The MODUS Type Project: Process / Action / Meaning
The Modus type project is an investigation into modular typographic design and the potential expansion of language by GMD Senior Lecturers, Cooper & Hutchinson.
The Modus type project is an investigation into modular typographic design and the potential expansion of language by GMD Senior Lecturers, Cooper & Hutchinson.
GMD Senior Lecturer, Craig Burston, explores a different collaborative working method with electronic artist, Nick Edwards…
Senior Lecturer Alistair McClymont’s new artwork, Magenta, on display in December.
Alumnus Marcus Aitken describes using VR for his latest exhibition and how graphic design continues to inform how he works as an artist.
Distractions follows students from participating universities in Australia and at LCC through the Re:act road safety behaviour change program which GMD participated in for 2019-20.
Final year Graphic & Media Design student Daniel Ioannou reflects here on his adoption of blogging as a way of thinking about his practice.
GMD graduate, Honor Davies, describes her idea for a more inclusive online gaming environment.
Two GMD graduates, Hugh van der Lande and Corey Flynn, have just set up their own company, Creatin Countries. They describe this as: “A company trying to make a positive impact through design while doing what they love; traveling around the world. Their goal is to encourage and support other content creators and brands to…
GMD alumnus, Tamara Lewis, has been working as a designer on a new initiative to help recent graduates entering a difficult job market. First initiated by Associate Professor Dr Norbert Morawetz at Henley Business School, Class of 2020 has quickly grown into a group of volunteers comprising students, graduates, educators and professionals coming together to build…
GMD alumni, Samuel Mensah, was one of the designers who contributed to the London based #OutdoorBlackArt campaign this summer (and also interviewed by the BBC – clip below). We asked Samuel to tell us more about the project and his response… “It’s not every day that I get to create artwork for a series of…
GMD Senior Lecturer, Owen Wells, writes about a recent initiative he curated with students: In response to the lockdown, GMD created a course community podcast to stay in touch with one another virtually. As a result of the COVID-19 virus the whole BA GMD community was suddenly stretched across the globe. Many of us were…
This year’s Graphic & Media Design Graduate Degree Show has had to take a very different form to previous exhibitions. Instead of hanging posters and installing screens in a physical space, this year’s graduates and staff have been reflecting on our current working and leisure practices, in order to produce a suitable online environment to…
The annual Re:act program challenges university students to create a behaviour change campaign that raises awareness among 18-25 year old road users of a critical road safety issue where they are over-represented. The Re:act 2020 topic was ‘distraction’. An initiative of creative behaviour change agency Hard Edge, Re:act, now in its fifth year, expanded internationally…
GMD staff member, Svenja Frahm, selects 3 of her projection mapping projects to share: Most recent show: Pan American Games Opening Ceremony 2019, Lima, Peru “The Pan American Games are similar to the Olympics but for the American continent. I was part of Luke Halls Studio’s design team to create projected visuals for the centrepiece…
Cultural & Theoretical Studies Senior Lecturer, Jess Baines, has contributed a chapter to Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography. The book is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers and typesetters. It highlights the print…