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NEWSLETTER november 2019

MA Graphic Media Design

Contents

ALWFAV III
MA GMD Grad Show
Open Evening +
Funding Awards
Adapt Award
Indymedia 20 years
#VirtualSurgery
How to Run a...
Notes on Dynamic...

A Line Which Forms a Volume III
— Launch & Symposium

Thursday 6 December 2019
7 - 9pm (registration from 6pm) 
London College of Communication

MA Graphic Media Design (MA GMD) invites you to join us for the launch of the third issue of A Line Which Forms a Volume. The symposium will present a critical reader of graphic design-led research that is authored, edited, designed and published by MA GMD course participants

We are excited to feature Paul Soulellis and Legrand Jager in the volume, whose work has informed participants' routes of enquiry. Alongside, a select number of graduating participants, who have contributed to this edition, will present abstracts from their research. Further guests to be announced shortly.

The third issue of A Line Which Forms a Volume frames the act of publishing research through the metaphor of the roundabout, itself a landmark of Elephant and Castle at one time. As in publishing, the roundabout allows circulation and instigates cooperation and interdependence. Participants actively cooperate with each other, driving their research through parallel and intersecting lanes, developing in constant motion. Despite the established set of rules and conditioned access, its’ effectiveness depends mainly on the relation of the participants inside, using the space not only for circulation but also to be subverted for revolutionary and celebratory ends.

With great thanks to editorial advisor Billie Maruben.

Tickets
 

design: Jaime del Corro, Paloma Moniz, Roxy Zeiher 

MA GMD Postgraduate Show 2019

We invite you to join us for the MA GMD Postgraduate Show, which
sets out to explore the use of graphic design as a critical tool to investigate the complexities of contemporary society. The graduates are keen to share the insights and propositions they have established through intensive and original design-oriented research — taking on subjects concerned with labour, eugenics, politics, language, identity and other prevailing topics that speak of our present and future times.

Visit @magmdlcc and www.magmd.uk for trailers and extracts of graduate work in the coming weeks.

RSVP

PREVIEW BREAKFAST
Wednesday 4 December, 8.30 – 11am

LAUNCH NIGHT
Wednesday 4 December, 6 – 9pm

SHOW OPEN
Thursday 5 December, 11am – 9pm
Friday 6 December, 11am – 9pm
Saturday 7 December, 11am – 9pm 

design: carlos romo melgar & john philip sage

MA GMD Open Evening + Funding Awards

Thursday 6 November
London College of Communication

The course team will introduce our guests to the philosophy and intentions of the course. Our current participants will also join the event to share insights from their research practices and lead a discussion on the opportunities that have encountered through the course. 

Bookings 

Each year the MA GMD course awards the Clive Baillie Scholarship, worth £5,000. This is available to one UK or EU resident joining the MA Graphic Media Design course in October 2020. Full details of the application and selection process available here.

In addition, the UAL UK/EU Postgraduate Scholarships awards 150 scholarships annually, worth £5000 each, to support full-time MA study. Full information here.

Image (top): installation by lisa litchblau + martin stesko, 2019

British Council Emerging Designers of the Year! 

MA GMD alumni Richard Ashton and Adapt co-founder Josie Tucker have been selected as one of 10 emerging designers profiled by the British Council this year.

Adapt is a climate club concentrating purely on the climate crisis through design, community building and promoting personal and collective action. Find out more about their practice in an interview at this link

design: adapt

20th anniversary of Indymedia

As one of the founders of the UK and London Indymedia networks (1999 to 2012), MA GMD tutor Tony Credland will be joining his London affinity group in giving two papers at the 12th OURMedia Conference in Brussels, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Indymedia, a global network of alternative websites and media collectives numbering 190 active centres at its height. The Indymedia network was set up in 1999 in Seattle to support the global anti-capitalist WTO protests, exploring new ways to bypass the corporate media and enable reporting direct from the streets, utilising the Internet, radio, cinema, print, video and media centres. 

The conference confronts this history by asking three questions: What is left of the Indymedia network after 20 years and how has it helped in shaping the evolution of contemporary alternative media? How can we explain the decline of Indymedia’s local and regional centers? How has the role of Indymedia evolved over time with in social movements? And what influence can the 'Indymedia experiment' have on future alternative media initiatives? 

Images: indymedia london

#VirtualSurgery

MA GMD alumni Cristina Rosique and Suki Law of Mirador Collective recently presented #VirtualSurgery Exhibition.  

In an era when posting your food on Instagram is more important than eating; when selfie is a representation of one’s identity; when one seeks to transform themselves to become their filtered selfie, is there still space for us to reveal who we truly are? Are we shaping our identities on social media or is social media shaping us? Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other, as pointed out by Guy Debord. This society has taken the idea of spectacle to an almost surreal extreme.

#VirtualSurgery Exhibition is a response to the workshop – #NoFilter, that Mirador Collective had conducted in collaboration with a group of young females from Rugby Portobello Trust and Amplify Studio.

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

MA GMD tutor Carlos Romo Melgar, in collaboration with John Philip Sage, recently designed How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, edited by Mark GrahamRob KitchinShannon Mattern and Joe Shaw and published by Meatspace Press.

The book speculates what would it be like to live in a city administered using the business model of Amazon (or Apple, IKEA, Pornhub, Spotify, Tinder, Uber, and more), or a city where critical public services are delivered by these companies? With 44 contributing authors and 38 chapters, the book combines speculative fiction and analysis of 38 different business models and practices when applied to running our cities of the future. 

The design aims to foreground the way we approach long formats of text through the subdivision and composition of pages. It also proposes a typographic system which explores uncanny textures of the text block with a combination of six popular – and very similar – typefaces. 

Visit Meatspace Press to purchase and/or download for free.

Notes on Dynamic Interventions

photograph of publication open page

Notes on Dynamic interventions is a publication reflecting on the Urgent Publishing Conference 2019, written and designed by current MA GMD participants Laura Dirzyte and Bruna Osthoff.

Drawn to investigate the complex landscape of contemporary communication, Laura and Bruna attended the conference held in the Netherlands on the 15–17 May 2019. The key question driving the conference discussions was: how can we as designers, writers, artists, developers and publishers intervene in the public debate and counter misinformation in a relevant manner? Laura and Bruna summarised key ideas from the talks and designed a publication where readers have space to add their reflections. The publication has also been employed a discursive prompt for a series of roundtable discussions hosted at LCC, exploring further questions such as 'How to write as well as design for urgency without succumbing to an accelerated hype cycle in our respective disciplines and personal practice?'.

The conference visit and publication production was funded by the LCC Graduate School Fund, a fund that encourages all postgraduate students at the College to develop their own ideas for exhibitions, events, and activities that bring together the postgraduate community.

Laura and Bruna discuss the project in more detail in a recent interview available at this link.

DESIGN: Laura Dirzyte and Bruna Osthoff





MA GRAPHIC MEDIA DESIGN

Through intensive and original practice-led research, we support our participants to develop an independent and critical practice - with a view to producing relevant and unexpected perspectives on and for the world.

The MA Graphic Media Design course is accepting applications for our October 2020 start.


CONTACT

Paul Bailey, Course Leader
p.bailey@lcc.arts.ac.uk

@magmdlcc | @LCC_Graphics | www.magmd.uk
 

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