Richard Hollis exhibition

Libby Sellers Gallery, 41-42 Berners Street, London W1T 3NB
23rd March – 28th April 2012

Libby Sellers is hosting a retrospective exhibition of the work of graphic designer Richard Hollis. It will reflect Hollis’s entire professional life, including his travels in the 1950s and 60s to Cuba, his role in the design of radical politics in the 1960s and 70s and his career-long investigation of the graphic design of culture. The exhibition will include 200 items from the designer’s archive, from personal collages made in the mid 50s to the graphic framework of Steve McQueen’s artwork ‘Queen and Country’ project.

Baseline/UCA, students and graduates: 17 year collaboration

The George Rodger Gallery, UCA Maidstone, ME16 8AG
10 October – 4 November 2011

The close working relationship between the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Maidstone and the international typographics magazine Baseline is the subject of an exciting new exhibition.

 

In the last 17 years Baseline has employed 20 students and graduates from UCA Maidstone’s Graphic Design: Visual Communication and Illustration courses.

 

Baseline’s editor and art director, Hans Reichert, said: “The relationship with UCA Maidstone has been hugely beneficial. We have worked with some incredibly talented and skilled people over the years and their contribution to the editorial design and layout of the magazine has been invaluable.

Hans, who is himself one of UCA’s honorary graduates, added: “There will be a diverse range of work on display, including some striking covers, posters layout and web designs.”

This is Design

Design Museum, London SE1 2YD
24 August 2011 – 22 January 2012

This is Design is a celebration of the Design Museum’s Collection, examining the impact of design on the modern world, exploring the consequences of design and how it shapes our lives and contemporary culture.

Prototypes, drawings, couture samples, models, first editions and finished industrial objects will be on display, including highlights such as the original Mini and the Moulton bicycle, large scale architectural models like Norman Foster’s HSBC Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, UK road signs and an Anglepoise lamp.

Find out more on the Design Museum website.

Type Design International Student Competition – Register Now

The Polish New Art Foundation Znaczy Się has an international type design competition for a typeface. There is no entry fee and all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate.

Register by 31 March 2011.

Submit entries by 31 May 2011

More information is available on the Znaczy Się website.

Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph – Typography Competition

Deadline: 30^th March 2011

A new typography book being published by HOW books is now accepting submissions. Selected work will be featured in Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph which will be released in early 2012.

Any design/art that has a typography focus. Posters, brochures, logos, stationery, annual reports, web sites, magazines, advertising, packaging, t-shirts, custom typography, custom fonts, you name it, we want it. There is no entry fee and you may submit as many entries as you like. Enter your best typography-based designs today and be a part of this exciting new book. Both design professionals and students are eligible.

More information about this opportunity is available at the Graphic Competitions website.

Type Design International Student Competition

Deadline:  May 31, 2011

Prize: 10 000 PLN (about 2,500 Euro / 3,500 USD)

The Polish New Art Foundation Znaczy Się announces an international type design competition for a typeface commemorating the birth centennial of Czesław Miłosz – poet, writer, translator and Nobel laureate.
For the young and talented, Znaczy Się want to open a platform to show and share their work, to refine technical proficiency and to reach audiences. There is no entry fee and all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate.

More information is available on the Znaczy Się website.