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March 4 March 25 April 22 May 13 Žiga Testen (SI) & Annie Wu John Warwicker Susan Jacobs Ultra Growing Old Alive Žiga Testen is a graphic designer, researcher and Susan’s practice spans drawing, sculpture and site- Design duo, friends and collaborators, Kate Rogers curator from Slovenia. He works collaboratively with Early in 2012 John was appointed Professor of Design specific installation. The varied facets of her work and Paul Troon formed Ultra after working rather long artists to realize their publications and has worked for at Monash with a remit not only to influence the consistently inform each other and typically reveal hours for other people and thinking their time was a number of international artists, cultural institutions undergraduate programme but to extend the research or subvert the latent potential of materials, spaces better spent working even longer hours for themselves. and publishers. He was a design researcher at the potential and possibilities within Communication and contexts she works with. Her work tends to be Jan Van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht 2008–2010, and Design and promote transdisciplinary research across process-driven and is informed by the expanded field Both finished their studies in the early 2000s and is currently a participant in the CuratorLab program all the activities with MADA. of drawing. Psychological and physical associations. worked together at a prominent design at Konstfack University, Stockholm where he is studio designing and winning awards for high working on a publication and exhibition about an In 1991 John co-founded the multi-disciplinary creative Since completing Fine Art Studies at the VCA profile clients such as Heide Museum of Modern overshadowed '70s Serbian graphic designer Dragan studio ‘Tomato’ and is still an active member of the Melbourne (1999), Susan has participated in solo, Art, Federation Square and Geelong Gallery. And Stojanovski. group. Tomato has worked across a wide range of group and collaborative projects in artist-run and now more recently in their own practice, for fashion media that ranges from graphic design & typography commercial galleries in , New Zealand and designer Dion Lee. Annie Wu is an Australian artist and designer currently through to film and video direction, architectural South America, as well as exhibiting in public art based in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Piet design, art installations and exhibitions, electronic institutions in Australia, such as in NEW010 ACCA, After completing his studies, Paul worked with Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her practice is preoccupied interactive media, fashion design, product design, Parallel Collisions Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art acclaimed artist David Band before eventually joining with text, publishing and graphic practices. Her work branding and strategy, sound & music. at the Art Gallery of South Australia and The 7th Asia Australian skin care brand Aesop as Senior Designer. ranges from notational and diagrammatic drawings to Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) at GOMA Paul also happens to be a teaching associate at text based installations and performances, dialogues, This lecture was originally presented in February 2013 Queensland. Monash and he really likes Pinot. Kate likes Pinot too, plays, short texts and artist books that deal with the at the D&AD President’s lecture series in London. almost as much as Paul does, but she also studied shoe history of abstraction, absurdist gestures in art, game Susan was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, making in Melbourne and in Florence and is pretty psychology and the playful potential of language. www.tomato.co.uk Melbourne (2010-12) and she been supported by good at speaking the language, even though she awards and grants such as The ANZ Visual Arts doesn’t like to admit it. www.un-making.com April 8 fellowship (1999), Australia Council of the Arts New Ken Garland (UK) Work Grant (2008), Art & Australia/Credit Suisse RIPE www.ultrastudio.com.au March 11 award (2010) and Arts Development Grants Emily Floyd Presented by MADA and Responsive Projects. (2009 & 2011). Most recently, she received a Skills and May 20 Is Your School Revolting *Tickets $45 / MADA staff & students free. Arts Development Grant from the Australia Council for David Lancashire the Arts, to research 1960s/70s Land Art sites through The Hand and Creativity Emily Floyd’s work has most recently made use of texts Ken Garland is a designer, author and teacher who South-Western desert regions of the USA. of political dissidence and counter cultural alternative has played a significant role in the development of After studying fine arts in the United Kingdom, living. Ideas of permaculture, Rudolf Steiner and contemporary graphic design. After studying design Susan is represented by Sarah Scout, Melbourne. David settled in Australia. Here, he worked for large seminal feminist language inhabit Floyd’s sculptural at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts in the advertising agencies and design studios before starting installations. Her approach to language is strategic; early 1950's, he opened his own studio, Ken Garland www.susanjacobs.net his own practice. game plans and play are used to outline the zeitgeist; & Associates, in 1962. ideas are rearranged and exaggerated in order to April 29 David’s work has appeared in numerous Australian and declare a resistance to topicality. Ken champions a belief in the social responsibility of Graduate Research in Design European graphic design publications. He is a multiple design, and his ideas are still as relevant today as when award recipient, including from the prestigious Goethe Recent exhibitions include Colour Bazaar, Heide he first published the groundbreaking First Things First Research is the process of systematic inquiry into Institute. David is one of only five Australian designers Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; 