I get a lot of resistance for always trying to push that boundary and always trying to elevate design to a meaningful place.

— Rosanna di Risio, a hero of Australian graphic design

Journal articles

Reducing food waste through data visualisation: How communication design can reinforce social marketing messages to prompt behaviour change.
Abos, R., Karunasena, G., Taffe, S. and Connory, J. Journal of Social Marketing, (2023).

Helping to destigmatise the use of period products for trans, masculine presenting, non-binary and gender diverse (TMNG) consumers through an inclusive communication design framework.
Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1–17. (2024).
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Designing Period Shame: Period Product Advertising in Australian Women's Magazines.
Design Issues, 2024-07, Vol.40 (3), p.62-76.
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Blind embossing: the (in)visibility and impact of women across Australiaʼs advertising, graphic design and publishing industries.
RMIT Design Archives, Special Issue: Commercial Art Journal, no. 2 (2018), vol. 8: 56-63.
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The interplay of [in]visibility,
Design and Culture. No. 3 (Sep 2018), vol. 10: 323-335.
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Plotting the historical pipeline of women in graphic design.
Design History Australia Research Network (DHARN), (2017).
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Conference papers

Student-centric reflections: A discussion of reflexive practice factors.
The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 29 November - 1 December 2023, London, United Kingdom.
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Processes that cause invisibility for women in Australian graphic design
Proceedings of DRS 2020 International Conference, Vol. 2 'Impacts', 11-14 August 2020 (virtual), pp. 494-512.
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The paradoxical comfort zone: An investigation into how students and professional women in Australian graphic design experience [in]visibility.
Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference (ACUADS), 27-28 September 2018.
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#afFEMation – Demonstrating a framework for gender equitable histories
Prato Conference, 25-27 October 2017.
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Ruby and Eirene: a speculative history of Australia’s first women in graphic design
Australian Historical Association Conference, 3 -7 July 2017.

Anonymity: measuring the visibility of women in design awards
Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), 28-29 September 2017.
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Book chapters

Speculative Postcards. Create design fictions to point to unrealised pasts or envision different worlds' in Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon. Ed. Aggie Toppins, Bloomsbury, (2024).

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EKH - Anna Eymont (1948), Myriam Kin-Yee (1950), and Alison Hulett (1953) in Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon. Ed. Elizabeth Resnik, Bloomsbury, slated to be published (2025).

Commentary

How to Skew a Referendum Through Design.
mavens, September 26, 2023..
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Friday essay: I looked at 100 ads for menstrual products spanning 100 years - shame and secrecy prevailed.
The Conversation, 19 March 2021.
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Dealing with bloody taboos in advertising.
The Age, March 1, 2021, p. 23.
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Design and Reinvention in ‘The Minds Eye’.
Ligature Journal, 30 September 2020.
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Invisible women in graphic design.
The Design Writer, 27 January 2020.
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The invisible women of Australian graphic design.
Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture, 17 October 2019.
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Change. Word-Form, 2019.
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Lets redress gender imbalance in Australia Day honours.
Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 2019.
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Hidden women of history: Ruby Lindsay, one of Australia’s first female graphic designers.
The Conversation, 16 January 2019.
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Invisible women in Australian Graphic Design.
Eye Magazine, 4 July 2018.
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The NYC graphic design geek tour.
The Design Writer, 10 July 2017.
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