GD50: GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years was, in part, an attempt by staff and students working on the exhibition to try and articulate the ‘RCA-ness’ of the College. Having been a student of the programme in the 1980s, and then in your role as Deputy Head of Visual Communication, what do you understand this ‘RCA-ness’ to be? Jeff Willis: That’s a tricky…Continue Reading Interview: Jeff Willis on Graphic Design Education
G50: Can you say something about your practice, and about your work and area of study as a PhD student at the RCA? Kyuha Shim: My work is very diverse, although many projects use processes that are categorised as data visualisation, analysis and fabrication, gestural interaction in space and image raster. However to thread individual works into one developing…Continue Reading Interview: Kyuha Shim, designer of generative visual systems.
_ Letterpress @RCA 11 November6 – 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.ukFor subscribers: creativereview.co.uk/cr-club…Continue Reading Schedule of Events
Edited by Teal Triggs, Adrian Shaughnessy and Anna Gerber GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, is a book released to accompany the exhibition currently taking place at the Royal College of Art, fifty years after the first graphic design exhibition at the College in 1963. The book is densely packed with: specially commissioned essays by Mike…Continue Reading Fifty Years and Beyond: Exhibition Publication
On the evening of 4th November 2014, a huge crowd thronged into the Gulbenkian Gallery for the opening ofGraphics RCA: Fifty Years. The many hundreds of visitors included graphic design alumni, current students, alongside past and present staff. As the pictures show, it was a joyous occasion. Year groups were reunited, former students met former tutors (and…Continue Reading Celebrating Fifty Years: Private View