Title: SuperChristmasMarket
Location: Somerset House - WC2R 1LA
Description: Simon Donald, Robert Archard, Alexandre Bettler, Isabel Costa Lucio, Carl Clerkin, Bernadette Deddens, Simon Donald, Martino Gamper, Gemma Gourlay, Sena Gu, Jon Harrison, Ikik Ceramics, Out of Office, David Weatherhead and Joe Wentworth.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2008-12-19

Shopping highlights include: The Clamp Nut Cracker by Simon Donald, available in either walnut or beech wood and personalised wooden name brooches and necklaces by Lady Luck Rules OK.

Other designers in Super Christmas Market include: Robert Archard, Alexandre Bettler, Isabel Costa Lucio, Carl Clerkin, Bernadette Deddens, Simon Donald, Martino Gamper, Gemma Gourlay, Sena Gu, Jon Harrison, Ikik Ceramics, Out of Office, David Weatherhead and Joe Wentworth.

Super Christmas Market is designed by Mark Garside and curated by Somerset House with Vicky and Jess.

Cash or cheque only
Friday 19 December, 6 – 9 pm
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December, 10am – 6pm
Ticket £2, which includes entrance to the Wouldn’t it be nice… exhibition.
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA. www.somersethouse.org.uk, 020 7845 4600
Nearest tube: Holborn, Embankment, Temple

Title: Professor Yoshiro Gotoh
Location: Main Lecture Theatre London College of Communication
Description: Please reserve a place by emailing graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk

This special Talking Graphics is free to all. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

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Professor Yoshiro Gotoh, Head of Graphic Design at Musashino Art University in Japan, will be visiting the School of Graphic Design for one week in December to work with Students from BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design: Design for Typo/Graphics year 2 on projects exploring duality in language and communication.

This special Talking Graphics will feature Professor Gotoh talking about teaching typography and information design in the department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, his own Information Design Research and his visit to the college working with Typo/Graphics students. He studied at LCC in the 1970s. His areas of interests encompass typography, early print history and print technology.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-12-02

Title: Bunch
Location: Main Lecture Theatre London College of Communication
Description: Please reserve a place by emailing graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Tickets are £5 (£3 for UAL students and staff with valid ID cards) cash only on the door – tickets include a beer and a mince pie after the lecture.

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Bunch was formed in 2002 by Denis Kovak and Paulo Silva, graduates from Information Design Pathway of the BA(Hons) Graphic and Media Design course at the London College of Communication later joined by Jo Kotas from Typo/Graphic Design. They currently work out of London, Zagreb and Singapore. Talented friends joined, and the union formed the multidisciplinary design agency that is the Bunch of today.

They use their wide range of specialisation to create intelligent and consistent brands for their clients, including: BBC, Five, HBO, MTV, Diesel, Playstation, 55DSL, Coca-Cola, Ministry of Sound and Sony.

Come along and find out how these LCC graduates have become a huge success.

Check out their work at http://www.bunchdesign.com/index1.php
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-12-04

Title: ‘In the eye of the reader’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Roland Brauchli from Graphic Thought Facility and further guests.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-28

Title: ‘What makes the book’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Sean Murphy and Corina Neuenschwander from Value and Service
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-26

Title: ‘Something to say – and the need of that form to say it’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Jost Hochuli, Ron Costley, James Goggin and Laurent Benner
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2008-11-29

Title: Trattoria Al Capello
Location: Somerset House
Description: Designer Martino Gamper and friends design every aspect of the guerrilla restaurant, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food. Join them for this one-off dining event in the gallery.
(Limited capacity)

Date: 2008-11-03

Title: Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?
Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book \’Detail in typography\’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

About the speaker

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-27

Title: Assemblages - Loris and Livia
Location: Brag Boutique
Description: ‘Assemblages’ 4 prototypes, first collaboration of Loris Jacquard & Livia Lauber.

URL: http://lorisetlivia.com/
Date: 2008-09-17

Title: Reflect Please at Nothing Works
Location: Shoreditch Town Hall
Description: Alexandre Bettler will present his recent project: Reflect Please at Nothing Works, curated by Michael Czerwinski and Amanprit Sandu from the Design Museum.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-09-18