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Looking back
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2009
August – November Paris to
establish connections and contacts including French designers Catherine
Zask and Laurence Madrelle; work on projects including Club
de Conversation; attend Paris Photo;
promote VMB; visit John Walters, editor of Eye in
London; designers Henrik Kubel and Scott Williams at A2/SW/HK; typographer
Indra Kupferschmid in Cologne
August 7 Double-launch of
A E I O U, a typo/sound installation, and
Bruce Connew’s
newest book I Must Behave
August 2 Typography
talk at Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery,
New Plymouth, NZ, in response to Mieke Gerritzen’s typo-film Beautiful
World
June Published
in Small
Studios. Featuring
an in-depth Q&A introduction with Piet Gerards, Stefan
Sagmeister,
Bernhard Stein, Henry Steiner, Niklaus Troxler and myself, Small
Studios is a
rich publication that explores 100 small design studios from around the
world by German- and Chinese-based design publisher Hesign.
Self-covered in 130gm2 stock, the book is a surprisingly light brick
of paper. The binding is raw and the edges are finished with band saw- cut. Hesign
publications are finely detailed and hard to come by.
May Launch
of new website,Vapour
Momenta Books – the
pocket-sized publishing arm of photographer
and artist Bruce Connew and designer/ typographer
Catherine Griffiths. The website displays our
artist books, along with other titles of interest
to us, and maybe you, as well as the odd snippet
of news that involves our work >> visit
Vapour Momenta Books
February
11–15 2009 TypeSHED11
happens – New
Zealand’s
first-ever (and one-time only!) international
typography symposium. Voted Best Design
Event of the Year by Urbis Magazine >>
visit
TypeSHED11
2008
March/April Guest
speaker at the Alaska Design Forum
lecture series –
the final lecture in a series of eight over four months – in
Anchorage and Fairbanks. Thanks especially to the ADF group, including
Karen Larsen, Inger Deede and architect, David Hayden. After the series,
I flew to Barrow, in the Arctic Circle . . .
February Published
in Typo – the
beautiful world of
fonts – a
book by Fabiola Reyes, published by MONSA, Barcelona.
August – November Paris
to establish connections and contacts including
designers Catherine Zask; Philippe Apeloig; Donald Beekman; Indra Kupferschmid;
Bruno Maag in London; work
full-time on TypeSHED11
2007 >> 2009 Create
and organise TypeSHED11 for February 2009 which
continues
to be a major project out of this studio, with Simone Wolf ...
2007
October Studio
and home establishes new
address in Victoria Street, Wellington
September Name change – 10
years of Epitome Typography and Design marks a change in direction, focusing
on more arts-based projects, collaborations, commissions and self-generated
projects, all under the eponymous tag Catherine
Griffiths.
August Book-launch of
Stopover in
Vatiyaka, Fiji. Exhibition of Stopover at
Pataka, Wellington.
July Visiting lecturer and keynote presentation at
Otago University, Dunedin, with students of Noel Waite and Tomas
Garcia-Ferrari.
June Idea
for New Zealand typography symposium is
formed – a
creative and independant initiative by Simone Wolf and Catherine
Griffiths. A major project ahead ...
May Studio move –
after
five years of
living and working in our home and studios, designed by architect Nicholas
Stevens, we change tack, with the intention to establish a footing
in Europe.
April One
of seven judges for typography
at the 2007 D&AD Global
Awards, London, UK. Attend
book printing at EBS Verona, Italy. See Stopover. Berlin,
Venice and Paris are also part of the journey
for art, design and project research.
March
Review Feijoa –
a new typeface by Kris Sowersby, for Prodesign Magazine
2006
October/November Speaker
at Fast Type, Slow Type, Birmingham, UK. Yet
another journey, self-funded, to attend Fast
Type, Slow Type,
an international type/design conference at the Custard Factory
in Birmingham,
organised by Simone Wolf, Caroline Archer and Alexandre Parre
of Typevents. Bournemouth >> Visit
and meet with the design and typography students at Bournemouth
Arts Institute, organised by Sally Hope. London
>> Typographic
walking tour by John Voller. Paris
>> Collect
more material for my Club
de Conversation project. New
York >> Visit Peter
Kruty Editions, a contemporary letterpress masterclass (for
19) in Brooklyn, with Paul Shaw. Continue
collecting photographs for Dressing
Room.
September/October
Profile
in Sep/Oct 2006 issue of Print,
America’s top graphic
design magazine, by
writer Helen Walters, based in New York where she is deputy
editor of the Innovation & Design
channel at BusinessWeek.com; editor-in-chief of the online creative
magazine, idanda.net; current contributing editor of Creative Review
Magazine; and author of 100% Cotton – New
T-shirt Graphics, 200%
Cotton,
and, wait for it – 300%
Cotton.
