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Having studied philosophy and history
of art at Cambridge University, Gillian Crampton Smith graduated in
1968 and spent the following decade as a designer — first in
book publishing, then on the Sunday Times and Times Literary Supplement.
In 1981, she designed and implemented a page layout program to help
her with magazine design — an early desktop publishing application.
This experience convinced her that artists and designers have an important
role to play in creating information technologies.
She joined St Martin's School of Art in 1983 to set up a new postgraduate
course in graphic design and computers for practising designers. In
1989 she moved to the Royal College of Art (the UK's only purely graduate
school of art and design). At the RCA, she established the Computer
Related Design Department, where artists and designers apply their
traditional skills to interactive products and systems. Under her
guidance, the CRD Research Studio achieved an international reputation
as a leading centre for interaction design, supported by a wide range
of industrial sponsors and many UK and EU research projects.
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