My friend Chris Mullen, who has died aged 81, had a long and successful career in art and design education that began at Norwich School of Art in 1972. As a lecturer teaching liberal studies on a vocational design course, he developed his ideas for better integration between contextual studies and studio practice while acquiring a reputation for entertaining performances in the lecture theatre.
After moving to the University of Brighton in 1989 as a senior lecturer, Chris taught on a new MA course in narrative illustration and editorial design with John Vernon Lord and George Hardie. From 1995 until retirement in 2005 he was research supervisor on the studio-based PhD course.
