Paul Bailey in conversation with Bricks from the Kiln for the Walker Art Centre

Head on over to the Gradient blog at the Walker Art Center and have a read of a recent conversation between MAGMD course leader, Paul Bailey and Andrew…

Head on over to the Gradient blog at the Walker Art Center and have a read of a recent conversation between MAGMD course leader, Paul Bailey and Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart of Bricks from the Kiln / Traven T. Croves. The conversation picks up from discussions that took place during the Guest Practitioner Series at LCC, which intends to discuss the role of criticality in/through/across contemporary design practices.

Many thanks to Ryan Gerald Nelson at the Walker Art Centre.

Events, Projects

Designing Writing – An Editosensorial Event

Join MA GMD tutors — Sophie Demay and Paul Bailey — and participants at Designing Writing, 1-4 June, ECAL, Switzerland. Designing Writing is an editosensorial event at the crossroads…

Join MA GMD tutors — Sophie Demay and Paul Bailey — and participants at Designing Writing, 1-4 June, ECAL, Switzerland.

Designing Writing

is an editosensorial event at the crossroads of graphic design & literature and publishing & poetry

is three days of conversations & propositions and production & distribution bringing together anthropologists, artists, authors, curators, graphic designers, historians, theorists, type designers, poets and publishers — voices speaking from the past or the present, both dead and alive

is part of the eponymous ECAL research programme, investigating forms and modalities of writing to come

is Reading at the ECAL Library with Fabrice Mabime

is Assembling at the ECAL Printshop with Alexis Hominal, Simon Mager, Roman Seban

is Liberating with Izet Sheshivari

is Meditating at secret locations, secret schedule with Åbäke, Félicia Atkinson, Olivier Lebrun, Alice Vodoz & Eilean Friis-Lund

is Talking at the IKEA Auditorium
Sara De Bondt, Julia Born, Thierry Chancogne, Marcelline Delbecq, Pierre Déléage, Sophie Demay/Paul Bailey, Craig Dworkin, Christophe Jacquet, Christian Joschke, Robert Lzicar, Louis Lüthi, Philippe Millot, John Morgan, Camille Pageard, Muriel Pic, Manuel Raeder, François Rappo, Joanna Schaffer & Vincent Sahli

is Meeting at the Gallery l’elac
<o> future <o>, Boabooks, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Cent Pages, Dent-De-Leone, Eastside Projects, Four Corners Books, Héros-Limite, Information as Material, Éditions Macula, Éditions Mix., Occasional Papers, OEI, Onomatopee, Paraguay Press, Presses du Réel, Primary Information, Rollo Press, Roma Publications, Section 7 Books, Shelter Press, Spector Books, Triest Verlag, Tombolo Presses, Ugly Duckling Presse

is a project proposed by Alexandru Balgiu
@designingwriting

Schedule and more information:
www.designingwriting.com

ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne
5, avenue du Temple
1020 Renens, Switzerland
www.ecal.ch

Events

Something or Other — Tobias Revell

We are very pleased to welcome Tobias Revell to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 31 May, 4.30pm, Lecture Theatre A. What’s It Doing? Tobias Revell’s current…

We are very pleased to welcome Tobias Revell to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 31 May, 4.30pm, Lecture Theatre A.

What’s It Doing?

Tobias Revell’s current work addresses human strategies for rhetoric with the machine world; the way we create and recycle metaphors from pop culture and the occult to make sense of black boxed and illegible technologies. As machines become more autonomous and intelligent, their impressions of reality are beginning to reshape it and we are struggling to cognitively bridge this gap. This lecture will give a brief overview of cultural strategies, contemporary approaches and rationale as well as potential futures.

