Neville Brody has joined Susan Hiller, Alex Danchev and EC Osondu on Radio Four’s ‘Start the Week’ programme hosted by Andrew Marr.

The broadcast focused on a panel discussion around several current topics including Brody’s appointment as Head of Communications at the Royal College of Art; Hiller’s work and new exhibition at Tate Britain; Danchev’s new book ‘New Boom 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists’; and Osondu’s new publication ‘Voice of America’.

To listen to the broadcast on the BBC’s iplayer please click here

Research Studios have been collaborating with the lovely folk at ustwo on an ‘artists’ pack for their creative iPad App Granimator. Our pack, ‘Double Dip’ ––which plays with experimental typography–– is the product of five different designers and involved the creation of five unique typefaces. The official launch will be a special event at London’s Regent Street Apple Store on Thursday 26th August between 7.30pm and 8.30pm. James Nelson, one of our team, will be talking there about our work and the pack we have created.

Other artists in the group include Airside and Kate Moross. You can find out more about ustwo’s Granimator App here.
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Neville gave his D&AD Presidents Lecture last night entitled “Wanker or Genius” to a packed house at the Logan Hall in London. Questions were tweeted from near and far to help steer a conversation which was warmly received as more a call for a design education/industry revolution than retrospective. The conversation touched on recent work, creativity, education and politics and a filmed version of it will be posted here soon.

Our post before the talk;

Be part of Neville’s D&AD Presidents Lecture tomorrow by “tweeting” a question through the Creative Review twitter feed using the hashtag #Brodydandad or, if you’re not into twitter, you can post your question on the CR blog.

The lecture will be more of a conversation between Brody and design writer Adrian Shaughnessy. Twitters will be streaming live to a monitor during the lecture with the opportunity for both Neville and Adrian able to pick out the best questions and potentially steer the conversation.

The audience of the now sold out lecture which supports the D&AD will also get the opportunity to take the vote with special Wanker/Genius flash cards. The cards use two 2009 Brody fonts, Popaganda and Peace Version 2 printed by our friends at The Colourhouse.
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The lecture theatre

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Neville Brody is to give President’s Lecture for the D&AD with a title inspired by comments posted about him on Creative Review’s blog earlier in the year which divided opinion about not only his work but the man himself. This will be a unique opportunity to see Brody in conversation with designer and writer Adrian Shaughnessy.

Joining design luminaries Michael Wolff and Paula Scher in this year’s series each lecture supports the D&AD, an educational charity, in continuing it’s work, much of which helps young and emerging designers. You can find out more about the series here. or buy tickets online here

Neville Brody – Wanker or Genius?
Wednesday 25th November 2009
£15.00 per ticket

Logan Hall
Institute of Education
Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Tube: Russell Square