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Bio
Susanna Edwards works in the realm of visual communication, as researcher, speaker, events organiser, creative leader, and educator.
As Course Leader of the MA Graphic Design Online for Falmouth University, Susanna is actively engaged with current and speculative global graphic design practice and working with industry innovators across the breadth of the subject area, all over the world.
Having established a successful global online course in higher education, Edwards is currently interested in developing new approaches and platforms for global online delivery and blended learning, exploring how design can be used for good in the context of global socio-political and cultural contexts, empathic and compassionate approaches to creative leadership, inclusivity, accessibility and diversity within education and industry, creative wellness within education and industry and how online collaboration and learning is embedded into real world contexts in relation to place.
Edwards is currently working on a book proposal for Bloomsbury exploring the future of online and blended education and the future studio. Her educational practice has always bridged links between industry and education.
Studying in her own time to become a qualified yoga teacher, Edwards has ambitions to create new approaches and tools to enable designers of the future with a focus on creativity, wellness and enabling future generations to use design for good and stay well in a time of unprecedented change.
Her belief is that the future of creative practice involves trans-disciplinary collaboration, the integration of wellness and self care into any curriculum or business model and to champion design as a powerful tool for positive change and empowerment for individuals, institutions and industry.
> Education & Formation (1993–2009)
Education
1993-1996
University of the Arts London
Central Saint Martins college of art & design
BA(Hons)graphic design
First class honours
1996 - present
Further qualification gained through a proven track
record in higher education, research and practice
2009-2010
Post-graduate certificate in teaching and learning in art and design
> Academic Leadership & Higher Education (1996–Present)
2018 - Present
Course Leader MA Graphic Design Online, Falmouth
Flexible, Falmouth University. Co- wrote, designed and launched an ongoing development of the first global Masters in Graphic Design online.
External Advisor for course validation and approval:
2018 London College of Communication UAL, MA Art Direction
2019
Leeds Arts University, MA Graphic Design
2019
University of Plymouth, BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Illustration / BA (Hons) Graphic Communication with Typography / BA (Hons) Media Arts / BA (Hons) Fine Art to include foundation year.
2019 - 2022
External Examiner Southampton Solent University
BA (Hons) Illustration
2014 - 2018
Head of Cass Visual Communication, Cass School of Art Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. Overseeing UG and PG Design for Publishing, Graphic Design and Illustration and Animation.
2012 - 2014
Associate lecturer at Ravensbourne FE and short courses, outward facing projects.
VL at Winchester School of Art, Graphic Arts BA Hons, University of Southampton
2010 - 2012
Deputy course leader of the MA Communication Design
ESAD Porto, Portugal, Associate lecturer at UAL
2008 - 2010
Associate lecturer University of the Arts London
Chelsea BA graphic design
Central Saint Martins BA graphic design
Associate lecturer London Metropolitan
University, MA Design Suite pathway leader for graphic design Honorary visiting Research Fellow LMU
Associate lecturer Ravensborne foundation course
2007
Academic Leader of 10 undergraduate and postgraduate 2D design courses, London Metropolitan University
2004-2007
Senior lecturer, Head of illustration department
BA and MA Graphic Communication at UCCA Farnham, research active
1996-2004
Associate lecturer University of the Arts London
Central Saint Martins BA and MA graphic design & short courses and Industry partnerships lead tutor
Camberwell BA graphic design & short courses
Middlesex University BA graphic design
> Creative Practice & Freelance Work (1996–2016)
2014 - 2016
Session 14-15
Art Direction and Project Management for the first Cass Faculty publication ‘Session 14/15’
Etre Creative - Creative Consultancy
2009 - 2012
The School of Life
Mini bar for the mind - a boxed mini-bar containing products to
stimulate thinking in collaboration with Morgan’s Hotel Group
The Daily Aphorism
Collaborative project with St Lukes agency, sign up and receive a daily aphorism emailed to you
The School of Life, Sunday Sermons
Curation, programming, design and presentation of the first 7 sermons
No Greater Love
Graphic identity, website design, posters and postcards for a documentary about Carmelite Nuns in Notting Hill
The Espresso Room
Graphic Identity, website design, interior design for Bloomsbury based coffee establishment
LUX & Crawford Gallery
Invites, posters, book and DVD design for artist filmmaker Vivienne Dick’s retrospective exhibition
Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibitions
Graphic identity & catalogue design for Magic Show November 2009
2008
The School of Life - Alain De Botton TSOL
Graphic design and art direction for the brand identity, shop interior, web design, merchandise and print
Crossing Over
Graphic design and art direction for the exhibition Crossing Over – contemporary artists exploring themes relating to art and biotechnologies. Curated by Artakt. Exhibition Logo and identity, catalogue, promotional print material and exhibition graphics and signage
LUX
Booklet and DVD design for artist filmmaker Emily Richardson
2004 – 2007
Tatty Devine
Fake Tatty Rag Newspaper front & back, letterpress and hand drawn and silk screen printed onto bags, shoes, ties and hats for the 04/05 collection
Exit Magazine
Photographic fashion double spread, photograms of Boudicca handkerchief autumn/winter 04/05
Vintage Publishers
Book jacket illustration for - Other People by Martin Amis
Design Writing
Design Week, Quiet Typography photography and written article December 2007
