Positioning Practice (Issue 1) Publication Launch

Tony Credland and Vanessa Price are due to launch Positioning Practice, a new annual publication that encourages understanding of the graphic designer as researcher. Through discussion of wide-ranging…

Tony Credland and Vanessa Price are due to launch Positioning Practice, a new annual publication that encourages understanding of the graphic designer as researcher. Through discussion of wide-ranging postgraduate workshops it repositions graphic design research as a critical act of questioning and a form of cultural and visual commentary.

This first issue of Positioning Practice discusses Staging the Message, a five day collaborative workshop given by Els Kuijpers and Jan van Toorn in November 2015 at London College of Communication. The cross cultural workshop included postgraduate and PhD students from seven different nationalities with design backgrounds ranging from graphic design to moving image to branding and identity. Beginning with the central premise that design is a cultural producer of meaning Staging the Message encouraged participants to collect images in response to their self-initiated research subjects. These image collections, from primary and secondary sources, became the objects of study for subjects including: inner city regeneration, the self-portrait in the digital era, the fictional lifestyles promoted through advertising and the political and metaphorical use of the wall to separate nations.

Pick up a copy at the MA Graphic Media Design Graduate Show.

Projects

Paul Bailey contributes to Echo Project

Paul Bailey contributes to Echo Project now available to access online via http://echo-project.com/ Extract: Echo is a reverberation of an original sound after this sound has stopped or…

Paul Bailey contributes to Echo Project now available to access online via http://echo-project.com/

Extract:

Echo is a reverberation of an original sound after this sound has stopped or is in the moment of evaporating. Not a background noise, it resonates and doubles a tonality, pitch, vocation. I am thinking about the experience of echoing in a particular mountain landscape, something to do with a sound being thrown, trashed towards a wall or large rock–and returning in a ghostly and consuming fashion.

You mean to say, echo is a fabrication of a doubling and a travelling sound . . . coming into being by listening.

Project initiated by Verina Gfader and Ruth Höflich
Website designed by LCC alumna Mariana Santiago

Events

Alumni present final lecture of term

Cat Drew, Policy Lab (MA Graphic Design, part-time 2015) and Joanna Choukeir, Uscreates (MA Graphic Design, full-time 2007) to present the final Design School lecture of the term,…

Cat Drew, Policy Lab (MA Graphic Design, part-time 2015) and Joanna Choukeir, Uscreates (MA Graphic Design, full-time 2007) to present the final Design School lecture of the term, taking in subjects and practices concerned with designing with data.

Projects

Rebecca Worth recalls the Drive of Walking masterclass

Current MA Graphic Media Design (part-time) participant, Rebecca Worth recalls her time during the Drive of Walking masterclass at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands. Photos via…

Current MA Graphic Media Design (part-time) participant, Rebecca Worth recalls her time during the Drive of Walking masterclass at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands. Photos via Rebecca’s blog.

John Berger wrote, “Stories walk, like animals and men. And their steps are not only between narrated events but between each sentence, sometimes each word. Every step is a stride over something not said.” The Drive of Walking master class aimed to make each step eloquent and to chart the unseen.

The master class examined walking as a part of art practice in pragmatic, artistic and theoretical respects. The hilly landscape of South Limburg and the urban space of Maastricht (as part of the cross-border “Green Metropolis”) form a natural context for physical and mental walks. The questions of how one walks, what conditions or protocols define the walk, the form in which these are presented, what questions the participants in the master class must answer and what must be left to the public, were all relevant topics for The Drive of Walking.

The workshop was led by Yeb Wiersma and David Helbich, with guests Marcus Coates, Esther Polak, Jan Rothuizen and curator/writer Rieke Vos.

Events

Design Activism Research Hub presents Visual Impact: Liz McQuiston

Author of Graphic Agitation and Suffragettes to She-Devils, Liz McQuiston, joined us at London College of Communication on 09 November to talk about her most recent book, Visual…

Author of Graphic Agitation and Suffragettes to She-Devils, Liz McQuiston, joined us at London College of Communication on 09 November to talk about her most recent book, Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century. Liz reflected on how much of the material in the book is already disappearing and the speed at which the world landscape and politics changed while putting the content together – particularly in the case of the Arab Spring and Syria.

