Dr Kate Sweetapple

Senior Lecturer, School of Design
Course Director, Visual Communication (undergraduate), School of Design

BDesign (UTS), Doctor of Philosophy
Email: Kate.Sweetapple@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8914
Fax: +61 2 9514 8787
Room: CB06.06.21 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Biography

Kate Sweetapple is a design academic who explores the intersection of words and images through exhibitions, installations and printed matter. Her research interests include Information Design – specifically the visualisation of quantitative and qualitative data through exploratory visual communication practices; and Visual Writing, texts that are neither purely written, nor purely visual.

In 2004 Kate completed her doctorate, “The Rhetoric of Distance: a model of the visual narrator in design”, which uses a literary framework to explore contemporary visual communication artefacts. The intersections between design and literature continue to be a research focus.

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Research supervision: Yes

Publications

Journal Articles

McWhinnie, L.J., Sweetapple, K. & Benjamin, A.E. 2007, 'On Judging a Book By its Cover', Journal of Visual Communication, Vol 6, No 1., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 123-127.
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Sweetapple, K. 2007, 'Power Dressing: a critique of design authorship', Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-8.
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Conference Papers

Sadokierski, Z.A. & Sweetapple, K. 2012, 'Drawing Out: How designers analyse written texts in visual ways', Design Research Society Biennial International Conference 2012, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2012 in Design Research Society 2012: Bangkok, ed Israsena, P., Tangsantikul, J. and Durling, D., Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, pp. 1646-1659.

Sweetapple, K. 2010, 'How del.icio.us: the impact of social bookmarking tools on the learning experiences of Visual Communication Design students', International Conference on Design Education, Sydney, Australia, June 2010 in ConnectedED:International Conference on Design at Sydney, ed NA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 1-5.

Palmer, C.G., Gothe, J., Mitchell, C.A., Riedy, C.J., Sweetapple, K., McLaughlin, S.M., Hose, G.C., Lowe, M., Goodall, H., Green, T., Sharma, D., Fane, S.A., Brew, K. & Jones, P.R. 2007, 'Finding integration pathways: developing a transdisciplinary (TD) approach for the Upper Nepean Catchment.', Australian Stream Management Conference, Albury, NSW, Australia., May 2007 in Proceedings of the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference. Australian rivers: making a difference, ed Wilson, A.L., Dehaan, R.L., Watts, R.J., Page, K.J., Bowmer, K.H., & Curtis, A., Charles Sturt University, Thurgoona, New South Wales, pp. 306-311.
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Roxburgh, M.W. & Sweetapple, K. 2007, 'The Cartography of Theory and Practice', ConnectED: International Conference on Design Education, Sydney, Australia, July 2007 in ConnectED: International Conference on Design Education, ed Zehner, B. et al, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-6.
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Original Creative Works

Sweetapple, K. 2010, 'Map of Sydney: Avian surnames; Map of Sydney: Fish surnames; Map of Sydney: Celestial surnames; The Browns; The Blacks and The Whites; The Greens and The Reds.', Mr Salmon and Mrs Sparrow: Experimental Cartography, -, DAB LAB, University of Technology Sydney.
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Sweetapple, K. 2009, 'Map of Sydney: Avian surnames', Mapping Sydney: experimental cartography and the imagined city, Local Consumption Press, Sydney, DAB LAB (University of Technology, Sydney).

Other research activity

Roxburgh, M.W., Sweetapple, K. 2006, 'Work/Play: 30 Years of Visual Communication', UTS GALLERY, UTS, Sun Herald.
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