Rate My Professor David Sargent

Sargent earned a Doctor of Visual Arts from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2019, researching emerging communication design technologies, and a Type West Postgraduate Certificate in Type Design from The Letterform Archive in San Francisco in 2022. He joined Griffith's Creative Arts Research Institute in 2021. His research focuses on typeface design, expressive lettering, Augmented Reality applications, sustainable design, critical typography in aviation and medicine, and speculative design for social issues. Key publications include "Green Design as Unsustainable Design" (2013), "Repurposing Augmented Reality Browsers for Acts of Creative Subversion" (2017), "No Bodies Perfekt: A Speculative Body Image Awareness and Intervention Campaign" (2018), "Type Does Matter!: A Systematic Literature Review on Typographic Considerations in Publications on Electronic Documentation in Aviation and Medicine" (2023), and "Back to the Future: On the Typography of Electronic Flight Deck Documentation" (2024). Sargent presented at the ATypI 2024 conference on reviving typefaces and integrates green design and design futures principles at Liveworm to foster ethical practices.