Talking about A Thing in the World at UMPRUM
Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops with Totally Okay (Set Margins')
Reviewing Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani's The Cities We Need (Visual Studies)
Playing in the Ruins with Susanne Kass and Isa Juchniewicz (AMPS)
In the Gathers of Life's Fabric with Michael Lozano (Frames Magazine)
A Splash and a Stain with James Williams (Scratching the Surface)
Reviewing Spector Books' Unearthing the Music (toBe Magazine)
Reviewing MUBI Editions' Read Frame Type Film (Scratching the Surface)
10 Years of Wilson’s Republic with A.N.D Studio and The Engine Room (Scratching the Surface)
Reviewing Anastasiia Fedorova's Second Skin (toBe Magazine)
Reviewing Vítězslav Nezval's A Prague Flâneur (Full Stop)
Reviewing Johanna Agerman Ross' Design Stories (Scratching the Surface)
On Pictorial Behaviour with Erik Kessels (toBe Magazine)
Reviewing Arvida Byström's In the Clouds (toBe magazine)
Chewing the Image (Frames Magazine)
Room 01 with Trees Heil (Soanyway Magazine)
Reviewing Daan Paan's Floating Signifiers (Scratching the Surface)
Reviewing Georgina Voss' Systems Ultra (Journal of Design History)
Reviewing Rafael Schacter's Monumental Graffiti (Scratching the Surface)
Reviewing Catherine Bouko's Visual Citizenship (Sage)
Reviewing Phaidon's Vitamin Txt (Scratching the Surface)
Anthony Gormley/Pavla Melková (DAMN Magazine)
Examining the Dust on his Desk with Silvio Lorusso (DAMN Magazine)
Sighting the Imaginary with Trees Heil (DAMN Magazine)
A Private Pulse for Lonely People with Nile Koetting (DAMN Magazine)
In Contrast to Respectable Thinking (DAMN Magazine)
Reviewing Alex Coles' Crooner (Taylor & Francis)
What’s in it for My Mother (Dutch Design Week)
The Ineptitude of Interpretation (Design Digger)
Deceived Deceivers (DAMN Magazine)
Reviewing Beatriz Colomina et al Radical Pedagogies (Journal of Design History)
Venice Pizza with Nick Deakin (Deakin)
De-Signing Ambiguity with Christian Skovgaard Petersen (Cumulus)
Graphic Events with Nick Deakin(Onomatopee)
Everyday Graphic Design with Nick Deakin (Evental Aesthetics)
Reality is Fiction Fiction is Reality for Alex Coles' Design Fiction (Sternberg Press)
I have ten years of experience teaching academic writing to undergraduate and post-graduate students in schools of Art and Design. The assignments range from short-form essays to longer-form dissertations and postgraduate theses. I give lectures on critical theory and design history, seminars on assigned texts, workshops on creative writing and academic conventions, as well as consultations on self-negotiated research topics.
Independently, I’m published by DAMN Magazine, Scratching the Surface, Onomatopee, Set Margins’, Sternberg Press, Dutch Design Week, FRAMES Magazine, toBe Magazine, Full Stop, Soanyway Magazine, Evental Aesthetics, Design Digger. Academically, I’m published by Design Issues (MIT Press), Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press), Visual Communication (Sage), Popular Music and Society (Taylor & Francis), Digital Culture and Society (Transcript), Cumulus.
I am External Examiner at Edinburgh Napier University for the BDes (Hons) Graphic Design course. I have an MA in New Media and Digital Culture (Utrecht University, NL) and a PhD from the school of Art Design and Architecture (University of Huddersfield, UK).
I work at TU Prague City (formerly Prague City University) lecturing on:
BA Graphic Design
Design History & Research (radically situated understandings of design histories)
Communication Design (writing on emergent trends in new media)
Critical Writing in Critical Times (design-focused critical writing on urgent cultural issues)
Design Research and Writing (self-negotiated research topics for final year dissertations)
BA Fine Art Experimental Media
Visual Cultures (writing on art-historical understandings of contemporary culture)
Critical Writing (writing on emergent trends and urgent issues in contemporary art)
MA Future Design +/ MA Fine Art
Critical Thinking in Theoretical Contexts (applied critical theory in art and design contexts)
Design Practice (theory-oriented design practice with self-negotiated briefs)
Design Integration (collaborative and critical design practice)
Design Research Methods (an introduction to established methodologies in design)
Major Project (an ambitious, self-negotiated and research-driven design project)