Typography Summer School is a meeting place for graduates of graphic design, wanting to bridge the gap between student and professional and learn more about typography. The school brings together leading practitioners and participants to study, exchange ideas, and investigate the discipline.

As well as running a range of projects within typography with real clients and budgets, the school acts as a think tank encouraging research and dialogue. This environment provides a forum in which to discuss what typography is, its relevance in design history and the part it plays in today’s society. The school investigates the role of typographic design across ranging mediums, from books to film credits and posters to websites.

The school was founded by Fraser Muggeridge and is independent from any college or educational organisation. This website is designed by Other Means and Fraser Muggeridge.

To contact Typography Summer School London, email london@typographysummerschool.org. You can stay in touch through Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr, or sign-up for the mailing list.

Live projects with actual briefs, clients and budgets. With these constraints participants gain experience in how to work in a professional situation.

• Daily talks from each visiting practitioner.
• Seminars, tutorials and informal discussions.
• An evening of film screenings.
• Advice on different career paths within typography.

Fraser Muggeridge is joined by a visiting practitioner each day, from specialised areas of typographic design practice and educators at distinguished design schools. The 2013 tutors in London are APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), Europa, Ken Garland, James Langdon, OK-RM, Other Means and David Pearson. Bringing together a range of varied tutors will offer each participant a unique experience to learn from and apply to their future work.

A Practice for Everyday Life is a design agency working with some of the world’s most successful companies, galleries, institutions and individuals. They create a diverse range of work including brand identities, art direction, signage & wayfinding, exhibition design, print, editorial & publishing and websites from concept to production. They investigate, explore and experiment to draw together stories which can translate and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. This approach has always led to thoughtful and inspired design solutions, and earned a reputation for crafting intelligent, beautiful and innovative work. They have established an exceptional reputation through work for Architects’ Journal, British Council, Phillips de Pury, Tate Modern & Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Trust and are an increasingly sought after partner for collaborations with architects, curators, creative directors and photographers.

apracticeforeverydaylife.com

Europa is a graphic design company based in London and run by Mia Frostner, Paul Tisdell and Robert Sollis, all graduates of the Royal College of Art. Their work includes creating graphic identities, books and publications, exhibition design, signage, art direction, editorial design and websites. Alongside their studio practice Europa run the second year of the BA Graphic Design course at Camberwell College of Arts.

europaeuropa.co.uk

Ken Garland studied graphic design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, in the 1950s. He was Art Editor of Design magazine from 1956–62, when he left to establish his own graphic design studio as Ken Garland and Associates. His own publications include: First things first: a manifesto (Self-published, London, 1964); Graphics handbook (Studio Vista, London/Reinhold Publishing, New York, 1966); Illustrated graphics glossary (Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1980); Graphics, design and printing terms: an international dictionary (Lund Humphries, London/Design Press, New York, 1989); Mr Beck’s Underground map (Capital Transport, Harrow Weald, 1994); A word in your eye (Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1996). In addition to fulfilling regular appointments as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reading (1971–99), the Royal College of Art (1977–87), Central School of Art and Design (1986–91) and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1982–92), he has lectured widely throughout the world. Ken Garland: Structure and Substance, published by Unit Editions in 2012 is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to his work.

kengarland.co.uk

James Langdon is an independent designer and one of six founding directors of the artist-run gallery Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK. Through research, writing, designing and curating, his work investigates methodologies of display that connect exhibition and graphic design. He is the recipient of the 2012 Inform Award for Conceptual Design, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany.

jameslangdon.net

Fraser Muggeridge studio is a graphic design company based in Clerkenwell, London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters, maps and postcard invites, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with an elegantly pared-down aesthetic, with colour, typography, paper stock and format playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object. Fraser teaches on the MA Book Design course at Reading University and on the BA Graphic Design course at Camberwell College of Arts, London.

pleasedonotbend.co.uk

OK-RM is a London based design studio founded in 2008 by Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath. Working with a broad range of clients from individuals to institutions, the studio has a project specific approach allowing for a highly varied output that encompasses visual identity, publication design, art direction, editorial and digital projects. The studio’s methodology is built on an objective to communicate the intrinsic attributes of each commission through well-crafted, thoughtful and direct solutions. A grounding in conceptual thinking and a distinctive language based typographic approach is essential to the studio’s practice.

ok-rm.co.uk

Other Means is a graphic design studio in New York City founded in 2012 by Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, Ryan Waller and Vance Wellenstein. They work with Art In General, Bloomberg View, Creative Capital, ICA Philadelphia, Joe Sheftel Gallery, Museum of Arts and Design, and The New York Times. They co-organize Primetime, a gallery space in Brooklyn, and have been lecturers and visiting critics at California Institute of Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale School of Art. They are faculty members in the graduate and undergraduate departments at Pratt Institute.

othermeans.us

David Pearson studied at Central St Martins in London (1999–2002) before taking a job at Penguin Books as typographer and later, cover designer. He left to establish his own studio – Type as Image – in 2007. He has won numerous awards for book design and has been listed as one of Britain’s Top 50 Designers by the Guardian, nominated for the Design Museum’s Designer of the Year Award and is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

typeasimage.com

The school is held at The Drawing Room, a public gallery in Central London. The professionally-equipped space functions as a working studio environment within an art gallery space.

