NEW ZEALAND | THE NETHERLANDS | graphic designersponsored by JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMY
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David Bennewith, born 1977 in New Zealand, lives and works in Amsterdam. He is an MA graduate in Typographic and Graphic Design from the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, NL and is currently a researcher in design at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL. Bennewith works and collaborates as a freelance designer on various projects - mostly in the cultural sector - in New Zealand and Europe. Often working under the monicker Colophon (an extrinsic enterprise in progress) Bennewith produces and publishes non-commissioned work. He has lectured and given workshops at educational institutions including: The Royal College of Art, London; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and ELAM School of Fine Arts, Auckland. More recently he has begun to produce commissioned and own writing on the subject of design. His current focus is the development of a research project surrounding the work of New Zealand type designer Joseph Churchward; resulting in a book to be published in 2008.
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Reading from the book of Churchward
David Bennewith & Churchward International Typefaces
David Bennewith will present his new publication containing his research associated with the work and working-life of the Samoan-born, New Zealand alphabet designer Joseph Churchward. Bennewith will tell the story of how he came to begin his research on Churchward, how it has developed over the course of three years; the different and succeeding directions it has moved in, from his own outputs, to commissioning others to explore Joseph Churchward’s work from their own perspective and areas of expertise. The hope is to convey how this particular book format considers a biographical and journalistic approach from the perspective of practice - transmitted via the (meta)physical aspects of the printing process.
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About the images
Churchward’s first curve (artefact), 5 x 7 inches, black and white photograph, 2007 | Joseph Churchward, Suggestions poster, A0 (841 x 1189mm), 4 colour process (CMYK), white lithopaak 115 g/m2 paper, printed by Mazon Screen, Maastricht, edition: 75, 2007 | Joseph Churchward Reader, A4, 20 pp, Silkscreen, white litholux 125 g/m2 paper, edition: 30, Colophon Press 2006
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