MA Graphic Media Design

Announcements, Events

I Shivered Violently – Book Launch

We hope to see you this Wednesday 18 September, for the launch of ‘I Shivered Violently / Don’t be Startled in the Night …’ at Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Ct,…

We hope to see you this Wednesday 18 September, for the launch of ‘I Shivered Violently / Don’t be Startled in the Night …’ at Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4HE, from 6-8pm

I Shivered Violently / Don’t Be Startled in the Night … approaches the renowned dynamic ordering and continual inventory of the Sitterwerk Foundation Kunstbibliothek (CH) as a site and a system of intrigue. In the publication, two essays track the intent of a bespoke machine, fitted with an RFID scanner, that reads the shelves of the library at the end of the day. Visitors return items to the shelves at random and so, at night, an up-to-date record — and map — of the collection is created.

The behaviour of magnets, prompted by their role in the library’s technology, guides the attention of this publication, and is the subject of the written essay by Bryony Quinn. A visual essay, by Paul Bailey, which arranges material harvested from the Sitterwerk collection and beyond, deals with the conditions and manipulations of seeing with, and through, machines.

Throughout the evening, the publication will become a prop to guide a series of live, looped, networked readings in an attempt to bring into view the poetics and possibilities of (dis)order, (il)legibility and (dis)orientation.

We hope to see you there,

Bryony Quinn / Paul Bailey

—This publication has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Sitterwerk Foundation Kunstbibliothek, London College of Communication Research Sabbatical Fund, UAL and KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest).—

Current StockistsTenderbooks (UK) Donlon Books (UK) Claire du Rouen (UK)Saint-Martin Bookshop (BE) Kunstenbibliotheek (BE)Casa Bosques (MX) Set Margins’ (NL)

Events

Bricks from the Kiln + Wax Radio

To mark the launch of the new issue of Bricks from the Kiln (co-edited by tutor Bryony Quinn, alongside Matthew Stuart, Andrew Walsh-Lister and Natalie Ferris), Wax Radio (Greenpoint, Brooklyn)…

To mark the launch of the new issue of Bricks from the Kiln (co-edited by tutor Bryony Quinn, alongside Matthew Stuart, Andrew Walsh-Lister and Natalie Ferris), Wax Radio (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) broadcast a special soundscape by regular Bricks contributor James Bulley. Fifty-four minutes of sounds, voices, readings and compositions that speak to the journal theme of translation, transmission and transposition. Eyes peeled for in-person, brick-shaped events to explore more elements of the publication, which was initiated at a symposium hosted by MA GMD way back in 2019!

LISTEN

Events, Projects

A Line Which Forms a Volume: Updates

After many delayed attempts to get on the printing press at LCC, we are so pleased to finally have A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 out in circulation. This…

After many delayed attempts to get on the printing press at LCC, we are so pleased to finally have A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 out in circulation. This volume has been the product of so much care, attention and patience by so many hands, minds and hearts. To celebrate, we would like to share an extract from the editorial text with you, along with further updates below:

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 approaches decoloniality by reflecting on the constructed borders of the design canon. We ask, what are the boundaries that graphic design exists within? The volume focuses on the possibilities of design practices to move and cross borders. Looking at the volume as a territory, ALWFAV 4 brings together contributions from Ahmed AnsariClara Balaguer, Yu Jiwon, Lucas LaRochellePaul Bailey and Tony Credland with AdaptEvening ClassHaunted Machines and Paul Elliman, and the MA GMD participants with the aim of generating new threads of inquiry. By tilting the dominant axis of direction, the publication embarks upon a journey that goes ‘out of lines’, in an attempt to share, open and expand the conversations around design research.

The contributions in this volume explore the politics of design by suggesting areas of inquiry that extend beyond the academic field. For example, how do digital images influence collective imaginaries? What is the potential of virtual environments as collective, alternative spaces for social interaction? Or how can we use design as a speculative tool to reflect on issues of climate change or resource depletion? As designers operating within an institution—therefore within the boundaries of the design canon—we acknowledge the limitations that we are presented with in the process of creating a publication. Coming from different design backgrounds, we recognise the importance of making our voices cacophonous, rather than uniform. In this sense, the publication unfolds through three sections (move, cross and tilt) to be read as thematic approaches to the contributions without a set hierarchy. We see the process of making research public as glimpses into some of the practices that further the discussion on the territories of design.

WATCH ALWAV 4 SYMPOSIUM

This edition launched with an online symposium on 25 March 2021 at London College of Communication, UAL featuring contributions from Lucas LaRochelle, Rita Buica, Clara Balaguer, Daphne TsangNina PaimCorin Eliot Gisel and Paul Bailey.

