Lauren Housden


How We Read


Companion guide to the literature resources provided to participants in the MA GMD program.




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It gathers a series of comparative reviews that highlight participants’ initial responses to texts within the context of graphic design literature and education.

This Is How We Read zooms into the first encounters of a group of people with graphic design literature. It discloses each and every apriorism and blanket statement that we are programmed within our educational histories, and that we carry into our practices. The contents featured in this book are an AI-facilitated comparative review.




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Printed with Blurb in 2024
110 pages
150 by 230mm

Facilitator: Carlos Romo-Melgar
Designer: Lauren Housden
Editors: Evie McNulty, Ge Gan, Lauren Housden & Sruthi Nair
Author: MA GMD 2023-24 cohort
Publisher: The Rolling Drum


Introductory paragraph for How We Read
Review of ‘Designing Programmes’ by Karl Gerstner
Review of ‘Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?’ by Francisco Laranjo

Review of ‘Design and Reflexivity’ by Jan Van Toom

Review of ‘Confusion and Chaos: The Seduction of Contemporary Graphic Design’ by Paul Rand