Category: awards

Typography goes to Buckingham Palace

Queen's Anniversary Prize group photo

We weren’t allowed to take photographs inside the Palace, so here are staff and students in the courtyard, still in a daze after the splendid ceremony and being presented to the Duke of Edinburgh (who, it can be revealed, likes his iPad because the type is big enough to read). From left to right: Edward Liu (MA Information Design), Pooja Saxena (MA Typeface Design), Eric Kindel, Paul Luna, Jeanne-Louise Moys (PhD student), Hannah Smith (BA Graphic Communication, Part 3), Sue Walker. Jake Giltsoff (BA Graphic Communication, Part 2) escaped before the picture was taken.

Typography’s excellence wins Queen’s Anniversary Prize

We are very proud that the Department has won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the University of Reading. Our submission, ‘Design for reading: teaching and research in typography and graphic communication’, was awarded a 2010–12 Prize in recognition of the excellence and world-wide reputation of our research and teaching and learning. The Design & Print Studio’s unique work with students was also part of our submission. Your can read more about the Prize here, and download our press release and information about our research, enterprise, teaching and learning, and collections (warning – large file!).

The photograph show members of the Department and the Design & Print Studio with Acting Vice-Chancellor Tony Downes.