George Hardie
24 April 2013
Image by George Hardie
Details:
- Date Wednesday 24 April 2013
- Venue: Markeaton Street, Auditorium 4
- Time: 2pm
Hardie studied graphic design at St Martin's and the Royal College of Art.
He has worked as a designer/illustrator/educator for some 44 years and is commissioned internationally to solve problems and make illustrations for a variety of clients (and in fourteen countries to date.) In the 70's he designed many legendary record covers with Hipgnosis. His work primarily involves ideas that are carefully composed and crafted into graphic art. He has made and self- published a number of books which he explains as "graphics without clients" and describes as "going amateur."
George is a Royal Designer for Industry (2005). A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (1994, International Secretary 2007-2010), Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Brighton (since 1990) where he teaches on postgraduate courses and this year is Master of the Art Workers' Guild ( 2012). In 2006 he was invited by AGDA to make a lecture tour of Australia and was a visiting professor at Nagoya University of Arts.
He has either taught, lectured and/or run workshops at many UK institutions, as well as abroad including: AGIdeas Melbourne, Auckland, Amiens, Barcelona, Bologna, Copenhagen, the Chicago Institute, Guangzhou, Helsinki, Luzern, Nagoya, Oslo, Parsons School New York, Porto, Seoul, Urbino, Venice,and Warsaw.