The Drawing Room
12 Rich Estate
Crimscott Street
London SE1 5TE (Map)

£425 per participant, to be paid in full via electronic transfer upon receipt of acceptance and in advance of the course. Basic studio materials and lunch will be provided. Accommodation is not provided.

It is assumed that each applicant will be educated to degree standard in graphic design, but all work will be assessed on its own merits.

Each participant should be familiar with the industry standard software packages (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and be able to bring a laptop to the school.

The number of participants is limited to 25 per week (50 in total). Applications are open until 1 May 2013. Please apply to Typography Summer School London by sending a pdf portfolio and cv (or website reference) to: london@typographysummerschool.org

Actual samples can be posted to:

Typography Summer School London
8A West Smithfield
London EC1A 9JR
United Kingdom

Each application will be assessed by the tutors, with notification sent on 14 May.

Week 1: 9–13 July 2012

Daily visiting practitioners: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), Sara De Bondt, Europa, Ken Garland, James Langdon, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Ollie Stockbridge

Participants: Matthew Appleton (UK), Tiziana Artemisio (CH), Mina Bach (ES), Holly Catford (UK), Sofia Clausse (AR), Jonathan Esgate (UK), Etienne Frasson-Cochet (FR), Aaron Gillett (AU), Sonja Hahn (DE), Wei Huang (AU), Min Jae Huh (KR), Shotaro Ishii (JP), Emma Kalkhoven (UK), Kwang-Su Kim (KR), Pat Laddaphan (TH), Niall Lewis (UK), Fiona O’Leary (IE), Lukas Opekar (CZ), Netta Peltola (FI), Ilaria N Roglieri (IT), Tereza Rullerová (CZ), Ellen Taylor (UK), Mike Tully (USA), Violette Vanderlinden (BE), Maria Villaró Lupón (ES)

Week 2: 16–20 July 2012

Daily visiting practitioners: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), Stephen Barrett, Europa, Ken Garland, OK-RM, James Langdon, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Lorenz Klingebiel

Participants: Maria Amaro (PT), David Bate (UK), Vittoria Bisi (IT), Simon Chong (AU), Rachita Dalal (IN), Marc Damm (AT), Rosina Digne-Malcolm (UK), James Drayson (UK), Chris Eimeamkamol (TH), Eliza Hearsum (AU), Kyungwon Kim (KR), Sandra Kossorotova (EE), Scott Langer (US), Leigh Mignogna (US), André Meca (PT), Maria-Louiza Ouranou (GR), Pietro Paciullo (IT), Christina Pfeifer (DE), Jeremy St Quentin (AU), Matt Roberts (UK), Thomas Saxby (UK), Liz Seibert (US), Guus Verschuur (NL), Adeline Yeo (SG)

Week 1: 4–8 July 2011

Daily visiting practitioners: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), Sara De Bondt, Europa, Ken Garland, James Langdon, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Lucy Brown

Participants: María Alén (ES), Eduard Barcelón (ES), Sam Blunden (UK), Lucia Del Zotto (IT), Maryam Fanni (SE), Maria da Gandra (PT), Britt Helbig (BE), Stine Holst (DK), Jay Jung Hyun Yeo (KR), Edward Johansson (SE), Trond Klevgaard (NO), Nina Krogh (DK), Birgit Mayer (AT), Benjamin Niznik (US), Lotte Peters (NL), Mark Robbins (UK), Jun Shim (KR), Aaron Skipper (UK), Jan Edmund Vennesland Haaland (NO), Bec Worth (AU)

Week 2: 11–15 July 2011

Daily visiting practitioners: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life), Stephen Barrett, Sara De Bondt, Europa, Ken Garland, James Langdon, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Paul Barnes, Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Michelle Phillips

