Interview Questions

These are the questions I asked Teal Trigg during my interview with her, at first the wording of the questions weren't quite right, so I emailed Catherine who really helped with the wording of them. I am currently in the process of writing the answers up.

Interview with Teal Trigg 08/10/09

Teal is also co-founder of the Women's Design + Research Unit (WD+RU), an organisation which seeks to raise awareness about women working in visual communication and related area.

1. Please could you tell me more about the Women's Design + Research Unit (WD+RU)

2. Within the Faculty of Design do you think there is enough being done to promote female graphic designers?Both past and present.

3. Do you think that women bring different attributes and/or attitudes to graphic design? If so, what?

4. Do female Graphic Designers get the recognition they deserve? For example are they under-represented in industry events and media etc?

5. Following on from the pervious question, what are the barriers to women Graphic Designers affecting them gaining wider recognition and kudos?

6. With more female graphic design graduates emerging in recent years do you think this will affect industry? And how?

7. Are there any designers, books or articles that you could recommend to assist my research?