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Royal College of Art
Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word
Traditionally, museums have displayed art as a means to tell a story. This exhibition presents the works of 13 artists which interweave personal stories with historial events to create new myths. Exploring ways in which stories can be told, the exhibition references literature, comics, films, documentary and myth. In designing their exhibition graphics and publication, we also referenced the graphical traditions of stories – creating decorative initial letters (like those found in illuminated manuscripts) for Futura font, and using papers familiar to novels, to tell the tale of the exhibition.
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Design Products Yearbook 2008
Publication
The Design Products MA course at the RCA is arranged in small study groups called platforms each with their own particular area of interest making it unique. In 2008, we asked each tutor (with their students) to write a text/manifesto to express their platforms ideas. This was printed on newsprint and used both as the publication and the exhibition, along with monochrome images of the works.
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Design Products Yearbook 2004
Publication
We designed the end of year catalogue for the Design Products MA course at the RCA with this small book of collected works - the images unified with process and graduating colours. We photographed the students in Hyde Park opposite the college. Each student held a number which formed the ‘key’ to find their name.
Credits: Photography by David Spero
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Design History at 21
Exhibition Graphics and Printed Material
We were asked to design an exhibition and poster to celebrate 21 years of the V&A/RCA MA in the History of Design. For the poster, we illustrated all the books published by alumni from the course. The exhibition was formed of a reading room of design objects, the walls of which were illustrated with hand-drawn portraits of past students, and the title of every dissertation written since 1982.
Poster illustrations by APFEL Credits: Wall illustrations by Karin Akesson and Hanna Melin
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