Participants: Rita Araújo (PT), Tuuli Aule (EE), Laura Bergans (BE), Camila Cardenosa (CO), Amie Chanelle Norman, Anne De Boeck (BE), Mina Demiren (IE), Alonzo Felix (US), Gro Janarv (SE), Matt Kay (US), Mathew Kneebone (AU), Joshua Lee (SG), Songeun Lee (KO), Benjamin Lieb (FR), Rita Maldonado Branco (PT), Monica Nelson (US), Esteve Padilla (ES), Joseph Pleass (UK), Nitzan Ron (IL), Marc Sieburg (DE), Jiyeun Sung (KO)

Week 1: 5–9 July 2010

Daily visiting practitioners: Sara De Bondt, Europa, Ken Garland, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Fiona Banner, Paul Elliman, Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Alexander Lis

Participants: Joris Bovijn (BE), Erik Carter (USA), Aurore Chauve (FR), Emilie Chen (FR), Jacob Darfelt (DK), Jonathan Davies (UK), Jenni Dennis (UK), Hanna Donker (NL), Elisabete Gomes (PT), Erik Haberfeld (FR), Annabel Innes (UK), Jono Lewarne (UK), Illaria Marengo (IT), Ben Mclaughlin (UK), Niall O’Shea (EI), Anisha Peplinski (UK), Cindy Rodriguez (USA), Adam Sneade (UK), Simone Trum (NL), Arnoud Verhaeghe (UK), Gemma Villegas Barragán (ES), Emma Williams (UK)

Read Erik Carter’s account.

Week 2: 12–16 July 2010

Daily visiting practitioners: Europa, Ken Garland, Jeff Knowles, David Pearson

Visiting speakers: Stephen Barrett, Sara De Bondt, Paul Elliman, Jamie Ellul, James Langdon, Sarah Newitt, Stefan Kraus

Assistant: Katja Baumann

Participants: Lauren Adolfsen (USA), Rafal Benedek (PL), Matea Bronic (HR), Keri Bronk (USA), Thomas Brosset Couak (FR), Lucy Brown (UK), Caterina Giuliani (IT), Julian Goll (UK), Sarah Kirby-Ginns (UK), Troy Kreiner (USA), Simon Lai (HK), Maciek Lizak (PL), Adrián Mora (ES), Danny Osborne (UK), Nina Reisinger (DL), Perrine Rousselet (FR), Paul Wagner (USA), Natalie Wallis (NZ), Romilly Winter (UK), Laura Yates (UK), Louise Zyskind (DK)

Read Lucy Brown’s account.

Typography Summer School is a meeting place for graduates of graphic design, wanting to bridge the gap between student and professional and learn more about typography. The school brings together leading practitioners and participants to study, exchange ideas, and investigate the discipline.

As well as running a range of projects within typography with real clients and budgets, the school acts as a think tank encouraging research and dialogue. This environment provides a forum in which to discuss what typography is, its relevance in design history and the part it plays in today’s society. The school investigates the role of typographic design across ranging mediums, from books to film credits and posters to websites.

Typography Summer School was founded by Fraser Muggeridge and is independent from any college or educational organization. Typography Summer School New York was initiated in 2013 by Other Means. This website is designed by Other Means and Fraser Muggeridge.

To contact Typography Summer School New York, email newyork@typographysummerschool.org. You can stay in touch through Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr, or sign-up for the mailing list.

Live projects with actual briefs, clients, and budgets. With these constraints participants gain experience in how to work in a professional situation.

• Daily talks from each visiting practitioner.
• Seminars, tutorials and informal discussions.
• An evening of film screenings.
• Advice on different career paths within typography.

Fraser Muggeridge and Other Means are joined by a visiting practitioner each day, from specialized areas of typographic design practice and educators at distinguished design schools. The 2013 tutors in New York are Julian Bittiner, Bob Gill, James Goggin, Geoff Han, Mary Voorhees Meehan, and Mark Owens. Bringing together a range of varied tutors will offer each participant a unique experience to learn from and apply to their future work.

Julian Bittiner is an independent designer based in New York, originally from Geneva, Switzerland. Committed to a loosely defined studio practice and an idiosyncratic, self-reflective outlook, his work is characterized by a search for meaningful new forms and ideas rooted in a specific time and place. An interest in the fostering of close relations with clients and collaborators has led to serial projects across media, typically in the cultural sector. Having originally studied fine art at Art Center in Los Angeles, he later received an MFA in graphic design from the Yale School of Art, and has been teaching there since 2008. His work and writing have been published internationally.

appliedaesthetics.org

After freelancing as a designer/illustrator and teacher in New York, Bob Gill emigrated to London on a whim and stayed 15 years. There, he founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, later renamed Pentagram. He returned to New York to write and design Beatlemania, a multi-media and live history of the sixties which ran for three years on Broadway. His graphics have been exhibited in major museums all over the world and his lectures are legendary. He has written ten books on design and illustration as well as a number for children. He earned Lifetime Achievement awards from The New York Art Directors’ Club and The Designers & Art Directors’ Association of London. His latest book, published in 2012 is Bob Gill, so far.