We invite you to watch a recording of the symposium, available at this link.

ALWFAV + FUTURESS

Head on over to our friends at Futuress to read Queer Dreams of an A.I.: a wonderful interview between ALWFAV 4 contributor Lucas LaRochelle and editor Riccardo Righi on counter-mapping, artificial intelligence, and queer relationality.

Across the coming months, further interviews published in ALWFAV 4 on decolonising typographic discourses with Yu Jiwon and the disruptive potential of the vernacular with Clara Balaguer will feature on Futuress.

PICK UP YOUR COPY

The publication is now available to pick up/order via the following stockists:
MagCulture, UK
The Library Project, Ireland
Tambourine, Spain
Inga, USA

A free PDF is also available to download via www.magmd.uk/alwfav-4

ALWFAV 5 (in motion)

We’re amazed to say so ourselves, but work has already begun on the fifth edition of A Line Which Forms a Volume. We are very pleased to welcome Open Practice, a partnership between Katie Evans and Gabriela Matuszyk, who will guide the MA GMD participants towards publication in December 2021. Think radical transparency, support structures and care. More soon.

Announcements

Clive Baillie Scholarship

We are very pleased to share the Clive Baillie Scholarship, worth £5,000. This award is available to one UK or International participant joining the MA Graphic Media Design…

We are very pleased to share the Clive Baillie Scholarship, worth £5,000. This award is available to one UK or International participant joining the MA Graphic Media Design course in October 2021.

Application deadline: Friday 25 June

Clive Baillie is a founding partner and CEO of BLT Communications, one of Los Angeles’ leading creative agencies specialising in entertainment marketing.  Baillie graduated from the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts (now London College of Communication) with a BA in Graphic Media Design in 1977.

Baillie is passionate about playing a broader advocacy role in the arts and education, in particular the nurturing of creative talent. In 2015 he launched the Clive Baillie Scholarship for Graphic Design.

The scholarship will be assessed on the basis of financial need and academic merit. It will provide a contribution towards living expenses and course costs for the first year of the course.

Applications are welcome from those who are in financial hardship and those who will benefit from postgraduate studies to realise their full potential.

Full details of the application and selection process available here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/fees-and-funding/scholarships-search/clive-baillie-scholarship-for-ma-graphic-media-design

 

Events

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 Launch

MA Graphic Media Design [MA GMD] invites you to join us for the launch of A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 [ALWFAV 4]. Thu, March 25, 2021 18.00-20.00 GMT ORDER…

MA Graphic Media Design [MA GMD] invites you to join us for the launch of A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 [ALWFAV 4].

Thu, March 25, 2021
18.00-20.00 GMT

ORDER YOUR TICKETS

The symposium, hosted by London College of Communication, will present a critical reader of graphic design-led research that is authored, edited, designed and published by MA GMD course participants with guest contributors.

ALWFAV 4 will approach decoloniality by reflecting on the constructed borders of the design canon. We ask, what are the boundaries that graphic design exists within? The issue focuses on the possibilities of design practices to tilt, move and cross borders.

Looking at the volume as a territory, ALWFAV 4 brings together contributions from Ahmed AnsariClara Balaguer, Yu Jiwon, Lucas LaRochellePaul Bailey and Tony Credland with AdaptEvening ClassHaunted Machines and Paul Elliman, and the MA GMD participants with the aim of generating new threads of inquiry. By tilting the dominant axis of direction, the publication takes on a journey that goes out of lines, in an attempt to share, open, expand the conversations around design research.

As designers graduating from an institution, but coming from different backgrounds, we recognise the importance of making our voices cacophonous, rather than uniform. In this sense, the publication unfolds through three sections (tilt, move and cross) to be read as thematic approaches to the contributions without a set hierarchy. The symposium will follow this editorial line too.

TILT

Glimmering Opacities: From Queering The Map to QT.bot
Lucas LaRochelle

How might we queer the supposed ‘objectivity’ of artificial intelligence by reveling in its incoherencies, and in turn imagine new worlds through this oblique lens? What is the role of fabulation in the marginalized archive? This talk will explore the genesis of QT.bot – an AI trained on the textual and visual data of the community-generated counter-mapping platform Queering The Map – that generates speculative queer and trans futures and the environments in which they occur. In collaboration with the voices of their human community, QT.bot fabulates on the absences of the archive, orienting us away from what is, and towards what could be.

Making Ignorance Great Again (An Open Letter)
Rita Buica

We live in an age of ignorance.

