Prof. Lucienne Roberts

since 2022 Professor of Communication Design (focus: Editorial Design) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

since 2021 Honorary Fellow, International Society of Typographic Designers

2019–2023 External Examiner, BA and MA Communication Design, NCAD Dublin, Ireland

2019–2022 External Examiner, BA Communication Design, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

2018–2021 Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, University of Southampton, UK

2014–2017 Visiting Fellow, Graphic Communication Design CSM, University of the Arts London, UK

since 2013 Member, Alliance Graphique Internationale

2012 Co-founder, GraphicDesign&, London – A pioneering publishing and curatorial venture dedicated to creating intelligent, vivid projects that demonstrate how graphic design connects with all other things.

2006 Founder and director, LucienneRoberts+, London – An established design studio specialising in exhibition, print and digital design for the cultural, education, arts and voluntary sectors.

1993 Birkbeck College, University of London, English Literature, BA (Hons)

1986 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Graphic Design, BA (Hons)

Influenced as much by feminism as Swiss typography, Lucienne graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins with a utopian zeal that has never left her. Lucienne studied at drama school, art school and is a University of London English Literature graduate – little wonder then that she is particularly interested in word-based design and the integration of 2- and 3-d.

As professor of ABK Stuttgart’s communication design department she advocates for change – challenging definitions of the field, encouraging a cross-disciplinary approach, vigilant about the role of the design in the wider world. ‘Designing communication is multi-skilled and can encompass many things‘, she says. ‘Our work delights, informs, persuades. It’s used by everyone. It can make people feel differently and behave differently – that’s why I believe it to be important.‘

Likewise she prizes flexibility highly, originating projects that maximise the varied and diverse interests and skills each student brings. Klasse Roberts outputs are as likely to be clothes as books, videos as murals – installations, type-design, coding, illustration, animation – all are possible – all grounded in research, ideation and a desire to make the world a better place.