Darren Cullen

Fourth episode of Graphic Interventions: Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

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Darren Cullen

Mini Daily Mail made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the fourth episode, Harriet talks to artist Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives about his Mini Daily Mail. See the whole edition of Mini Daily Mail here. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud or on ITunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Future episodes of the podcast feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, and a zine made by OOMK. The first three episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop, Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Third episode of Graphic Interventions: Paris 68 Redux

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Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the third episode, Harriet meets Dominic McGill and Michael Collins from poster-making collective Paris 68 Redux to discuss their work for Extinction Rebellion‘s Impossible Rebellion campaign in August 2021. Listen to the episode on SoundcloudITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.

Paris 68 Redux are part of the forthcoming show Change Everything, curated by Anthony Burrill, which runs from 4th November 2021 to 30th January 2022 at the depot_Shoreditch E2 7JQ and the depot_Old Street N1 7TA. They will be running poster workshops during the run of the show, including a special boycott Black Friday event at the end of November.

Paris 68 Redux can be found on Instagram @paris68redux and @xr_printworkshop.

Future episodes of Graphic Interventions feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, a zine made by OOMK and a Mini Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. The first two episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop and Conversations from Calais.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Second episode of Graphic Interventions: Conversations from Calais

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An example of one of the conversations captured and shared by Conversations from Calais.

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the second episode, Harriet meets Mathilda from Conversations from Calais, a project that documents conversations between volunteers and migrants meeting in Calais; sharing them by pasting them on city walls around the world. Listen to the episode on SoundcloudITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify. In the interview they discuss the ideas and motivations behind the project and the way that design offers a means for engaging with urgent issues.

Future episodes of feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Paris 68 Redux, a zine made by OOMK and a Mini Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. The first episode featured See Red Women’s Workshop.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

First episode of Graphic Interventions, a new podcast series: See Red Women’s Workshop

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Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In each episode Harriet interviews one maker about one thing they’ve made. In the first episode, Harriet talks to Suzy Mackie, co-founder of feminist poster-making collective See Red Women’s Workshop. Listen to the episode on SoundcloudITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.

Focusing on the poster Right on Jane, they discuss the work of See Red including how the group started out, their motivations in working collectively, the issues they were tackling, how posters allowed them to raise important issues and to connect within and beyond the women’s movement.

The Ladybird book which inspired Right on Jane

 

Further information about See Red Women’s Workshop is available on their website. The book See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990, which includes full colour reproductions of all posters, is published by Four Corners Books and available at independent bookshops.

 

“Good good girl” – an example of the text that inspired Right on Jane

 

 

“Right on Jane” by See Red Women’s Workshop

Future episodes of Graphic Interventions feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux, a zine made by OOMK and a mini-Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Resource for schools about The Materialisation of Persuasion

Harriet has been working with Futurum to create a resource for schools about The Materialisation of Persuasion project. Futurum collaborate with academics all over the world to translate their research into free educational resources that can be used in the classroom and beyond.

These are aimed at 14-19-year-olds worldwide, with the intention to introduce them to the world of work in STEM (science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine) and SHAPE (social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy). Futurum collaborate with academics all over the world and translate their research into free education resources that can be used in the classroom, at home and in STEM and SHAPE clubs. For more information, teaching resources, and course and career guides, see www.futurumcareers.com

The resources are available to download here and the article, activity sheet and brochure will also be available on TES and Teachers Pay Teachers as a free resource. 

Graphic Interventions Trailer

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Graphic Interventions, a new podcast series investigating political interventions through the graphic form, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson will launch at the end of this month. In each episode Harriet interviews one maker about one thing they’ve made. Listen to the trailer here.

Episodes feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Conversations from Calais, Paris 68 Redux and See Red Women’s Workshop, a zine made by OOMK and a mini-Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

Graphic Interventions is hosted by Soundcloud and streamed on ITunes and Spotify.

 

Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton. Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri.

Darren Cullen

Mini Daily Mail made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

‘Still the Enemy Within’, banner made by Ed Hall for the South Yorkshire Community Branch of Unite union.

Paris 68 Redux

Posters by Paris 68 Redux for Extinction Rebellion’s Impossible Rebellion, August 2021.

Mil Ke Chai

Page from the zine ‘Mil Ke Chai ‘, a project co-ordinated by OOMK.

 

See Red Women's Workshop

‘Right On Jane’. Poster by See Red Women’s Workshop, late 1970s.

 

Protest Stencil

Poster by Protest Stencil

 

Conversations from Calais

Poster by Conversations from Calais

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Graphic Interventions: a new podcast series

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Harriet is in the process of making Graphic Interventions, a new podcast series exploring political statements made through posters, banners, zines and other graphic forms, launching in autumn 2021.

In each short episode Harriet talks to one maker about one thing, to discover how it came about, what it meant then, and how it resonates now. The series includes interviews with banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Conversations from Calais, Paris 68 Redux and See Red Women’s Workshop, a zine by OOMK and a mini-Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

The podcast will launch in autumn 2021. It will be hosted by Soundcloud and available via Spotify and other standard streaming services. Follow on Soundcloud here.

Media Building conference

In July Harriet will give a paper at Media Building: Architecture, Communications and the Built Environment, an online conference organised by Carole O’Reilly and E. James West, hosted by University of Salford and Northumbria University, running from 7-10 July 2021. Media Building explores the intersections between architecture, communications, and the built environment.

Harriet is part of a panel entitled ‘Media Spaces + Architectural Modernism in England‘ with Jessica Kelly (UCA) speaking on ‘Modernism at Queen Anne’s Gate’, Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes) speaking on ‘Broadcasting House and the Architectural Review’ and Harriet speaking on ‘Architectural Review and the MARS Group Exhibition 1938’. The panel will run from 1-2.30pm on Thursday 8th July.

The conference is supported by University of Salford, Northumbria University, and the Leverhulme Trust.

The Writer as Psychological Warrior

on 15th July 2021 Harriet will give a paper entitled ‘”The materialisation of persuasion”: “story-telling” exhibitions at the British Ministry of Information during World War Two’ as part of a panel on The Ministry of Information at the conference ‘The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict’, to be hosted online by Durham University, from 12-16 July 2021.

The conference is part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ and will draw papers from a range of disciplines, periods of study, and global perspectives.