Make Ignorance Great Again (An Open Letter) delves into forms of ignorance surrounding the climate conversation by considering the notion of climate misinformation and denialism. In this piece, the designer addresses directly the climate denier through an open letter that expresses deep concern and curiosity regarding the concept of climate ignorance. Make Ignorance Great Again (An Open Letter) is a call for attention in the realm of climate change that uses exaggeration as a tool and seeks to challenge the role of the designer in unexpected ways.

Can we make ignorance great again?

MOVE

The Fleshy Nature of the Body Public
Clara Balaguer

A fragmented set of observations that condense three years of collective/solitary rumination on the idea of the body public. By (actively) dissecting the published body into five parts—face (cover), circulation, spine, guts, and feet—the coauthor attempts to understand how each limb/organ/system functions in relation to/in isolation from the whole. This rumination will be woven with personal interludes around the coauthor’s state of mind (and other activities) as a recent migrant from a tropical periphery to a center of colonial capital. The personal is indivisible from the body public, as mind and body are not isolated from each other but rather entangled by experience into something describable as flesh.

Cultural Identities as Backdrops, as Props
Daphne Tsang

Cultural Identities as Backdrops, as Props will explore the hidden techno-orientalisation of Hong Kong’s cultural identity in the miss-en-scène of Blade Runner (1982), Ghost in the Shell (1995), and 2046 (2004) with short clips.

‘…This is not to say that Hollywood should not envision the Orient’s future; Hong Kong welcomes lending its cityscapes and signage to Hollywood. Oshii contextualises the act of techno-orientalising the former colonial city in a flawless manner. A language is not merely a prop; a cityscape is not just a backdrop.’

CROSS

 

Roundtable Discussion
with common-interest (Nina Paim, Corin Eliot Gisel), Paul Bailey and members of the ALWFAV 4 team.

The discussion will depart from a theme extracted from an interview held with the South Korean designer, writer and educator Yu Jiwon. We will discuss the notion of interlocality – as an approach to resist a single-sided reading of globalism – and how this might help us think about the acts and processes of publication.

We look forward to sharing this moment of making these thoughts, concerns and practices public together.

With great thanks to our advisors: common-interest

Please follow @MAGMDLCC for further announcements.

IMAGE CAPTIONS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

— QT.BOT – SITTING HERE WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE, LUCAS LAROCHELLE
— MAKING IGNORANCE GREAT AGAIN, RITA BUICA
— REDACTED BIG TECH PLATFORM FLIER STUDY FOR PUBLISHING AS BLOODLETTING, AN ESSAY AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLAY, ALL BY TO BE DETERMINED
— CULTURAL IDENTITIES AS BACKDROPS, AS PROPS, DAPHNE TSANG
— ROUNDTABLE IMAGE: ALWFAV TEAM

ALWFAV 4 TEAM: RHYS ATKINSON, RACHEL SO DAM JUNG, ALEX JAE EUN KIM, RICCARDO RIGHI, QI YAO, YITING ZHU

Events

from HERE to WHERE

towards FUTURES within URBAN SPACES beyond MATERIAL MATTERS approaching DIGITAL CONSTRUCTS around GENDERS overlooking CONSUMER CULTURES via SUBCULTURES encountering MINDSETS behind FEMINISMS upon IDENTITIES This year’s graduates have…

towards FUTURES
within URBAN SPACES
beyond MATERIAL MATTERS
approaching DIGITAL CONSTRUCTS
around GENDERS
overlooking CONSUMER CULTURES
via SUBCULTURES
encountering MINDSETS
behind FEMINISMS
upon IDENTITIES

This year’s graduates have conducted their research during a period of remarkable global change – a period when established understandings of time and place have been ruptured and re-scripted. Throughout, we have asked what does it mean to conduct research concerned with critical practices of graphic design at this time, at distance, through alternative platforms and revised frameworks? Essentially, we wonder, where are we situated, and where are we going?

from HERE
to WHERE

From Monday 8 February 2021, we invite you to navigate routes charted on a collective map, comprised of various stations encountered and established by the MA GMD graduates throughout their omni-directional research projects. Trace your way through individual research narratives. Allow trailers to guide you from one station to the next.

www.magmd.uk

Events

LCC Postgraduate Showcase 

LCC Postgraduate Showcase 28 January – 3 February 2021 Join us for an online presentation of research projects developed by this year’s graduates, published via UAL Graduate Showcase. This…

LCC Postgraduate Showcase
28 January – 3 February 2021

Join us for an online presentation of research projects developed by this year’s graduates, published via UAL Graduate Showcase. This repository of practice will present extracts from expansive and explorative research enquiries undertaken by the MA GMD participants.

