Typography Summer School
A week-long programme of typographic study in London for recent graduates and professionals. Alongside live projects run by Fraser Muggeridge, the school will host talks, seminars and tutorials from daily visiting practitioners.
5–9 July 2010
12–16 July 2010
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Teaching
Fraser Muggeridge will be joined by a visiting practitioner each day, from specialised areas of typographic design practice and educators at distinguished design schools. Bringing together a range of varied tutors will offer each participant a unique experience to learn from and apply in future work.
Sara De Bondt
Sara De Bondt is a London-based, Belgian graphic designer who has been running her studio since 2003. Before that she worked for Foundation 33 and studied graphic design at Sint-Lukas, Brussels (B), Universidad de Bellas Artes, Granada (ES) and Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (NL). She teaches at the Royal College of Art, London and has given lectures at various schools and conferences internationally. The studio's clients include Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Barbican Art Gallery, Milton Keynes Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, Book Works, Phaidon and many more. In 2009 she co-founded Occasional Papers with Antony Hudek, which led to Barterama, London's first printed matter swap fair and OP's first two titles: The Master Builder: Talking with Ken Briggs and The Form of the Book Book, both co-edited with Fraser Muggeridge.
Paul Elliman
Paul Elliman is a London-based artist and designer interested in the mutual impact of technology, language and economic production. Along with the typeface ‘Found Fount’, derived from an ongoing collection of industrial parts in which no letter-form is repeated, Elliman also engages the human voice in many of its social, technological and linguistic guises, from popular songs to public announcements. Sirens Taken for Wonders, a recent project commissioned for the New York biennial Performa09, took the form of a radio discussion about the coded language of emergency vehicle sirens, as well as a series of siren-walks through the city.
Ken Garland
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.
Jeff Knowles
Jeff Knowles studied graphic design at The University of Salford, and directly joined Research Studios London in the autumn of 1998. He has become one of the studios longest standing members of staff, and in turn one of the key art directors, and has become an integral part of the studios evolution and growth. He has handled a large variety of projects, from large branding projects, publication design, packaging design, motion graphics and web design. He has worked on numerous projects including, Michael Mann's The Insider and Public Enemies, Salomon, Bonfire Snowboarding, Dom Perignon, ICA and D&AD. His work has been featured in numerous design magazines and journals such as Creative Review, Grafik, Typo, Étapes, IdN, Computer Arts, and Computer Arts Projects. He has also had work published in various design books from publishers such as Taschen, AVA and Laurence King. In 2005 his Spiral Typeface (featured on the Made in Clerkenwell Project) was exhibited in The Blojects and Beyond exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. He has been on the judging committee for the Press Gazette Magazine Design Awards, D&AD student awards, the IDI awards and the computer arts Digital Artist 2009 awards.
Fraser Muggeridge
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. Work by the studio has been featured in Creative Review, Design Week, Eye, Grafik, Idea and Monocle, and selected for the D&AD annual in 2008 and 2009 (awarded ‘In Book’). He co-curated ‘The Form of the Book’ conference at St Bride Library, London in January 2009 and co-edited The Master Builder: Talking with Ken Briggs and The Form of the Book Book, with with Sara De Bondt. He is a visiting tutor in the department of Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading University, and has given lectures on his work at Universities and Colleges in London.
David Pearson
David Pearson previously worked in-house at Penguin Books as typographer and later, cover designer before leaving to set up his own studio in August 2007. He has won numerous awards for book design and has been listed as one of Britain's Top 50 Designers by the Guardian as well as being nominated for the Design Museum's Designer of the Year Award.
Robert Sollis
Robert Sollis is part of Europa, a graphic design partnership based in London. Formed after graduating from of the Royal College of Art, Europa have designed books, posters, graphic identities and exhibitions for clients such as Architecture Foundation, Design for London, General Public Agency, Ryan Gander, Somerset House, Tate and Victoria & Albert Museum. Some of Europa's working relationships have come as a result of an agreed exchange of labour. These have been documented at workforwork.org. Europa have taught and lectured at institutions such as Architectural Association, Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Danish Design School, IASPIS, Limoncello Gallery, London College of Communication, University of Brighton and Winchester School of Art.