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6x6: collaborative letterpress project
Full text link6x6 is a collaborative letterpress research project that brings together six leading UK based Higher Education design schools with active letterpress workshops.
The project combines a traditional understanding of letterpress composition with a contemporary approach to design education. This has been realised through the collaborative creation of a book, a travelling exhibition, a series of reflective essays, conference papers and the initial phase of the construction of an inventory of type and equipment within letterpress workshops in art and design schools in the UK
Twice Daily: The Visual Language of Circus Posters
Full text linkThe presentation explores the rich visual language of circus posters in the twentieth century, through a collection that charts the history of one circus family’s journey from Siberia to 1930s London. These primarily typographic posters provide an insight into the practices and processes of print across Europe at a time of intense technological change. Produced in short runs, posters inadvertently acted as type specimens for printers of the period, showcasing a range of primarily condensed sans serif typefaces that were mixed and thrown together according to size and the availability of characters. These were often local in nature, with posters produced for circuses in the north of England displaying woodletter typefaces designed and cut by Sheffield’s Stephenson Blake Type Foundry (1818—2005). Colours were limited by the nature of the print process, with sizes dictated by the presses available. These restrictions imposed by the physical and time-consuming methods of print production are no longer applicable, yet the vernacular tradition has left a lasting impact upon visual culture today
Places and Spaces: The Architectures of Art and Design Education
No full textConvenor and speaker at conference session at the Association for Art History:
The built environment of the art school is undergoing a period of transformation; with a shift towards interdisciplinary environments, mass investment in new buildings, and a widespread adoption of virtual or hybrid learning platforms. These environments can be understood as pedagogical tools that shape, house and locate students and practice physically, psychologically and artistically.
This session seeks to facilitate a dialogue that interrogates the forms, structures, ecosystems and histories of the art school. How have the studios and workshops —designed for learning, teaching, and making — influenced and informed curriculum, creativity, practice and community? It questions how the legacy of spaces designed for artistic practice determine and impact decisions made for the future, making a timely provocation on the position of arts education in relation to current social and political landscapes
About Consuming Books: The Nijhof and Lee Collection
No full textDescribed as ‘the best London design bookshop in Amsterdam’, Nijhof & Lee occupied a small corner of the Staalstraat from 1988—2011 and gained a worldwide reputation for their combination of contemporary and historical design publications. This exhibition provides a snapshot into what remained of the shop stock after their closure; graphic design books, magazines, exhibition catalogues, type specimens and self-published work. The collection contains over 3,000 volumes, with a particular focus on typography, lettering, ephemera, printing, and artists books.
The bookshop reflected the knowledge and interests of the owners and life partners Frank Nijhof and Warren Lee and their lives with books. It became the home of many events and exhibitions that explored aspects of design and publishing, furthering this discourse before the widespread adoption of social media. Positioning the material adjacent to the shop at LCBA draws a parallel between the two and celebrates the role of books and independent bookshops in fostering communities. Items from the collection are grouped in a non-hierarchical manner around format and process, allowing work from eminent designers to sit alongside the underexplored and for new connections to be made across time and space
After Nijhof and Lee
Full text linkArticle on the acquisition of the Nijhof & Lee Bookshop (Amsterdam 1988—2011) collection at UCA Epsom, and the issues of establishing an archive in an unexpected location.
'Bricks from the Kiln' is an irregular journal edited by Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart, sometimes with guest editors, that presents graphic design and typography as disciplines activated by and through other disciplines and lenses such as language, archives, and collage
Architectures of Art and Design Education: An exploration of UK and international design schools
No full textThe art school has had a fundamental effect on society internationally, influencing how the creative arts are represented and perceived. At a time that funding in the UK is placing arts education in crisis, this is the first book of its kind to investigate the concept of the 'art school' and its social impact and legacy. It highlights how the physical studios and workshops, designed for learning, teaching and making, influence and interact with the curriculum, creativity and practice. Beautifully illustrated, with both archival and contemporary photographs, many taken by the authors, this book celebrates the spaces dedicated to learning and teaching creative disciplines. Exploring a drastically shifting landscape in higher education, it celebrates the crucial relationship between the creative working spaces and the development of creative minds. A timely reflection on the current social and political climate, this book emphasises the significant role that the art school has to play in society, developing thriving creative industries and a wider culture of the arts
After Nijhof & Lee
No full textNotes on the acquisition and relocation of 3,500 publications from the former Nijhof & Lee Bookshop in Amsterdam to University for the Creative Arts at Epsom
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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