November 2011
Lecture: Small Things, James Goggin (Director of Design, Publishing, and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) and Tim Parsons (Associate Professor, Designed Objects, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), School of Architecture, UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago)
14:00, Wednesday 16 November, 2011
As part of the UIC School of Architecture's Wednesday Episodes lecture series, Tim Parsons and James Goggin present a collaborative double-screen lecture spanning their mutual and disparate interests, including musings and digressions on the Moulton bicycle, architectural theorist Reyner Banham, American architypes, Adhocism, the readymade, art & architecture, Brutalism, group portraits, Italian design, the supposed dichotomy of art and design, and teaching.
Pictured: UIC Architecture and Art building,
Walter Netsch (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), 1967
October 2011
Exhibition: Graphic Design: Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
22 October 2011–22 January 2012
Walker Art Center’s ambitious survey of contemporary graphic design, curated by Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center) and Ellen Lupton (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum) among others, features work produced since 2000 by such designers as Metahaven, Project Projects, Jürg Lehni, Experimental Jetset, Åbäke, Mevis & van Deursen, Dexter Sinister, and Graphic Thought Facility. James Goggin’s Dear Lulu print-on-demand calibration student workshop project for Hochschule Darmstadt is on display in its various editions including the newly published Dear MagCloud.
The exhibition catalogue includes writing by Peter Biľak, Andrew Blauvelt, Rob Giampietro, Ellen Lupton, Daniel van der Velden, and Lorraine Wild among others. James’s 2009 essay ‘Practice from Everyday Life’, originally written for the 2008 Most Beautiful Swiss Books catalogue, is reprinted in a revised edition.
Pictured: Detail from the Graphic Design: Now in Production exhibition catalogue dust jacket, designed by Andrew Blauvelt and Emmet Byrne, Walker Art Center, 2011.
August 2011
Lecture: Pop Culture Colour Theory, Golden Age, Chicago
18:00, Saturday 20 August 2011
James Goggin’s ‘Pop Culture Colour Theory’ lecture is an ongoing, continually evolving project which explores humankind’s attempts at codifying and commodifying colour. From video test patterns to International Klein Blue, the Pantone Matching System to the Homeland Security Advisory System, colour is endlessly refracted by our subjective perception into adaptable economic and semiotic structures.
Now available James Goggin, Color Ting, 2011: five-colour Risograph print, 11 × 17 in (279.4 × 431.8 mm), edition of 100. Order from Golden Age.
Pictured: SMPTE colour bars (Engineering Guideline EG 1-1990),
Al Goldberg, CBS Laboratories, 1970s
August 2011
Newspaper launch: Section 1, Split Fountain, Auckland, New Zealand
17:30–19:30, Thursday 25 August, 2011
Split Fountain will launch a newspaper based on the theme ‘Freedom of Speech’ with contributions by Henry Babbage, Emmet Byrne, James Goggin, Fiona Jack, Narrow Gauge, onne terre, Mylinh Trieu Nguyen, We Should Practice and Blaine Western. Printed in an edition of 10,000, standard NZ tabloid size (262 × 380 mm), 12 pages.
Pictured: James Goggin, News International, 2011
July 2011
We Are Here: Art & Design Out of Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
5–31 July, 2011
Each week in July, a different group of Chicago-based artists and designers will occupy the gallery, using it as a factory, publishing house, studio, and print workshop. In doing so, the activities of product design collective Object Design League, artist-run project space Golden Age, designers ⁄ educators Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth, and screen printers Sonnenzimmer will illustrate how the practical becomes performative when placed out of context.
Curated by MCA Chicago Design Director James Goggin with MCA Designer Alfredo Ruiz.
Pictured: Golden Age Reference Work, July 12–17, 2011
May 2011
Lecture: Field Theory, AIGA Chicago
19:00, Thursday 19 May 2011
Through an exploration of design projects in London, a Dutch workshop in Turkey, brutalist libraries, ‘As Found’ and recent work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, James Goggin will discuss a design approach based on the research and analysis of each project’s individual dynamic field: the interdependent contents, contexts and histories which lead to distinct, and often contradictory, results.
Pictured: Robin Hood Gardens Re-Visions, 20th Century Society, 2011
(Design: James Goggin & Jeremy Jansen).
May 2011
Lecture: Pop Culture Colour Theory, Split Fountain, Auckland, New Zealand
19:00, Wednesday 4 May 2011
James Goggin’s ‘Pop Culture Colour Theory’ lecture is an ongoing, continually evolving project which explores humankind’s attempts at codifying and commodifying colour. From video test patterns to International Klein Blue, the Pantone Matching System to the Homeland Security Advisory System, colour is endlessly refracted by our subjective perception into adaptable economic and semiotic structures.
April 2011
Lecture at CalArts
19:00, Monday 4 April 2011, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Pictured: Five-colour Risograph-printed poster by Mark Owens.
March 2011
James Goggin, Design Director at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, lectures at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Part of Insights 2011, Walker's annual lecture series partnering with AIGA Minnesota, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. 19:00, Tuesday 15 March 2011.
Pictured: 25 Years of Insights poster, designed by Walker Art Center's design studio.
(The Dear Lulu project is featured bottom left, remixed by Dante Carlos).
February 2011
One Moment in Time panel discussion and lectures by the 2011 Kolla! design awards jury:
Georgianna Stout (2×4), Sara De Bondt and James Goggin. Iaspis, Stockholm, 17:30, Tuesday 8 February 2011.
Pictured: Alexander Calder, The Four Elements/De fyra elementen, 1961, Moderna Museet
January 2011
Come and participate in the Moiré Workshop!
Family Day: “Color Me In Space”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
11:00–15:00, Saturday 8 January 2011
August 2010
James Goggin is moving from Werkplaats Typografie and the Netherlands to join the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as Design Director.The role will involve the initiation of a new visual identity system for the museum and the implementation of a comprehensive museum design and publishing programme.
June 2010
Lecture: Design as Art & Design, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem13:30, Monday 21 June 2010 (with apologies to Bruno Munari)
May 2010
Modular light tape + flexneon signage system, Tutti a Tavola exhibition, Milan Furniture Fair (in collaboration with David Kohn Architects).
March 2010
Dear Kolofon print-on-demand calibration test book printed with Norwegian publishers Kolofon on the occasion of a lecture by James Goggin about contemporary print-on-demand systems at DoGA (Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture), Oslo. Thanks to Grafill and Yokoland for the invitation.Still available: ‘Dear Lulu’ and now also ‘Dear Blurb’, a 96pp print-on-demand colour calibration test book, made with Hochschule Darmstadt. Read an interview with Print (US) about the project.
