Events

In Search of… Irregulars 

In Search of… Irregulars Design in Perspective — Wednesday 28th February 2018 — PERSON John Morgan Studio A studio visit of graphic designer John Morgan, Adrien Vasquez and…

In Search of… Irregulars
Design in Perspective

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Wednesday 28th February 2018

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PERSON
John Morgan Studio
A studio visit of graphic designer John Morgan, Adrien Vasquez and the whole team, to discuss the “Four Corner Books” series as a starting point to understand John’s practice.

OBJECT/S
Forensic design club #3
@ British Museum
— Fond du Lac (Bottom of the Lake), Christian Patterson
— Cannon magazine I, Phil Baber
— SCARTI, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
— Malick Sidibé: Chemises, Jérôme Sother
— Before Contingency After the Fact, Gabriel Kuri

PLACE
Sir John Soane’s Museum
A visit of the complex and intricate former home/library/drawing room/museum of English architect Sir John Soane.

FURTHER READING

On John Morgan’s work
Designboom
This is paper
It’s nice that

Four Corner Series

Abyme type foundry

On Sir John Soane:
BBC
New identity

Forensic design club #3

Fond du Lac (Bottom of the Lake), Christian Patterson
Cannon magazine I, Phil Baber
SCARTI, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Malick Sidibé: Chemises, Jérôme Sother
Before Contingency After the Fact, Gabriel Kuri

Events

In Search of… Storytellers

In Search of… Storytellers Design in Perspective — Wednesday 7th February 2018 — PLACE Aby Warburg Institute A morning spent at the Institute, with an introduction by Nessa…

In Search of… Storytellers
Design in Perspective

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Wednesday 7th February 2018

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PLACE
Aby Warburg Institute
A morning spent at the Institute, with an introduction by Nessa Malone, librarian, and a conversation about his Mnemosyne Atlas, with Claudia Wedepohl, archivist.

PERSON
Marguerite Humeau
— An image hunt in the Aby Warburg Institute set by Marguerite based on myths and rituals an an introduction to her practice. (key words: embalming / eternal life / elixirs / cleopatra / taweret / mummified / black mamba)
— A visit to Tate Britain’s Echoes a solo show by Marguerite Humeau

OBJECT/S
Forensic design club #2

On Storrytelling
— Commentaries, Chris Marker
— Ways of seeing, John Berger
— Associations, John Smith
— A – Z / A = Z ( s. Identität), Lina Grumm

FURTHER READING

— Ways of seeing by John Berger (First episode)
— Chris Marker, La Jetée (film)
— Marguerite Humeau: Echoes, exhibition at Tate Britain
— Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas:
Study of a few panels or videos about the Atlas
— Arrangement of the Library
Full details from the broadest headings to the contents of each shelves
— Iconographic database: over 30 000 images online

Events

In Search of… Re-enactment

In Search of… Re-enactment Design in Perspective — Thursday 1 February 2018 — PERSON Studio Daly Lyon A meeting with Wayne Daly to discuss The Medium Is the…

In Search of… Re-enactment
Design in Perspective

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Thursday 1 February 2018

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PERSON

Studio Daly Lyon
A meeting with Wayne Daly to discuss The Medium Is the Massage and The Age of Earthquakes as a starting point for a conversation about his practice.

OBJECT/S

Prompts for forensic review:

Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Voyeur, Hans Peter Feldman
The Girl Chewing Gum, John Smith
The Third Memory, Pierre Huyge
Boa Boom Dia

PLACE

Flat Time House
A conversation with Gareth Bell-Jones to discuss how he activates the house and invites young artists to think of the event based nature of the house.

FURTHER

Radim Pesko, RP foundry

Union Typeface

Nightswimming, by Giovanna Silva

Zak Kyes (Zak Group)

Ryan Gander
Gallery / School

Cedric Price

Price’s Fun Palace

Ben Cain

WYSING Arts Center (Cambridge)

Raven Row (Alex Sainsbury)

John Smith (RCA show curated by Gareth)

Laure Prouvost
(Turner Prize winner who used to be Latham’s assistant)

John Latham’s Publication

Events

Paul Bailey — Graphic Address

MAGMD course leader, Paul Bailey, will present ‘Thinking in public, together’ as part of Graphic Address lecture series at Loughborough University, Wed 21 February 2018.

Events, Projects

MAGMD Celebrates…

Many thanks to all that joined us for the MAGMD Graduate Show earlier in the month. We wish this talented bunch of critical, thoughtful participants the very best as…

Many thanks to all that joined us for the MAGMD Graduate Show earlier in the month. We wish this talented bunch of critical, thoughtful participants the very best as they move onwards with their practice/s.

