Moth Design & Death +
The Studio Society
Students from the School of Communication Design were invited to exhibit their personal collection of STUFF. This collection could be one which has been added to over time, bequeathed to them, multiples of objects accrued as a result of habitual buying, a chance encounter at a boot fair.
Moth: design & death has been interested in working with staff and students instigating projects which encourage enquiry using objects and artefacts as triggers for hidden memory, micro/macro, parts and whole, constructing and de-constructing, a passion for ‘rejects’ and fragments. This projects extends into The Studio Society which seeks to promote opportunities for the community of the Graphic Design Course to share, comment and contribute to the course beyond the curriculum.
Over the next three weeks students will be sharing some of their collections, giving insight as to why they have this STUFF and what it means to them.
STUFF Student collections
Collection_01 Friday 20 Jan. | Jocelyn Affleck | Story Book
Collection_02 Friday 27 Jan. | Louise Osborne | Royal Memorabilia | Victoria Boyle | Black Cat & Socks | Chris Rees | Keyrings
Collection_03 Friday 3 Feb. | Su Lee | Eating Habits | Sylwia Cwieczek | Trophies | Ciaran Saward | Calendar of Blades
Collection_04 Friday 10 Feb. | Charlotte Skerratt | Lucy Carpenter | Bottles | Sea Glass | Armelinda Beqiraj | Imperfect Images
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STUFF Staff collections
Collection_01 Friday 28 Oct. | Nikki Salkeld, Joseph Payne & Ashley Rudolph
Collection_02 Friday 04 Nov. | Lizzie Ridout & Dion Star
Collection_03 Friday 11 Nov. | Bryan Clark & Andy Neal
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Moth took part in the Leap Year Project, organised by the Graphic Design Studio Society.
Julius Caesar introduced Leap Years in the Roman Empire over 2000 years ago, giving us an additional day every four years on the 29th February. Students and staff on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course took advantage of this extra day, by producing a set of four objects, which were displayed for the day in then Fox 4 Atrium.
Memento Mori
Remember that you are mortal
Thorn Handkerchief & Monograph Handkerchief Grave Stone, Falmouth Cemetery.
Memento Mori “Remember that you are mortal,” The idea of memento mori and its symbolism were rarely used in classical antiquity. Instead, the saying carpe diem, or “seize the day,” was popular, reminding people to “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die.” Memento mori developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized heaven, hell, and salvation of the soul in the afterlife. The imagery related to memento mori, serves to remind viewers of their own mortality.
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MOTH Talks: In the face of death – 8th January 2016
Fox 4 Lecture Theatre – 1.30pm-5pm
The School of Communication Design, Falmouth University
Guest Speakers:
Stephen Cave, Writer, critic and philosopher, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, 2013, Biteback
Prof. Tony Walter, Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, sociologist
Joseph Macleod, Designer, Closure Experiences
Exhibition accompanying the event: In the face of death
The School of Communication Design, Graphic Design Building Foyer
Private View 5pm – 8th January 2016
In a collaborative project between Falmouth University and Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, entitled In the face of death communication students were asked to design a graphic system of symbols, creating meaningful and applied visual language to print, artifacts, digital and social media platforms. It focused on ideas and beliefs at the end of life, (the moment at which we die) and the consequences of that. The project used four immortality narratives as a vehicle to establish systems; Elixir; staying alive, life extension stories. Resurrection; life, death and rebirth, science, faith and fiction. Soul; the non-material part of the body that is ‘the real me’, and Legacy; cultural, genetic and meme.
Partnership event:
Café Morte | The Falmouth School of Art
Exhibition: Lost for Words
An exhibition exploring creative responses to mortality, transience and ritual.
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November 2015
Moth will be taking part in the Graphic Design Research Symposium – at Falmouth University
Renowned speakers from education, publishing and design practice will be discussing how research meets graphic design as an academic and professional discipline. Graphic Design research is understood from the perspectives of both critical practice and scholarship. What is the nature of graphic design research? How can we integrate research and teaching? How can we define audiences for research? How is research disseminated? What is the special relationship between graphic design research and publishing? These and many more questions will be raised and discussed in an open, participatory forum.
Great to see the event feature on Eye magazine’s blog: Fresh ideas, fresh air
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June 2015
Nikki and Ashley delivered a paper, ‘In the face of Death’, at the CDAS Conference 2015 Death & its Futures.
The conference took place at the University of Bath, hosted by the Centre for Death & Society (CDAS)
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March / May 2015
In the face of Death.
Creation of a meaningful graphic system of symbols based on one of four immortality narratives with application to a personal »memento mori« artefact.
‘In the face of death’ project focuses on ideas and beliefs at the end of life and the consequences of that, using four immortality narratives, introduced by Stephen Cave: Elixir_staying alive, life extension stories, Resurrection_life, death and rebirth, science, faith and fiction The Soul_the non-material part of the body that is ‘the real me’ Legacy_cultural, genetic and meme. School of Life lecture
Collaborative project between:
FACHWERKSTATT IDENTITY DESIGN
IN COOPERATION WITH THE MOTH DESIGN RESEARCH TEAM
AT THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Ashley Rudolph, Nicola Salkeld_Falmouth University
Prof. Stefan Bufler, Prof. Michael Wörgötter_Hochschule Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
May 2014
Memento Mori | Remember that you are mortal – Exhibition
Falmouth Art Gallery
Links: Falmouth University
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Nikki & Ashley delivered a paper about MOTH – Design of Death
at a conference in September 2013, held at Falmouth University
Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
Projects from 2014
February
Undead Type workshop
Typographic Anthropology, building a typeface from individual monumental characters. Collaborative team process.
April
Memento Mori project
Collaborative project between Fine Art and Graphic Design students working in pairs, responding creatively to mortality and how this is translated in visual terms.
Each pair will produce a Vanitas/memento mori. This could be in any medium, format or context. They will consider and discuss the relevance/irrelevance of the traditional metaphors and think about contemporary expressions of these through image, type/lettering, objects, places etc.
This project is in partnership with the Falmouth Art Gallery.
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If you would like to contact us please do so via:
moth@falmouth.ac.uk