Neville Brody and his iconic work within the music sector are currently being featured in the exhibition “UK?OK!!” at the Parco Factory, in Tokyo. The exhibition, which runs from the 6th – 30th August, looks at how music and graphic design are inter-connected and how the links between the two industries have created some of the most important design works in the past 30 years. It also looks at how the spirit of London feeds the graphic design scene and creatives who live and work in it.

Other designers included in the exhibition are Abake, Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel, Bibliotheque, Big Active, Eat Sleep Work/Play, Intro, It’s Nice That, Jonathan Barnbrook, Julia, Melvin Galapon, Micha Weidmann Studio, Mind Design, Neville Brody, Non-Format, Owen Gildersleeve, Studio Myerscough, Studio8, Tappin Gofton, Tom Hingston Studio, Tomato, Wood McGrath and Yes. You can find out more about the exhibition here.

グラフィックと音でＵＫデザインシーンを体感する「UK?OK!!」展に参加

音楽産業と密接な関わりをもっているUKのグラフィックデザインシーン。Neville BrodyとFetish Records、Peter SavilleとFactory Record、1990年代のTomatoとUnderworld、2000年代のTappin GoftonとColdplayなど、多くの優れたグラフィックデザインは音楽を包むビジュアルとして重要な要素を担っている。

同展では、デザインシーンに与えた影響の大きさと今後影響を与えるだろうという期待感の2つの観点から22組のUKグラフィックデザイナーを取り上げ、80年代から現在まで約30年間のUKグラフィックデザインシーンを総括。企画制作をRCKT/Rocket Company*、会場デザインを建築家・谷尻誠が手がけ、過去の作品から本展用の新作グラフィックワーク、取材時のスタジオ写真やインタビュー映像などがひとつの空間に展示される。

会場：PARCO FACTORY　パルコファクトリー、渋谷パルコ　パート1／6Ｆ

期間：2010年8月6日(金)－2010年8月30日(月)※会期中無休

参加クリエーター：Abake, Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel, Bibliotheque, Big Active, Eat Sleep Work/Play, Intro, It’s Nice That, Jonathan Barnbrook, Julia, Melvin Galapon, Micha Weidmann Studio, Mind Design, Neville Brody, Non-Format, Owen Gildersleeve, Studio Myerscough, Studio8, Tappin Gofton, Tom Hingston Studio, Tomato, Wood McGrath, Yes

www.parco-art.com/web/factory/ukok1008/
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Neville Brody has just opened his latest exhibition in Japan with the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG) in Tokyo. The exhibition featuring mostly new or recent work will run from Friday 4th June to Friday 28th June 2010.

Designed as one major installation by Brody, the exhibition includes new work from his Free Thought series (2010); posters from LUST a project with James Victore in New York (2009); work from recent editions of Arena Homme + (2009/10); a The Freedom Space installation originally produced for the Design Museum in London (2009); experimental type and output from FUSE; Wallpaper* and GQ cover work (2009); a wall dedicated to the Anti-Design Festival coming to London this September (2010) and iconic work with Japanese clients and in Japan over the last 10 years. To see some images of the exhibition log onto our flicker sitehere.

Alongside this, Brody also collaborated with RCA undergraduate Jo Glover to produce Type Manifesto. The project mixed Brody’s words from a lecture given at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Mexico (2009) with Glover’s experimental typographic approach and passion for ‘hands on’ design. The project will also form part of Glover’s final project at the RCA where Brody will shortly become Head of Design and Communication. You can find out more about Jo and her work here.

To find out more about GGG click here

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Research Studios are pleased to announce that Neville Brody, Creative Director, has been appointed Head of the Department of Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art, taking up the position on 1 January 2011.

Following speculation and a fair amount of coverage online last week, the RCA made the following statement in confirming the appointment today;

“Brody’s appointment demonstrates the Royal College of Art’s commitment to embrace the creative challenges and opportunities in the rapidly moving discipline of communication art and design in the twenty first century.”

“Neville Brody is both an eloquent advocate and a superb practitioner,“ said Dr Paul Thompson, Rector of the Royal College of Art. “His design talent traverses so many different media – traditional print and typography through to online, motion graphics, and packaging. He is one of the most influential designers of his generation and perfectly captures the interdisciplinary ethos of the Department of Communication Art & Design.”

Over the last few years Brody has, alongside running Research Studios, increasingly taken a very keen interest in design and creative sector education in the UK. The appointment to the RCA marks a very interesting pivot point between dialogue (he has had with students, educators and industry) and truly getting involved in shaping world-leading programmes at the RCA. A delighted Brody comments;

“The Royal College of Art sits at the threshold of a new and vital moment in communications history, an extraordinary time and one that will deeply affect all of us. This appointment is an amazing opportunity to bring together several ideas and objectives, and to help the RCA take up a defining and influential place within this rapidly-changing world.

I am excited by this possibility of joining of the dots, of combining the RCA’s deep sense of history, craft and experience with a dynamic, relevant and exploratory approach to art and design communications.

The position is a great honour and challenge. The RCA is a centre of excellence for art and design, and is the de facto natural home for all visual communications.”

Royal College of Art
RCA Communication Art & Design

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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

Neville Brody has drawn and cut two new fonts, Popaganda and Buffalo, which will get their first outing in the forthcoming edition of men’s fashion magazine Arena Homme + (hitting the shelf later this month). Both fonts will be available later this year direct from Research Studios.

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Tent Stencil

Neville Brody has created ‘Unentitled’ as part of Blank Canvas an Arts/Charity project where 100% of the profits will go to Amnesty International and The Big Issue Foundation.

Each fine artist or designer involved in the project was given a Pup Tent, originally devised to give soldiers in the field temporary housing, to create a unique artwork that will highlight homelessness and displacement around the world. The tents will be exhibited at the Big Chill Festival 09 and other venues over the course of the year when they will finally be auctioned in aid of charity. You can find out more about the project here >

More images of the tent at the Big Chill Festival will be coming here soon.

Other artists and designers involved in the project include Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk, Vivienne Westwood and Rachel Whiteread.
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Tent Stencil

Embedded Art Exhibition

Neville Brody has designed a fly poster for Embedded Art, a fine art exhibition exploring terrorism and security at the Acadmie der Kunste in Berlin. Free me From Freedom by Brody was one of six fly posters commissioned by the curators which were shown in the gallery space and postered around the city. Other graphic designers included in the project were Banbrook Designs, Gunter Rambow, Fons Hickmann Yuki Shimizu and Omar Vulpinari.

More information on Neville’s thoughts behind the poster go to >

The Creative Review write up on the show please click here >

Free Me From Freedom poster

Embedded Art Exhibition

Neville Brody is to talk as part of ’24 Events’ in celebration of Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition on Friday 25th of September 2009 at 7.15pm. Priced at £15 per ticket and available from the Design Museum directly or Ticketweb, this event will be a unique opportunity to hear Brody talk about his work and unique project for the Design Museum which opened earlier in the year.