Grafik Magazine, Issue 108 - written review of Cindy Sherman exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Sep 2004 Review of Daisy De Villeneuve exhibition at The Fashion & textiles Museum, Nov 2005 - Viewpoint - what book is on my bedside table?, Mar 2006 - ‘Art Attack’ article written to debate the role of designer as artist. Included in both anniversary ltd edition publications – influential design and inspired
London Higher Education Consortium
Live Love Learn London’ – documentary written directed and produced with Martin McGrath
London Arts & Moti Roti
Under Your Skin Inside Your Head - fanzine exploring the experiences of 2nd generation Asian youth in London
2001 – 2003
Vintage Publishers
Book jacket illustration for Under The Jaguar Sun, Numbers In The Dark, Marcoraldo, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Six Memos For The next Millenium, Our Ancestors, The Path to The Spiders Nest, The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Mr Palomar, Adam One Afternoon, The Road To San Giovanni, Difficult Loves, Why Read The Classics by Italo Calvino. And The Judges Said by James Kellman. Q, No Telling by Adam Thorpe. The Gate by Francois Bizot. Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam. The Town That Forgot How To Breathe by Kenneth J Harvey. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Will You Please Be Quiet Please?, Cathedral, Elephant by Raymond Carver. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
1996 - 2000
Paul Smith
Window display using a collection of old spectacles collected at Brighton car boot sale
Open Journeys
Installations and publications based on a journey in Tokyo – commissioned to coincide with the exhibition Stealing Beauty at the ICA, The Photographers Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Zwemmers Photography and Media bookshops, Pavement and Same Furniture Store
Selfridges
Invites to the spring/summer 2000 fashion and home product launch - seed packaging
Vintage Publishers
Three book jacket covers for Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Slow Learner
Designers Block 2000
Design and art direction for exhibition graphics, website and printed matter. Exhibition held in London at St Pancras Chambers, The Design Museum, London and in Tokyo and Milan
Baseline Magazine Issue 22
Front and back cover illustration
Commissioned to illustrate Herman Zapf quote ‘Typography is fundamentally two- dimensional architecture.’ Winner of the Type Directors Club certificate of typographic excellence
Creative consultancy
House Of Naylor, Forme Print, Open Design and Multi-media
Gate Theatre
Letterpress illustration for A Select History of Satire
> Research, Residencies & Exhibitions (2000–2019)
2016 - 2019
‘Imminent Archives’ research
Artist in Residence at Southampton Solent University. Research exploring storytelling and Southampton, anchoring identities in relation to place. Exploring Future Archives. Commons and co collaboration across fields and disciplines.
‘The House of The Last London’ Group Exhibition of archival work from Iain Sinclair collaborations to be held in Galery 46, London September 2017 to launch his final London book.
2009 – 2010
Curious, Science Museum London, Royal Society, Huntarian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Science/ Art based research project. Residency at the Science Museum, London. Using the theme of microscopy as a vehicle to open up a wider debate on the effect of new technologies on craft, art and science. Exhibition, publication, conference paper and workshops at the Huntarian Museum 2010. Sabbatical awarded Sep 06 – Jan 07, Arts council funding awarded, residency at the Science Museum, London 2006. Exhibited in part at the Royal Society Summer Show 2008
Hackney Triptych Posters
Public Art Installations East London. Screen printed posters in response to Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. Posters flyposted on redundant Hackney council notice boards across the borough. Photos taken by Iain in Hackney over 30 years printed with overlayed handwritten extracts from his book
Danielle Arnaud Gallery
www.daniellearnaud.com
Work exhibited in group show for the launch of Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
2008
The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Invited to exhibit photographic works in progress from residency at the science Museum London
Jayne Amongst the Birds,Tatty Devine
Portraits of the winning birds from a best budgerigar competition in All Saints Church Haggerston, a joint project by Luke Stephenson and Susanna Edwards (see events)
2006– 2007
Marinade XII
Limited edition artists publication. Written by Iain Sinclair and designed by Susanna Edwards. Edition of 7 cloth bound portfolios containing original letterpress prints and hand produced photographic prints. Letterpress printed at Circle Press. Funded by University for the Creative Arts Farnham. Work sold to: The British Library Modern Collections, Iain Sinclair archive at Texas University USA, Goldmark Art and to private collectors. The work was also exhibited at St Bride Printing library in ‘The Distaff Side - women as printers from the fifteenth Century to the present day.’ March & April 2006. Presented at a conference about self publishing UCCA Farnham June 2006
Lost to View, Tate Britain
Multi media installation at Tate Britain and talk at The Museum of London. Susanna Edwards, Katharina Koall and Martin McGrath. Visual navigation through Iain Sinclair’s book London: City of Disappearances (2006). Using words and images that provide a secret reading of London, utilising illustration, photography, letterpress, drawing and animation in a digital presentation. Selected references from the book linked to people, places, buildings, objects, memories, quotes and actions
2004 – 2005
Coco De Mer
Limited edition artwork: books, letterpress prints and photograms sold at London’s erotic emporium commissioned by Sam Roddick
British Council
Work exhibited in The Book Corner - a celebration of contemporary British publication design in a travelling library unlike any that you have ever seen
Public Address System, Henry Peacock Gallery work exhibited in a group show of 40 typographic interpretations of speeches, published in an acompanying publication
Estuarial Lives, Great Eastern Hotel
“In Dining on Stones, a novel that lurched between the south coast and the A13, I referred to an earlier book called Estuarial Lives. I struggle to explain the genesis of this fictional documentary.
