Katrina Sandbach

• Biography
• Teaching
• Current Projects
• Selected Publications
  
• Contact Details

Biography

Katrina Sandbach worked as a graphic designer prior to joining the University of Western Sydney as an Associate Lecturer in 2008. Culminating in art direction and project management, her professional experience is in brand communications, including the design of logos, visual identity collateral, publications, point-of-sale, environmental, web and interactive projects for clients predominantly in the tourism, hospitality, retail and corporate sectors.

Katrina enjoys lecturing and teaching across the undergraduate Bachelor of Design (Visual Communications) degree at UWS, with a focus on professional practice. Katrina is currently a PhD candidate with her research interests residing in visual communications, place, sustainability, and cultural identities.

Teaching

Katrina coordinates, lectures and teaches into the core Bachelor of Design units Introduction to Typography (first year) and Professional Practice: Design (third year). She also teaches into the Rabbit Hole, the fourth year professional design studio, and supervises Honours students.

Current projects

Selected publications

2011 refereed journal article

‘Graphic Design and the Aesthetics of Place’, Irridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research ‘Where is Design Practice at Today’, issue 1, Icograda (in press)

2011 refereed conference paper

‘Graphic Design’s Agency in Place’, Mapping Ecologies of Place: Local, Virtual Digital, University of Western Sydney, Australia 16-17 June 2011

2011 refereed conference paper

‘Re-thinking UWS Learning Spaces with Bachelor of Design Students’, Interventions and Intersections (postgraduate research conference), College of Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia 7-8 June 2011

2011 refereed and published conference paper, proceedings online

‘Graphic Design and the Aesthetics of Place’, agIdeas 2011 International Design Research Lab, Melbourne, Australia 1-5 May 2010