Sir Kenneth Grange//Profile

Sir Kenneth Grange was best known for working on the Inter city 125.

Ken Garland// First Things First Manifesto

Ken Garland is a very inspiration figure, he is very well know for his 'First things first manifesto'. He 

Ken Garland is a British graphic designer, photographer, writer and educator. He has made a significant contribution to the development of graphic design since the mid-twentieth century and formed the prolific design studio Ken Garland & Associates in 1962 (until 2009) in Camden, London, where he continues to live and work.

The First Things First manifesto was written 29 November 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland. It was backed by over 400 graphic designers and artists and also received the backing of Tony Benn, radical left-wing MP and activist, who published it in its entirety in the Guardian newspaper.

Reacting against a rich and affluent Britain of the 1960s, it tried to re-radicalise a design industry which the signatories felt had become lazy and uncritical. Drawing on ideas shared by Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School and the counter-culture of the time it explicitly re-affirmed the belief that Design is not a neutral, value-free process.

It rallied against the consumerist culture that was purely concerned with buying and selling things and tried to highlight a Humanist dimension to graphic design theory. It was later updated and republished with a new group of signatories as the First Things First 2000 manifesto.

Design Cheltenham

cheltenham had a design festival in April and as I live in Gloucestershire I thought I would go to a talk. I went to see the ken Garland and Kenneth and Sir Kenneth Grange. The talks were very interesting, they gave me an insight into how design has evolved and how Art schools and education have such an influence on today design. 

Final Presentation

Nottingham Trent Collaboration

After launching my website, I was approached by a third year fashion concepts student from Nottingham Trent University to collaborate on a live L'oreal brief. The project was to create a new product for the mens range 'Kiehls'. Having a strong interest in brand identity and packaging I was really keen to collaborate.

Unfortunately as the communication was quite slow and the deadline so close I was unable to do this brief.