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Auckland, New Zealand

Practise is a graphic design practice that works across a variety of media for a diverse range of individuals, organisations, and companies. Projects include identity systems and strategy, creative direction, art direction, exhibition design, books, campaigns, record covers, packaging, websites, signage, wayfinding, posters, type design, motion, video, patterns, and textile design for advertising, architectural, art, civic, cultural, fashion, music, and publishing clients across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America.The studio is run by partners James Goggin, a British and/or Australian creative director, graphic designer, and educator from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, Arnhem, and Chicago; and Shan James, a New Zealand and/or Hong Kong Chinese designer and illustrator from London via Hong Kong, Auckland, Arnhem, and Chicago. Together they have built the studio in collaboration with design assistants, interns, and an extensive network of trusted designers, writers, editors, web developers, photographers, videographers, printers, and binders.“Practise” is a verb, but sounds like a noun (in British spelling, at least). Our name deliberately plays with this duality, suggesting that a graphic design studio might operate equally as a useful service (noun: a professional practice) and as a space for research, speculation, contemplation, and experimentation (verb: repeatedly performing activities and learning from them, e.g. “practise makes perfect”).Selected clients: Art Institute of Chicago; Arup; Barbican Art Gallery; Camden Arts Centre; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard; City of Chicago; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; David Kohn Architects; David Zwirner Gallery; Design Museum, London; ICA Miami; ICA Philadelphia; MIT Press; Phaidon; Rizzoli; Studio Gang Architects; Tate Britain; Tate Modern; Transport for London; University of Chicago; Verso, London/New York; White Cube; Whitney Museum of American Art.

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Closely following writing and thesis design projects of a small cohort of MFA Graphic Design students, guiding them in their reading and writing, and in their theoretical and practical work. Combined online and on site at RISD.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Teaching BFA and MFA Graphic Design courses including Design Studio, Typography III, Graduate Thesis, Graduate Seminar, Degree Project, and an elective for both graduate and undergraduate students on graphic design as a spatial, anthropometric, and programmatic discipline.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

I have run two theory and practice-based research workshops at RISD since first visiting Providence in 2007, exploring interests central to my practice, including cultural identity, sense of place, urbanism, museum practice, art and design history, emerging technology, audience accessibility, interpretation, archive and collection research, print-on-demand, publishing, and distribution.Since 2012 I have returned to RISD each year as a visiting thesis critic. In this role, I closely follow the writing and thesis design projects of a small cohort of 5–6 students, guiding them in their reading and writing, and in their theoretical and practical work. I am on site at RISD four times each academic year, and otherwise maintain ongoing communication with students via email and Skype.

Greater Chicago Area

The Design, Publishing, and New Media department at MCA comprised a multidisciplinary staff of nine: designers, editors, new media manager, video producer, and web developer. Oversaw and initiated such projects as identity programme, publications, communication campaigns, exhibition design, signage, wayfinding, printed matter, websites, and video productions.National and international representation of the museum at conferences and academic institutions across the United States, Europe, and Australasia, including participation in the organising committee for the 2012 National Museum Publishing Seminar (and direction of all design material). Chaired the conference’s opening panel, “The Voice of the Museum” (on museum publishing informing a content-based institutional identity), which was established as the conference’s theme that year.Undertook ongoing research and writing relating to such topics as museum and institutional identity, exhibition and collection accessibility, digital publishing, the overlap of physical and digital experience in museums, and the integration of urban space with institutional space.Publications produced while at MCA with artists, curators, editors and fellow MCA designers Scott Reinhard and Alfredo Ruiz: The Language of Less [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s [co-published by Yale University Press]; Skyscraper: Art and Design Against Gravity [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; Jimmy Robert: Vis-à-Vis [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; Amalia Pica [co-published by Artbook | D.A.P.]; and The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art [co-published by the University of Chicago Press].

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Lecturing and teaching history, theory, and critical practice in the Bachelor Design Graphique department at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), an institution with which I've had an ongoing relationship with since my first teaching visit in 1999, visiting a number of times to run course projects, workshops, and to lecture.

Arnhem, The Netherlands

Teaching, coordination, and project management at Werkplaats Typografie, a two-year graduate program offering a Master's degree of Design. WT runs as a hybrid design school ⁄ design studio, involving both theory-based and commissioned projects from arts clients in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the US. WT was founded in 1998 by Karel Martens and Wigger Bierma and is part of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. ArtEZ is one of the major art institutes in the Netherlands with locations in Arnhem, Enschede and Zwolle and offers bachelor and master courses in design, fine arts, fashion, architecture, music, dance and drama.

London, United Kingdom

Art direction of the renowned monthly independent progressive music magazine. Redesign,commissioning and art direction of all photography, illustration, image prepress and reproduction, colour correction, typesetting.

Master’S Degree, Graphic Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Visual Communication