Jan Van Toorn Workshop

Credits - Sarah Tompkins, Emma Pattinson, Rachael Flewitt

The Brief

Critical practice workshop

17–18 March 2009

Each group of 3 students will design two versions of one poster. The first will be presented on Tuesday morning at the beginning of the workshop and the second on Wednesday morning. The second poster can only be designed after the first presentation. Both posters will be A0 (portrait), the first as a print or original artwork and the second as a projection at scale onto a blank A0 (portrait).The poster should comment on the work of a post-war graphic designer. Not just a registration but a visual statement about the designers mentality and its visual expression. We would like to invite the students to show us what they find important, good or bad, and to gain an understanding of the designer, the work and its context.

Simon Davies and Jan van Toorn