October Participate
in exhibition at Objectspace – Just
Hold Me curated
by Jonty Valentine. Several
books – On the way to an
ambush, Muttonbirds – part of a story, Looking for the Local:
Architecture and the New Zealand Modern,
and the first two sets of the Four Winds Press Essays are included.
The exhibition presents the work of 19 leading publications designers
and design houses from around New Zealand.
2005
October Create,
organise and participate in the Designers Speak Series at
City Gallery Wellington. A
lunchtime salute to the passion of design in Wellington
with architect Ian Athfield, industrial designer and lecturer Ross Stevens,
typographer and designer Catherine Griffiths, type designer and director
Len Cheeseman and co-director of Weta, design and special effects supervisor
Richard Taylor. Five designers, five lunchtimes, five Fridays: 30 September
– 28 October 2005
October Interviewed by
Kathy Hunter and published on her blog www.leafsalon.co.nz.
September Speaker
at ATypI Helsinki. Entitled I
live at the edge of the universe like everybody else – a
journey through the influences and collaborations that have led me
to make typography in the New Zealand landscape. You
can listen to www.typeradio.org for
interviews and book readings.August/September Visit
Paris; Perpignan for Visa pour l’image,
the photo-journalism festival where Bruce’s Stopover project
was screened; Basel; and Helsinki.
August Speaker
at Talking Type in
Dunedin with Luke Wood and Hamish Thompson, organised by
Noel Waite, Lecturer, Design History, Theory & Criticism
Department of Design Studies | University of Otago
June and
August Auckland and Christchurch
Designers Speak – presentation
of A
Typographer’s Journey: Inspiration,
Passion and Risk to the Designers Institute
of New Zealand
2004
May Judge
for 20under40, annual ideas competition
organised by the Architectural Centre, Wellington. Judging panel includes
architect Ian Athfield, councillor Sue Piper and typographer, Len Cheeseman
September Research
trip to London/Paris/ Barcelona. Visit
the work of Joan Brossa and Josep Subirachs
2003
October
Speaker at (x)periment,
a bi-annual design conference in Adelaide, Australia
July Judge
for graphic design, BEST Awards 2003 Judging
panel includes Ray Labone, Peter Roband, Guy Pask, Steve Le Marquand,
Kim Meek and Reuben Reid
May LIANZ
Conference, presentation of the influences
that have led to projects such as the Wellington Writers Walk
2002
Studio move –
Epitome Typography and Design moves to new studio
2001
Auckland Writers Festival 2001
Panel discussion Judging a Book by
its Cover, with curator, Justin Paton, and
in-house book designer, Sharon Grace
2000
Building project commences – our
home and studios designed by architect Nicholas Stevens
1999
Research trip to Basel, Switzerland –
visit and stay with designer and typographer, Wolfgang
Weingart. Observe Weingart working on his book, Typography.
Also to
Zagreb, Croatia – visit designer
Boris Ljubicic at Studio International
1997 –
Concepts to Published Work Teach
a
third semester course with photographer Bruce Connew to 4th year
photography students, demonstrating a successful collaboration between
designer and photographer
Various lectures
to secondary and tertiary students, including a slide-show and discussion
on the making of the book On
the way to an ambush by Bruce Connew,
and the annual portfolio review at Massey University: assessing students’
portfolios
1997
Change of name
to Epitome Typography and Design
1995
Established
Catherine Callaghan Design,
Wellington, New Zealand and work for major clients including Victoria
University of Wellington, Wools of New Zealand, Wellington City Council,
and Creative New Zealand
the 90s
Mid-1990’s
Part-time tutor
to 4th year visual communication design students for their thesis projects
1991 – 1993
Senior designer, New Zealand: Senior
designer at Missen Design Group; Senior designer at Attwood Associates,
Wellington, New Zealand
the 80s
1988 – 1990
Designer, London: Designer
at Sampson Tyrrell Limited (WPLC
Group); Designer at Design for Print Limited; Freelance designer
in various studios, London, UK
1987
Establish freelance studio,
Design of the Times, Wellington, New Zealand
1986
Graduate with
a Diploma in Visual Communication Design, School of Design, Wellington,
New Zealand
Selected projects since 1995
Documentary photographer Bruce Connew’s Suburbs
exhibition, his book On the way to an ambush,
and Press Escape to Cancel, an exhibition
on the return home of refugees, Kosovar, and accompanying publication
in literary journal, Sport; Looking
for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern by Justine
Clark and Paul Walker; The Super 12 Rugby Campaign for the Hurricanes;
Wellington City Council Corporate Identity Standards and Guidelines, a
3 year project; Peopling of New Zealand exhibition for Te Papa Tongarewa,
Museum of New Zealand; Victoria University of Wellington – establishing
a brand identity using typography and documentary photography
Selected clients since 1995
Architecture+
PHOTOgraph / helen griffiths