Doctor Alison Barnes


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Biography

Alison Barnes is a graphic designer and educator with fifteen years of experience of teaching in tertiary education within the UK, with particular areas of interest in typography for print and publication design. Before relocating to Sydney and being appointed to a lecturing position on Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) at UWS, she was a senior lecturer and Programme Leader of BA(Hons) Graphic Design at Nottingham Trent University.

Alison has recently completed her practice-led PhD at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Her thesis focuses on the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration between graphic designers and cultural geographers, and in particular the communicative possibilities of typography and graphic design when used in relation to the understanding and representation of place.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Alison’s current research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration with cultural geography; typography, print and its potential to engage with aspects of non-representational theory; and, the three-dimensional, interactive space of the book. Her teaching expertise centres on typography and print based design.

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Grants / Current Projects

2007-2010, Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK) full time doctoral award:

Realising the geo/graphic landscape of the everyday: A practice led investigation into an interdisciplinary geo/graphic design process

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Selected Publications

Journal articles

2007, ‘Geo/graphic mapping’ • Cultural Geographies • Vol. 14, No. 1 pp 139–147

2006, ‘Graffiti’ • Typotastic • Iss. 2, pp 17–24

2006, ‘Graffiti: Overground archaeology or environmental crime?’ • Ultrabold • Iss. 1, pp 30–36

Conference presentations

2010, ‘Realising the geo/graphic landscape of the everyday: A practice led exploration into an interdisciplinary geo/graphic design process’ • Visual methods symposium • Central St Martins, University of the Arts

2007, ‘From Baskerville to New Basford: A typographic terrain’: paper delivered • ‘Writing Landscape’ symposium, University of London

2005, ‘Overground Archaeology or Environmental Crime’: paper delivered • St Bride Printing Library Annual Conference ‘Temporary Type’

2005, ‘Mapping meaning: redrawing the geo/graphic landscape’: paper delivered • ‘Art and Belonging(s)’ plenary session • Royal Geographic Society, Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference

2005, ‘Mapping meaning: redrawing the geo/graphic landscape’: paper delivered and published in proceedings • 2nd International Information Design Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exhibitions

2009, ‘Hackney conversations’ letterpress prints and ‘Type Cast II’ • In/flux • Kingsland Road, London

2009, ‘Type Cast I’ • Pattern making for beginners • Hackney Wicked Festival

2007, ‘Graffiti map I’ • Drawing Out • Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

2006, ‘Graffiti maps I & II’ and New Basford font typographic experiments • Fast Type, Slow Type Exhibition • Custard Factory, Birmingham

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