KNOWLEDGE-IN-ACTION*
A graphic design research symposium
 
Wednesday 17 September 2008
1.30pm–5.00pm
 
The symposium has two main aims:
(a) to demystify the process of embarking on a research degree;
(b) to encourage PhD level research in graphic design, and its related
subject areas.
 
The event presents an opportunity to hear from speakers who have developed a
career in research, education and practice, since completing their PhD.
Reflecting on their experience, they will discuss a range of academic and
non-academic issues, talking informally about topics such as: the impact of
doctoral study on their career; the integration of research, education and
practice; developing research initiatives; and the balance between
deliberate and intuitive practice.
 
WHO WILL THIS BE OF INTEREST TO?
Those interested in pursuing a career in research; final year and
post-graduate students in graphic design and related fields of interest;
supervisors and potential supervisors; managers in Higher Education;
practising researchers and designers.
 
ADMISSION IS FREE
But all attendees will need to register their intention to come before
Monday 8 September—numbers will be limited.
 
VENUE
Bonington Lecture Theatre, Bonington Building
School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
Dryden Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom
 
 
PROGRAMME
 
1.30pm Welcome refreshments in Atrium
 
1.50pm Introduction
Robert Harland
Nottingham Trent University
 
2.00pm Keynote address
Prof Rob Waller
University of Reading
 
2.40pm Case study one
Dr Caroline Archer
Birmingham City University
 
3.10pm Refreshment break
 
3.30pm Case study two
Dr Paul Wilson 
University of Leeds
 
4.00pm Case study three
Dr Catherine Dixon 
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
University of the Arts London
 
4.30pm Plenary session
 
5.00pm Closing remarks
Frank Peters 
The Chartered Society of Designers
 
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BIOGRAPHIES
 
Caroline Archer has worked in the typographic industry since 1988, and has a
holistic approach to the subject being not only a practicing typographer but
also a teacher of its theory, a researcher of its history, and a writer &
journalist championing the typographic cause. Recently appointed Honorary
Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, Caroline has a PhD from the
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of
Reading and has written numerous books and articles about typography. She is
Partner in Type UK (www.typevents.com), which provides a consultancy,
networking, education and information service to the typographic
communications industry; a Director of Plus Expo Ltd (www.youplusus.net), a
not-for-profit company dedicated to raising the profile of graphic
communication; she is also a Director of Illuminate Ltd UK
(www.illuminateltd.co.uk) which specialises in the design and realisation of
cutting-edge, graphic light-installations with an interactive element.
 
Catherine Dixon is a Senior Lecturer (0.5) in Typography on the BA(Hons)
Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design,
University of the Arts, London and with Phil Baines, co-curator of the
Central Lettering Record, a photographic teaching archive. Her research
interests span the theoretical and practical and include type design
history, typeform description and classification, and lettering in the
environment. She is also a designer and writer. As a freelance graphic
designer her clients include Laurence King and Penguin, for whom she has
designed book covers including the award-winning Great Ideas series. Most
recently she designed the acclaimed Borough Market Cookbook: Meat & Fish
(2007). As a writer she is a regular contributor to the design journal Eye,
has worked on the website www.publiclettering.org and co-authored with Phil
Baines, the book Signs: lettering in the environment (2003).
 
Robert Harland is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for BA(Hons)
Graphic Design at Nottingham Trent University, and a part-time research
student at The University of Nottingham School of Built Environment. His
research focus is the relationship between graphic design and urban design.
Before pursuing an academic career he spent 15 years in private practice in
London, working for a range of national and international clients in United
Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany and Portugal in the private and public
sector. He is a Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers
and Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers.
 
Rob Waller is Professor of Information Design at the University of Reading.
Originally trained as a typographer, he had a research career with the Open
University, before leaving to start Information Design Unit (IDU) in 1988.
With business partner David Lewis, Rob grew IDU into the largest specialist
information design consultancy in the UK, working for many well known
brands. IDU was sold to the global branding agency Enterprise IG in 2001,
and in 2007 Rob left to return to an academic career at Reading, where he is
establishing a new research centre, the Simplification Centre.
 
Paul Wilson is a Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of
Leeds. His main research interests centre upon a conceptual reorientation of
typographic process and practice, exploring the relationships between
typography, writing and elements of everyday life. Recent projects have
included representing a year’s worth of magazine covers as a ‘typography of
sound’ for Wire magazine (UK) and the production of a live, online
‘typography of space’ for Bristol-based net-art platform Furthernoise. His
current practice-based research investigates the representation of
narratives of community and place. In particular it focuses on sites of
class experience and situated knowledge at points of change or transition.
He is a partner in the Northampton-based community arts organisation
Liquidiser (www.theliquidiser.co.uk).


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