Dr. Jenny Grigg
Details
Department: School of Design
Campus: City Campus Australia
jenny.grigg@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-4604-0564
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Jenny Grigg is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University. Her professional career includes positions as Art Director at Rolling Stone Magazine Australia, MTV Australia, and Senior Designer at Pentagram in London. Currently Giramondo's artistic director, she has designed for Faber and Faber, Granta Books, UQP including titles by Alexis Wright, Gerald Murnane, Peter Carey, Paul Auster and Eleanor Catton. She has won multiple design awards, a 2011 State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship, induction into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2022 and induction into the Australia Book Designers Hall of Fame in 2024. She researches graphic design history and material literacy in graphic design ideation.
Website: jennygrigg.com
Supervisor projects
- Drawing funny: Filmmaking and the performing of illustrated humour
- 13 Jun 2025
- Cultivating the untimely: graphic design methodologies to perceive alternate presents and possible futures
- 27 Nov 2020
Research interests
Design ideation, graphic design ideation, design history, visual literacy, material literacy
