Mr Andrew Haslam

About

Following an undergraduate Graphic Information Design degree and a postgraduate teaching qualification, I completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art.

I worked for Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands Broadcasting Service) then for Sebastian Conran Associates before establishing a studio in East London with Russel Warren-Fisher and Hannah Tofts.

I wrote and designed a series of 32 non-fiction Children's books in science, history and geography which were published in 14 languages across 26 nations.

In 1994, I won the American Institute of Physics Award for Science Writing and in 1997 the Geography Gold Medal for Most Significant Contribution to Geography.

I became Head of Typography at London College of Printing then Course Director for MA Communication Design at CSM and, subsequently, Academic Programme Leader at the University of Brighton. I was finally appointed Associate Head of School and Head of Department: Graphic Design at Kingston School of Art.

Academic responsibilities

School Head of Department

Qualifications

  • MA (RCA)
  • Post graduate Certificate in Education
  • BA (Hons) Graphic Information Design
  • Member Association of Licensed Authors
  • Member Atyi

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

I have undertaken research in the field of Graphic Design, the outputs have characteristically been in the form of designed books. In 2002 I wrote, with Phil Baines 'Type and Typography'. In 2006 I wrote and designed 'Book Design' which comprehensively examined a range of historical and contemporary approaches used by book designers. The book 'Lettering a reference manual of techniques' won the British book Design: best Academic Book 2012 and was a three year project which photographically documented the way in which type and lettering is reproduced. In 2014 'When War is Over' with Daniel Alexander documented the memorial designs of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ongoing 'Collaborative 6x6 Letterpress Research Project' with Rose Gridneff, Kingston School of Art and Alex Cooper London College of Communication aims to identify and systematically survey all the type and equipment within letterpress workshops in FE/HE in Britain and Ireland.

Publications

Number of items: 10.

Article

Cooper, Alexander, Gridneff, Rose and Haslam, Andrew (2014) Letterpress: looking backward to look forward. Visible Language, 47(3), pp. 52-72. ISSN (print) 0022-2224

Book

Alexander, Daniel and Haslam, Andrew (2016) When war is over. Stockport, U.K. : Dewi Lewis. 164p. ISBN 9781907893834

Gridneff, Rose , Haslam, Andrew and Cooper, Alexander, eds. (2014) 6x6: Collaborative Letterpress Project. Brighton, U.K. : The London College of Communication. ISBN 9781905593989

Haslam, Andrew (2011) Lettering: a reference manual of techniques. London. U.K. : Laurence King Publishing Ltd. 240p. ISBN 9781856696869

Haslam, Andrew (2006) Book design. London, U.K. : Laurence King Publishing. 256p. ISBN 9781856694735

Book Section

Cooper, Alexander, Gridneff, Rose and Haslam, Andrew (2023) An education in letterpress : charting the history of letterpress education in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In: Archer-Parre, Caroline and Mussell, James, (eds.) Letterpress printing : past, present, future. Oxford, U.K. : Peter Lang. pp. 75-103. ISBN 9781800799295

Haslam, Andrew, Cooper, Alexander and Gridneff, Rose (2015) 6x6 letterpress: looking backwards to look forward. In: Aldred, Danny and Waeckerle, Emmanuelle, (eds.) Code-x : paper, ink, pixel and screen. Farnham, U.K. : bookRoom. ISBN 9780957682832

Conference or Workshop Item

Cooper, Alex, Gridneff, Rose and Haslam, Andrew (2017) 6 x 6 Letterpress Project. In: Workshop 2 : Using Letterpress; 17 Nov 2017, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Cooper, Alex, Gridneff, Rose and Haslam, Andrew (2017) An education in letterpress : from apprentice to design student. In: From Craft to Technology and Back Again : Print's Progress in the Twentieth Century; 30 - 31 Mar 2017, Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Gridneff, Rose, Cooper, Alexander and Haslam, Andrew (2014) 6x6 : collaborative letterpress dialogues. In: Typographic Dialogues - ATypI Barcelona 2014; 17 - 21 Sep 2014, Barcelona, Spain. (Unpublished)

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