Design commission: Centre annual report 2022

25 Feb 2022

Decorative image of geometric tiles with hare and plants

Brief for commission of annual report design 2022

Timescale

Response to brief by 11^th Mar 2022. Deliverables complete by 31^st May 2022.

The context

The Centre for Research in Digital Education is a large and vibrant group based in the School of Education (University of Edinburgh). We do research on how technology and culture intersect within education, within four specific themes:

Digital cultures
Children & technology
Data society
Data education in schools

We are 20 academic staff, 3 research support staff, 4 data education project team members, more than 20 PhD students and 8 honorary scholars. We also run a large Masters programme, the MSc in Digital Education, and are developing a new MSc in Education Futures through the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

We are strongly committed to high quality design, and understand how essential this is in building, communicating and exciting the people who engage with our research. Some examples of our commitment to design can be seen here:

Our centre report is an annual (web and print) document celebrating the work of the team and recognising our international importance in the field of Digital Education.

In 2021, we commissioned Astrid Jaekel to produce new illustrations for our website. These illustrations challenged the stereotypical imagery associated with digital education (pictures of laptop keyboards, screens, young people with devices or Matrix-style binary code) instead making connections between nature and technology – not a ‘tool’ or a shiny device, but a component of the condition of 21^st century humanity, a gathering of the material resources of our planet, a live connection between nations, regions, people and things.

The defining aesthetic of the 2019-2021 reports has been geometric. In response to the illustrations created in 2021, we would like the 2022 report to integrate the nature-technology relationship.

The report

Contents
Editorial
People (short bio + 4 profiles with images)
Visual representation of key information (infographic)
Teaching (doctoral student titles)
Strand section x 4 (4 pages per strand)
Publications

Requirements

PDF/PRINT design concept for booklet 250mm x 190mm
Cover design concept & final design
Design Templates for inside pages
Infographic with 2 rough concepts & 1 final design
Layout & typesetting
2 complete rounds of corrections
Project management meetings
Deliverables (Digital PDF with URLs, Print PDF) by 31^st May 2022
Adhere to University of Edinburgh terms and conditions of purchase

Tender process

Email proposal, including example work and cost to claire.sowton@ed.ac.uk by 11^th Mar. Detail whether VAT is included in the cost specified.

Key contacts

Claire Sowton (Centre Communications Manager) claire.sowton@ed.ac.uk

Sian Bayne (Centre Director) sian.bayne@ed.ac.uk