Combining technical expertise with a sophisticated grasp of storytelling capability, we translate abstract data and ideas for the purposes of communicating climate change research, reporting on employment trends in the arts and crafts sector, supporting the dissemination of Indigenous knowledges and land management practices, and testing innovations in building design and construction.

News and projects

Person in VR headset pointing, large pink digitised thumbs up in the foreground.

Andrew Burrell

Andrew Burrell

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Design and Society

Layered Horizons

An ongoing outcome of ARC Discovery funded project “Waves of Words”. This outcome is led by Andrew Burrell and creates a toolset for visualising complex layered data (linguistics, anthropology, geography, and archaeology) within virtual reality. 

Pat Grant sketching graphic art

Gabriel Clark

Gabriel Clark

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Design and Society

The rise of comic communicators

A new report from UTS researchers has revealed an increase in demand for the skills of cartoonists, illustrators and comics-makers across a diverse range of industries.

Can't buy me love in rainbow balloons with a theatrical backdrop

Andrew Burrell

Andrew Burrell

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Design and Society

can't buy me love

An immersive experience that purports to sell the audience the intangibility of spiritual enlightenment, created through the UTS Artist in Residence program.

Viewing a map of the earth on a laptop

Adrift: scientific visualisations that are accessible and meaningful to broader audiences

Kate Sweetapple and Jacqueline Lorber-Kasunic

An online citizen science project that provides a set of intuitive online visualisation tools to enable people without technical or scientific training to access, analyse and collect ocean data and explore the life of microscopic marine microbes.

Cherine Fahd

Cherine Fahd

Associate Professor

Faculty of Design and Society

People at a workshop in the bush

Firesticks Alliance

Jacqueline Gothe

A long-term visual communication design partnership with Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous-led network that mentors, shares and supports the revival of cultural burning practices in natural resource and fire management contexts.

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