Staff

Brian Cairns

Programme Leader/Senior Lecturer

Brian Cairns (b.1965, Paisley, UK) lives and works in Glasgow. Focusing on practice-led research exploring material making and analogue processes. His work spans illustration, Communication Design, Print, Fine Art, and Photography. He leads the School of Design ‘PRINT’ research cluster.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Master of Design in Communication Design programme, a post he has held since 2013. He has exhibited internationally in over 64 countries, and his work is included in the BBC permanent collection. He has received numerous international awards for his work from Design and Art Direction, the Art Directors Club of New York, America Illustration, Creative Review, and the Society of Illustrators of New York, which awarded him a prestigious Gold Medal.

He is a reviewer for The Journal of Illustration and has written and interviewed for 3×3 magazine. He has served on the jury for the Deutsche Bank Awards, the World Illustration Awards (AOI), the Saltire Book Design Awards, and as Illustration Chair for the Design and Art Direction International Professional Awards.

He has presented at international conferences, including ICON (USA), Confia (Portugal), iJade (UK) and is a member of Illustration Educators. His work is featured in design publications including ‘A Smile in the Mind’, ‘Typographic Sketchbooks’, ‘Handwritten’, ‘100 Illustrators’, ‘Illustration Now 2’, ‘The Fundamentals of Illustration’, Print Magazine, Communication Arts, Creative Review, Design Week, I-D, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

His experience as an Educator in Higher Education, in the UK and internationally, spans 35 years. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is frequently invited to serve as an external examiner and to contribute to the revalidation of programmes at other UK institutions.

He has 40 years of experience as a practitioner working with international clients such as Ridley Scott Associates, Nike, BBC, United Airlines, British Airways, Hyatt, The New York Times, Warner Brothers, Royal Mail, Penguin Books, Time Magazine, The Atlantic, IDEO, Herman Miller, Channel 4, Hewlett Packard (HP), and The Observer for whom he was a weekly contributor for over 15 years.

www.briancairns.com

Dr. Jessica Taylor (PhD)

Lecturer

Jessica Taylor an artist, illustrator and printmaker originally from New York City, now based in Glasgow. Jessica has a background in history, having researched and taught post-war architecture and planning before studying in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art. Her ideas (though history and architecture often make their way into my practice). Jessica’s interest include self-publishing; deliberately misunderstanding history to imagine a better future; comics; concrete buildings; and painting.

Tom Joyes

Lecturer

Tom Joyes is a graphic designer and art director based in Glasgow specialising in identities, publications, typography, editorial, websites and original content in collaboration with creatives. Previously art director of the biannual arts and culture magazine Elephant, Tom works with clients ranging from international magazines and cultural institutions to independent artists and retail companies, and has lectured at the Glasgow School of Art and Central Saint Martins.

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