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Letterpress @RCA
11 November
6 – 8.30pm
Creative Review’s new ‘CR Club’ for subscribers launches with a talk by the world-renowned typographer, design and letterpress practitioner, Alan Kitching (RDI AGI Hon FRCA). Following the lecture, guests will have an opportunity to view the GraphicsRCA exhibition. This is an invitation-only event.
For details please contact: sam.halkyard@centaur.co.uk
For subscribers: creativereview.co.uk/cr-club
Senior Common Room, Frayling Building, Royal College of Art
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Graphic Design Education Now
18 November
6 – 8.30pm
Drawing upon Professor Richard Guyatt’s views on the ‘interplay of the faculties of head and heart and hand’ this panel of eminent RCA graduates and tutors will explore what constitutes graphic design education today.
Panellists: Professor Bruce Brown (University of Brighton), Professor Dan Fern (Emeritus, RCA), Sophie Thomas (Thomas.Matthews; RSA), Professor Phil Baines (CSM) and Cathy Gale (Kingston University).
Moderated by Professor Teal Triggs, Associate Dean, School of Communication, RCA
Senior Common Room, Frayling Building, Royal College of Art
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RCA Design Start-ups + Book Launch
25 November
6 – 8.30pm
Panel discussion on the noble RCA graphics tradition of successful design groups emerging fully formed after graduation. This is a subject of continuing interest, as the RCA is widely seen as the home of this trend.
Panellists: Philip Carter and Phil Wong (Carter Wong), Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas (A Practice for Everyday Life), Valerio Di Lucente, Erwan Lhuissier and Hugo Timm (Julia).
Moderated by Jeff Willis, Deputy Head, MA Visual Communication
Senior Common Room, Frayling Building, Royal College of Art
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, the book, has been prepared to accompany the exhibition, taking the past 50 years as its spring-board while also looking to future graphic design directions. It includes text by leading writers and practitioners on graphic design history, education and the profession, as well as interviews with leading members of teaching staff from the past and present alongside graduates of the course. It features a collection of images, many never before published, as well as rare photographs documenting the social life and studio activities of the College. The book, which comes with gatefold cover and foldout inner pages, features a centre-fold timeline and visual essays throughout.
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What is Graphic Design and Who is it For?
02 December
6 – 8.30pm
With each new generation of students and tutors comes the question: What is graphic design? We revisit this debate with a panel of experts comprising current practitioners. Questions to be tackled include: • What is the point of teaching a subject than is best learned ‘on the job’? • In the age of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, are we living at time when everyone is a graphic designer? • What is the role of craft and tradition in a world of perpetual change and technological advance?
Panellists: Neville Brody (Dean of School of Communication, RCA), Lucienne Roberts (LucienneRoberts+ / GraphicDesign&), Michael Johnson (Johnson Banks), more panellists to be announced.
Moderated by Adrian Shaughnessy, Senior Tutor, MA Visual Communication
Senior Common Room, Frayling Building, Royal College of Art