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Catherine Dixon is a Senior Lecturer in Typography on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London and with Professor 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, letterpress and public lettering. She is also a designer and writer. As a freelance graphic designer her clients have included Laurence King and Penguin, for whom she has designed book covers including the award-winnning Great Ideas series. As a writer she has lectured internationally with her work published in several international design publications. She is a regular contributor to the design journal 'Eye', and coauthored with Phil Baines, the book Signs: Lettering in the environment (2003). Dr. Claire McAndrew is a Researcher, working on the EPSRC / AHRC / ESRC funded-project Safer Spaces: Communication Design for Counter Terror at London College of Communication. A social sciences researcher, she completed her doctorate in 2008 examining the utility of methods drawn from across the social and management sciences for mapping cognition in complex environments (Faculty of Management and Law, University of Surrey). Her experience of understanding risk perceptions in applied environments includes research in financial markets (PhD) and most recently in the transport sector (current EPSRC/AHRC project). Both of these research projects have been integral in shaping Claire's interest in understanding the intersection of cognition, information/ communication technologies and the social envirnoment. David M Coventon MA (CSM) Cert Ed (IoE) graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with an MA in Graphic Design (Distinction) in 1993. He is currently Head of Third Year and Acting Subject Leader of the BA (Hons) Graphic Design Course at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. In addition he runs his own studio practice: Every day, graphic design, London, which is primarily printbased design for publishing and education sectors. Previous to this he was one of the co-founders of www.twodesign.net. His current research interests focus on Information Design where he is developing an obsession with news broadcasting, cycles of language use and uncovering the power brokers behind the British News Media. David is also interested in enhance student feedback and cofacilitated with Peter Anderson a workshop for students on The Studio of the Future a 'blue sky' view of the education teaching and learning environment for the 'Space and Learning Environments: A View to the Future?' exhibition. Examples of recent research into pedagogical practices for student feedback and as a tutor at Camberwell College of Arts, facilitating workshops on future teaching and learning environments.

Peter Anderson originally hails from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a reseach fellow in i.e from 2008 2009. Peter has also been involved in the development of a large-scale collection of sculptures for Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry, Northern Ireland and more recently, co-edited with Dr Patrick Roberts Graphic Design This Way: Making the Visual World Intelligible (Zidane Press, 2008). His current corporate work has included rebranding Northern Ireland for Tourism. He is also regularly commissioned to produce large-scale commercial projects for clients including Puma, Moschino, EMI Records, BBC and the European Union. A past student of Central Saint Martins College of Art, London, Peter's work may be found in the Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Sackner Archive of Concrete Poetry, Miami and the Ulster Museum, Belfast. His work may also be found in numerous international design books including: Graphic Design for the 21st Century: 100 of the world's best designers (Taschen). Peter Nencini teaches at Camberwell College of Arts and is a freelance illustrator and designer; his recent work has been applied to sets for BBC's Glastonbury Festival, ITV's 'Hell's Kitchen' and Channel 4's 'T4. After graduating from the Royal College of Art he worked as a graphic designer in Brussels before returning to London. Nencini's work emerges out of explorations about kits, the space between pictures and words, make-do-modernism and local universes, where he is also looking at Enzo Mari, Herzog & De Meuron's models, Isotype, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the AA Book of British Birds. His work is featured in Secrets of Digital Illustration by Lawrence Zeegen (Rotovision, 2007) and Basics Illustration: Text and Image by Mark Wigan (AVA, 2008.)

Peter Cannings is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Design, London College of Communication. He originally trained in 3-dimensional design, studying Industrial Design at Central School of Art, Design and Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art. He practised as a freelance designer/maker for a number of years working on a range of commercial and domestic projects in furniture and interior design. As an 'early adopter' he played an important role in helping to establish the viability and integration of digital media as a core element in the graphic design curriculum. Cannings has been involved in a

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exploring the 'Re-birth of the Camberwell Press...in the digital era' which captures the essence of what happens at Camberwell particularly in terms of Graphic Design. He has been involved in ongoing research into the use and capture of verbal feedback in undergraduate studies to

