Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
Masters in Communication Design
Tuesday 15th May – Sunday 3rd June 2012 / Private View 6pm Thursday 17th May 2012
Work by recent graduates of the Masters in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art — Tess Barnard, Laura Frame, Nadine Khatib, Chris Kohler and Kat Sicard. Exploring themes of life, evil, identity, discovery and spatial relationships.
Masters student Kat Sicard brought this project to our attention, which is looking for future collaborators, and also supporters/funders through a new kickstarter initiative they’ve set up:
“Team Girl Comic is an indie all-women comics anthology. We support and encourage women at all levels of experience to create and publish comics. A lot of our creators are new to comics in general. We love bringing new people to the medium and letting them discover their voice. It’s been great to see the number of contributes grow with every issue. So far, we’ve published 4 issues under our own steam, but want to be able to grow and become more sustainable. Right now, we’re running a kickstarter to fund our 5th issue. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teamgirlcomic/team-girl-comic “
via Team Girl Comic Kickstarter | GSA Postgrad Comic Books Elective.
It was Student Week over on Newspaper Club last week. Loads of useful advice, articles and links that will be of interest to all Vis Commers (Com Desers), especially those about to graduate. Nice little guest appearance from 2010 GSA graduate Michael Bow in there too.
*Nothing to do with Fresher’s Week
Creative Review announce the winners of this recent BFI competition, based around the film Don’t Look Now. Receiving a judges commendation is vis-com-des person Julie Sheridan for the piece above.
Rick Poyner’s latest critique for Eye magazine is on the Savage Messiah zine by Laura Oldfield Ford, which may be of interest to those doing the micro-publishing project, and everyone else. Charting the neo-liberal changes in Londons East-end as a result of a partially olympics-related crusade of ‘regeneration’, the zines have been gathered together and republished by Verso. I have ordered a copy if anyone wants a lend.
Eye 82 also contains an interesting historical take on the info-graphic and should be available from all good 3/4th year vis-com-des studio magazine racks shortly.
Image: Laura Oldfield Ford
Pictured: Brave New Alps, Fortezza Open Archive, from Reading Forms blog
Congratulations to everyone who did such a great job with the Work in Progress exhibition. On a similar topic we were recently alerted to this Reading Forms Blog, ‘Exhibiting Graphic Design Exhibitions‘. It’s interesting to compare a range of different contexts for exhibiting design, and while there is no written narrative, it’s a really useful visual resource to reference, and seems to be fairly regularly updated.
(Thanks to Matt from GoodPress for the link)
Upcoming exhibition at Good Press; Opening 16th February 2012, 6pm.
A solo exhibition of works by Benjamin Rawson.
Tuesday 24th January
11.00am
APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life)
Contact / Emma Thomas t 020 7739 9975
Former RCA students producing intelligent graphic design from a small but perfectly formed studio in Bethnal Green. Best quote of the week “We would never want to get too big that we wouldn’t be able to sit around one table”. Check out an article about them in Elephant Magazine Issue 9 (available from Analogue Books ).
APFEL can be found HERE
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1.00pm
GAIL ARMSTRONG Illustrator
Contact / Gail Armstrong t 020 8291 9153
Busy former GSA student producing intricate paper illustrations for a varied London and American client base. A great example of how to maintain a thriving creative life, be a mother and a Photoshop guru.
Check out Gail’s work HERE
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4.30pm
BIG ORANGE ILLUSTRATION STUDIO
Contact / Ulla t 020 7739 7765
Great to catch up with Dan Williams and a few old friends at this vibrant illustration studio. Great advice and insight from Paul Davis who let us see a sample of his published work. Former GSA student Emma Houlston was also generous with her advice for shaping a career after graduating.
See Emma’s work HERE
Check out Paul Davis HERE
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Wednesday 25th January
10.00am
OPX
Contact / David Bennett t 020 7729 6295
Multi award winning design agency welcomed GSA for an hour of shared thoughts and ideas. Pleased to see that they fill a wall in their board room with inspiration (Post-it notes, ephemera, colour printouts, drawings and scribbles) to assist idea generation for each project. Their philosophy is to involve the client as early as possible in the design process – a blend of inspiring and interrogating them – asking who, what, why and when.
Check out some of their studio work HERE
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1.00pm
THE PARTNERS
Contact / Alex Woolley or Jess Harvey t 020 7689 4625
Alex and Jess are younger designers at The Partners and took us on a creative journey through their favourite projects. Each team works with an ideas book or sketchbook before any refinement of a concept on the Mac. This approach means that the designers are less precious about the work and allows them to reflect on the qualities of communication and meaning.
