate...

In this paper we discuss how the teaching of visual identity in graphic design education may be redeveloped within a speculative design framework. We inquire into how the teaching of visual identity design was framed speculatively with reference to a student project focusing on future scenarios for water sustainability. We propose the concept specu...