Christopher Murphy

Christopher Murphy, is a British writer, designer and educator, who has worked as part of the digital arts collective Fehler, along with artists Christophe Behrens and Otaku Yakuza.

Design work Fehler's works in various analogue and digital media have been featured in the design anthologies Radical Album Cover Art: Sampler 3 ; and CD Art: Innovation in CD Packaging Design . His work, on his own and as part of Fehler, has been exhibited in MUTEK in Montreal, Argos Centre for Art and Media in Brussels; Sintesi in Naples; Up Close in Malta; and at Lovebytes in Sheffield.

In addition to creating works as part of Fehler for Absolut Vodka Murphy produced work for independent labels including Fällt, BiP-HOp, 1,024 and Bremsstrahlung Recordings. His work for Bremsstrahlung Recordings, a homage to the System 6 operating system of the Macintosh, was featured in the book The Cult of Mac.

Murphy was a senior lecturer in interaction design at the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, the author and co-author of six books and a regular conference speaker, and has spoken in several countries on the topic of multidisciplinary approaches to design.

Adrian Shaughnessy, writing in Creative Review, described Fehler as, "...a William Morris for the digital age."

Published work As author: The Design by Committee, Northern Ireland Design Alliance, 2012.

As co-author: HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas' Approach, friends of ED, 2009. Glitch: Designing Imperfection, Mark Batty Publisher, 2009. The Craft of Words - Part One: Macrocopy, Five Simple Steps, 2013. The Craft of Words - Part Two: Microcopy, Five Simple Steps, 2013.

As contributor: Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: The Web Evolved, Apress, 2012.