Check out the award winning work HERE
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4.30pm
THE CHURCH OF LONDON
Little White Lies Magazine
Contact / Matt Bochenski t 020 7729 3675
Thanks to Matt, Willo and Adam who gave us a unique insight into the ‘architecture’ of LWLies covering every aspect of its production. For students in the first year of a four year progression, this was invaluable. It was useful to see how they constructed their typefaces, the programmes used and where the inspiration comes from. Read some more HERE
GSA students might be interested in a LWLies creative brief HERE – great opportunity to work on a ‘real’ project.
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Recent work by Chris Kohler.
Friday 27th January
Downstairs Space
Skypark Gallery
5 – 8pm
Announcing Glasgow School of Art’s 4th Year Visual Communication Work in Progress show!
Preview
Thurs 2 Feb. 7-9pm
The Glue Factory
22 Farnell Street
G4 9SE
Exhibition Week Opening Times:
3-9 Feb. 12-6pm
Sponsored by Williams Brothers Brewery.
More info here.
Graphic Scotland is an independent Community Interest Company aiming to bring together Scottish-based writers, artists and publishers in international collaborations to create diverse and innovative new graphic fiction.
Announcing the next exhibition at Good Press – ’It Is As It Was’ – with some international and UK based artists showing some recent work. The opening night will be on the 12th January and there will be free drinks. All welcome.
Vis Com People Sarah Fishlock (image above) and James Bettney are part of the Design and Democracy Exhibition which is currently running at the Scottish Parliament, and well worth visiting if you can.
In other exhibition news, David Kerr, fellow vis com person, is exhibiting his Tesco University work (see below) in this exhibition at the RCA, inspired by this lecture from the University of Strategic Optimism.
From the age of austerity to a Compendium of Joy, documentation of a recent exhibition by vis-com people Jess Copsey and Oona Brown, and below, a sublime passage from the introduction by fellow vis-com person Sam Bellacosa;
With Our not-so-distant forebears, raving ’til dawn in the expansive fields of the English countryside, borrowed a synonymous term to describe the chemical effects of methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a synthetic stimulant producing heightened states of euphoria and a general feeling of well-being and camaraderie. They called it Ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, or, “standing outside oneself.”
The French have a characterization for the universe of petit vices to which Ecstasy belongs—the condensé de joie, or ‘condensed joy.’ In tablet form Ecstasy is the Eucharist of late-20th century clubbing subculture, your communion for a few quid. In Christian theology, this tenet—that the bread wafer constitutes the symbolic body of Christ—is known as Transubstantiation; we are brought closer to the Holy Spirit through consumption. When we consume Ecstasy, or cheap lager or copious triple-vodkas for that matter, we are both spiritually and physically altered. This is called being “off one’s face,” and in some major way we lose the material sense of self–our face in the mirror—and join a collective identity of the truly fucked, a frenzied body of pure, condensed joy.
Whilst on the subject of Argyle Street area goings on, I believe the Relocated Gallery / One Hundred Pound Shop is due to open (or rather have an opening) on the 1st December.
Talks this Fri (18th Nov), 2nd Year Studio, 4pm: Good Press and Adrian Searle. All students and staff very welcome. Details of all talks here.
On Thursday 10th November, A Compendium of Joy, (at ReFound, which is in turn at the New Glasgow Society), opens. Curated by Vis Com people Oona Brown and Jessica Copsey, with an introductory address by Professor Sam Bellacosa no-less. There’s a poster for this in the Ref if you need more info, or a more visual interpretation of what’s happening. I’m being critically tense (dense?) later this week so will miss it, but between this and the Good Press opening, I think that makes for a pretty good Glasgow night out. If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, or hold the gift of time travel, you could also try to squeeze in ‘This Happened‘ at Inspace in Edinburgh.
Image: Jonnet Middleton, Speaking at This Happened
Vis-Com-Des person, Alan Cameron, has an exhibition opening this week:Thursday 6th October 2011, 6pm – 8pm Trongate 103, First Thursday, (via GPS Newsletter.)
Oliver Pitt (Vis Com Person) is one of a group of alumni representing Glasgow School of Art at this weekends Vault Art event. I might be missing something but the main vault website seems a bit thin on information, but there are various talks and events and things happening too.
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