Tobias Revell is an artist and designer from London. He’s Course Director for MA Interaction Design Communication at LCC and a founding member of research consultancy Strange Telemetry. He is one half of Haunted Machines, a research and curatorial project curating this Impakt Festival 2017 in Utrecht, NL. He is undertaking a PhD in the Design Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He lectures and exhibits internationally, and has recently appeared at Science Gallery, STUK, STRP, Fiber festival, Improving Reality, FutureEverything, Web Directions Sydney, Transmediale and Lift. He is a PhD candidate in design at Goldsmiths.

tobiasrevell.com

Events, Projects

Something or Other — David Rudnick

We are very pleased to welcome David Rudnick to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 24 May, 4.30pm, Lecture Theatre C. David Rudnick is a British-born,…

We are very pleased to welcome David Rudnick to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 24 May, 4.30pm, Lecture Theatre C.

David Rudnick is a British-born, American-educated, self-taught graphic designer. Since graduating from Yale in 2009 with a degree in Art History, he has explored his relationship to visual communication, language and memory through type design, printed matter, video and web design. He works frequently with musicians, having design artwork for over 100 records including releases for Evian Christ, Erol Alkan, Optimo, and Clouds, and has worked with artists including Jon Rafman, Megan Rooney, and Roman Liska on exhibition materials, and has designed books for Sternberg Press, Goldsmiths College. In 2014 Rudnick was commissioned along with Raf Rennie to provide the design for the Serpentine Gallery’s Extinction Marathon, curated by Hans–Ulrich Obrist, and in 2015 produced “The Trance War: Archives and Documentation (1998–Ongoing), an exhibition with Evian Christ at the ICA London, which publically explored the visual history and ephemera of the fictional cultural conflict. His practice, and his talk, explore his relationship to visual culture, his concerns with the design industry and its discourse, his thoughts on Cinema, Chef’s Table, and the social implications of design’s relationship to its audience.

Events

International Conference on Architectural Communication

Carlos Romo Melgar (MA GMD FT), creative director of Cuarto: Architecture Playground is taking part this Wednesday, 16 May, in the International Conference on Architectural Communication in ETSA…

Carlos Romo Melgar (MA GMD FT), creative director of Cuarto: Architecture Playground is taking part this Wednesday, 16 May, in the International Conference on Architectural Communication in ETSA Madrid. His participation will take place at the round table “Informational MediActions”, where he will discuss the contexts for architectural publications with Ter, Píkara Magazine and MAIO Architects.

Tune in here to follow the discussion.

Announcements, Events, Projects

Something or Other — Nina Paim

We are very pleased to welcome Nina Paim to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 17 May, 5pm, Lecture Theatre B. Learning from Niggli: thoughts on…

We are very pleased to welcome Nina Paim to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 17 May, 5pm, Lecture Theatre B.

Learning from Niggli: thoughts on design publishing
Nowadays the field of design publishing seems to be increasingly binary. On one side are the big giants seizing the market on a global scale — and on the other the independent publishers, largely dependent on cultural funding. But what exactly is there in the middle? And how has the field of design publishing evolved in the past decades? By investigating the case of a single publishing house, this presentation will be an exercise in metonymy. We will look at Verlag Arthur Niggli, a publisher which is nowadays mostly remembered for a series of — very successful — typography and design manuals, but with an overall backlist that remains largely unknown. From a prehistory dating back to a printer-publisher during Switzerland’s ‘Golden Age’ of publishing, via the energy and struggles of the post-war, the internationalisation of the 1980s and finally today’s imperative of amalgamation, Niggli’s trajectory encapsulates many developments that affected the field of publishing in general.

Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, researcher, curator, and educator living and working in Switzerland. Her work usually involves many others and revolves around notions of directing, supporting, and collaborating. As a researcher, Paim is interested in brushing the history of design “against the grain”, looking into blind spots and unexplored narratives. After a detour into economics and philosophy, Nina studied graphic design at Esdi (BR) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL). Her bachelor project was the “Escola Aberta”, a temporary and free-of-charge design school, which took place in Rio de Janeiro in August 2012. In 2014, Paim curated the exhibition “Taking a Line for a Walk” at the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, which dealt with the subject of assignments in design education, and for which she was awarded a Swiss Design Awards in 2015. In 2017, Paim concluded her MA in design research at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH), investigating the history and publishing strategies of Verlag Arthur Niggli.

