Although students and staff in our Department work in an enormous number of ways – photography, film, video, text, paint, sound, woodblock type, print – you could say that ideas are our main medium, and that visual intelligence, thoughtfulness and playfulness are the real tools of our trade. Long past are the days when what a professional communicator did was limited to the confines of a single discipline; what’s required now is the ability to be so well-versed in a wide range of technical skills, of thinking-through-making, that the contemporary design practitioner can improvise at will.