Exhibitions

Writing and Object, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, 2014

Aesthetics City, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2013

Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, 2012

Useful Contraventions, Siemans Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, 2009

Awards

Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture, The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, 2012

Designs of the Year Award nomination for Comedy Carpet, Design Museum, 2012

Blackpool Civic Trust; merit award for Comedy Carpet, 2012

Grand Prix for Comedy Carpet, Tokyo Type Directors Club, 2012

Designs of the Year Award nomination for Crawley Library, Design Museum, 2010

RIBA Award for Crawley library with Penoyre & Prasad, 2010

Blackpool Civic Trust; merit award for Climbing Towers & Bouldering Wall, 2007

Language stone award, 2006

Grand Prix, Tokyo Type Directors, (First Prize) for Flock of Words, Morecambe, 2003

Art for Architecture Award, Royal Society of Arts, 2001

Civic Trust Commendation and Street Design Award for Eric Area, Morecambe, 2000

Civic Trust Commendation, 1998

Street Design Award, Royal Town Planning Institute, for Loudoun Hall Forecourt, 1998

Museum of the Year Award with Jersey Heritage Trust For Maritime Museum Jersey, 1998

Lancaster Civic Society for Stone Jetty, Morecambe, 1996

Working for Cities Award, British Gas Properties/Arts Council, 1995

Art for Architecture Award, Royal Society of Arts for Tern Morecambe, 1994

Hull Civic Society Commendation for Fish Pavement, 1993

Art in Public Spaces, Northern Electric/Arts Council for Gateshead 1993

Selected Talks & Judging

University of Westminster, 2013

Lumen Prize, Treberfydd Foundation, 2012

EMZIN, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012

ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design, talk & workshop, Oporto, Portugal, 2012

Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London, 2012

Poet in the City, Design Charette, York House, Twickenham, 2012

RIBA 4×4 making Places: Size Matters! The Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2012

Pro Funnibono Publico lecture, Konstfact University of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, 2011

Italian Visual Communication Designer’s Association, Design Per conference, Bologna, 2010

The School of Architecture, University of Naples, The theatre in the city seminar, 2010

University College of Falmouth, 2010

Central St Martins, M.A Narrative Environment, 2010

Key Speaker, The Angel Symposium, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2009

Key speaker, City & Art Forum, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, 2009

Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London, 2008

Poets In The City, German Gym, Kings Cross, London, 2007

University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, 2007

Brunel Academy, Bristol, 2007

Royal Society of Architects in Wales, annual conference, Cardiff, 2006

Selected Publications

The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2013

Lettering Large, Steven Heller & Miro Ilic, Monacelli Press, New York, 2013

Oversize, Mega Art & Installations, Edited and Published by Viction:ary, Hong Kong, 2013

30 Studios by Étapes, Pyramyd Editions, Paris, 2013

LetterScape, A Global Survey of Typographic Installations by Anna Saccani, Thames & Hudson, 2013

Typespaces, Basheer Graphic Books, Singapore, 2012

Por Escrito, 1970-2010 by Richard Deacon, Universidad Publica de Navarra, 2012

We Never Had A Plan So Nothing Could Go Wrong – Why Not Associates, ggg Books No.104, Tokyo, 2013

Tokyo TDC, Vol 23, 2012

Which Way To Go? by Miguel Abellan, Monsa Publications, Barcelona, 2012

Paranormal Cumbria by Geoff Holder, The History Press, 2012

Local Heritage, Global Context by John Schofield & Rosy Szymanski, Ashgate Publishing, 2011

Space & Environmental Graphics, Rikuyosha Publishers, Japan, 2010

Virtual Typography by Matthias Hillner, AVA Publishing, Switerland, 2009

Art and Text, Black Dog Publishing, 2009

City and Art Project, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, 2009

Creative Island 2 by John Sorrell, Laurence King Publishing, 2009

Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts by Fabiola Reyes, Monsa, 2007

Weird England: Your Travel Guide to England’s Local Legends… by Matt Lake, Sterling Publishing, 2007

Exploring Border Reivers by P Nixon, 2007

England in Particular by Sue Clifford & Angela King, hodder & stoughton, 2006

Artists and Public Space, Black Dog Publishing, 2005

Why Not 2 published by Thames and Hudson, 2004

People Making Places: Imagination in the Public Realm, published by Public Arts, 2004

Tokyo Type Director’s Annual, 2003

Art, Space and the City by Malcolm Miles, Routledge, 1997

Celebrating Local Distinctiveness, Common Ground for Rural Action, 1994

Selected Articles

Plus Eighty One, Typographic Art issue,Vol.59, Tokyo, Spring, 2013

Interni, no.4, Milan, April, 2013

Novum Magazine, Munich, December, 2012

Pen, Tokyo, October, 2012

Étapes: Design and Visual Culture, Paris, August, 2012

Le Courrier du Bois, Belgium, January, 2011

Creative Review, October, 2011

Area, No.111, Florence, July/August, 2010

Creative Review, March, 2009

M.E. magazine, Milan, September, 2009

Artlab, Milan, September, 2009

Letter Arts Review, USA, Spring, 2008

Summit: 49, British Mountaineering Council, Spring, 2008

Landscape magazine, February, 2007

Creative Review, May, 2007

Wallpaper, August, 2007

iSh magazine, Singapore, 2007

Concept magazine, Jakarta, 2007

Creative Review, April, 2006

Touchstone, September, 2006

Etapes: international, September, 2006

Creative Review, May, 2005

Disegno Industriale, October, 2005

Creative Review, April, 2003

Domus, December, 2003

Art and Architecture, issue no.59, 2003

Eye magazine, Autumn, 2002

Creative Review, September, 2002

Crafts magazine, January, 2000

Livewire, August, 2000

Druk, Netherlands, Autumn, 2000