Dec 1, 2021 · 6 min
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Arts
PastPresentFuture
Design Manchester
PastPresentFuture brings you recordings from leading designers around the world talking about creative influence, places, practice and ideas.
Graphic designers are asked three questions: firstly, can you remember the first piece of graphic design you saw; when and where was this? Secondly, what are you working on right now, and thirdly, do you have any advice for today’s graphic design students?
PastPresentFuture was conceived and curated by John Rooney, Malcolm Garrett and John Owens — a Design Manchester production.
- 82 episodes
- Updated Feb 1, 2022
Episodes82
- PDec 1, 2021 · 2 min
(Season ONE) Harriet Richardson
Harriet Richardson is a multi-disciplinary, London-based designer from Manchester. She began her career at Turner Duckworth before joining Pentagram in 2017. She has since worked with many of their well-known clients including: Cubitts, Green New Deal for Europe, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, Government Art Collection and the Best for Britain remain campaign. Alongside working at Pentagram, Harriet freelances to create identities for ethical and ecologically conscious brands, most recently working with Extinction Rebellion. Harriet also creates protest placards to raise money for a number of charities in her online shop.
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- PDec 1, 2021 · 3 min
(Season ONE) John Rooney
Prior to taking up teaching, he ran a design consultancy working with a range of clients in the creative arts and music sector, including a 12-year creative commission with Tate Gallery Liverpool working on award winning art books, exhibition newsletters, international gallery and artist advertising campaigns web design work and motion graphic projects. He has worked with Design Manchester as co-curator on the typographic exhibitions ‘I Shout for the Fall’ (2018) and ‘New Art School Rules’ (2019), and contributed images to ‘Orgasm Addict Reframed’ (2017). In 2020, John completed a practice-based graphic design PhD. The research explored the role of place and formative design experience in the development of creative practice and a new visual identity. The project inspired ‘PastPresentFuture‘, an audio exhibition investigating formative creative identity and practice, co-curated with Malcolm Garrett for Design Manchester 20
- PDec 1, 2021 · 2 min
(Season ONE) Paula Scher
Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991, where she has designed identity and branding systems, environmental graphics, packaging and publications for a wide range of clients that includes, among others, Citibank, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Shake Shack, the Museum of Modern Art, Tiffany & Co, the High Line, the Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sundance Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- PJun 30, 2021 · 16 min
(Season ONE) John Owens
John Owens has two roles, creative director of Instruct Studio, a branding and marketing specialist for the architectural and cultural sectors. The second is artistic director of Design Manchester, a not-for-profit organisation that celebrates creativity, collaboration and inclusivity across many sectors.
- PJun 30, 2021 · 1 min
(Season ONE) Jaheed Hussain
Jaheed Hussain is a graphic designer and writer based in Manchester. During his final year at University, Jaheed launched Fuse - an inclusive platform dedicated to elevating the voices and work of creatives of colour and pushing for change. Now he is working for Margie Studio as a Creative and Brand Designer.
- PJun 29, 2021 · 3 min
(Season ONE) Jonathan Gray
Jonathan Gray has worked under the name ‘gray318’ for the past 12 years. He has designed book jackets for all the major publishers in the world and regularly undertakes editorial projects in the UK and US. His work has been recognised by the AIGA (NY) and D&AD (UK) and he has recently featured in exhibitions in Porto, Paris and New York. Jon is the co-founder of the Academy of British Cover Design.
- PJun 29, 2021 · 16 min
(Season ONE) Malcolm Garrett RDI
Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director of Images&Co, a communications design consultancy based in London, UK. He is Ambassador for Manchester School of Art and co-founder of the annual Design Manchester festival. He is noted for his collaborative approach to design and his commitment to design education. Malcolm is widely regarded as a key influence on the development of contemporary British graphic design. As a punk at art school in Manchester in 1977 he founded the innovative graphic design group Assorted iMaGes, and subsequently created landmark designs for Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Boy George, Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel.
- PJun 29, 2021 · 2 min
(Season ONE) Harris Elliott
Harris Elliott is a creative director, curator and stylist based in London. Elliott is renowned for his international cultural, style exhibitions Return of the Rudeboy with Dean Chalkley and Punk in Translation. The Harris Elliott Studio DNA, is based on visceral responses to untold cultural narratives, executed in various mediums. Over the past decade the studio has nurtured a consistent visual dialogue with Japanese brands, galleries and creatives which is now integral to the studio output.
- PJun 29, 2021 · 6 min
(Season ONE) Bryan Edmondson
Bryan Edmondson is creative director and co-founder of the multi-disciplinary design consultancy SEA. Edmondson’s work touches many disciplines from corporate identity and art direction to digital, packaging and information design. He has amassed a diverse and impressive client list and produced a wide range of acclaimed work for clients such as Matthew Williamson, GF Smith, EMI, Adidas, Porche, the contemporary furniture brand Beyon and Jamie Oliver.
