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
åbäke

Title: Peter Saville - D&AD
Location: Logan Hall - Institue of Education
Description: Peter Saville will be reviewing his work and discussing his ideas and design philosophy.
Start Time: 07:00
Date: 2009-03-12
End Time: 08:30

Peter Saville is one of the most influential designers of our time. He has created a series of iconic images, including album covers for the bands Joy Division and New Order, and conceptual design projects that are exhibited all over the world. He is now contributing to the economic regeneration of Manchester as the city’s Creative Director.

Born in Manchester in 1955, Saville studied Graphic Design there, and in 1979, a year after graduating, he co-founded the legendary independent record label, Factory Records, with the late Tony Wilson. As the label’s Creative Director, he began his famous collaboration with Joy Division and New Order. Saville later designed seminal artwork at other labels for Roxy Music, Wham!, Suede and Pulp.

He has also worked extensively in fashion by creating advertising and branding for Yohji Yamamoto, Jil Sander, Dior, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and, most recently, Kate Moss and Kilgour. Saville’s clients in the cultural sector have included Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Barbican Centre and Whitechapel Gallery in London. He has also developed products in collaboration with adidas and Raf Simons.

Saville has won numerous design awards, and his achievements in design were celebrated in The Peter Saville Show at the Design Museum in London in 2003. In 2005, he staged his first major show in a contemporary art space at the Migros Museum in Zurich. Saville’s ongoing work in conceptual design is exhibited at Hotel and Paul Stolper in London and at Galerie Neu in Berlin.

Throughout his career, Saville has engaged with design at a strategic level, culminating in his appointment as Consultant Creative Director to Manchester City Council in 2004. As well as advising the Council on perception and communication, he is Creative Consultant to the critically acclaimed Manchester International Festival. Peter Saville will be reviewing his work and discussing his ideas and design philosophy.

Tickets (£15)

Title: Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism 12 February – 17 May 2009
Location: Tate Modern
Description: The Russian Revolution was accompanied by a remarkable period of artistic experiment known as Constructivism, which questioned the fundamental properties of art and asked what its place should be in a new society. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, explored more collective ways of working, and looked at how they could contribute to everyday life through design, architecture, industrial production, theatre and film.

Liubov Popova (1889-1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) were pivotal figures in the debates and discussions that defined Constructivism. Rodchenko, whose wife Varvara Stepanova was a major artist in her own right, energetically embraced almost all of its manifestations, from advertising to photography and film. Popova’s achievements in painting, theatre, and graphic and textile design took place in spite of ill health and tragedy: her husband died of typhoid in 1919, and she spent a year recuperating from the illness herself. In 1924 she and her son both died of scarlet fever.

The Constructivists compared the artist to an engineer, arranging materials scientifically and objectively, and producing art works as rationally as any other manufactured object. This was, in theory, an art that transcended gender differences. The equality of the sexes was an important Communist principle, and this was one of the first periods in history when female artists were valued as highly as their male counterparts.
Date: 2009-02-15

Title: It’s not for reading. It’s for making
Location: 51–63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP (http://www.formcontent.org/)
Description: A reflection on collecting and archiving with interventions by Luca Frei, Edgar Schmitz, Charlotte Moth, Guestroom, Raymond Taudin Chabot, Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
12 February – 5 April 2009
Date: 2009-02-14

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: 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.

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