Graphic Design
Emily Schofield
I am a freelance graphic designer and visual communicator based in London. After working in different studios both in London and Paris I set up my own practice, focusing on working with people and subject matter that sits within the cultural sector. I occasionally work within higher education – teaching, giving talks or running workshops.
I received the Dean’s Award and was nominated for the NOVA Award while doing my Undergrad at Central Saint Martins and received the Varley Award at the Royal College of Art. Some of my work was exhibited at Brain Waves in the Lethaby Gallery during London Design Week (2017), at PHORM: Black and White during Birmingham Design Festival (2019), at To/From at Manchester’s People’s History Museum (2019) and at Typographic Singularity at the Hockney Gallery (2019).
My practice sits somewhere on the ‘Visual Communication +’ spectrum. Visual Communication being a form of translation, a methodology rather than a medium. ‘+’ being the end of that spectrum which seeks to translate material without defining the language at the other end. More often than not it takes the form of typographic material (publications in particular), occasionally it finds itself in an object, an installation, a performance or moving image. Within my own research I am particularly interested in questions around value, labour and neomaterialism.
Eponym Radiator Typographic Singularity
Eponym Radiator
Eponym Publication
Eponym Publication
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Eponym WIP
My project, entitled Eponym, was conceived with the aim to disrupt the hierarchical relationship between object and subject by allowing objects to spell themselves out typographically. In doing so, the act of self-naming gives the object agency and elevates its subjectivity.
I observe common, functional objects. I allow myself to become obsessed. I analyse their visual language and its relationship to the object’s functionality. Next, its most commonly used name in the English language is run through a series of abstractions deriving from the objects visual system. The outcome is neither here nor there – it is not typography, it is not written language, it is not a functional object. In naming itself the object has gained autonomy and become a useless Thing.
Eponym: Radiator was on show at Typographic Singularity in 2019, Eponym: Tray and Eponym: Bag are currently in the works.
Eponym is an experiment and a process. It is a translation between philosophy, typography and sculpture. It is a work in progress currently suffering under the lack of a physical workspace.
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Metal, Fabric, Wood, Polystyrene, PublicationSize:
Various
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NOIT Spread
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NOIT Spread
'NOIT–5' is a collection of essays, short stories and images exploring what happens when the domestic, the home and the body are alienated from their most basic associations and given new ones. In these works the threshold between house and street, the distinction between the public and private becomes porous and inexhaustibly complex.
'NOIT–5' is a book, a body and a building. Somewhere between eccentric and institutional. Every physical aspect of the book was treated as such. The outer margins appear as a sort of magnet, drawing the contents of the book out to its edges. The magnetic outer margins create a feeling of continuity, a spilling over of content from each page to the following – thus mirroring Latham’s thoughts on time and space. Every title displays remnants of what came before.
