Jessica Barness studies how design talks about itself — and makes work that talks back.
She is currently writing Everyday Graphic Design Writing: Letters, Blogs, and the Making of Communities (under contract with Bloomsbury). Beyond the book, she writes about design discourse, collage, flexi-disc vinyl records, and reader perceptions, while also making digital machines and offbeat low-res videos. She writes loudly, if less officially, at The Quiet Design Scholar.
She is a Professor of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University, where she coordinates graduate studies and teaches design research and professional practices.