Strolling down Northwold Road on a sunny Saturday morning I decided to look down, not up. Just about every two steps was some kind of manhole cover for the various different services—water. cable, phone, etc. The variety was quite astounding and I'm feeling a little project coming on to record the patterns, types and placement of these. I think I am creeping further along the spectrum... See more of them at my Flickr site.
I think a student of mine (Carly Holder) might have done a typology of manhole covers as a project last year. She's on the MA Graphic Design course at LCC at the moment.
This blog is both an archive of some of my previous work and a space for sharing my current research and practice.
Having worked as a Graphic Design lecturer at Nottingham Trent University since 1998, I have just completed my full time PhD at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, courtesy of the AHRC Doctoral Awards Scheme.
My current research project - Realising the Geo/graphic Landscape of the Everyday - inhabits the intersection between Graphic Design and Cultural Geography and explores possibilities for the representation of place.
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I think a student of mine (Carly Holder) might have done a typology of manhole covers as a project last year. She's on the MA Graphic Design course at LCC at the moment.
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