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

Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) will play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines.

This is followed by the performance of a new composition made in collaboration with Felix Thorn, and assembled from samples of out-of-copyright material for the player piano.

This event is part of the current exhibition Felix’s Machines, a series of extraordinary mechanical instruments put together by the artist and musician Felix Thorn. When connected to a computer, Felix’s Machines translate Thorn’s compositions into mechanical actions performed by customised drums and piano parts and animated by solenoids, springs and motors.

Free Gift: On the night, Open Music Archive and Felix Thorn will give away a copyleft licensed CD featuring the new composition and digital source files.

This events is free. Doors will open at 7.45pm, the gallery will be closed between 6 and 7.45pm to set up.

With live demonstration of gelatine fingerprint making, biometric hacking, zine signing, and psychogeographical canal drift with special brew poetry from Robin Bale.

Join us for the Launch of buymyfingerprints.com the new business that offers beautiful designer solutions for your identity needs.

What better present to give at Christmas that a new designer Identity? Its the perfect gift for one of your foreign friends or an oversees relative.

Our ‘Why Be You’ range offers fingerprint casts made in fine silver
and package in an exquisite luxury velvet lined chrome case. Each silver fingerprint cast comes with instructions which makes use of the research carried out by the cryptographer Tsutomu Matsumoto to
demonstrate how fingerprint scanners can be fooled using gelatine fingerprints. Our casts are procured totally legally, from terminally ill patients, and by the time of purchase free for you to use for your own Identity needs.

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

Between 1961 and 1991, over 3,000 men were imprisoned on Robben Island for their opposition to South Africa’s apartheid government. Although subject to a harsh and physically repressive regime, the inmates of this prison nevertheless developed ingenious strategies to convene and to communicate.

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s installation A Brush for Robben Island re-imagines these prisoners’ covert social space, taking as its starting point three seemingly unstable referents: a gesture that was used to mark this site, the sound that gesture produced, and the language that was used to describe it. The gesture in question is the prisoners’ version of applause, which they made by rubbing their hands together - an action that was termed ‘giving a brush’. Sonically alluding to this site and act of resistance, A Brush for Robben Island invites us to consider our relationship with a history that is fragmenting and fading from view.

A ‘brush’ connotes that most traditional tool of fine art practice, and strategies of representation are also questioned by this installation. ‘A Brush for Robben Island’ explores the potential of a politicised aesthetic, rejecting any assertion of an opposition between formal aspects of an artwork and its political content.

http://butchersprojects.org
http://www.wolukau-wanambwa.net
http://www.rokebygallery.com

Title: Back to Basics
Location: 9 Newburgh St, W1 (nearby Carnaby St)
Description: 30 Graphic designers from the Masters course at the London College of Communication investigate the bare basics of design through the exploration of circles, squares and triangles in a pop-up gallery of Carnaby Street. They will be showcasing personal interpretations of the concept Back to Basics.

An array of works ranging from prints, posters, books, t-shirts and photographic prints will be displayed. Christmas shoppers will be able to browse limited edition design and pick up something special for under £20.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-11

Amandine * will be part of the show above - selling the Book as Block poster … * disclosure: Amandine is contributing to Tlktlk.

This is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in contemporary photography to meet like-minded people at a friendly event, and grab a bargain for Christmas! Signed photographs and limited edition books included in the sale range from works by current students and tutors, to works by alumni and well-known photographers. Grab a print by Juergen Teller, Bettina Von Zwell, Sephen Gill, Tom Hunter, a book by Nigel Shafran or enter a prize-draw for a subscription to Hot Shoe magazine…

When? Tuesday 2 December 2008, 6-8 pm
Where? In the Atrium gallery at the London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle London SE1 6SB
How do I get there? Northern line, Bakerloo line and rail services to Elephant and castle station. For more options check the journey planner web page at http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en

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: Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!
Location: Donlon Books - 210 Cambridge Heath Road
Description: A new publication is out now! Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later! The project shows views from London photo booths. By using a mirror, keeping the curtain open and paying the necessary £4, the booth takes a polaroid of its own surroundings. A book launch will be held at Donlon Books (210 Cambridge Heath Road, London) on the 5th of December from 6 to 9pm. Copies will be available for £25.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-05
End Time: 21:00