20th January with Tim Stephens.
Meeting my tutor for the first time was really thought provoking. We discussed my professional career & experience. During this time, I’ve worn ‘multiple hats’ – those of designer, educator and manager which all influence ‘how’ and ‘what’ I teach now. I tell him about my experience during Covid, using my time to return to all that I had enjoyed as a student – attending lectures and workshops on graphic design in a broader context. I wanted to increase my knowledge base and decided to re-educate myself from the Eurocentric perspective I had experienced throughout the education I had received in the UK & Holland, embedded throughout my career since. Prior to even thinking about a return to teaching, I was able to attend online lectures all over the world. It was electrifying to see the diversity of graphic design that exists. I am mindful to now share this understanding. I constantly ask my students their perspective & experience in relation to the environment or location they have come from to study at Ual – as a group we gain a lot from knowledge sharing through class discussions and debates.
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2021
- TypoCircle x Naresh Ramchandani: Creativity for Social Change. 4th February.
- Atkinson Hyperlegible: legibility and accessibility. 16th February..
- Genius on Display: Tré Seals. 25th February.
- Nüshu, a script created by self-educated women in a remote region of China. 16th March.
- The Political Posters of Thomas W. Benton. 16th March.
- TypoCircle x Pali Palavathanan @ Templo. 25th March.
- Conversations on Design & Race: Getting Back to Our Roots. 7th April.
- Exploring Language, Politics and Typography: Kelly Walters. 22nd April.
- Can Art Stop a War? The Power of Posters. 27th April.
- Letter Exchange lecture by Nancy Ouchida-Howells. 16th June.
- The top-heavy g: Julius Klinger’s lettering and type design with Paul Shaw. 18th June.
- Letterform Lecture: A Script That Pleases The Eye with Iyad Naja. 22nd June.
- Ella: The Typographic Link Between Calligraphy & Brutalism w/Laura Meseguer. 28th June.
- Fight the Man: Posters & Politics of the 1960s & ’70s. 13th July.
- Letterform Lecture: Elementype, a practical guide to typographic use by two award winning Mexican designers.13th July.
- Posters, Politics, and Satire: A Conversation. 22nd July.
- Jewish Identity & Advertising: Posters in The Third Reich. 29th July.
- An Exploration of Angel DeCora’s Design and Lettering Work.19th October.
- The History of the Afro with Michele Washington. 17th November.
2022
- Writing Around the World: Trends & Observations.15th February.
- Enric Crous-Vidal, a character in typography with Andreu Balius. 28th February.
- For a Labor History of Typography. 1st March.
- Type, Money, and Power: The First 5000 Years.15th March.
- Untangling Japanese Type. 29th March.
- Stick More Bills: An analysis of Indian posters in Film, Politics 31st May.
- Genius On Display: Johanna Toruño of The Unapologetic Street Series. 8th June.
- Oleksiy Chekal: Theological Aesthetics of the Letterforms. 15th June.
- An Exploration of Hong Kong Type Design. 13th July.
- The Tactile Book: Embossing Systems for Blind Readers. 9th August.
- It Takes a Village: Unsung Women and Their Contributions to Silent Film. 12th September.
- Typography at VKhuTeMas, the Soviet Union’s Revolutionary Art School. 14th November.
- Notes on the History of Writing. 5th December.
2023
- A Byte Sized History of Computer Typography. 14th February.
- TypoCircle Presents Maso Heck – There’s Nothing Comic About Dyslexia. 16th February.
- Growing Up Underground. 16th March.