Tony Credland
Title
Lead Tutor MA Graphic Media Design
College
London College of Communication
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Researcher Research
Biography
Tony Credland works in London, as a Lead Tutor on the MA Graphic Design programme at London College of Communication and as a print-based graphic designer.He was co-organiser of the 'Cactus Network' which manifested itself as a mail-art magazine, and later the poster magazine 'Feeding Squirrels to the Nuts'. He graduated from Portsmouth University, Chelsea School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London and later studied at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He is active in grassroots politics in London, working collectively with the local Indymedia network in the UK, and recently co-edited a book We are everywhere; the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism.
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Credland T. Socially responsible communication maps (2011)
- Credland T. 'The Spun' and 'Gift of Masks': Spoof Newspapers for 'Not for Profit - Designing Across the Social Divide' (2005)
Article
- Credland T. Networks of Autonomy: Opening Up Spaces For Critical Engagement (2007)
Book
- Credland T, Bailey P. Positioning Practice (issue 2) Re(distributed) Media: Leakage (2018)
- Credland T, Price V. Positioning Practice (issue 1) Staging the Message (2016)
- Credland T, Chesters G, Jordan J, Ainger K. We are Everywhere - the Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-capitalism (2003)
Book Section
- Baines J, Credland T, Pawson M. Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk - Jess Baines, Tony Credland & Mark Pawson (2018)
- Bestley R, Credland T. Fanzines and Self-Publishing in the 1970s (2018)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Credland T. Signs of revolt - creative resistance and social movements since Seattle (2011)
- Credland T. The art of urban intervention (2010)
- Credland T, Douglas N. Festival of Radical Communication (2009)
- Credland T. Making Protest Material (2009)
- Credland T. Networks of autonomy - opening up spaces for critical engagement (2008)
Show/Exhibition
- Baines J, Cook S, Credland T, Eysler A. Agitate – Propagate – 68! Provocations from Radical London (2018)
- Baines J, Cook S, Credland T, Eysler A. Radical upsurge – 60’s Underground publishing (2017)
- Baines J, Cook S, Credland T, Eysler A, Kassir L, Rallis T. Radical Attic (2015)
- Credland T. Political poster workshop and exhibition (2011)
- Credland T. Signs of resistance (2010)
- Credland T, Douglas N. Signs of revolt: creative resistance and social movements since Seattle (2009)
- Credland T. Signs of change: social movement cultures 1968 - present (2008)
Teaching
Current research students
- Rebecca Binns, Political Autonomy, Humour and Satire in Vaucher’s Artwork for Crass, International Anthem and Mainstream Publications. (Lead supervisor)
- Rebecca Rallis, Graphic Design for Dissent: The graphic languages utilized by the anti-austerity movements that emerged as a response to the global financial crisis during the early 21st century. (Lead supervisor)