Title: The Form of the Book
Location: St Bride Library, London
Description: The Form of the Book brings together highly acclaimed graphic designers,
design critics and design historians to discuss various aspects of book design.

Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2009-01-30
End Time: 17:30

The Form of the Book brings together highly acclaimed graphic designers,
design critics and design historians to discuss various aspects of book design.

Themes such as materiality, typographic detailing, design historiography,
artist’s books, methods of production and design ideology run throughout
the day, in an exciting line-up of international speakers.

With Chrissie Charlton, Jenny Eneqvist / Roland Früh / Corina
Neuenschwander, James Goggin, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis,
Mevis & Van Deursen and Catherine de Smet

Curated by Sara De Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge

For further details and online booking please go to
http://www.stbride.org/events/theformofthebook

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: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: David Reinfurt will explain Naive Set Theory with an overhead projector
Malcolm McLaren (in absentia) will talk to Mark & Stephen Beasley (in
absentia)
Stuart Bailey will describe the science, fiction of E.C. Large, and
inaugurate the republishing of 2 novels
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-31

Title: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: Jennifer Higgie and Johnny Vivash will read from (and around) Carnival
Theory, a play-in-progress
Dan Fox will play an extended version of Refracted Light Through Armory Show
Agency will recount the copyright case of Papa Hemingway
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-30

Title: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: James Goggin (and others) will itemize ways of reading in London, 2008
Richard Hollis will listen to the image
Will Holder will speak of the poetics of concrete poetry and documenting
the work of Falke Pisano
Mike Sperlinger will introduce Stefan Themerson & Language
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-29

Title: Thomas Hirschhorn, Doing Art politically: What Does This Mean?
Location: The Geological Society Lecture Room, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Description: The Royal Academy Schools Annual Lecture:
a talk by Thomas Hirschhorn ‘Doing Art politically: What Does This Mean?’ (booking 0844 209 0360 / fee: £7.00/£4.00 inc.)
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-11-05

The Royal Academy Schools will hold its first annual lecture on 5th November 2008. The inaugural lecture will be given by artist Thomas Hirschhorn and is entitled DOING ART POLITICALLY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Thomas Hirschhorn who was born in Switzerland in 1957, initially worked in Paris as a graphic designer during the 1980’s with Communist design group Grapus. He left Grapus to focus on installation pieces. He is best known for his site specific installation works, which can be found both inside and outside the gallery setting. Hirschhorn says “Today there is great confusion about the question concerning what ‘Political’ and ‘political’ are. I am only interested in what is really political, the ‘Political’ with a capital P, the political that implicates: Where do I stand? Where does the other stand? What do I want? What does the other want? The ‘political’ with a small p, the opinions and forging of the majorities, does not interest, and has never interested me. For I am concerned with making my art politically.“

The annual lecture will form part of one of four annual events run by the Royal Academy Schools which are open to both the public and Royal Academy Schools students alike.

The events are supported by the David Lean Foundation.

The Royal Academy Schools are run by artists for artists and is a leading centre for the postgraduate study of fine art; offering the only three-year, full time course in the UK. The RA Schools offer a forum for a lively programme of events, with lectures and individual tutorials provided by Royal Academicians, international contemporary artists, critics, writers and theorists.