Third Person Fact Sheet:
James Goggin set up his graphic design studio, Practise, in 1999 after completing an MA in Graphic Design at London’s Royal College of Art. He regularly collaborates with Shan Connell; designer Sara De Bondt; various fellow graphic designers as well as interns, programmers, industrial designers, illustrators, photographers, printers, curators and writers.
Practise works across various media: from books, posters, typefaces, identities and stationery to exhibition design, signage, short films, title sequences and websites. 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.
James has lectured / set workshops / been visiting critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; écal (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne); Bold Italic, Ghent; Royal College of Art, London; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; Central Saint Martins, London; Camberwell College of Art and Design, London; London College of Communication and Brighton University.
Selected Clients:
2K by Gingham
Analog Baroque
Artangel
Barbican Art Gallery
Book Works
British Council
Camden Arts Centre
Caruso St John Architects
Channel 4
Design Museum
Docklands Light Railway
Kate MacGarry
Routledge
Royal College of Art
South London Gallery
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Uniqlo
Veenman Publishers
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Wire
White Cube
Site Info:
Designed + built by James Goggin / Practise, with invaluable help from Jürg Lehni and Radovan Scasascia
Auckland, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles
Selected Exhibitions:
— ‘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