'It's Not Easy', comic strip about racism.
Gillian Crampton Smith is a British designer, and well-known for her work in the development of human-computer interaction. She studied Philosophy and then Art History at Cambridge University, after which she worked as a typographer and graphic designer for books, magazines and the Sunday Times newspaper throughout the 1970s. She wrote and designed teaching materials on social topics for secondary schools, that included the comic series 'Longman Think', which she made with Sarah Curtis. Smith and Curtis dealt with subjects like relationships, alcohol problems, racism, gender roles and family planning. Among their stories are 'Don't Rush me', a family planning comic strip published by Wandsworth Council for Community Relations, and the FPA sex education comic 'Too great a risk'.
From the 1980s, Smith made her mark in the field of interaction design, and is a prominent lecturer on the subject. She developed one of the first desktop publishing applications in 1981, and was later Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Related Design at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Director of the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.