Monika Parrinder is a lecturer and writer who specialises in the history of design and visual communication. She teaches at the RCA and at the London College of Communication. She has recently co-authored Limited Language: Rewriting Design – Responding to a Feedback Culture (Birkhäuser, 2010).
Monika Parrinder is co-founder, with Colin Davies, of Limited Language. This is a web-platform for the generation of writing and discussion about visual and sonic culture. This writing is manifest across both web and print media: on the web, through Limitedlanguage.org, Twitter and Facebook; and in print, in magazine articles for Eye, Blueprint, Print, ID etc. and in the recent book, Limited Language: Rewriting Design – Responding to a Feedback Culture. This book explores how a book might provide a cross-platform, feedback loop.
Limited Language is interested in the way in which processes from within visual culture – a culture of recycling, ‘mash-ups’, collaborative and hybrid media practices – can inform writing on design. Also, how one can engage with digital technology as a creative catalyst.