MA GMD Postgraduate Showcase

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We are extremely proud to introduce MA GMD Class of 2019-20: a collective of resilient, thoughtful and critical practitioners striving to produce new and unlikely perspectives on, and for, the world.

This year we will celebrate the achievements of this collective, as an extended, distributed festival, comprised of presentations of practice across platforms, contexts and formats; all the while exploring what it can mean to make design research public today.

Throughout the coming months, you are invited to join us at any and all of these moments of publication and celebration. Stay tuned for further announcements in the coming days/weeks.

Announcements

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 (save the date)

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 Symposium + Launch w/c 22 March 2021 ALWFAV 4 will approach decoloniality by reflecting on the constructed borders of the design canon.…

A Line Which Forms a Volume 4
Symposium + Launch
w/c 22 March 2021

ALWFAV 4 will approach decoloniality by reflecting on the constructed borders of the design canon. We ask, what are the boundaries that graphic design exists within? The issue focuses on the possibilities of design practices to move and cross borders. Looking at the volume as a territory, ALWFAV 4 brings together contributions from Clara Balaguer, Jiwon Yu, Lucas LaRochelle and the MA GMD participants with the aim of generating new threads of inquiry. By tilting the dominant axis of direction, the publication takes on a journey that goes out of lines, in an attempt to share, open, expand the conversations around design research.

Guest advisors: common-interest, who recently launched Futuress, a queer intersectional feminist platform for design politics.

Be sure to follow @MAGMDLCC for further announcements.

Announcements

A World Where Many Worlds Meet

Each year, The Reciprocal Studio takes form through a series of commissioned collaborative workshops authored and led by guest practitioners in response to a negotiated socio-political concern of…

Each year, The Reciprocal Studio takes form through a series of commissioned collaborative workshops authored and led by guest practitioners in response to a negotiated socio-political concern of the time. Our guests and participants are invited to work with a learning and teaching model based on reciprocity — to use this period to collectively investigate and to further their own, and one another’s, knowledge through the procedures of a research-oriented graphic design practice.

For the 2021 edition, the prompt is inspired by a proposition shared by the Colombian-American anthropologist Arturo Escobar in the book Designs for the Pluriverse (2017), where he refers to the writings of the Zapatistas who work with and towards ‘Un Mundo Donde Quepan Muchos Mundos’ (a world where many worlds fit). Escobar proposes a pluriversal approach that is ‘participatory, socially-oriented, situated and open-ended, and that challenges the business as usual mode of being, producing and consuming’. We find this perspective a useful but challenging consideration for graphic design practitioner-researchers, taking in considerations of privilege, access, representation, deconstruction of the unknown, technology and mediation, visibility of practice (histories and futures) and more.

We are pleased to welcome Gemma Copeland and Sonia Turcotte from Common KnowledgeFloriane Misslin; Hannes Bernard / SulSolSal; and Silas Munro / Polymode Studio & Black Design in America

Follow the workshop progress via @MAGMDLCC

IMAGE: SCREENSHOT OF ‘MESSY RESEARCH’ UNDERWAY WITH FLORIAN MISSLIN

Announcements

On Translation, Transmission and Transposition

Back in June 2019, MA GMD hosted ‘On Translation, Transmission and Transposition’, a symposium curated by the expanded design journal, Bricks from the Kiln (BFTK). Presentations and explorations from that event shaped the…

Back in June 2019, MA GMD hosted ‘On Translation, Transmission and Transposition’, a symposium curated by the expanded design journal, Bricks from the Kiln (BFTK). Presentations and explorations from that event shaped the fourth issue of the journal, which has just been published, and was co-edited by MA GMD tutor Bryony Quinn, together with Dr Natalie Ferris, Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister. This latest issue of BFTK features detailed research and wide-ranging interpretations of translation, transmission and transposition in design and writing practices, and includes contributions from Saki Mafundikwa, Sophie Collins, Kate Briggs, Don Mee Choi, Helen Marten, James Langdon, Joyce Dixon, Maria Fusco, Phil Faber, Peter Nencini, Florian Roithmayr, J.R Carpenter, Naomi Pearce, Karen Di Franco, James Bulley, Caroline Bergvall, Rebecca Collins, Sophie Seita, Edgar Wind, Jen Calleja, and Seb McLauchlan.

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FRONT COVER IMAGE: SILICONE RUBBER FROM WACKER CHEMIE, MUNICH, APPLIED TO WORKING POSITIVE AS A CASTING COMPOUND FOR ALTAMIRA CAVE REPLICA, IN KULTUR & TECHNIK, HEFT I, 1980, VERLAG KARL THIEMIG, MUNICH, P.15

Current reading, watching, listening in the MAGMD studio

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