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Running over 3 nights next week, G.P. Talks are embracing modern technology* to bring you talks and presentations from designers, printers, illustrators, writers and independent publishers around the world. All at 6pm (ish) in Goodpress @ Mono, Kings Court, Glasgow, Northwest Europe.
Featuring:
Tues 1st May: Catalogue + Benjamin Critton
Wed 2nd May: Megawords + Junk Jet
Thursday 3rd May: Jessica Williams + Ditto Press
Organised by Good Press and Communication Design GSA
Free tickets, and links to participants websites and more info, here: G.P. Talks
Image: Megawords
*skype, a laptop, a projector and a set of speakers.
GSA Pecha Kucha X is on Wednesday 25th April, 6 ish, Students Union, and Vis Com are representing, on a number of levels.
Feat. Edwin Pickstone, Tassy Thompson, Malcolm Murdoch, Michael Dougal, Craig Mulholland, Ian McIlroy, Lauren Currie and Ainsley Roddick (the Duchy), plus more t.b.c.
In talk update news:
The talk from Nick Tweedie that was going to be on the 24th Feb has had to be rescheduled to the 11th May, Term 3, and will also feature illustrator Emily Chappell.
In addition, we’ve a talk on Monday the 5th March. The format for this is slightly different to normal in that it will talk place in the evening in the convivial environment of the Student Union (downstairs), and the point of emphasis will be slightly different, but all that will become apparent on the evening. It’s free but ticketed, and open to anyone who wants to come along, so tell your friends. It features;
—Lizzie Malcolm (Lust/NL) / http://lustlab.net/
—Found Collective / http://foundcollective.com/
—Malcy Duff (Usurper) / http://gianttank.tumblr.com/
If you’d like to come along, get tickets here: Would Work. [01]
It’s dead easy.
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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Talks this term in Com Des are posted here, for your perusal.
First up, this coming Friday:
13th Jan – Ciara Phillips and Bill Goldsmith (4pm / 2nd Year Studio)
Thanks again to Matt from GoodPress and Adrian Searle for coming in to talk the other week. News (above) of the latest GoodPress exhibition, plus a quick reminder that talks today (Mon 28th) will be happening at 4pm in the 2nd year Studio.
Talks, in 2nd year Studio, Mon 28th Nov, 4pm: Neil Mulholland and Gregor Johnstone.
Announcing another evening of rapid-fire presentations at GSA Pecha Kucha VII, with:
Ray McKenzie, Marc Baines, Philip Gurrey, Ice Cream Architecture, Thea Stevens, Malcolm Dickson, Michael Mersinis, Grainne Rice and Bruce Peter
(Free) tickets here.
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.
Making use of the intermittent wifi on the train back to Glasgow, and in order to avoid this becoming one of those jobs that gets left and left until its so out of date it’s obsolete, thought i’d try to sum up the Critical Tension conference with a single sentence (containing perhaps a thought, an idea, a hyperlink, or some wild conjecture*), per speaker. There will be lengthier reviews and discussions else where on the web, notably the Eye blog. If anyone wants to ask anything about anything, would be only too happy to chat further.
Day 1:
Jonathan Barnbrook
The critical role of typefaces
Typefaces should reflect the tools used to make them, and can embody meaning through their form(s).
Tom Farrand
Are you Good for Nothing?
Tom set up Good for Nothing, and thinks we should be making stuff, not breaking stuff.
Phil Baines
Thinking and making happen in the same place
Illuminating talk on recent tensions at CSM, the relocation of the print workshop, and parallels in the arts and crafts movement, with interesting references from W R Lethaby. (Image below)
Paul Rennie
‘Britain can make it’ (1947) – signposts to the future
Looking back to look forward, what do the great exhibitions and investments of the post war years tell us about the relative roles of design and architecture in Britain, in the 50′s and now, and how Britain presented itself to the rest of the world. (Image below)
Alan Kitching
The Wrington Suite: the show must go on
Warm and humorous talk, reaffirming the role and integrity of making in any type of design practise, with some good jokes, but I can’t remember any of them.
Gerry Leonidas
The emergence of meta-typography
An interesting rangy talk on a number of forward-looking subjects, from micro-payments to the ongoing appreciation of objects, to how we think about and teach typography at art school. (Image below)
Timo Arnall (BERG)
Unfortunately couldn’t make it.
Plenary
moderated by Emily King
There were questions.
Day 2
Vaughan Oliver
Visual Pressures (30 years in 60 minutes)
Informal and informative in equal measure, Vaughan Oliver reviewed the work of his studio and collaborators, which threw up some interesting questions about whether concerns in design today might be considerably more retro / introspective than they were 20 years ago. (Image below)
Derek Yates
Camberwell
An overview of the formative years of a new foundation degree at Camberwell and how this course interacts with ‘industry’.
Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright
GraphicDesign&: Inward / Outward
A talk about creating projects that were united by being about graphic design and another subject, I wondered if this might be a bit laboured (in the sense that isn’t all, or most, graphic design about something other than the subject itself), though the presentation was good, and we found out about the Bliss classification system.
12.30–1.00
Zoë Bather
Studio8
Detailed overview of the design work of Studio8
Educational plenary
moderated by Phil Baines
There were more questions.
Marina Willer and Ije Nwokorie
Wolff Olins
Problematic presentation on the new modus operandi of one of Britain’s most prominent design/brand agencies, which seemed to embody many of the contradictions and problems at the heart of brand and identity design today, i.e: ‘staff are expected to do stuff and then ask forgiveness if it goes wrong, rather than ask permission’ — that kind of thing.
Amelia Gregory
Bringing a magazine to life: tales from the frontline of print and online production
Quickfire presentation from the founder of Amelia’s Magazine, on the role of social media in creating and sustaining a printed publication.
Steven Watson
Is anybody there? The importance of authorship in independent magazines
A jaunty overview of the work of Stack (and partially the Church of London too, who produce Think Quarterly, the highly specced Google journal), and an insight into making a magazine in 48 hours.
Plenary
moderated by Phil Baines
There were even more questions, plus the best question of the day, from Paul Finn; “Art Schools are becoming more like corporations, while corporations are becoming (or want to become) more like Art School. Discuss”
Pub.
That’s where we all went.
Thanks.
To all speakers, organisers, and St Bride’s itself.
* Apologies to anyone who feels misrepresented by this. Will happily receive amendments, and should point out that these are my opinions and might not be shared by others.
** Apologies for the awful pictures, except ***
*** Apologies to Eye for ‘borrowing’ their picture at the start of this article, by way of evidence.
A quick note about the talks happening this week at 4pm in the 2nd year studio on Friday (28th Oct), with James Houston and Chris Leslie, all vis-com-des students welcome. On Friday, post-talk drinks (again, open to everyone) will be in a local bar/bistro/diner/patisserie, any suggestions of a preferred nearby place very welcome.
And a quick reminder about the Dixon Baxi talk on 3rd Nov, 7pm, Mac Lecture Theatre. We have 20 complimentary tickets courtesy of LongLunch – some of them have been snapped up already by eagle-eyed viewers of the blog, but some are still left. They’re available by responding here, (click link), on a first come first served basis.
Like another Phoenix from the flames, GSA Pecha Kucha returns. Please do come along. And spread the word.
Friday 21st October, 2-30-4.30. Clubroom, Upstairs at The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
The Commonwealth Games 2014: Whose Legacy?
Short introductory talk by Dr Libby Porter (Urban Planner and Researcher, Glasgow Uni) and Neil Gray (Writer and Researcher, Glasgow Uni) about the Legacy of Mega-Events, and large-scale urban regeneration plans in the UK and worldwide.
A discussion will follow with a series of live accounts by residents – including carers from the Save the Accord centre, who are campaigning to retain a day care centre for people with learning disabilities, and Margaret Jaconelli, who has recently been evicted from her home. The residents will talk about about the impact the Commonwealth Games development is having upon their lives.
This discussion, focusing on media portrayal and the right of residents to ‘stay put’ in the face of large-scale urban transformation and displacement, will be interspersed with a series of short films that highlight recent experiences on, and nearby, the site of the Commonwealth Games Village
Includes special screening of a short film about Margaret Jaconelli and the forthcoming Commonwealth Games by Glasgow documentary photographer and filmmaker, Chris Leslie. (14 mins) www.chrisleslie.com
Dixon Baxi will be speaking at the next LongLunch, in the mac lecture theatre on the 3rd Nov. Not at lunchtime, for anyone who’s new to this. As before, as host institution, there’ll be some complimentary tickets for Com Des students. Not exactly sure how many, but if you’d like one, email me (n.mcguire{at}gsa.ac.uk) and i’ll keep an ordered list, first come first served, and let you know if you’ve managed to reserve one. Put ‘Dixon Baxi’ in the subject line, otherwise the robots who answer my email will cruelly and callously ignore it.
I’ve added a page to the blog which lists talks this term. So… er… lots of mystery guests, but should soon be fully confirmed… watch this (that) space.
Dates and times subject to change and wild variance. Speak to staff.
Samantha Hardingham talks about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt: A City Caused By Learning at the Lighthouse on Thursday (1st Sept). Follow link to reserve a place. (Links to this and this).
Lava, Friday 6th May.
3pm—4pm
Discussions: On flexible identity and some other related topics.
In the Second Year Studio. All welcome, please come along.
4pm—5pm
Tutorials:
If you’d like to speak* to one of the folk from Lava about your work, please email n.mcguire@gsa.ac.uk
Lava are speaking at Longlunch on Thursday 5th May, Tickets here. This visit kindly arranged in conjunction with Longlunch.
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