xr [extended reality] research group

Jonny has worked for over 20 years in the design industry, working for a broad range of studios, including being a director at dust c.2005. His commercial activities involve working for a number of high-profile clients, including UEFA, The Royal Mail and The University of Sheffield, The Science Museum and RIBA. For the past 11 years Jonny has been Owner and Creative Director of Field, a strategic and creative design agency, based in Sheffield, that practices within education, museums & heritage and the arts.

Ben is an experimental media technologist who uses research methods of design and art. Their research is focused on the field of identity design including technical, social, political and aesthetic aspects of identity in digital public space. 

Ben's current research investigates identity design by looking at the themes of identity performance and digital public space through 'diffractive' methodologies of 'material-discursive agential realism'. Identity construction has long been a key element of design in typography, branding and layout. Identity construction is also key in the politics of social systems and theories of self. These perspectives help uncover the future of designing identity online and in digital systems. Ben's research includes developing prototype apps and services that explore modern fragmented identity, as well as experimental design, participatory research and art practice. They have talked about identity construction in the workplace and social spaces, following collaborative projects with partners like the BBC and international art institutions.

Ian Truelove is an educator, artist and designer whose work explores nature and reality through creative practice. His research is informed by philosophy, psychology, quantum theory, bioinformatics and art history. Ian is currently investigating the potential for using virtual and augmented reality in a creative context. Ian’s VR artworks are available through the Steam platform.

For over 20 years our Creative Directors, Jonny Briggs and Katie Daniel, have been producing print, digital, branding and spatial design that informs, inspires and engages audiences from the biggest corporate and national brands to some of the most highly respected regional organisations. 

Working alongside Jonny and Katie, Field are a team of designers, illustrators, developers and copywriters, supported by a network of creative and digital collaborators. Together we are a studio of ambitious and inquisitive minds. We are committed to producing effective, authentic design and bring that motivation to everything we do. 

We work with our clients to produce consistently exceptional results, drawing on our years of experience in the industry to produce beautiful work that enables our clients to excel in their ambitions and in their industries. We also believe that simple is almost always better. 

At Field we bring the extraordinary to the everyday.

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