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number of collaborative associations, including a book and exhibition with Giancarlo Leggio and students at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy and more recently working on a screen interface for London's Riverscape Lost and Found - a project undertaken by photographers Charles Craig, Graham Diprose and Mike Seaborne - for The Museum of London, new Cities Galleries exhibition. Phil Baines Design of lettering for 7 July 2005 permanent memorial, Hyde Park, London Architects: Carmody Groake Client: Dept. of Culture, Media 6 Sport with representatives from the Bereaved Families Group. The architects proposal for 52 stainless steel pillars each recording the date, time and location of the bombs and a plaque recording the victims' names, had already been submitted to Westminster City Council for planning application before the lettering detail had been resolved. Various fonts had been mentioned in meetings with the client, but it was decided that more specialist help was needed. I was commissioned in September 2008 after the architects had met with myself and two others. During initial discussions it became quickly apparent that any lettering needed to address the rigours of the casting process, and an additional consideration was a desire by the architects to suggest London in some way. Ignoring the narrow, constricted forms of Johnston's Underground alphabet I decided to use the wider, more straightforward, 19th century sanserif forms as a starting point. The alphabet (all 26 letters were needed) was drawn up and tested with full-size printouts before small samples were cast at Norton Cast Products in Sheffield to assess accuracy of cast and best visual depth. While generally positive, these tests revealed that significant work was still needed with the weight of the letters, necessitating a complete redrawing and further testing. In addition to the lettering itself, various iterations of layout and orthograpy were assessed before a final proposal was made to the Project Board in late November. Production artwork was finally approved in Feburary 2009 and Nortons began casting shortly after. Installation is expected to take place in late May with an official opening on the fourth anniversary. Peter Maloney is the Course Director of the Graduate Diploma in Motion Graphics at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Outcomes from current research into film analysis carried out at the Kubrick Archive have been screened and exhibited at the British Film Institute, Melbourne Museum and the Barbican Centre as well as presented at international conferences. Previous works in the fields of digital and interactive media, motion graphics and virtual reality have been presented at Tate Britain, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bekonscot Model Village and the National Gallery as well as international conferences such as ISEA and Ars Electronica. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has undertaken a CLIP-CETL funded research project

David Phillips currently divides his time between teaching on the Information Design Pathway, BA (Hons) GMD, Faculty of Design, London College of Communication and practicing, collaborating with architect John Pawson on a number of interior and retail spaces. His research interest is in the investigation of the relationship between architecture, meaning especially in relation to religious buildings as well as the role that materials, construction methods and forms can play in the expression of didactic and narrative themes within the built-environment. His research seeks to define the importance of analogous forms to the relationships with and the understanding of architecture by those who use it. Dr Ian Horton is Programme Leader for Visual Culture and Theory in the Faculty of Design at the London College of Communication. His doctoral research focused on the codification of British architectural education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and examined this in relation to theories surrounding the formation of elites. In addition to research into art and design education, he has written on national identity and architectural aesthetics, William Morris and the Artworkers Guild and colonialist stereotypes in European comic books. He is currently co-organiser of Beyond the Margins a series of international symposia exploring experimental typography that is running from 2009 to 2011. James Faure Walker is a Reader in Painting and the Computer at Camberwell College of Arts. He is a painter and digital artist. In 1998 he won the 'Golden Plotter' at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany. He co-founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. His book, Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer (Prentice Hall, USA, 2006) was awarded a New England Book Show Award. He has eleven works in the Victoria Albert Museum collection. He has been looking into connections between the how-todraw books of the early twentieth century and drawing software. He is currently working on a project for the South African World Cup 2010, to produce a print that evokes the event without being too specific. Kelly Chorpening earned her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. She moved to London in 1999. Recent exhibitions of her work include solo shows at ShillamSmith3, London (2006) and Salon am Hof, Vienna (2007). Kelly has lectured on drawing since 1994 to students of archaeology, engineering, conservation, architecture and art, and is currently the Course Director of BA (Hons) realms, the two are seen to be thoroughly interpenetrated.' Kelly is featured in dialogue with the artist Peter Morrens for the first issue of Th.INK, a cahier dedicated to discussion around contemporary drawing produced by Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. Th.INK was launched at a symposium in Ghent (2009), where Kelly and Peter discussed their contribution. Other speakers included: Norman Bryson, Ann

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Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts. 'My practice is driven primarily by an interest in understanding the dynamic that exists between the landscape and people in cities, and how this is comprised of a complex range of physical and mental information. This has been explored in my work through drawing, sculpture, still image projections and animation. Wavering between abstraction and figuration, I aim to suggest a resonant and reciprocal dialogue between familiar physical spaces and the mobile trajectories of mental activity. Rather than holding to a division of interior and exterior Dr Kevin Walker is Course Director of the MRes in Information Environments, and a Visiting Fellow at London Knowledge Lab. He also co-directs his own design and research consultancy, Walker RED. His research covers mobile and pervasive technologies, anthropology, spatial analysis and interaction design. Current research projects include Designing with Intenet, with other IE researchers; and Smartphones in the Museum, for the V&A. Prior to joining IE, Kevin conducted research on technology and learning in museums, schools and developing countries. He has designed software and installations and web sites for museums and galleries around the world. And he has worked as a journalist in radio, television, and print, most recently with a regular column in Educational Technology magazine. Linda Sandino is a Senior Research Fellow, Voices in the Visual Arts [VIVA] at Camberwell College of Arts as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the V&A Museum. She graduated from the V&A/RCA MA in 1991, specialising in the representation of crafts and the applied arts in word and image and is currently completing her doctoral research at the Centre for Narrative Research exploring the construction and meanings of life stories in the arts. As Keeper of the Camberwell/ILEA Collection of Design and Craft, research and teaching has concentrated on this area with a recent shift into Oral History after completing extensive and intensive life histories recordings for the National Life Story Collection at The British Library National Sound Archive interviewing artists, architects, craftspeople, and designers. Monica Biagioli is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Design at London College of Communication and is a member of Forum UNESCOUniversity and Heritage International network and AICA International. She studied International Relations at Brown University, Graphic Design at the Massachusetts College of Art and completed her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2000. Currently she is working on the Sound Proof series of exhibitions focusing on the site of the London 2012 Olympics in Stratford. She received a Gildea Award from Royal Geographical Society in 2008 for her work on the exhibition, as well as funding from St Katharine and Shadwell Trust (2008) and Arts Council of England (2008 and 2009). The series of exhibitions has at its centre an interest in taking a yearly pulse of reactions to the 2012 Olympics and the transformation