Tony Credland is a founding member of the Design Activism Research Hub; the group who initiated and hosted the event.

Projects

Richard Ashton designs identity for Deptford X: Fringe

Current MA Graphic Media Design (part-time) participant, Richard Ashton, designs identity for Deptford X: Fringe in collaboration with Josie Tucker. Deptford X: Fringe showcased the work of locally-based…

Current MA Graphic Media Design (part-time) participant, Richard Ashton, designs identity for Deptford X: Fringe in collaboration with Josie Tucker.

Deptford X: Fringe showcased the work of locally-based talent through an open call that invites artists to come and install work in Deptford.

Announcements

Carlos Romos Melgar launches Cuarto: Issue 2

Current MA Graphic Media Design (full-time) participant, Carlos Romos Melgar launches Cuarto, issue 2: Abnormal. Cuarto is a serial publication focused on the adjacent fields of architecture, understood as…

Current MA Graphic Media Design (full-time) participant, Carlos Romos Melgar launches Cuarto, issue 2: Abnormal.

Cuarto is a serial publication focused on the adjacent fields of architecture, understood as an open discipline that intervenes in a tangential and cross-cutting manner at many levels in the cultural scene and the way of life.

Issue 2: Abnormal studies the new ways of acting, thinking and representing architecture. In this issue we reflect about the architect’s role and how the weirdness takes part in the professional scope. We also devote time to understanding the creative use of the mistake and the hypocritical dialectics of retail architecture. These are some of the themes with which we portray a contemporary idea of abnormality in architecture.

Contributors: amid.cero9 (Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda), Manuel Benito, Eudes Bonneau-Cattier, Bureau A, Santiago Cirugeda, Francisco García Triviño, María Mallo, Anthony Morey, Ana Peñalba, Philippe Rahm, Luis Úrculo.

Further information: http://cuartomag.net/abnormal/

Events

Practices of Enquiry Exhibition

The MA Graphic Media Design course recently participated in the Practices of Enquiry exhibition, 14 -18 November, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. Field(ing) Study or the Suspension of Interpretation – a…

The MA Graphic Media Design course recently participated in the Practices of Enquiry exhibition, 14 -18 November, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.

Field(ing) Study or the Suspension of Interpretation – a collaborative project that explores the tools, strategies and politics of observational research through design – was presented amongst an excellent selection of case studies from courses across UAL. This workshop was devised and delivered by Yeb Wiersma, Sophie Demay and Paul Bailey.

Rebecca Worth, Cate Rickards and Richard Ashton – current MA Graphic Media Design (part-time) participants – led an associated event exploring the value of learning through direct, physical experience in relation to the Practices of Enquiry exhibition. The session, transcribed live as an observational act, was approached through three provocations;

1. Observation is not a neutral act
2. The observer as …
3. Context is (half) the work

Practices of Enquiry is a two-year institutional enhancement project, exploring how we create the conditions for enquiry to flourish within our ‘creative, curious, critical curricula’ (Learning Teaching and Enhancement Strategy 2015-2022).

Projects

Tony Credland leads workshop during Weekend Punk, Design Museum

The Design Museum is closing its doors in Shad Thames and what better way to go out than a punk closing weekend. Find out how you can use…

The Design Museum is closing its doors in Shad Thames and what better way to go out than a punk closing weekend. Find out how you can use limited resources and a rebellious attitude to create flyers, posters, fanzines, fashion and make an indelible impact on the world.

Announcements

Paul Bailey announced advisor at Jan van Eyck Academie

On Thursday 21 July Van Eyck advisor Paul Bailey will give a presentation in the auditorium at 12:30. All welcome to join. Paul will present a lecture entitled…

On Thursday 21 July Van Eyck advisor Paul Bailey will give a presentation in the auditorium at 12:30. All welcome to join.

Paul will present a lecture entitled ‘Thinking in public, together’ introducing the links he establishes between his practices as a graphic designer, educator and researcher.

http://www.janvaneyck.nl/en/home/paul-bailey/