Authors

Stuart Medley is a research fellow at UNIDCOM, Portugal, and an honorary associate professor of design at Edith Cowan University exploring the application of comics for legal contracts and in the health sector. He authored the book The Picture in Design and other publications, including for Wiley’s Companion to Illustration. He makes comics to improve employment and housing services, and has worked as an illustrator for 25 years with clients including Anglicare and Austal Ships in Australia, and the Imperial War Museums in the UK. He is a co-founder and art director for Hidden Shoal, a record label with a roster of international artists, with the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting, and Showtime as clients. He is a co-founder and funding director of the Perth Comic Arts Festival.

Dr. Hanadi Haddad has a background in interactive media, design and interactive television. She is a lecturer and supervisor at Edith Cowan University in design in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her research interests include strategic visual communication, design thinking, service design and innovation, co-design/creation, usability, design theory and work integrated learning. She was previously a post-doctoral research associate at Murdoch University. A graduate of Curtin University, her PhD involved multidisciplinary research into visual modalities of character agents between the School of Design and School of Computer Science.