Alan Kitching
Alan Kitching Born in Darlington in 1940, is a graphic
designer, typographer, letterpress printmaker and teacher. Alan Kitching is
best known for his expressive use of letterpress type, process and materials in
creating typographic designs for publishing, advertising and his own limited
edition prints. Alan found his own design
practice, he taught at the Central School of Art, and was invited by Derek
Birdsall to join the Omnific Design Partnership. He became visiting lecturer in
typography at the Royal College of Art in 1988 and established his workshops
there for students of all disciplines. In 1989 Kitching decided to go back to
his letterpress roots and launched The Typography Workshop in Clerkenwell
London with the first of his A1 ‘Broadside’ sheets an occasional publication
devoted to the typographic arts’.
As well as compositions for corporate
identities, magazine and book covers and illustration. Alan’s work has also
included; postage stamps, theatre posters, shop windows, billboards, signage
and a typographic mural for the Guardian Newspaper’s London office. Kitching
did not have a style in his work, he had his own style taking every
opportunity. In terms of his work that consisted on letter pressing works out
as a nice effect in terms of texture of the text and the layout which appears
at angles with some letters overlapping each other as well as visual shapes
merging in.
(accessed on 28th April)
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