This international research exchange day explores the shift from graphic design as a service to industry to “cultural graphic design”.

A creative and critical Exchange

The essays collected in this volume explore a broad number of approaches to design research: Historical, critical perspectives on design and design research, overviews of the social conditions of design and the theories and instruments of co-design, investigations of design research practices, examples of concrete projects and developments, and connecting the material and digital worlds.

Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland presents for the first time eleven selected essays on the production, mediation and consumption of graphic design artifacts and processes, as well as their respective discourses by authors from the German, French and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland.

First SDN Design Research Winter Summit 28-31 January 2016, at Grandhotel Giessbach, Switzerland