Graphic designer 2.0

As a Studio Principal at Atelier, a design advocate with AGI and the 100 Archive and Head of the Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technology at IADT Dún Laoghaire, David Smith has plenty of reasons to contemplate how graphic and communication design is changing. He speaks to Aideen McCole about the transition from traditional practice to the realm of ‘Graphic Designer 2.0’, a term he uses to describe communication designers who adapt to a dynamic role as design practice – and the world it operates in – is changing