Kent Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris has staged an interactive ‘mini show’ on Twitter to explore what graphic design can reveal about people\u2019s perception of law.<\/p>\n
Fourteen graphic designs were tweeted by Professor Perry-Kessaris throughout the course of one day with a request for thoughts and comments.<\/p>\n
Professor Perry-Kessaris said: \u2018I set myself the task of developing designs that were each intended to communicate, and facilitate discussion about, a widely perceived characteristic of law.<\/p>\n
\u2018My self-imposed constraints were to use no text other than the word \u2018law\u2019 within the design, with a short title and background note on the reverse; and that the design must fit on an A5 card.\u2019<\/p>\n
The show successfully engaged the Twitter community with Professor Perrry-Kessaris reporting more than 2,800 page views. In addition, 800 views were recorded on Professor Perry-Kessaris\u2019s blog<\/a> with designs called \u2018Citadel<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Lost & Found<\/a>\u2019 provoking the highest number of comments.<\/p>\n Professor Perry-Kessaris said: \u2018This was a fascinating experience, great fun and even a touch exhilarating. I had no idea if anyone would even notice it was happening, so I am thrilled that the response was so positive. My next plan is to visually communicate existing econo-legal research projects done by other academics, to see if their reach can be widened and\/or deepened through graphic design.\u2019<\/p>\n The exchange of tweets, has now been curated into a Storify.<\/a>\u00a0 A Vimeo video<\/a> has also been created offering a virtual private view of the designs. The online experiment was conducted as part of a Design for Visual Communication course that Professor Perry-Kessaris is taking at the London College of Communication. She is also the coordinator of a project called Thinking into | about practice<\/a> which asks academics to use images and texts to reflect upon their experience in the field of law and development.<\/p>\n Professor Perry-Kessaris\u2019s current research focuses on what happens when ‘law and development’, is reconsidered as econo-socio-legal development, and the potential of graphic design as a method of communication in that process. Read more about her research and publications on her staff profile page<\/a>.<\/p>\n