I took the decision that the road would have to be walked. Every Yard of it. Aldgate to the sea: through memory, mess, corruption, dying industries, political scams, satellite shopping cities buried in chalk quarries. The magic lay in acts of recognition and recovery, privileged glimpses into the collaged landscape of futurology [deserted retail palaces] and mountains of scrap metal. Lost Roads and epic schemes” Iain Sinclair 2004
Edwards used extracts of text and created ten pieces of signage displayed at The Great Eastern Hotel. These signs reflect the landscapes encountered by film maker Chris Petit and Sinclair on their journey from Beckton Alp to Shoeburyness in the month of May 2004. Working with materials and techniques such as neon, backlit perspex, sandblasting onto glass, etching onto metal, road signage, metal containers and chalk on blackboard
1998 – 2003
Codex
Written designed and presented by Susanna Edwards, Maziar Raein and Julia Lockheart, members of staff on the BA Hons Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins. The Codex Project was initiated with the aim of focusing on the predicament facing graphic design education, in particular the design strategies employed by graphic designers in the advent of the technological revolution
Review in Rotovision’s New Handmade Graphics presented as a paper at St Bride’s conference Twentieth Century Graphic Communication, published as an entire paper in Typographics Magazine issue 60, featured in Eye magazine Autumn issue 2005
Whitechapel art gallery
Bookshop window display - From Letterpress to Digital
Millefeuille
Typographic designer of an artist’s book by Maziar Raein
> Events, Talks & Public Engagement (2001–Present)
2019 - present
2022 Open Collab Face to Face blended workshop with Patrick Thomas Berlin.
2019 London Design Festival Global Design Forum -Host and curator of ‘The Business of Design’ panel discussion and workshop.
2019 Art direction and content creation for course website and instagram
2016- 18
London Design Festival Global Design Forum Chair of keynote Sascha Lobe Pentagram. Chair of ‘Design to Save the World’ Morag Myerscough, OffShore Studio, KJellenberger White and Kenjiro Kirton
The Writing Room Piloted workshops in Southampton
Speaker at Soton University Researchers Cafe - theme Future Cities
Speaker at Life on the Outskirts Symposium Manchester Metropolitan University.
Facilitator at K6 gallery Speculative futures workshop
Established Making a Living Symposium at the Cass for Visual Communication, The hothouse talks re branded, Studio culture and hothouse industry workshops.
2015
Grafik Letterform Live, Speaker,Protein Gallery
2009 - 2011
The School of Life Sunday Sermons
Curation, programming, design and presentation of the first 7 sermons: Loving Thy Neighbour - Tom Hodgkinson, Punctuality - Geoff Dyer, Seduction - Sam Roddick, Pessimism - Alain De Botton, Curiosity - Robert Winston, Humour - Richard Wiseman, Risk - Luke Johnson. Service, parish newsletter, punk choir hymns and themed tea from the tea ladies
Techfest Speaker at Asia’s largest science, technology and technical festival, Mumbai, India
Cambridge University, Presented research to the Scientific Imaging research discussion group
2008
Seeking Inspiration 2008
Speaker at the St Bride 2008 conference
Jayne Amongst the Birds, re-enactment, All Saints Church, Haggerston, Hackney A Hackney Gazette front cover from 1959 shows Jayne Mansfield opening a Best Budgerigar competition in All Saints Church. True story in Iain Sinclair’s book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. Susanna Edwards dressed as Mansfield and invited local bird owners to recreate the event at All Saints church 49 years later. Photographer Luke Stephenson took portraits of all the birds. Work exhibited at Tatty Devine East London.
