Title: History Repeats Itself
Location: Brick Lane Gallery London
Description: Exhibition by the Winchester School of Art Graphics Programme
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-05-30

30 May 2 — 6pm

A Shared History of Play
Marie O’Connor & Peter Nencini

A Short History of Design Publishing — some books from Hyphen Press
Roland Früh

A History of Some Self-Initiated Work in Graphic Design
James Goggin, Practise

A Future History of the Book
Sarah Gottlieb

Seriously Forks #4: History Repeats like a Rehearsal for a Show we are not Meant to Do
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Title: Science and the Nation
Location: E:vent Gallery
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-29

Speakers: Revital Cohen, Martin Conreen, Emily Dawson, Anna Dumitriu, Ben Johnson, Kira O’Reilly & Janet Smith, Rob La Frenais, Brendan Walker

Guest curated by Tobie Kerridge & Elio Caccavale

Science and the Nation is the title of a book collectively written by the Association of Scientific Workers and published in 1947, offering a rousing appeal for the transformation of post-war Britain:

“Scientists can only make things possible, but it is the responsibility of every citizen to get things done”.

Tired of waiting for the green shoots of recovery from our contemporary crisis? Come and hear alternative manifestos for Science and the Nation from key interdisciplinary practitioners.

Title: One Hour Catalogue
Location: Barbican
Description: Part of A Day in the Life of Le Corbusier

A.b.a.k.e. & Finn Williams invite you to learn about Le Corbusier’s activities as a magazine and book publisher, typographer, and manifesto-maker. How does the very distinctive graphic language he developed compare to those of his contemporaries and architects today?
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-03-07
End Time: 20:00

Title: Book Club
Location: The Photographers’ Gallery
Description: Join the Book Club as we tackle Alain Badiou’s recently translated text Being and Event, led by Dr Nina Power, Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University.

This Book Club will focus on two specific passages in Badiou’s text by way of introduction to his work and to the idea of Being, non-being and Event.

Introduction (p.1-20)
Meditation thirty-two; Rousseau (p.344-354).

This book is available to buy from our Bookshop

FREE, Just turn up.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-04-09

Title: # Lars Müller # Communicating Architecture
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: The lecture will investigate the potentials of the book as a medium for the communication of architecture. Editorial conditions and design rules have changed since the challenges of digital media emerged. Lars Müller will analyse the structural and functional differences between analogue and digital media and their abilities and limits in the expression and communication of architectural atmosphere. His evaluation will focus on the book and its exclusive attributes and will feature its characteristics as an object and its materials, the structure, the content and the handling of text and image.

Lars Müller is founder of Lars Müller Publishers, known for books on design, art, photography and architecture on, among others, Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron and Steven Holl. Recently, it has expanded its catalogue to include social and political subjects. The Face of Human Rights and Who Owns the Water? are examples of publishing as a democratic and humanistic effort. Müller teaches a course entitled Communicating Architecture at Harvard University.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-19

* image found on Lars Müller Publishers website

Title: Joseph Grigely — Exhibition Prosthetics
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork – to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to be a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art – and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it? This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art – not merely re-presentations of art.

Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-18

Bedford Press: Excursus Series
Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture Exhibition Prosthetics is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series is initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.

Exhibition Prosthetics, Joseph Grigely
Exhibition Prosthetics is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork–to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to me a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art–and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it?  This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art–not merely re-presentations of art.

Title: Wim Crouwel
Location: LCC
Description: Wim Crouwel, born in 1928 in Groningen, Netherlands, is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. He is known for his posters and exhibition design for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Crouwel has designed several font sets, of which the New Alphabet (1967) is best known. New Alphabet is a highly abstract font, based on a dot-matrix system. Crouwel intended it to be easily read by computers.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-02-05
End Time: 20:30

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: 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