10 Ways to look manifesto in 1964. Ken is also the subject of a recently a given subject matter, in order to develop new admitted to Alliance Graphique Internationale. at the Past, NGV Melbourne and Kindness Undarta, published comprehensive monograph of his life and knowledge or to advance existing knowledge in a Habitat Centre, New Delhi; New Graphic Sculpture at work by Unit Editions. field. Graduate Research in Design at Monash — In 1999 he was admitted to the Victorian Government Anna Schwartz Gallery, ; Here small gestures through the Master of Design (Research) and PhD Design Hall of Fame. make complex structures, the inaugural MCA Bella www.kengarland.co.uk programs — seeks to advance knowledge in the fields Room Building Commission, Sydney; and This place of Communication Design and Industrial Design, by David has directed projects for Australian National will always be open, the inaugural Ian Potter Sculpture Ken will also participate in the 2013 Responsive way of practice-based research and theoretical inquiry. Council of the Arts in Kakadu National Park. Included Commission, Museum of Art, Projects Forum alongside Rob Giampietro (US), Mark In this presentation, current candidates and recent were the Bowali Visitor Centre and the Warradjan Melbourne. Gowing (AU), Kevin Finn (AU) and Peter Hall (AU) at graduates will discuss their work and findings. Aboriginal Cultural Centre. Most recently David the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. The forum directed design of the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre at Emily Floyd Lectures at Monash Art Design & will combine lectures with productive, critical discussion May 6 Melbourne Museum. Architecture and is represented by Anna Schwartz between speakers, facilitators and audience. Mark Gowing Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney David draws inspiration for his works on paper www.responsiveprojects.com Mark Gowing has been designing identities, books from the artifacts and ancient rituals of indigenous www.annaschwartzgallery.com and posters for 25 years. Mark is driven by the Australians. April 15 belief that design is as much about feeling as it is March 18 21-19 about understanding. This commitment is exhibited www.davidlancashiredesign.com.au James Langdon (UK) & Layla Tweedie-Cullen (NZ) in the studio’s output where Mark seeks to engage Founded by designers Ryan Guppy and Domenico audiences with emotional communications for leading May 27 Presented at the State Library of Victoria. Bartolo, 21-19 is an award winning design and arts businesses such as, Sherman Contemporary Art Stephen Banham communications agency based in Melbourne, Australia. Foundation, UNSW Press and Hopscotch Films. Characters The Most Beautiful Books of Australia and New Zealand (MBBANZ) biennial award program has been In 2012, they were the driving force behind the Mark’s work has been exhibited and published around Called a ‘typographic evangelist’ by Eye magazine, established by Monash University in partnership highly successful brand identity and campaign for The the world. He has received numerous international Stephen Banham is a typographer, writer, educator with the State Library to recognise innovation Australian Design Biennale. As part of the core artistic awards including New York Type Directors Club and founder of Letterbox, a type studio based in and excellence in contemporary book design and team they we're commissioned to create dramatic excellence awards, Tokyo Type Directors Club Melbourne. Banham’s typographic explorations centre publishing in Australia and New Zealand. The awards animated projections for The Australian Ballet's 50th excellence awards, Graphis Poster Annual Platinum on the social and cultural aspects of letterforms. He will be announced on 20 March at the opening of anniversary production of Swan Lake. They led an and Gold awards as well as a Golden Bee Laureate has written and produced over 17 publications on an exhibition of entries at MADA Gallery, Monash ambitious and comprehensive re-brand of Melbourne's Award. In 2008 Mark became the first Australian typography, including the Qwerty series (1991–96), University. Crown Promenade Hotel and Crown Spa and they to win the Gold Medal at the Warsaw International the Ampersand series, Fancy (2004) and the Oblique were honoured to have contributed to Australia's first Poster Biennale, which has since been followed by series (2008–). At this free event, awards jurors James Langdon and Emmy Award Winning documentary; Immortal directed a Gold Medal at the Mexico International Poster Layla Tweedie-Cullen will discuss their own work and by Sonya Pemberton. Biennale in 2012. In 2011 Thames and Hudson published the product their ideas about what makes a book beautiful. of three years research, Characters: Cultural stories 21-19 actively seek out projects which allow them to Mark is a member of the agIdeas Advisory Panel and revealed through typography, to excellent reviews Venue: State Library of Victoria explore brand language at every touchpoint, aiming director of the Australian Poster Biennale. all around the world including The New York Times. Village Roadshow Theatrette to consistently transform single ideas across multiple He has spoken at international design events from Entry 3, La Trobe Street, Melbourne forms and visages. Their extensive team boasts www.markgowing.com Barcelona to Beirut, New Zealand to New York. A Bookings essential: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/ experience across a broad range of disciplines and member of the International Society of Typographic most-beautiful-books-australia-and-new-zealand are uniquely positioned to build strong brand stories; Designers (ISTD), Banham has been a lecturer in partnering the latest technology with experience and typography at RMIT University since 1991 and holds www.mbbanz.com expertise. a Master of Design (by research). In 2011 he was awarded a Creative Fellowship at the State Library www.21-19.com of Victoria.

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