James Mosley and Alice Savoie are contributors to a new book published to coincide with the Congrès des Musées Européens de l’Imprimerie in Lyon. James Mosley contributes an inventory of ‘the materials of typefounding’, while Alice (who is an AHRC-funded research student) writes with Alan Marshall and Bernadette Moglia on ‘our typographic heritage’.
Copies are available from www.imprimerie.lyon.fr
Today is the last day to view the BA Graphic Communication final displays of work (the MA displays will be up a week longer). If you’d like to see some of the work online, go to spreadtheword2012.tumblr.com to see BA students’ work or www.infobook12.com for MA work. You can also buy the MA students’ new journal Typography with a view from the Department office for £5.
The public viewing for the BA and MA displays of work this year is from Tuesday 19 June to Saturday 23 June. This will include work by BA Graphic Communication, MA Book Design, and MA Information Design students!
We are open from 9.00am to 5.00pm, and on Saturday from 10.00am to 3.00pm. All are welcome to visit; some helpful location information is here, or contact Charlene McGroarty (c.mcgroarty@reading.ac.uk) for more information.
Local design agency Theme Group change their road sign every month, using pixel art to mark an anniversary or seasonal topic. The winner of the May competition was Part 1 student Craig Melvin, whose design reminds passers-by that this month is the 35th anniversary of the Star Wars film premiere. Although Craig would have preferred the sign to go up on May the 4th (ed. Oh, come on!) he is pleased with his internship at Theme during the summer vacation.
The latest update to Instapaper (AppleStore link) includes six new typefaces, including two that started as MATD student projects: FF Tisa by Mitja Miklavčič (2006) and Elena by Nicole Dotin (2007). Instapaper, a 4+ rated app, allows the user to collect content for reading in a highly user-friendly environment on an iPhone, iPad, or a personal computer. Extended commentary (and an image of Elena on the iPad) over at Typenotes.
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.
A series of seven poems by Simon Armitage are being carved into stones on the moors along the Pennine Watershed in Yorkshire by Reading Typography alumni Pip Hall and Wayne Hart. This short film shows Pip at work.
The Stanza Stones project is a collaboration between Mr Armitage, the Ilkley Literary Festival and imove, Yorkshire’s cultural project for the London 2012 Olympics.
The poems will be designed by lettercarver Pip Hall and carved by her and her apprentice, Wayne Hart, with some of the work taking place on location.
The first verses to be completed, on Pule Hill, were done on location and took a month to complete, with each of the 360 characters taking between seven and 10 minutes to carve.
Pip Hall said: ‘It feels quite a responsibility to try and make something which I feel very happy with and something which is hopefully going to enhance the landscape and people’s enjoyment of those areas.’
Pip is training Wayne Hart with the support of a two-year Apprenticeship Scheme run by the Memorial Arts Charity.
Read more and watch the video at BBC Leeds & West Yorkshire. (Top picture: BBC; lower picture: Ilkley Literature Festival)
Reading University Design does Good for Nothing from Good for Nothing on Vimeo.
Twenty-seven Typography & Graphic Communication students worked on creative briefs for four innovative social and environmental causes. Lots of enthusiasm, brilliant work and new Good for Nothingers recruited!
Thanks to Anouk van den Eijnde at Pipeline Project/Good for Nothing for setting up the clients, being so encouraging and making the film.
Athelas, based on a design created by José Scaglione when he was an MA student of the Typeface Design course, is now one of the fonts selected for Apple’s iBook app on the iPad. Athelas was reworked by Scaglione and fellow MATD alumna Veronika Burian for their foundry TypeTogether; it was part of the Tipos Latinos exhibition 2006, and was selected as winner of the Granshan competition 2008 in the text type category.
Design Portfolio Marketing Services sponsors awards to our students in memory of alumnus Vincent MA. This year’s winners were (l to r) Jaime Redgewell, Adam Holmes, and Katy Mawhood, shown here with Eric Kindel and Paul Luna.
Our thanks go to Alison Gold and her team at Design Portfolio for their enthusiastic support of our students.
