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The University of Brighton, in partnership with the Edward Johnston Foundation, is running a set of three inter-related activities devoted to Book Arts: a conference, a summer school and a competition.

Collectively titled Books that Fly, all three activities will be held within the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the Grand Parade campus of the University of Brighton in July 2008.

What is unique about this project is that it is a public programme that offers candidates at all levels the opportunity to participate in three aspects of Book Arts all at one venue.

Books that Fly is open to all with no entry requirements and participants can choose to take part in any or all of the three activities presented on the theme of Book Arts.

The project will begin with the conference in the Sallis Benney Theatre on July 5th, when we will also launch the competition and announce its theme.

This is followed by a non-residential two-week summer school from Monday July 7th to Friday July 11th and Monday July 14th to Friday July 18th. With workshops in bookbinding, traditional and experimental calligraphy, etching process, silkscreen multiples, letterpress, photographic processes, and digital type design; seminars and talks on aspects of marketing and self-publishing from Prof George Hardie, Jackie Batey, Sue Gollifer, Mark Pawson and Gerald Fleuss.

Call for entries application form published on 5th July. The themed competition submissions 1st and 2nd September. Cash prizes announced 12th September

The project's aim is to spread the word about Book Arts to a wider audience and to extend an invitation to share ideas that will support and encourage developments in the field of handmade books.

Fees: Conference £30. The standard fee for the summer school incorporating the conference is £530.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT BEFORE THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS 16TH MAY £480
STUDENT DISCOUNT AND EARLY BIRD COMBINED £430
Download application form from http://www.brighton.ac.uk/booksthatfly or apply to booksthatfly@brighton.ac.uk for brochure.

Posted by Gerald Fleuss at 08:56 PM. Filed under: Education and Research Conference, Summer School and Competition - July 2008 (0)Comments

ATypI Brighton 2007
September 13 - 16, 2007
Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton
River Valley Technologies have provided multimedia recordings of the talks held at Sallis Benney Theatre, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton. The conference focused on 'Hands On' engagements and physical encounters with letters whether encountered on pages, screens, stones, walls - in books, buildings or landscapes. [includes 'The legacy of Edward Johnston' by Gerald Fleuss, 'Reynolds Stone - a life in graven images' by Humphrey Stone, 'Writing and lettering and illuminating - and mechanisation?' by Richard Hollis and 'National Armed Forces Memorial Staffordshire' by Richard Kindersley.]

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The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design, through its partnership with the University of Brighton, Royal College of Art, RIBA and V&A Museum, aims to enhance learning and teaching in design through research that brings together resources and expertise from Higher Education and collections-based partners.
The EJF is pleased to announce that CETLD has approved funding for the following project commencing in September 2007 (a regular progress report will be introduced):

Lettering - the Legacy of Edward Johnston

Project leader: Eiichi Kono, University of Brighton with Gerald Fleuss, Edward Johnston Foundation and Dr Rowan Watson, V&A

This project will provide a consolidated learning space for HE design students by bringing together collections and material from partnership and other archival collections to advance the understanding of Edward Johnston and his legacy in terms of his rediscovery of the fundamentals of formal handwriting and lettering and its continuing and widened relevance in the contemporary digital world (from electronic books to directional signage).

In collaboration with the curator at the V&A and curatorial colleagues at the RIBA, and in the design archives at Brighton, the project will examine the material located in all archives and in parallel include fresh exploration of the Edward Johnston Foundation's archive in Ditchling with the aim of making it accessible to students in Higher Education as well as other researchers and students both physically and on-line. Links to on-line materials located in other collections will be used to enhance the teaching materials and online effectiveness of the materials developed.

A second strand will be the design of an educational programme for practice-based learning at Levels 2 and Masters to explore the relevance of Johnston's principles to contemporary letter design. The historical thread informing the development of letterform through the ages, forming the major element in Johnston's teaching, has virtually disappeared in the educational environment and the importance of re-establishing it is timely. Without the knowledge of this tradition further development in, for instance, the field of type design is stultified. These teaching materials will be tested by introducing them to students on the extension studies courses at Brighton, where they will automatically be drawn from a wide range of disciplines.

The project will be further enhanced and evaluated by outreach to a wider audience of learners and students through the medium of video podcasts, lectures, course materials, workshops and demonstrations and exhibitions.


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