James Goggin founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. The studio is currently based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, where James is course director and lecturer at Werkplaats Typografie. He also visits ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) monthly as visiting lecturer. James continues to work on commissioned and self-initiated projects and writing.
Practise works across various media: from books, posters, typefaces, identities and stationery to exhibition design, signage, websites and motion graphics. James was art director of progressive music magazine The Wire between 2005 and December 2007.
Fonts designed by Practise are available through the Swiss type foundry Lineto.
A new ‘Practise: Selected Projects’ PDF is available on request.
James has lectured, given workshops and/or been visiting critic at Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem; ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Bold Italic, Ghent; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; Central Saint Martins, London; Camberwell College of Art and Design, London; London College of Communication; Bath Spa University and Brighton University.
Clients include: 2K by Gingham (US/Japan), Analog Baroque, Artangel, Barbican Art Gallery, Book Works, British Council, Camden Arts Centre, Caruso St John Architects, Channel 4, Design Museum, Docklands Light Railway, Gas (Japan), Good Magazine (US), Kate MacGarry, Routledge. Royal College of Art, South London Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Uniqlo (Japan), Veenman Publishers (NL), Victoria & Albert Museum, The Wire, White Cube
Site Info:
Designed + built by James Goggin. Thanks to Jürg Lehni and Radovan Scasascia
Auckland, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles
Selected Exhibitions:
— ‘Significant Colour’ Aram Gallery, London: 2009— ‘How Very Tokyo: British Designers Interpret Tokyo in Posters’ Claska, Tokyo: 2008
— ‘V&A 150th Anniversary’ Victoria & Albert Museum, London: 2008
— ‘Forms Of Inquiry’ Architectural Association, London: 2007
— ‘Terms Of Use’ St Paul St Gallery, Auckland: 2007
— ‘Felt Tip’ Sea Gallery, London: 2006
— ‘1--An Exhibition in Mono’ Sea Gallery, London: 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: 2006
— ‘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: 2005
— ‘Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties’ Barbican Art Gallery, London: 2004
— ‘Interact1’ London College of Communication, London: 2004
— ‘The Free Library’ Riviera,
New York: 2004
— ‘The Book Corner’ British Council (touring exhibition): 2003
— ‘GB: Graphic Britain’ Magma, London: 2002
Selected Publications (Periodicals):
IDEA (Japan), Pen (Japan), Eye, Dot Dot Dot, Creative Review, Print (US), Axis (Japan), Vogue (UK), Form (Germany), Grafik, +81 (Japan), i-D, Marmalade, Graphics International, Beikoku Ongaku (Japan), Designers Workshop (Japan), Design NET (Korea)
Selected Publications (Books):
— Area 2 (Phaidon) 2008
— Cover Art By: New Music Graphics (Laurence King) 2008
— Forms Of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design (Architectural Association) 2007
— Contemporary Graphic Design (Taschen) 2007
— Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture (Phaidon Press) 2007
— Work from Mars: Self-initiated projects in Graphic Design (Moravian Gallery) 2006
— Applied Autonomy (Künstlerhaus Bethanien) 2004
— Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (Laurence King) 2004
— Type 1: Digital Typeface Design (Laurence King) 2002
— GB: Graphic Britain
(Laurence King) 2002
— Specials (Booth-Clibborn) 2001