A summary of the participants research is available to read/view via our MAGMD website.

Exhibition design and co-ordination by Surman Weston with Sophie Demay and MAGMD participants.

Projects

MAGMD Investigates…

2018 commences with a series of workshops led by our course friends and correspondents. Departing from the broad, but theme, topic ‘leakage’, our workshop leaders will challenge the MAGMD participants to…

Ruben Pater will lead with a focus on design as a form of investigative journalism.

David Benque will lead with a focus on critical and speculative practices.

FRAUD (FRan Gallardo + AUDrey Samson) will lead with a focus on deconstructing networked materiality.

Marwan Kaabour will lead with a focus on design, politics and the role of language (visual and verbals worlds).

More to follow in the new year, as we aim to publish the outcomes of the workshops in the coming months.

Image: Ruben Pater

Announcements

MAGMD Collaborates…

In the new year, we look forward to working with the Design Council and our colleagues from the Design School at LCC to explore the challenge “Ageing Well” – to…

In the new year, we look forward to working with the Design Council and our colleagues from the Design School at LCC to explore the challenge “Ageing Well” – to respond to the urgent pressure to find innovative strategiesÂ that better support the health, social and economic wellbeing of people in later life.

Also, a number of our MAGMD graduates are set to work with the British Pavillon as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 with the support of the Steward-Research Scholarship. Participants in the programme will have the opportunity to conduct research relevant to the the theme, Freespace, established by the curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

Announcements

Supra Systems Studio Launches…

We’re excited to announce the launch of Supra Systems Studio – interrogating and materializing the politics of networked technologies through design practice, projects, and teaching. Hosted by the…

We’re excited to announce the launch of Supra Systems Studio – interrogating and materializing the politics of networked technologies through design practice, projects, and teaching.

Hosted by the Design School, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Georgina Voss, Tobias Revell, Dr. Eva Verhoeven.

Members: Dr. Georgina Voss, Tobias Revell, Dr. Eva Verhoeven, John Fass, Wesley Goatley, Joel Karamath, Oliver Smith and Paul Bailey.

Events, Projects

A Line Which Forms A Volume

WHEN Wednesday 6 December, 7 – 8.30pm Lecture Theatre A London College of Communication Bookings MA Graphic Media Design invites you to join us for A Line Which Forms a Volume.…

WHEN
Wednesday 6 December, 7 – 8.30pm
Lecture Theatre A
London College of Communication

Bookings

MA Graphic Media Design invites you to join us for A Line Which Forms a Volume. The symposium will launch the first edition of a critical reader of graphic design-led research that is edited, written, designed and published by MAGMD course participants.

We are excited to welcome guest speakers Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and Jack Self, whose work has informed participants’ lines of inquiry. Alongside them, a select number of graduating participants, who have contributed to this edition, will present abstracts from their research. Further guests to be announced shortly.

A Line Which Forms a Volume takes its name from a subheading in the 1996 essay ‘The Book as Object’, written by Michel Butor. In this text, Butor writes that threads of thought and speech must be set into lines, lines divided into columns, and columns stacked along a third axis of depth to form a volume. The notion of ‘volume’ as a publication, as well as the space that something occupies and as a quality of something audible, lends itself to the endeavour of A Line Which Forms a Volume to make graphic design research public.

A Line Which Forms a Volume is just one strand in a larger graphic design research narrative that has been drawn from the MAGMD course. A Line Which Forms a Volume is curious, evolving and current, and aims to thread the research of participants into the wider contexts of design criticism and publishing.

The symposium is part of LCC Postgraduate Shows 2017: Show 2, exhibiting 6-9 December. For more information, please see the LCC events page.

With great thanks to Bryony Quinn (editorial advisor), Wayne Daly and Claire Lyon, Daly-Lyon (design advisors).

Events

MAGMD Postgraduate Show 2017

LAUNCH EVENT Tuesday 5 December, 6 – 9pm RSVP OPENINGS 6 – 9 December 2017 Monday – Friday: 11am – 7pm Saturday: 11am – 4pm Sunday: Closed The MAGMD course…

LAUNCH EVENT
Tuesday 5 December, 6 – 9pm

RSVP

OPENINGS
6 – 9 December 2017
Monday – Friday: 11am – 7pm
Saturday: 11am – 4pm
Sunday: Closed

The MAGMD course invites you to explore the use of graphic design as a critical tool that probes the particularities and complexities of contemporary culture in an informed, expansive and progressive manner. The graduates are keen to share the findings and insights they have established through intensive and original design-oriented research — taking on subjects concerned with labour, eugenics, politics, language, identity and other prevailing topics that speak of our present and future times.

Hope to see you there.