Dear Colleagues,
This will overlap with work some of you are doing.
Promises to be an interesting event.
Yours,
Ken
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CALL FOR PAPERS
New Views: Repositioning Graphic Design History
A two-day international symposium that takes a fresh look at Graphic
Design History and its relationship to design education and
professional practice
Thursday 27 October 2005: Welcome and opening lecture
Friday/Saturday 28 -29 October 2005: Keynote lectures and concurrent sessions
Venue:
School of Graphic Design
London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB UK
The main aim of New Views is to offer a platform for proposing new
narratives of design practice, its history and to take into account
related areas of economics, philosophy, linguistics and digital
technology as well as visual and material culture. We welcome
submissions from a diverse range of backgrounds, disciplines and
design practices. This may also included papers addressing relevant
and related histories of typography, illustration and
photography/film.
Papers are sought for the symposium which focus on the following areas:
National and cultural design histories
Graphic Design History and contemporary practice
Graphic Design and philosophy
Feminism and Graphic Design History
New historiographies of Graphic Design
Politics and Graphic Design History
Economics and the business of Graphic Design
Graphic languages and alternative histories
Critical theory and Graphic Design History and practice
Digital and analogue: the return of the handmade
Education: developing curricula and Graphic Design History
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, together with full contact
details should be sent in MS Word or PDF format and copied to both
organisers:
Teal Triggs
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Kerry William Purcell
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Submission of Abstracts: 15 March 2005
Please note that paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes
followed by discussion.
Final paper submissions due in advance of the symposium: 1 October
Plans are for proceeding papers to be published Spring 2006.
Any specific queries about the symposium or call for papers may be
addressed to:
Teal Triggs
Head of Research
School of Graphic Design
London College of Communication
Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, UK
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