Designing the Reconcile Journal logo was intuitive and quick. Within an hour, I had the sketches I needed to make it real. Today's digest takes you through a brief visual tour of this sketchbook, exploring the elements of our design identity and how important it is to our research methodology. You’ll see from the handwritten notes above that it is slightly personal. The venn diagram visualises my professional expertise that fuels the Journal, and the vessel it is in represents the wider context: what I hope to be a collective imagining of social justice.

To be honest, from the first few Reconcile Journal posts, you have probably already seen that our research communication approach is slightly different. Part of this project is undoing anything that was previously assumed as the ‘norm’ - this is a fundamental part of the ‘decolonisation’ work institutions have been threatening to do over the past 10 years. We have to build new ways of doing things. So here, research design and visual design are closely related. The cultural context you have becomes cultural capital, so research can be digested with ease. The knowledge created is the start, not the end, of our conversations (which is the part I am most excited by).