The new research cluster at UCA Maidstone Campus, researches and investigates the "Book as Object" in view of digital and other competing media. The international typographics magazine Baseline in its winter issue 12/2008 features the work of staff and students in the Education Spectrum section. Four pages have been dedicated to an inspirational article written by Mark Sanderson which describes and illustrates clearly the philosophy and approach of the research cluster and the BA(Hons) and MA courses in graphic design at the Maidstone campus.
The article describes how our courses have developed by a combination of practitioners and theorists who are not merely supportive of graphic design with 'content' but are actively engaged in getting students to discover the breadth and depth of their practice. The ultimate scope of our course has always been to accomodate different imaginations that can range from the scientific and systematic to the poetic and paradoxical, and so we are very excited that our unique approach to teaching, learning and research at Maidstone is being internationally recognised by the publication of this article in this prestigous periodical.
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