About


Nigel Ball is a designer, educator and writer based in Ipswich in the UK. This website serves as an online hub for his writing, and as a repository for ongoing and archived research projects.

Nigel a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Suffolk, Course Leader for its undergraduate Graphic Design courses, and an External Examiner at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written widely about graphic design, visual culture and creative education, and his research has included outputs of self-published photobooks and texts, co-curated exhibitions and public lectures.

Alongside academia and writing, Nigel takes on design consultation work dedicating his services to clients from the cultural, public and third sectors.