I get a lot of resistance for always trying to push that boundary and always trying to elevate design to a meaningful place.

— Rosanna di Risio, a hero of Australian graphic design

Journal articles

Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework.
Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1–17. (2024).
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Designing Period Shame: Period Product Advertising in Australian Women's Magazines.
Design Issues, 2024-07, Vol.40 (3), p.62-76.
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Reducing food waste through data visualisation: How communication design can reinforce social marketing messages to prompt behaviour change.
Abos, R., Karunasena, G., Taffe, S. and Connory, J. Journal of Social Marketing, (2023).
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Blind embossing: the (in)visibility and impact of women across Australiaʼs advertising, graphic design and publishing industries.
RMIT Design Archives, Special Issue: Commercial Art Journal, no. 2 (2018), vol. 8: 56-63.
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The interplay of [in]visibility,
Design and Culture. No. 3 (Sep 2018), vol. 10: 323-335.
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Plotting the historical pipeline of women in graphic design.
Design History Australia Research Network (DHARN), (2017).
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Conference papers

Student-centric reflections: A discussion of reflexive practice factors.
The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 29 November - 1 December 2023, London, United Kingdom.
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Processes that cause invisibility for women in Australian graphic design
Proceedings of DRS 2020 International Conference, Vol. 2 'Impacts', 11-14 August 2020 (virtual), pp. 494-512.
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The paradoxical comfort zone: An investigation into how students and professional women in Australian graphic design experience [in]visibility.
Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference (ACUADS), 27-28 September 2018.
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#afFEMation – Demonstrating a framework for gender equitable histories
Prato Conference, 25-27 October 2017.
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Ruby and Eirene: a speculative history of Australia’s first women in graphic design
Australian Historical Association Conference, 3 -7 July 2017.

Anonymity: measuring the visibility of women in design awards
Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), 28-29 September 2017.
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Book chapters

EKH - Anna Eymont (1948), Myriam Kin-Yee (1950), and Alison Hulett (1953) in Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon. Ed. Elizabeth Resnik, Bloomsbury, slated to be published (2025).

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Speculative Postcards. Create design fictions to point to unrealised pasts or envision different worlds' in Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon. Ed. Aggie Toppins, Bloomsbury, (2024).

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Commentary

Relationships on show.
Eye Magazine, 14 February 2025.
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How to skew a referendum through design.
mavens, September 26, 2023.
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Friday essay: I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years - shame and secrecy prevailed.
The Conversation, 19 March 2021.
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Dealing with bloody taboos in advertising.
The Age, March 1, 2021, p. 23.
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Design and Reinvention in ‘The Minds Eye’.
Ligature Journal, 30 September 2020.
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Invisible women in graphic design.
The Design Writer, 27 January 2020.
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The invisible women of Australian graphic design.
Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture, 17 October 2019.
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Change. Word-Form, 2019.
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Lets redress gender imbalance in Australia Day honours.
Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 2019.
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Hidden women of history: Ruby Lindsay, one of Australia’s first female graphic designers.
The Conversation, 16 January 2019.
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Invisible women in Australian Graphic Design.
Eye Magazine, 4 July 2018.
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The NYC graphic design geek tour.
The Design Writer, 10 July 2017.
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