- PJun 29, 2021 · 4 min
(Season ONE) Marion Deuchars
Marion Deuchars, British illustrator and author, publishes beautifully illustrated children’s books and has created her own globally recognised style of hand lettering. Graduating with a distinction from the Royal College of Art in 1981, Marion went on to co-form an art and design studio. Her output has seen projects that span across corporate literature, publishing, editorial, packaging, advertising, web, brand development, craft and interior design
- PJun 26, 2021 · 14 min
(Season ONE) Mike Dempsey RDI
Mike Dempsey has been a graphic designer for over 40 years, after a decade in publishing, Mike formed the highly successful design consultancy Carroll, Dempsey and Thirkell in 1979, which he ran for 27 years. In 2007 he left to set up Studio Dempsey. Mike’s awards include the New York Art Director’s Club Silver Cube, the CSD Minerva Award, ten D&AD Silvers, the coveted Gold award, and in 2012 he received a special D&AD Black Pencil for most awarded designer in their 50-year history.
- PJun 26, 2021 · 3 min
(Season ONE) Rejane Dal Bello
Rejane Dal Bello is an award-winning designer with a history of iconic work and a founder at Studio Rejane Dal Bello. She has 20 years of experience in graphic design and branding, including stints at renowned agencies such as Wolff Olins (UK) and Studio Dumbar (NL), and recently she wrote the ‘Citizen First, Designer Second’ book published by Counter-print.
- PJun 26, 2021 · 4 min
(Season ONE) Vicky Carr
Vicky Carr is a Co-Founder of Textbook studios, a graphic design studio focusing on image-making, visual identity and publication design for arts, culture and education.
- PJun 26, 2021 · 4 min
(Season ONE) Anthony Burrill
Anthony Burrill combines a knack for simplicity that packs a punch with analogue craft skills and powerful, positive messages. After studying Graphic Design at Leeds Polytechnic he completed an MA in Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He now lives and works on the Isle of Oxney, Kent and works as a graphic artist
- PJun 26, 2021 · 8 min
(Season ONE) Jane Bowyer
Jane Bowyer is a graphic designer and illustrator specialising in illustration, web design, branding and print. Her practice balances playfulness with purpose to deliver work that is both beautifully crafted and leaves a lasting impression.
- PJun 26, 2021 · 2 min
(Season ONE) Nick Bax
Nick Bax is a British designer whose practice has spanned the fields of graphics, creative direction and art. He is currently working as a creative Director at Human Studios.
- PJun 16, 2021 · 8 min
(Season ONE) Jonathan Barnbrook
Since graduating in 1990 from Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, Jonathan Barnbrook has developed a multifaceted practice that includes activism, graphic design, typeface design, industrial design and motion graphics. Barnbrook founded his design studio, Barnbrook, in 1990 and In 1997 he established his own font company VirusFonts after the sucsess of his typefaces for Californian innovators Emigre. In 2010, his most famous typeface Mason was released and later became one of the first digital acquisitions of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Additionally, his stone-carving is on permanent display of the 20th century gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Barnbrook believes design shapes the way we perceive the world and can facilitate social change. In marking this responsibility, Barnbrook has art directed for the anti-corporate collective Adbusters and participated in the First Things First 2000 Manifesto published in 1999, signed by graphic designers, students and photographers who proposed a reversal of priorities in the way graphic design was used commercially. With a honorary doctorate by Staffordshire University for services to typography, the award of Honorary Fellow by Central Saint Martins and exhibitions all over the world Barnbrook's contribution to the world of design in both the political and innovational way has been recognised and celebrated and he could offer a unique and experienced perspective of how to sucsessfully find and establish oneself in the world of design. PastPresentFuture was devised with a simple premise: contributing designers were asked three questions. First, can you remember the first piece of graphic design you saw, when and where was this? Second, what are you working on right now, and third, do you have any advice for today’s graphic design students?
- PJun 16, 2021 · 5 min
(Season ONE) Chris Ashworth
Chris Ashworth is an English graphic designer with over 30 years of experience in the field. Before becoming the Creative Director, Microsoft MLD&S Creative Studio he developed his expertise and unique and recognisable style as a designer through may unique positions and projects, from working as the executive global creative director for Getty Images and the art director of the magazine Ray Gun in 1997 to creating the brochure and promotional materials for the first MTV Europe Music Awards in collaboration with John Warwicker and Simon Taylor. After graduating from the York College of Arts & Technology in 1990 with a degree in graphic design, in collaboration with some friends, he opened a design studio called Orange, which created black and white, easily photocopiable flyers for local nightclubs Ashworth is inspired by Swiss design aesthetics, and refers to his own style as "Swiss grit". This style is characterised by hyper detail, barcodes, horizontal lines, and the use of multiple transparent layers. Having worked with culturally impactful organisations such as MTV, Warner Music Group and Image Bank as well as counting 90.9k followers on Instagram in the current day Ashworth can give insightful knowledge into the industry, not only from years long experience but a relevant guide of navigating the ever-changing world of design in the current day. PastPresentFuture was devised with a simple premise: contributing designers were asked three questions. First, can you remember the first piece of graphic design you saw, when and where was this? Second, what are you working on right now, and third, do you have any advice for today’s graphic design students?