Naomi Games and Joanne Lee - a day of talks in the Visual Communication department

Students, staff and ex staff from the Visual Communications department enjoyed a great day of talks with the graphic designer Joanne Lee and Naomi Games, designer, writer and curator of her father, Abram Games’s, archive.

From Lee’s first talk on the amateur and the fettler in graphic design, to the amazing insights into the work of Abram Games, one of the most important British graphic designers, both speakers emphasised single-mindedness and confidence as the key qualities for students to emulate. Stimulating and inspiring the Visual Communication department also showed off its long, illustrious history, through an exhibition of ephemera from the School of Art. The highlight of which was the 1952 College of Art prospectus with thanks to Abram Games who gave a talk to the students here in Wolverhampton in 1951, the year that his symbol for the Festival of Britain made him a household name.

Ephemera from the School of Art

Joanne Lee talks about The Fall in her presentation on On the skills of amateurs, generalists, fettlers and the work of other curious types.

A wrapt audience listened to Naomi Games’s presentation 'Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means’ The Abram Games Archive
Naomi Games also showed the first TV moving ident made for the BBC by Abram Games in 1953