Published writing
Ball, N. (2026) ‘Turning Revolt into Style: The Process and Practice of Punk Graphic Design’, Punk & Post-Punk, 15 (1), pp.131–133.
Ball, N. (2026) ‘Suffolk’s poster maestro‘, Eye blog, 29 May 2026.
Ball, N. (2026) ‘Walking To Observe’, in Dyer, J. and Deakin, N (eds), Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops: The Way We Attend To Things, Set Margins, pp.164–166.
Ball, N. (2025) ‘Voice at the table‘, Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, 28 (109), pp.16-17
Ball, N. (2024) ‘Definitive enough for now‘, Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, 27 (106), pp.119.
Ball, N. (2023) ‘For the love of creative education‘, Ipswich.Love, 24 September 2023.
Ball, N. (2023) ‘Patriotic rubbish’, Eye blog, 22 May 2023.
Ball, N. (2022) ‘Reader Recommends: How To Be An Artist‘, Unit Editions Features, 19 January 2022
Ball, N. (2020) ‘Virtually speaking’, Eye blog, 24 June 2020.
Ball, N. (2020) ‘A lockdown reading list’, Unit Editions Features, 15 April 2020.
Ball, N. (2020) ‘The Graphic Design Process: How to be Successful in Design School‘, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 19 (1), pp.119–121.
Ambrose, G. Ball, N. and Harris, P. (2019) The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, second edition, Bloomsbury.
Ball, N. (2019) The Aesthetics of Convenience, Field Readings.
Ball, N. (2019) ‘The People’s History Museum‘, Mainly Museums.
Ball, N. (2018) ‘Ending the war on wildlife’, Eye blog, 24 October 2018.
Ball, N. (2017) Proposing the Graphic Commons, Field Readings.
Ball, N. (2016) ‘Survival guide’, Eye blog, 17 November 2016.
Ball, N. (2016) Graphic Interruptions, Dubdog.
Ball, N. (2016) ‘Gutter press’, Eye blog, 21 January 2016.
Ball, N. (2015) ‘Graphic language’, EngLangBlog, 26 August 2015.
Ball, N. (2014) ‘Design for life’, Eye blog, 28 February 2014.
Ball, N. (2013) ‘Back when the future looked bright‘, Eye blog, 25 January 2013.
Ball, N. (2011) McJunk, Dubdog.
Published interviews and contributions
Servi, L. (2024) The City Is Ours #6: Involuntary Sculptures Other Editions.
House of Common Affairs. (2023) ‘Architecture Fringe Festival 2023, CGI Fridays: urban identities through the lens of urban and graphic design’, in: Minelgaite, P and Syrek, I (ed) (2023) House of Common Affairs 3: Preventing the next blandemic. House of Common Affairs.
Suffolk Archives. (2022) ‘Transforming the archives service for the 21st century‘, Suffolk Archives, 19 November 2022.
BBC Radio Suffolk. (2022) ‘The Sarah Lilley Show’, BBC Radio Suffolk, 22 October 2022. (Offline)
Clayton, D. (2022) ‘Still swimming against the mainstream’, Media Magazine 81.
Clayton, D. (2022) ‘Swimming against the mainstream’, Media Magazine 80.
BBC Radio Suffolk. (2019) ‘Tuesday takeover with Jon Wright, Angela and the Unicorners’, BBC Radio Suffolk, 22 October 2019. (Offline)
Creative Review and Dropbox. (2018) ‘Creative Collaboration, a report‘ Creative Review.
Stevens, R. (2013) ‘Bridging the gap‘, Creative Review, 31 August 2013.
Ecob, A. (2011) ‘I’m leaving it’, Eye blog, 21 June 2011.
Eatock, D. (2008) Imprint, Princeton Architectural Press.
Archived writing
2013–present Eye author profile
2012–2016 Dubdog on WordPress
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