This website is currently being updated with Practise work from 1999–2011 and will relaunch in the near future. In the meantime, an interim ‘Practise: Selected Projects’ booklet is available for download (PDF, 12.9mb).
Biography
James Goggin founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. In August 2010, Goggin moved to Chicago where he is now Design Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Previously he was based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, working as course director and teacher at Werkplaats Typografie and visiting lecturer at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne).
Practise works across various media for a diverse range of clients: from books, posters, typefaces, visual identities and stationery to exhibition design, signage, web, mobile platforms, video, pattern and textile design. In addition to studio projects, Goggin lectures, runs workshops and is a visiting critic at various art institutions and design schools in Europe and the United States, and regularly writes for international publications and journals. He was art director of progressive UK music magazine The Wire between May 2005 and December 2007.
Fonts designed by James Goggin are available from Swiss type foundry Lineto.
Teaching / Lecturing
- —— AIGA, Chicago
- —— ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem
- —— Barbican Art Gallery, London
- —— Bath Spa University
- —— Beursschouwburg, Brussels
- —— Bold Italic, Ghent
- —— Brighton University
- —— CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), Valencia
- —— Camberwell College of Art and Design, London
- —— Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht
- —— Central Saint Martins, London
- —— Ecal (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne)
- —— Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland
- —— Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
- —— Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
- —— Golden Age, Chicago
- —— Hochschule Darmstadt
- —— IASPIS, Stockholm
- —— ISIA (Istituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche), Urbino
- —— London College of Communication
- —— Norsk design- og Arkitektursenter DogA, Oslo
- —— Pratt Institute, New York
- —— Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
- —— Royal College of Art, London
- —— Split Fountain, Auckland
- —— STGU, Warsaw
- —— Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- —— Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem
Clients A–Z
- —— 2K by Gingham (US/JP)
- —— Analog Baroque
- —— Archipelago Architects
- —— Artangel
- —— Artspace (NZ)
- —— Barbican Art Gallery
- —— Book Works
- —— British Council
- —— Camden Arts Centre
- —— Caruso St John Architects
- —— Channel 4
- —— Creative New Zealand (NZ)
- —— David Kohn Architects
- —— Design Museum
- —— Docklands Light Railway
- —— Earth, Music & Ecology (JP)
- —— Gas (JP)
- —— Good Magazine (US)
- —— Kate MacGarry
- —— Modus Operandi Arts Consultants
- —— Phaidon
- —— Routledge
- —— Royal College of Art
- —— South London Gallery
- —— Tate Britain
- —— Tate Modern
- —— Transport for London
- —— Uniqlo (JP)
- —— Veenman Publishers (NL)
- —— Victoria & Albert Museum
- —— The Wire
- —— White Cube
Passport photo colour tests:
Auckland, Tokyo, London, L.A.
Selected Exhibitions
- —— 2011 ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- —— 2011 ‘Monozukuri: Formes d'Impression’ 22nd International poster and graphic design festival, Chaumont, France
- —— 2011 ‘The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space’ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
- —— 2009 ‘Significant Colour’ Aram Gallery, London
- —— 2008 ‘How Very Tokyo: British Graphic Designers Interpret Tokyo in Posters’ Claska, Tokyo. (Posters available to order)
- —— 2008 ‘V&A 150th Anniversary’ Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- —— 2007 ‘Forms Of Inquiry’ Architectural Association, London
- —— 2007 ‘Terms Of Use’ St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
- —— 2006 ‘Work From Mars’ (22nd International Biennale of Graphic Design) Moravian Gallery, Brno
- —— 2006 ‘Graphic Design in the White Cube’ (22nd International Biennale of Graphic Design) Moravian Gallery, Brno
- —— 2005 ‘The Free Library’ M+R Gallery, London
- —— 2005 ‘TricoDesignLove!’ Aram Gallery, London
- —— 2005 ‘A Billion Pixels per Second’ Lovebytes Digital Art Gallery, Sheffield
- —— 2005 ‘You Are Here: The Design of Information’ Design Museum, London
- —— 2004 ‘Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties’ Barbican Art Gallery, London
- —— 2004 ‘The Free Library’ Riviera,
New York - —— 2003 ‘The Book Corner’ British Council (touring exhibition)
Selected Writing
- —— 2010 Graphic magazine: Visual Identity issue (Propaganda Publishing, Seoul)
- —— 2009 ‘The Matta-Clark Complex’, The Form of the Book Book (Occasional Papers, London)
- —— 2009 ‘Pop Culture Colour Theory (Edit)’, Frank Koolen: United Colors of (Artist publication, Amsterdam)
- —— 2009 ‘Practice from Everyday Life’, The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008 (Swiss Federal Office for Culture, Bern)
- —— 2009 ‘On Relational & Social Design’, (a conversation with Europa) Forms of Inquiry Reader (Sternberg Press, Berlin)
- —— 2008 [10 texts about 10 selected designers + critical text on Enzo Mari] Area 2: 100 Graphic Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Design Classics (Phaidon, New York/London)
- —— 2007 ‘Ground Zero Zero’ Forms Of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design (Architectural Association, London)
Selected Publications (Books)
- —— 2009 Studio Culture (Unit Editions, London)
- —— 2008 Cover Art By: New Music Graphics (Laurence King, London)
- —— 2007 Forms Of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design (Architectural Association, London)
- —— 2007 Contemporary Graphic Design (Taschen, Cologne)
- —— 2006 Work from Mars: Self-initiated projects in Graphic Design (Moravian Gallery, Brno)
- —— 2004 Applied Autonomy (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin)
- —— 2004 Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (Barbican Art Gallery/Laurence King, London)
Selected Publications (Periodicals)
- —— IDEA (Japan), Graphic (Korea), Pen (Japan), Eye, Dot Dot Dot, Metropolis (US), Creative Review, Print (US), Axis (Japan), Vogue (UK), Form (Germany), Grafik, +81 (Japan), i-D, Beikoku Ongaku (Japan), Designers Workshop (Japan), Design (Korea)