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Venetian Sunk-panel Bindings: A Sixteenth century Structure and Production
No full textThe topic of this research is the Venetian sunk-panel binding, one of the most elaborately decorated examples of luxury bookbinding ever produced in Venice. This thesis examines how Venetian sunk-panel bindings were manufactured, how their structure and finishing evolved over time, and the extent to which they can be considered standardised.
The contents of volumes bound in this manner are predominantly official manuscripts recording executive appointments within the Venetian Republic, known as dogali, alongside luxury editions of texts, some dedicated to foreign sovereigns.
This manufacture was developed during the late Renaissance, a period when Venetian craftsmanship reached the highest quality in the imitation of Islamic designs and crafts. Within the context of 16th-century bookbinding, this phenomenon produced sumptuous bindings that combined Western book structures, Venetian elements, and Middle Eastern decorative methods. The most striking feature of the decoration is the surface adorned with shallow recesses, called sunk panels, created by the treatment of the boards and arranged in various layouts to produce a distinctive design.
The Venetian sunk-panel binding serves as a valuable example of the level of decorative elaboration that bindings could reach, alongside the general assumption that fine Western bindings of the Modern Era are characterised solely by leather covers embellished with gold tooling.
The lack of a detailed study concerning the sunk-panel binding style and its variations in decoration offers an entirely new field of investigation.
The study begins with a systematic assessment of a corpus of 129 known surviving examples, conducted here for the first time. Data were collected in a purpose-designed database, designed to record a range of variables. After analysing the consistency of concept combinations in bindings with similar appearances, the bindings were organised into new categories within the Venetian sunk-panel style. This categorisation of decoration enabled the creation of a production timeline for each specific category, thereby facilitating the dating of previously undated bindings. This research contextualises the production by distinguishing it from contemporary Islamic bindings and by cross-referencing data with case studies from Venetian fine and applied arts, such as contemporary illuminations and Islamic-inspired lacquerware.
The results also serve as a valuable tool for dating other Venetian lacquered objects that share similar techniques and designs
Cambridge International AS & A Level Digital Media and Design Student’s Book (2nd Edition)
No full textCollins’ Cambridge International AS & A Level Digital Media & Design Student’s Book – Second Edition is the only endorsed resource written specifically to support the revised Cambridge International A & A level Digital Media & Design syllabus (9481).
We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this series to support the Cambridge International AS & A Level Digital Media & Design syllabus (9481) for examination from 2026.
Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
For examination from: 2026
Provide in-depth coverage with the only endorsed resource for the revised syllabus for examination from 2026.
Introduce students to the digital media and design industry; with sections covering the history of digital media, how the digital landscape has changed and what tools and technologies are used in industry.
Deliver a fully international course written by experts in the media and design field with international examples, contexts, names, and locations.
Build students’ practical and technical skills with focused activities throughout that provide students opportunities to put these skills into practice.
Consolidate students’ understanding with comprehension activities that encourage discussion and reflection.
Prepare for assessment with activities that encourage students to produce a design outcome or engage with the design process, including tips to help students succeed.
Enable students to access the revised syllabus content with a fresh, visual design and language tailored to English as a Second Language learners, with key terms providing clear definitions of technical language.
Put all the areas of study into context with industry insights offering real-life information and up-to-date case studies providing students with international examples of real-world application of the material they are studying
Doom's Data: Tracking a Transmedia Supervillain Through Data
No full textThis chapter looks at a practical application of the intersection between data and superheroes by showing how data can be collected about such characters, and how it can be used to carry out statistical analyses of how they change as they move across time and media. In doing so it demonstrates some of the practicalities involved in using a data-led approach in an area where, although several large datasets are available, these have almost always been generated in an ad hoc, undirected manner by fans.
Using the Marvel super-villain Doctor Doom as an example it discusses how a corpus of texts for analysis can be selected and explains why focusing on a smaller sample might be necessary for an in-depth examination. A methodology for describing fictional characters using a thirteen-dimensional unified catalogue of transmedia character components is described and, following a brief description of how this was employed for data entry, an in-depth analysis is conducted on one specific dimension
'For Jane'
Get PDFCatalogue Essay on the paintings of Jane Harris for the exhibition 'Ellipse' at the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Illustration and Heritage
Get PDFIllustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage. Heritage is a 'process' that is active and takes place in the present. In the heritage industry, there are opposing discourses and positions, and illustrators are a critical voice within the field.
Grounding discussions in concepts fundamental to the illustrator, the book examines how the historical voice might be 'found' or reconstructed. Rachel Emily Taylor uses her own work and other illustrators' projects as case studies to explore how the making of creative work – through the exploration of archival material and experimental fieldwork – is an important investigative process and engagement strategy when working with heritage.
What are the similar functions of heritage and illustration? How can an illustrator 'give voice' to a historical person? How can an illustrator disrupt an archive or museum? How can an illustrator represent a historical landscape or site?