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Daems, Voebe De Gruyter,Rebecca Fortnum, Tania Kovats, Dr. Ed Krcma, Wendy Morris, Ans Nys and Dirk Zoete. Kelly was also a part of an exhibition at Voorkamer in Lier, Belgium, where artists included in the show make their work directly on the surfaces of gallery walls. For this, Kelly showed two recently made animations made with graphic projections on domestic interiors. exploring the use of Online Journals to encourage reflective dialogue and autonomous learning in students. For 2009/10 he has been awarded a Teaching and Professional Fellowship to undertake the project: Developing Communities of Reflective Practice. Sam Winston Typographic artist Sam Winston's experimental work blurs the boundaries between words and text. By turning words into images to disassociate their literal meanings and instead expose their artistic potential as purely visual tools, Winston's work challenges traditional ways of how we use language. His limited edition artist books are characterised by this playful approach to language, often fusing elements of children's fairytales and adult books, and featuring type, handwritten scribbles and crossed out sentences to form new meanings. His work has been exhibited at diverse venues, from Colette in Paris to London's ICA, as well as in more traditional establishments such as The Courtauld Institute and The British Library; recent commissions include the Comme des Garcons' guerrilla store in Hong Kong and The New York Times. He celebrated the reopening of the Saison Poetry Library on London's Southbank with an exhibition of new works entitled 'Volume' (2007/08) including a sculpture made from the twenty-volume Complete Oxford English Dictionary. More recently, Sam collaborated with the Hay Literature Festival (2009) and their broadcast sponsor Sky Arts in the creation of a ten-day interactive art piece. Taking the themes of 'fact' and 'fiction', he had over 8,000 Hay guests contribute their favourite words & definitions. This text was then cut up and placed in 6 collage artworks thereby creating an unique and revealing map of the language the Hay-going public associated themselves with. www.samwinston.com Teal Triggs is Professor of Graphic Design, co-Director of the research unit for Information Environments (i.e) and Acting Course Director, MRes Information Environments, University of the Arts London. She is also Course Director for MA Design Writing Criticism, Faculty of Design, London College of Communication. As a graphic design historian, critic and educator she has lectured internationally and her writings have appeared in numerous international design publications. She is co-editor of the academic interdisciplinary journal Visual Communication (Sage) and has edited three special issues including most recently Information Environments (August 2009). She is author of The Typographic Experiment: Radical Innovations in Contemporary Type Design (2003); co-editor with Dr Roger Sabin of Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics From 1976 to Now (2000); and editor of Communicating Design: Essays in Visual Communication (1995). She is currently working on Fanzines: A DIY Revolution about the graphic language of fanzines (2010). Triggs is principle investigator on a number of funded research and consultancy projects including community engagement with residents on the Aylesbury Estate, craft and design in India as well as communication

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taking place at the site in Stratford as a series of artist responses, manifested through the exhibitions and the multiples created for each show. Dr Patrick Roberts professional constituency integrates both the commercial and the academic: commercial activity - Design Director with offices in Rome, London and Paris. Clients includes Agnes B, Audi, Architectural Lighting Ltd, Nicholas Grimshaw Architects, Roca, wagamama. Lighting Design products exhibited in MOMA. His academic heritage - a science graduate with a PhD (LSE) in researching language as a structuring principle of verbal and visual management. Academic currency includes acting Course Director for MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins and co-Director of the Information Environments research unit at University of the Arts, London. Publications include Graphic Design - this way, Concepts of Graphic Design and Teenagers. Areas of interests include investigating challenges to the conventions of visualisation within globalised culture such as a paper presented at NewViews 2 conference (London, 2008) 'the impact of emerging Eastern Design sensibilities on established design structures such as the grid'.

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design for counter terror. Her work is included in the Paris Mus e National d'Art Moderne and was part of elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou (2009/10). Triggs is Visiting Professor, Durban University of Technology and she is a Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers.

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