bobgilletc.com

James Goggin is a Chicago-based British and/or Australian graphic designer from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, and Arnhem. He founded a graphic design practice named Practise in 1999 upon graduation from London’s Royal College of Art. After 10 years in London, the studio moved to the Netherlands, where he combined his usual design and publishing projects with teaching at postgraduate design school Werkplaats Typografie, alongside monthly lecturing in history and theory at ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne), Switzerland. He is currently a visiting thesis critic at Rhode Island School of Design. James joined the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2010 as Director of Design, Publishing, and New Media. James left the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2013.

practise.co.uk

Geoff Han is an independent graphic designer and educator working in the art, architecture and cultural fields. Since receiving an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University in 2006, he has worked collaboratively with clients including: Another Man Magazine, Columbia University GSAPP, common room, Creative Time, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Goethe Institut New York, NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), Christian Jankowski, PIN-UP Magazine, SANAA, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Parsons The New School and has run workshops or been a critic at Columbia University, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Werkplaats Typographie and Yale University. In 2008, he was awarded Most Beautiful Book in the World.

Mary Voorhees Meehan is a Brooklyn-based American graphic designer who has been running her studio since 2011. Before that she worked for Linked by Air. She studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art and architecture at Princeton University. She has taught, given workshops and lectures, and served as visiting critic at various schools, including the Fashion Institute of Technology, Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons, the Yale School of Art, the University of Illinois, and the University of Texas. The studio’s clients and collaborators include Buffalo University’s School of Architecture and Planning, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Christoff:Finio Architecture, LCD Studio, The Listening Archive, New Catalogue, and many other artists, architects, institutions, and enterprises.

marymeehan.com

Other Means is a graphic design studio in New York City founded in 2012 by Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, Ryan Waller and Vance Wellenstein. They work with Art In General, Bloomberg View, Creative Capital, ICA Philadelphia, Joe Sheftel Gallery, Museum of Arts and Design, and The New York Times. They co-organize Primetime, a gallery space in Brooklyn, and have been lecturers and visiting critics at California Institute of Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale School of Art. They are faculty members in the graduate and undergraduate departments at Pratt Institute.

othermeans.us

Fraser Muggeridge studio is a graphic design company based in Clerkenwell, London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogs to posters, maps and postcard invites, the studio prioritizes artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with an elegantly pared-down aesthetic, with color, typography, paper stock and format playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object. Fraser teaches on the MA Book Design course at Reading University and on the BA Graphic Design course at Camberwell College of Arts, London.

pleasedonotbend.co.uk

Mark Owens is a designer and writer working between Los Angeles and New York. He holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University (2000) and an MA in English from Duke University (1998). In 2004 he curated the traveling design exhibition The Free Library and in 2005 he established his studio, Life of the Mind. His work has been featured in the pages of PRINT magazine, IDEA (Tokyo), GRAPHIC (Korea), Phaidon's Area 2, and Graphic Design: Now in Production, among others. In 2007 he co-edited with Zak Kyes the exhibition catalogue for Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design at the Architectural Association, London, and his critical essays have appeared in Dot Dot Dot, Visible Language, and Grafik (London). In 2010 he co-founded the independent publishing imprint Oslo Editions, and in 2012 he was awarded a Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writer's Grant for the completion his forthcoming book, Graphics Incognito: Design, Material Culture, and Post-punk Aesthetics. He has been a visiting critic at Yale, RISD, and Art Center College of Design, and is currently visiting faculty in the design department at California Institute of the Arts.

lifeofthemind.net

The school will be held in a public gallery in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. The professionally-equipped space functions as a working studio environment within an art gallery space.

79 Walker Street
Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10013 (Map)

$750 per participant, to be paid in full via electronic transfer upon receipt of acceptance and in advance of the course. Basic studio materials and lunch will be provided. Accommodation is not provided.

It is assumed that each applicant possess at minimum a bachelors degree level of eduction in graphic design, but all work will be assessed on its own merits.

Each participant should be familiar with the industry standard software packages (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and be able to bring a laptop to the school.

The number of participants is limited to 30. Applications are open until May 1, 2013. Please apply to Typography Summer School New York by sending a pdf portfolio and cv (or website reference) to: newyork@typographysummerschool.org

Actual samples can be mailed to:

Typography Summer School New York
325 Gold Street, #204
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States of America

Each application will be assessed by the tutors, with notification sent on May 14.