Mark Zurolo and Peter Hall

Mark - I’m a designer and educator at the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts. I run a small studio in New Haven where we take on work for clients primarily in educational and cultural centers such as the Human Nature Lab, Yale University and the New Haven Preservation Trust. The design program I lead at the University of Connecticut is predicated on Graphic Design as a multifaceted discipline in the art and practice of verbalizing, visualizing and communicating ideas. Our approach emphasizes the careful research of concepts simultaneously with an equally deep exploration of formal and material approaches to evoke the concept’s principles.

Peter - I’m a design writer &  Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London. My research focuses on mapping and visualisation as participatory design processes, with applications in cyber security and well-being. I previously taught at Griffith University in Brisbane Australia, University of Texas at Austin and Yale School of Art. Recent essays appear in the journals Design and Culture, Design Philosophy Papers and the books Design in the Borderlands (2014),Graphic Design Reader (Bloomsbury 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge 2018). Books include Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist (1999) and Sagmeister: Made You Look (2001). I’m a Co-founder of DesignInquiry.