Adam Cruickshank

Mr. Adam Cruickshank

Lecturer, Communication Design (ACDF) (Education Focused)

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About

Adam Cruickshank is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, graphic designer, and educator whose work stems from a critical engagement with the relationships between art and design, with a particular emphasis on publishing. He is a Lecturer in RMIT University’s School of Design, where he teaches graphic design across publishing, typography, and identity. A former publishing art director in London and Sydney, he has led numerous editorial art departments producing magazines and identity work for a range of publishers and cultural organisations internationally. His exhibition projects have been presented in artist-run and museum contexts locally and abroad. With the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship, he completed a PhD at RMIT in 2025.

 

Research interests

Publishing as critical practice and site of artistic enquiry; typography and language as material; institutional critique and the pedagogical structures of design education; the 'contested' boundary between art and design; artist books and other editorial forms

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