Announcements, Events, Projects

Something or Other — Kenneth Goldsmith

We are very pleased to welcome Kenneth Goldsmith to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 10 May, 4.30-5.30pm, Lecture Theatre B. What The Internet Can’t Do…

We are very pleased to welcome Kenneth Goldsmith to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 10 May, 4.30-5.30pm, Lecture Theatre B.

What The Internet Can’t Do

In a time when the web can do so much, perhaps it’s what it can’t do which becomes more valuable. In a material return of the repressed, we’re now swamped with more gorgeous physical artifacts than ever. Yet the irony is that most of our physical production is enabled by the web and its systems. This talk will focus on the challenges that face cultural producers in the digital age and explore our intriguingly codependent relationship to the web.

Kenneth Goldsmith is the author and editor of over twenty books. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania. In May 2011, he was invited to read at President Obama’s “A Celebration of American Poetry” at The White House, where he also held a poetry workshop with First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2013, he was named as the inaugural Poet Laureate of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His most recent book is “Wasting Time on the Internet,” a meditation on digital culture.

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith

Events, Projects

With a Shift — review on Design Observer

MAGMD part-time participants, Gabriela Matuszyk and Katie Evans review With a Shift Simultaneous Realities Collide for the Design Observer. Extract: With a Shift Simultaneous Realities Collide reiterates the need…

MAGMD part-time participants, Gabriela Matuszyk and Katie Evans review With a Shift Simultaneous Realities Collide for the Design Observer.

Extract:

With a Shift Simultaneous Realities Collide reiterates the need in design pedagogy to constantly question educational methodologies against emerging modes of communication. It is crucial that assumptions are questioned, ways of teaching examined and new strategies discovered and tested. Using multi-modal techniques as  a tool to create new narratives, whether it’s editing, transcribing, publishing or archiving, will implicitly lead to a needed diversification. Writing is often portrayed as a solitary process, however adopting it as a design practice introduces new capacities to this evolving role. By writing, listening, seeing and questioning, we can continue to critically cultivate and develop a working understanding that challenges the particularities and complexities of contemporary culture through design.

The full review is available to read here

Announcements, Events

Work in Progress Show 2017

We are proud to invite you to Work in Progress Show 2017. We look forward to sharing current and emergent research trajectories from our full-time and part-time year two…

We are proud to invite you to Work in Progress Show 2017.

We look forward to sharing current and emergent research trajectories from our full-time and part-time year two participants on the MA Graphic Media Design course.

Private View: 03 May, 6-9pm
Exhibition: 04 May, 10am-6pm
London College of Communication

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Announcements, Events

Something or Other series — Sinead Evans

We are very pleased to welcome Sinead Evans to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 26 April, 5.30-6.30pm, Lecture Theatre B. Design Practice is a Terraforming…

We are very pleased to welcome Sinead Evans to the Something or Other series on ‘Uncertainty’ on Wednesday 26 April, 5.30-6.30pm, Lecture Theatre B.

Design Practice is a Terraforming Tool: how critical discussion can shape the what, why and how we make.

Not seeing anything intelligible is the new normal
Hito Steyerl, 2016.

We are teetering on the precipice of apocalypse – or so it seems when scanning the headlines every morning. There is a fractured chasm between us and the few people in the world who hold economic, environmental and political power – and yet the wealth of images narrating global events push our faces up against the glass of the screen and we have never felt closer.

How do we build an approach to practice in what feels to be an ever precarious global situation?

First looking at the discipline of illustration and finding it wanting, this talk will discuss the political motivations for the production of Limner Journal. Sinead will then present her own research projects exploring the visual vocabulary of the Anthropocene, our changing relationship to nature and the importance of critical reinterpretation of local landscape in pursuit of ecological citizenship.