From Graphics to Products: Critical Design as Design Authorship

Steven McCarthy © 2008 abstract from View Views 2 conference, London College of Communication held July 2008.

Curating as Meta Design-Authorship

Steven McCarthy © 2007 visual:design:scholarship, the research journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association.

Defending the Domestic Environment from Advertising: the Commercial Rhetoric Art Project

Steven McCarthy © 2006 Design Research Society Wonderground Conference Proceedings (link goes to PDF file on Wonderground conference’s web site)

Notes from the Wonderground

Steven McCarthy © 2006 Review of Wonderground, the international conference of the Design Research Society. The Design Institute’s “Knowledge Circuit” (online conference reviews), University of Minnesota.

The Art Portrait, the Pixel and the Gene: Micro Construction of Macro Representation

Steven McCarthy © 2005 Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. (link goes to PDF file on Sage Publication’s web site)

Graphic Design as Weapon of Territorial Terror

Steven McCarthy © 2004 Speak Up web site. Reflections on Belfast.

Kicking the Edge to Nudge the Center: How North American Designers Use Media at the Margins to Affect Political Change

Steven McCarthy © 2004 Panel presentation at Politics of Design, sponsored by the Design History Society, and held at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland in September 2004

Panelists: James Boyd-Brent (University of Minnesota), Colette Gaiter (Columbia College), and Michael Longford (Concordia University of Montréal)

Helvetica: the Voice of Opposition

Steven McCarthy © 2003 Originally presented at the Hidden Typography conference at the St. Bride Printing Library, London, in October 2003.

Mapping the Mind while Minding the Map

Steven McCarthy © 2002 Review of Mind the Map, Third International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, held in Istanbul, Turkey. The Design Institute’s “Knowledge Circuit” (online conference reviews), University of Minnesota.

Steven McCarthy © 2002 Presentation made at Mind the Map, Third International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Declarations of [Inter]dependence

Steven McCarthy © 2002 Review of Declarations conference, Concordia University, Montréal. The Design Institute’s “Knowledge Circuit” (online conference reviews), University of Minnesota.

Designer as Author: Diffusion or Differentiation?

Cristina de Almeida and Steven McCarthy © 2002 (presented in its entirety at Declarations of [inter]dependence and the im[media]cy of design symposium which took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the week of October 22-28, 2001.

Self-Authored Graphic Design: A Strategy for Integrative Studies

Steven McCarthy & Cristina Melibeu de Almeida © 2002 Journal of Aesthetic Education, University of Illinois Press. Based on a presentation originally made at the Integrative Studies Conference, held in Chicago 1999.

Steven McCarthy © 2001 (published in slightly different form as “Tinker Tailor Designer Author,” Agenda column essay for Eye magazine, no. 41).

Steven McCarthy © 2001 (originally written as part of the Policy and Planning Committee Strategic Visioning process, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota, and published in the AIGA Minnesota’s Design Education Summit publication, Summer 2001).

Assigning Tables of Content: Self Authorship in Undergraduate Graphic Design Education

Steven McCarthy and Cristina de Almeida © 1998 (from a presentation originally given at the University and College Design Association conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 1998 and published in a greatly edited version in the UCDA’s Designer, Spring 1999).

What is “self-authored graphic design” anyway?

Steven McCarthy © 1995 (Essay originally printed on poster/catalog accompanying Designer as Author: Voices and Visions exhibition at Northern Kentucky University, February 1996).