2004 – 2007
Great British Design 2007
Speaker at the St Bride 2007 conference
ISTD Judge International Society of Typographic Designers awards 2004/5. Work included in the catalogue
Art Fund
Speaker at London vs Suburbs panel discussion. Panel: Richard Wentworth, Iain Sinclair, Billy Bragg, Tobias Hill, Susanna Edwards
2001 – 2003
Material Things, British Museum facilitator of two day conference looking at the role of craft within contemporary culture and speaker at a Salon on the theme of Speed at Blacks in Soho
20th Century Graphic Communication Speaker at the St Bride conference. Presented Codex academic paper
Untold, ICA Speaker at the Untold panel discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
> Press, Reviews & Recognition (2000–Present)
2017/ 2018
It’s Nice That 2018
Online Courses for the physical world
Local Legends
The Writing Room
Southampton, a place portrait
Southampton University
Researchers Cafe
Speculative futures workshop
Grafik
Memory Palace Review of Exhibition ‘The House of the Last London’ collaborations with Iain Sinclair
Design Week
How to build bridges between the design industry and education
Grafik
Hot Ticket
2008 – 2009
Rotovision
Freelance Publication, review of working practice Spring 2009
Time Out
Review of Best Budgerigar re-enactment May 2008
Grafik
Review of Best Budgerigar re-enactment May 2008 • Review of The School of Life graphic design Oct 2008 • The School of Life graphic identity and design chosen as one of the top 50 designs of the year • Dec 2008 The School of Life press including: Chicago Tribune, Grafik, Daily Telegraph, dezeen: www.dezeen.com/2008/09/26/ school-of-life-by-susanna-edwards/, Evening Standard, Globe and Mail, Monocle, Guardian, Iconeye, Independant on Sunday, New York Times, Irish Times, Reuters, Slate, Tate etc, Time Out, The Times, Sunday Times
2000 – 2007
Time Out
Review of talk at Museum of London Nov 2006 London/Suburbs Susanna Edwards, Tobias Hill, Billy Bragg, Joe Kerr, Richard Wentworth and Iain Sinclair
Rotovision
Magazine Design, review of Baseline cover issue 22. New Handmade Graphics, review of work. Letterpress The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury, review of work. Digital Illustration by Lawrence Zeegan 2005, Review PIY Japan
Review of Baseline cover issue 22 in Magazines
Print Week
Review of letterpress working practice
The Guardian Media Section
Review of Untold conference held at the ICA looking at the impact of gender on design. 5.8.02
Graphics International
Issue 100 - 100 Designers most influential design mini publication and work exhibited at the SEA gallery. Issue 108 - review of Coco de Mer Artwork (sensual graphics - seduction issue). March 2005-review of ISTD judging and awards 04/05
Typographics Magazine Issue 60
Codex research paper published in full, written by Susanna Edwards, Maziar Raein and Julia Lockheart
Design Week
Review of Martin Amis Other People Bookjacket Design, August 2003 edition
Eye
Codex Paper reviewed in letterpress article Autumn 2005
> Academia
2018 - Present
Course Leader MA Graphic Design Online, Falmouth
Flexible, Falmouth University. Co- wrote, designed and launched an ongoing development of the first global Masters in Graphic Design online.
External Advisor for course validation and approval:
2018 London College of Communication UAL, MA Art Direction
2019
Leeds Arts University, MA Graphic Design
2019
University of Plymouth, BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Illustration / BA (Hons) Graphic Communication with Typography / BA (Hons) Media Arts / BA (Hons) Fine Art to include foundation year.
2019 - 2022
External Examiner Southampton Solent University
BA (Hons) Illustration
2014 - 2018
Head of Cass Visual Communication, Cass School of Art Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. Overseeing UG and PG Design for Publishing, Graphic Design and Illustration and Animation.
2012 - 2014
Associate lecturer at Ravensbourne FE and short courses, outward facing projects.
VL at Winchester School of Art, Graphic Arts BA Hons, University of Southampton
2010 - 2012
Deputy course leader of the MA Communication Design
ESAD Porto, Portugal, Associate lecturer at UAL
2008 - 2010
Associate lecturer University of the Arts London
Chelsea BA graphic design
Central Saint Martins BA graphic design
Associate lecturer London Metropolitan
University, MA Design Suite pathway leader for graphic design Honorary visiting Research Fellow LMU
Associate lecturer Ravensborne foundation course
2007
Academic Leader of 10 undergraduate and postgraduate 2D design courses, London Metropolitan University
2004-2007
Senior lecturer, Head of illustration department
BA and MA Graphic Communication at UCCA Farnham, research active
1996-2004
Associate lecturer University of the Arts London
Central Saint Martins BA and MA graphic design & short courses and Industry partnerships lead tutor
Camberwell BA graphic design & short courses
Middlesex University BA graphic design
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