Camberwell Press presents ‘Let’s Get Quizzical: Design Pub Quiz’ at The Tiger, Camberwell Green, Tuesday 26 February.

Special guest Jim the Illustrator will act as compere for the evening.

Test your creative knowledge through picture rounds, font anagrams and multiple choice. Subject categories will include – typography, animation, illustration and film. Come down, drink beer, and compete!

Illustration and fine art print goodies to be won!

Date: Tuesday 26 February 2013.

Time: 19.30 – 21.00.

Venue: The Tiger, 18 Camberwell Green, London SE5 7AA.

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Camberwell Press will be launching a new book at the Kemistry Gallery in London next week. Entitled ‘Whatever Next: a discourse on typography’, the book and accompanying exhibition centre around a series of in-conversations that took place across London in June 2011.

“These discussions brought together a diverse range of designers, practitioners and artists for whom typography is in some way central to their practice. Starting with the speculative title Future Type Map, participants were asked to summarise the part typography has played in their work, the role it currently plays and propose what they feel the future holds.

Each participant was also invited to respond visually to the Future Type Map theme. The exhibition will showcase these responses and a series of stand out quotes from the book.

The book has been designed, compiled and edited by David Coventon, James Edgar and Frederick Williams and is published by Camberwell Press.

Camberwell Press is a forward-thinking, research-oriented publishing organisation based at Camberwell College of Arts.

Private View: Thursday 4 October 18:00 – 21:00.

Open: 4 – 20 October 2012 / Monday – Saturday 10.00- 18.00.

Venue: Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PD.

camberwellpress.org  /  kemistrygallery.co.uk

Camberwell College of Arts BA Graphic Design graduate Jennifer Cairns is currently exhibiting her ‘quirky prints in a quirky shop’. The solo exhibition displays hand printed typographical prints at Colour Makes People Happy. The exhibition features a mix of linocut and letterpressed prints and there are also limited editions which are available to purchase.
Jenny uses paint from Colour Makes People Happy to print with and her hand carved linocuts are individually printed pieces showing a mix of comical and quizzical phrases.

The exhibition is from 15th September until 2nd October at:
http://www.makespeoplehappy.co.uk/
To look at some more of Jenny’s work please check out her website:
www.jennycairns.com

Camberwell FdA Design Practice student Veronika De Haas has been awarded a Merit for her entry into the highly prestigious and rigourous ISTD International Typographic Awards.

This year’s judges were Creative Director and Graphic Designer Tom Hingston, Design Week Editor Lynda Relph-Knight, Robert Boon from Inventory Studio, Simon Dixon co-founding partner of dixonbaxi and Astrid Stavro.

Camberwell BA Graphic Design alumnus Charlie Bowden has an exhibition coming up at the Eastpak Gallery in London.
 
Charlie has been working with Eastpak for around 3-4 years now, so as he says it was “a natural progression to have his first solo show” with Eastpak at the Carnaby Street store.
 
The show entitled ’26′ is a site-specific installation of 3D letters. All are unique, one-off pieces.
 
The show is not about graffiti in the purest sense it is a response to graffiti and Charlie’s changing attitude towards it.
 
Private view: Thursday 5 May / 19.00 (rsvp – sheela@dustpr.com)
 
Dates: 6 May – 4 July
 
Venue: Eastpak Icon Store – 1 Carnaby Street, London, W1F 9QF
 
www.eastpak.com/carnabystreet  /  www.charlesbowden.com

‘Let’s Press’ is a short film about letterpress. The film was produced in support of Benoit Ollive’s piece for the ‘TypeSCALE’ show at Camberwell Space. The film was made by Archie McLeish and features Benoit Ollive and James Edgar. The poster in the clip features the Flaxman typeface designed by Edward Wright and is unique to the letterpress at Camberwell College of Arts.

www.strawberrymilitia.com /  www.graphicfury.com

The exhibition ‘TypeSCALE’ took place at Camberwell Space towards the end of last year. The exhibition was a representation of student, alumni and staff typographic work exploring the possibilities of wood and metal type from letterpress through to laser cut letter forms.

The works attempted to challenge accepted notions of size, scale, process and methods of reproduction of typographic printed outcomes and hint at future room for development of letterpress in the College and beyond.

The show was curated by David Coventon (BA Graphic Design Course Director), James Edgar (who runs the Letterpress workshop at Camberwell), Benoit Ollive and Frederick Williams.

Photography: James Edgar and Archie McLeish.

Interesting article over on It’s Nice That which features BA Graphic Design alumnus Jamie Thompson and BA Illustration alumnus Simon Memel. The article catches up with some of last year’s graduates to find out what they have been up to and what advice they would give this year’s graduates. Read the full article here.

See more of Jamie’s work – www.james-thompson.co.uk

See more of Simon’s work – www.simonmemel.co.uk

Images top to bottom: Jamie Thompson, Yo Majesty record sleeve (collaboration with Abi Green and Rex McWhirter), Simon Memel, invite for the University of the Arts London’s alumni season.

There is a nice little write up over on the Eye Magazine blog about the Design:Key Ideas – Word event that took place last week at Camberwell College of Arts. The event was organised in co-operation with Eye Magazine and guests included Anthony Burrill, Fraser Muggeridge, Marcus Leis Allion and John L Walters.

Sounds like the day was both thought provoking and productive from start to finish, what with Derek Yates (Course Director – FdA Design Practice + FdA Illustration for Sequence and Interaction) kicking the day off with the provocative statement that ‘art school thinking confuses freedom with creativity’, through to the workshop in the afternoon, of which the outcome will form the content of a book that will be published as a giveaway at the Camberwell degree show.

Visit the Design Key Ideas blog.

Key Ideas is a series of events organised by the Design Area specifically for Camberwell College of Arts design students. The three events – Object, Image and Word – examine issues and theories important to designers across the disciplines of graphic design, illustration and three-dimensional design. Cutting edge contemporary practitioners from a variety of backgrounds help illuminate the topics and students will have a chance to discuss the themes of the day in groups as well as to ask questions during panel discussions.

Key Ideas: Word – 12 May 2010

This Key Ideas discussion has been organised with the co-operation of Eye Magazine and takes as its starting point the contents of the spring issue (Eye 75), which features interviews with Anthony Burrill and Fraser Muggeridge.

This will take place firstly through a series of 30-minute provocations delivered by Anthony Burrill, Fraser Muggeridge, Marcus Leis Allion and Camberwell Course Directors David Coventon (BA Graphic Design) and Derek Yates (FdA Design Practice + FdA Illustration for Sequence and Interaction). The provocations will attempt to assess how and whether the starting points that seemed to be evident in ‘Typography Now’ have come to fruition.

Staff and students will then be given an opportunity to respond to these provocations through a discussion that will lead to the production of a series of large hand-drawn typographic sheets. These sheets will form the content of a book that will be designed and bound by a student team led by FdA student and a designer of the Key Ideas identity, Astrid Joublanc. The book will act as a record of the day and be published as a giveaway at the Camberwell degree show. Pages from the book could also be featured in the education section of Eye.

• Provocation 1 – The Problem With Expressive Typography.
• Provocation 2 – Typography With Words / Typography Without Words.
• Provocation 3 – Keep It Simple.
• Provocation 4 – The Discursive Practice That Produces Typography.

Guest speakers: Anthony Burrill, Fraser Muggeridge, Marcus Leis Allion, John L Walters.

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Take a look at the Design Area Key Ideas Blog.

Key Ideas Identity: designed by Miglena Minkova and Astrid Joublanc.