The ESAD MA in Communication Design, coordinated by Andrew Howard, organises intensive 3-day workshops for year one and year two students.
upcoming
14-16 May 2014
04-06 Jun 2014
to be announced
workshops
09-11 Apr 2014
workshop with Martin Conreen
designer, lecturer and researcher
Making director of the Institute of Making**and senior lecturer in design at Goldsmiths College. His research has focused on new and emerging materials, crafts, material culture, contemporary art, and manufacturing.
19-21 Mar 2014
workshop with Afonso Borges
designer, lecturer and researcher
Graduated in communication design, was general coordinator of design, video and sound at Porto Editora. Having won numerous awards, develops research in the area of simplification in design at LabCom.
26-28 Feb 2014
Workshop with Hamish Muir
designer, editor and lecturer
Founding principal of 8vo, editor of Octavo, International Journal of Typography, and lecturer at the London College of Communication; co-founder of MuirMcNeil Design Systems and Outcast Editions.
29-30 Jan 2014
Workshop with Emílio Remelhe
artist, illustrator, author and teacher.
Language, written and spoken, is the tool through which we navigate, interpret and express the world around us. It defines the way we think about things and the sorts of things we think about. This workshop looks the way in which we use language and how it uses us – how it informs our perceptions. Through a series of games and exercises students are asked to explore how language can establish unexpected connections and avenues of thought, and thus the central part it plays in the design process.
15-17 jan 2013
workshop with Daniel Eatock
a London-based artist and graphic designer, an obsessive design documentarian and a champion of democratizing information architecture systems.
His basic design methodology is rooted in a reductive logic that strives for objective and rational website designs. Eatock co-created, with Jeffrey Vaska, a free, down-loadable content management system called Indexhibit that enables people to build simple websites that bring content to the fore.
11-13 dez 2013
workshop with George Hardie
renown graphic designer, illustrator and professor of Graphic Design at the University of Brighton, teaching on postgraduate courses.
Based on his experience on the building of narratives, George Hardie's workshop explores the essential process of interrogation that designers need to develop in making critical choices and the ways in which the most ordinary objects can be used to tell stories.
20-22 nov
workshop with Pablo Martín
co-founder of Design By Atlas and Grafica, professor go Design School in Barcelona, where he has taught typography for over 15 years.
Based on his expertise as a graphic designer and educator, co-founder of Grafica with Fernando Gutiérrez, and in 2013 of Design By Atlas with his partner Astrid Stavro, Pablo's workshop examines the ways and the extent that designers can reflect the content of a work in the visual forms and aesthetic choices that we make.
4-6 nov 2013
workshop with Russell Bestley
course director of the MA in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication.
Drawing on his expertise as educator - he's co-author, with Ian Noble, of the renown book "Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design" - the workshop was centered on pragmatic methods and visual strategies of exploring and questioning research themes. The success of the workshop was demonstrated by the progress students made in refining their major project proposals, and as Ian Noble used to say "learning to ask better questions".