This book is a contribution to the expanding field of illustration research that focusses on its position in heritage practice. Taylor examines the illustrator's role within the field, while positioning it alongside the disciplines of museology, anthropology, archaeology, performance, and fine art
Love Letters as Ways of Thinking About Relational Pedagogies of Assessment
Get PDFWhat kind of assessment might emerge if attention is paid to posthuman and collaborative pedagogies? In our chapter we propose a relational praxis to assessment in higher education that builds upon a collaborative, affirmative ethics and that speaks to an embodied and affective experience. We explore alternatives to normative assessment practices in order to resist traditional structures of individualisation, competition and alienation. We reflect on our attempt to dismantle hierarchies through the form of writing ‘love letters’ between each of the four authors. The exchanges, movement and duration implied in the sending, receiving and re-sending of letters to each other by post in a process of posthuman, collaborative writing created a space to think about, and experience, care and joy.
This edited volume presents a post-humanist reflection on education, mapping the complex transdisciplinary pedagogy and theoretical research while also addressing questions related to marginalised voices, colonial discourses, and the relationship between theory and practice.
Exhibiting a re-imagination of education through themed relationalities that can transverse education, this cutting-edge book highlights the importance of matter in educational environments, enriching pedagogies, teacher-student relationships and curricular innovation. Chapters present contributions that explore education through various international contexts and educational sectors, unravelling educational implications with reference to the climate change crisis, migrant children in education, post-pandemic education, feminist activists and other emergent issues. The book examines the ongoing iterations of the entanglement of colonisation, modernity, and humanity with education to propose a possibility of education capable of upholding heterogeneous worlds.
Curated with a global perspective on transversal relationalities and offering a unique outlook on posthuman thoughts and actions related to education, this book will be an important reading for students, researchers and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, sociology of education, posthumanism and new materialism, curriculum studies, and educational research.
The publication 'Towards Posthumanism in Education: Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings' includes the chapter 'Love Letters as Ways of Thinking About Relational Pedagogies of Assessment' which was a collaboration involving EPRG Members Ana Vicente Richards (UAL/LCC PhD Researcher), Dr Mark Ingham (UAL/LCC Reader), Liz Bunting (UAL Exchange), and Vikki Hill (QMU)
Printed Matter Artists' Book Fair
Get PDFScreening of One-Thing-After-Another video at the Printed Matter Artists' Book Fair, New York in the Image Ecology project space
The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker
No full textOn January 17th 1874, Eng Bunker woke to discover his brother Chang was dead. The twin brothers, Siamese immigrants and entertainers who had carved out an uneasy space in the rotten heart of the American Dream, were conjoined by a band of cartilage and shared a liver. This is the story of Eng’s final hours; alone for the first time in his life. Using puppetry, music and striptease, this is a gothic horror about the brutal cost of assimilation, being entirely alone in the universe, and about waking up tethered to a dead body.
Commissioned by Kakilang and supported by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant
Inclusive Design Framework: EDI in the Workplace Actions and Implementations
Get PDFEquity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is widely accepted as an approach across businesses. Within design, this manifests both on an organisational level, in the policies, practices and culture of the organisation and design teams, as well as on a design output level, in the inclusive design values, methods and products the team designs. Inclusive Design, “design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference”(Inclusive Design Research Centre, no date), widens audience and customer bases by creating products that are suitable for a wider range of people. “Diverse firms and product teams have repeatedly been shown to make better decisions, come up with more competitive products, and better understand potential customers. Racial and gender diversity are linked to increased sales revenue, more customers, and greater relative profits” (Wachter-Boettcher, S., 2017. It is widely acknowledged (Wachter-Boettcher, 2017; Costanza-Chock, 2020; Noel and Paiva, 2021) that a workforce that reflects the makeup of the general population will be able to better design for a wider range of people, as opposed to reinforcing current inequalities
Building Resilience in Global Business During Crisis: Perspectives from Emerging Markets
No full textA series of calamities has, in recent years, had an impact on business performance. This book explores strategies and business responses in times of crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the hyper competitive market environment have compelled organizations and industries to redraw the limits of their operational and strategic activities. Organizations in emerging markets are facing a great challenge in keeping their businesses afloat in these difficult times. This book offers an insight into how businesses and markets have been affected globally. Focusing especially on emerging countries and markets, it presents an assessment of how they can adapt their strategies to respond to the current trends and crises. Examining effective management techniques and practices, consumer behavior, supply chain and human resources management from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book draws links between businesses, consumers and academic theories on business management, marketing and consumer studies.
This book will be an indispensable resource for managers in different sectors. It will also be of interest to researchers and students of business studies, management studies, marketing, strategic management, global business outsourcing, global business environment, besides being of use to government agencies, practicing managers and research agencies