Role
For over a decade and a half Jonny has taught part-time within the School of Art and Design at NTU the school of art and design at NTU, primarily working on the BA Graphic Design and BA Motion Graphics degree courses.
Key aspects of his roles includes leading tutorials, presenting, running workshops and coaching students through projects (covering disciplines such as: branding, web, motion/animation, interaction, illustration and typography). Jonny has received tutor awards from the D&AD and the International Society of Typographic Designers.
Career overview
- 2001–2007 – Guest lecturer/tutor at NTU – Department of Visual Communications
- 2004 – HPL Lecturer at University of Nottingham (teaching web development and design skills in the science department)
- 2002–2003 – Part-time Tutor/Lecturer at New College Nottingham.
- 2007 – 2018 – HPL Lecturer NTU – Graphic Design BA
- 2015 – Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)
- 2019 – Present – Associate Lecturer – Graphic Design BA
- 2024 – Present – Associate Lecturer – Motion Graphics BA
Research areas
Jonny’s research focuses on the interplay of design, technology and materiality.
For the last couple of decades, this has included practice-based research into the creative possibilities of generative coding as part of the design process and graphic visualisation. Early work focused on Flash and other early web-based interactive technologies.
This resulted in projects such as the SimSweatshop — a game with a conscience that placed the audience in the place of a sweatshop worker and, in the process, the ethical issues at play in the manufacturing of our clothes.
Since then, the research has gone on to involve Processing, P5JS, JavaScript and PHP – using these to play a part in the design process (outputs being things like: prints, video and installations).
External activity
Jonny’s design practice has primary come under the banner of the Newpollution Design Studio. He continues to produce work for a vast array of clients, working with digital technologies in motion and interactive media, developing visual identities and art commissions. This follows working in a digital agency during the burgeoning web industry in the early years of the millennium. Where he worked as a designer on a variety of projects for a variety of large companies.
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-time / SandwichCOURSE
Graphic Design - BA (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/ba-hons-graphic-design