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Siân is a graphic designer with many years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education, specialising in social design, ethical issues, public messaging, strategy, campaigning and audience engagement.
Her career began in design for the music industry (Peter Saville, Me Company). She has run no.star as her design practice since 1994, with clients including The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts, Sigma Research, Bromley and Croydon Women’s Aid and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Siân has volunteered for the HIV/AIDS sector since the early 90s, and her main research interest lies in archiving, analysing and activating her extensive collection of UK HIV/AIDS graphic ephemera.
Formerly a trustee of GMFA (the gay men’s health charity) and currently a volunteer designer with the National AIDS Trust and The National HIV Story Trust, she is also an advisory panel member for the Documenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a survey of HIV/AIDS archives in UK project.
Siân is Co-Director/Founder (with Teal Triggs) of the Women’s Design and Research Unit (WD+RU) which has promoted women working in design and facilitated socially inclusive projects since 1994, including;
More recently, WD+RU have been exploring the use of intergenerational mentoring to connect women in design, publishing a report in collaboration with Hidden Women of Design, and looking at ageism in the industry.
Siân has an MA in Graphic Design and BSL level 1. She is an RSA Fellow; Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; signatory of the First Things First 2000 Manifesto; an experienced External Examiner; and member of the Design Action Research Hub (DARH).
View the BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design course page.
Twitter: @nostarpro
Twitter: @WomensDesign
Instagram: @hivgraphics
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+44 (0)20 7514 6500