THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
DESIGN RESEARCH CLUSTERS

PRINT


Re-evaluating the relationship of analogue processes and traditional media within current Communication Design practice through practice-led research, reflecting on previous practice and exploring alternative approaches to the processes that define Communication Design.

A work-in-progress exhibition took place at CassArts gallery in Glasgow’s city centre in September 2023, providing a focus for discussions on collaborative practice and alternative approaches to making. The research group explores the tacit knowledge in craft and making in a contemporary context and is informed by Pamela H. Smith’s Making and Knowing project at Columbia University, Fraser Muggeridge’s PhD Thesis, “A knowing wrongness: innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional approaches”, the research leads own research on ‘The Handmade in a Digital Age’, Robert Sennett’s ideas expressed in ‘The Craftsman’ and Robert Sapolsky’s ‘Open Season’ article for The New Yorker, 30th March 1998, p57. Research is developed through a practice-led research approach as defined by Smith & Dean (2009).

Themes:
Drawing, letterpress, print, slow methods, analogue, time-based, reflective practice

Brian Cairns, Communication Design (Research Lead)
David Farrar, Print Technician
Ross Hogg, Communication Design
Ruth Kirkby, Caseroom Technician
Peter Locke, Communication Design
Alistair McClymont, Communication Design
Euan Moreland, Designer in Residence
Edwin Pickstone, Communication Design
Andy Stark, Communication Design


01: Brian Cairns, In the Moment, Screen print, 2023
02: Edwin Pickstone & Ross Hogg, Letter Loops, Animation, 2023
03: David Farrar, Doing Rite by Doing Worng, Screen print, 2023
04: Brian Cairns, In the Moment, Screen print, 2023
05: Peter Locke, Shorelines / Sure-lines, Drawing & wood engraving, 2023
06.Brian Cairns, In the Moment, Screen print, 2023
07: Peter Locke, Memo-cognition, Drawing, 2023
08: Ruth Kirkby, The Last Flame Before the Extinction of the World, Letterpress & Collage, 2023
09: Andy Stark, Suburban Safari: A View from the Barbecue, Photographic print, 2023
10. Euan Moreland, 2024
11. Alistair McClymont, An Uncertain Toroid, 2021



Brian Cairns
ICON12 CONFERENCE 

Brian Cairns presented at the international Illustration conference ICON12 in Minneapolis, USA in July 2024.


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03/07/2024 





Printshop! at Tramway, Glasgow
Edwin Pickstone & Ross Hogg
PRINTSHOP! AT TRAMWAY 

Edwin Pickstone and Ross Hogg developed PrintShop! exhibition at the Tramway. 

Printshop! is a participatory print exhibition that everyone can get involved in, centred around a programme of free drop-in printmaking workshops and our in-house letterpress.


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03/07/2024