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A Talk by Chris Edmunds, United Creatives
Thursday 7th June at 6.30pm
United Creatives are a graphic design agency specialising in works for the spatial environment and embracing mediums beyond paper and ink otherwise alien to graphic design.
Ins...
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{jcomments off}A talk by Nic Banks, Founder of Atelier Pacific
Tuesday 13th November at Gensler, Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street, London EC3N 1AH
In recent years, many parts of Asia have become high-density urban environments where people are...
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A talk by Julia Petretta
Friday 20th July 2012 at 6.00pm
Keep it simple and don’t make people think – this is the common ground rule for signage and wayfinding designers. Simplification in multi-script wayfinding environments however is anyth...
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{jcomments off}A talk by Speirs + Major
Thursday 6th December at 6.00pm at ARUP, 13 Fitzroy Street London W1T 4BQ (followed by our xmas soiree)
Light is an intrinsic part of our lives, our cultural make up and our means of experiencing spaces a...
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A talk on the ongoing transformation by Edward Jones, Dixon Jones
Thursday 2nd February 2012 at 6.30pm
Exhibition Road is home to some of Britain’s most important institutions and in 2004 was the subject of an international competition for design...
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A talk on Edward Johnston's Underground Lettering - a century of influence on signs and identity by Mike Ashworth
Tuesday 3rd April 2012 at 6.30pm
Nearly a century has passed since the commissioning in 1916 by the London Underground group...
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{jcomments off}A Talk by Richard Simon, Applied
Date and venue to be confirmed (carried over from 2012)
In December 1961 Herbert Spencer published an article in Typographica 4 called Mile-a-minute Typography. in it he voiced the "urgent need to re...
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A Talk by Martin Cutts, Research Director of Plain Language Commission
Thursday 6th September at 6.30pm
After getting a £100 ticket from a private parking company, Martin Cutts won a court case in 2011 because the judge found the car-park’s...
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A talk by John Wood, Executive Chairman, CCD Design & Ergonomics
Thursday 3rd May 2012 at 6.30pm
Human factors is regarded as a dark art whose practitioners have a tendency to respond to queries with ‘well it depends’.
This talk is intended to d...
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A talk by Jason Bruges
Thursday 8th March 2012 at 6.30pm
Jason Bruges Studio, formed in April 2002, design and build interactive installations across four key sectors. These sectors include architecture, art, experiential marketing and lighting design c...
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A talk by Alan Penn
Wednesday 7th September 2011 at 6.30pm
Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing at The Bartlett, University College London, will talk about 'space syntax' research into the way that the design of spaces within and be...
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A talk by Morag Myerscough, Studio Myerscough
Thursday 6th October, 6.30pm at The Gallery, EC1
“I definitely like solving things. I love information and I love interpreting that information. Not one to take the usual approach, my work is innovative, e...
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A talk on type design by Jeremy Tankard
Wednesday 11th January 2012, 6.30pm at John Lewis, Victoria
Jeremy has been involved with typefaces and lettering since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1993.
Initially he worked at Addison Design Cons...
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A Talk by Margaret Hickish
Thursday 8th December, 6.00pm at The Gallery, EC1 (please note the earlier time)
Followed by a Christmas soirée with quality food and drinks!
Managing Director of Design 4 Inclusion and with an impressive pedigree including ...
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A talk on safety signing by Jim Creak, Jalite PLC
Thursday 3rd November, 6.30pm at John Lewis, Victoria
BSi is adopting the newly revised international standard for safety signs, ISO 7010, which has implications for many of the existing British Standard...
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A talk by Nille Juul-Sørensen, Arup
Thursday 12th May 2011 at 6.30pm
How can transport systems and rail stations be designed to deliver a service for a new generation of passengers?
In recent years, technology has radically altered the way we live o...
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A talk by Lucy Holmes of Holmes Wood
Wednesday 6th July 2011 at 6.30pm
Lucy Holmes, founding Partner of Holmes Wood will talk about graphic design in the environment, making the leap from the printed page to a whole new world of scale, dimension, materi...
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A tour led by Andrew Barker
Wednesday 27th July 2011, 1pm-4pm
Meet at Northwood tube station at 12.30pm
Each member will need to bring two forms of identification, ideally one should be a passport and the other could be, for instance, a ...
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A talk by Tim Fendley
Wednesday 3rd November 2010 at 6.30pm
Wayfinding in cities is fundamentally an issue of urban design and architecture. Recent projects in Bristol, Brighton and London have made extensive use of information design and legibility pri...
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A talk by Tony Howard, Managing Director, Transport Design Consultancy (TDC)
Thursday 7th April at 6.30pm
Dubai Metro opened in 2009. It is the first passenger railway in the UAE and set to be one of the world's largest fully automated metros when compl...