Learning Conversation Panel
We Need to Talk About AI: Graphic Design and the Visual Arts
Join Suhair Khan, Luke McDonagh, Adrian Shaughnessy and Caroline Sinders in conversation to investigate how the introduction of AI is changing the creative industries, with a focus on graphic design, illustration and the visual arts.
The introduction of AI to our world is causing debate and disruption across all industries, but this quest for optimisation raises particular questions for the creative sector. Earlier this year, the government announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan, and many creatives have responded by highlighting concerns such as diminished job opportunities and a lack of copyright protection.
This panel will explore AI's role in graphic design, illustration and the visual arts; what a future that embraces new technologies looks like for designers in this sector, and what needs to happen to robustly protect creatives’ intellectual property.
In this series of conversations ‘We Need to Talk About AI’, the Design Museum delves into the opportunities and challenges AI brings to a variety of design fields, including Graphic Design, Illustration and the Visual Arts; Environmental Design; Architecture and Urban Design; and Fashion and Textile Design.
Speakers
Adrian is a graphic designer, writer, publisher and educator. He has written numerous books on design. He has been interviewed on television and radio and lectured extensively around the world. He is a tutor on the Visual Communication and Design Products programmes at the RCA, where many of his students are wrestling with the practical and ethical complexities of AI. Shaughnessy has written for leading design journals and The Guardian.
Caroline is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. They’re the founder of human rights and design lab, Convocation Research + Design, and a current BRAID fellow with the University of Arts, London. They’ve worked with the Tate Exchange at the Tate Modern, the United Nations, Ars Electronica’s AI Lab, The Information Commissioner's Office (the UK’s data protection and privacy regulator), the Harvard Kennedy School and others.
Luke is an Associate Professor at LSE Law School. In addition to writing about AI and Intellectual Property Law, Luke is the author of the monograph Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2021). In 2023-24 he was awarded the prestigious Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman Fellowship Award for the best article published in the International Journal of Cultural Property in 2022.
Suhair is a technology entrepreneur and creative leader. She is the founder of open-ended design, a platform and incubator for impact-driven work at the intersection of future-facing technology, design, and culture. In over a decade at Google and Google Arts & Culture, Suhair led global initiatives which merged cutting edge technology with art, design and culture, and environmental sustainability. She is on the board of trustees for the Design Museum.
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Background image: Previous AI Conversation Panel event at the Design Museum. Photo: Aaron Parsons.
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