Tim Martin • Design & Research
 

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Tim Martin

timmartin [at] designresearch.plus.com www.designresearch.plus.com

124e Lyham Road
Clapham Park
London SW2 5QA
UK

t: +44 (0) 208 671 4621
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objective
  Seeking new challenges in design, design education, creative and mac support, research or consultancy, in London region. Use my experience in HE and FE as HOD, programme and module development and leadership. Senior lecturer teaching design and contextual studies and managing prepress, multimedia and internet technologies in studios and education. Professional specialist in publishing, typography, communications design and creative computing resource management. Research interests in design, technology, social history & theory, type and new media structures, interests in object oriented software design and web 2.0 collaboration tools.
 
work experience
  City & Guilds of London Art School
2007 - current
Studio and project lecturer, Foundation Design Group.
 
  The Type Museum
2004 - 2006
Development Consultant and Assistant to the Director.
 
  Design&Research Consultancy
2000 - current
Design research, design management, and educational services. Systems architect and integrator, technical support for creative producers.
 
  De Montfort University
1999 - 2000
Head of Department of Design Management & Communication (Multimedia Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Lens Media & Design Management & Innovation) at De Montfort University, UK.
Responsible for staff, resources and academic management, visual database of assessed student work for QAA review 2000. Subject Authority (academic board) Chairman.
 
  Reading College & School of Art and Design
1996 - 1999
Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary & Multimedia Design, developing state of the art Multimedia Suite as resource centre for Art & Design School. Introducing Undergraduate BAHons programmes particularly the Interdisciplinary Design progamme - taught and assessed by group project work. QAA review 1999.
Enthusiastic lecturer experienced in teaching final year design students to think critically and creatively in practice and theory. Curriculum development innovator in teaching and assessing group work, contextual studies, design research and design technology.
 
  Berkshire College of Art and Design
1993 - 1996
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Imaging. Responsible for art & design computing developments, teaching design & digital prepress in National Centre of Excellence in Printing.
 
  Penguin Books
1989 - 1991
Senior Typographer (Adult Text) Responsible for design production, style development, quality control of adult text typography for Penguin paperbacks (1,500 titles per year).
Book text typography, design, illustration, production and editorial liaison, design management & staff training, commissioning freelance book design & illustration.
 
  Freelance Designer
1985 - 1988
Art & architectural publications and corporate graphic design and campaigns. Book and magazine design.
 
 
education
  Royal College of Art, London 1986
 

     MA RCA Design Research
     The Social Nature of Technological Change

   
  Birmingham Polytechnic, School of Art & Design 1979
       BA Hons 3DD - Industrial Design (Engineering)
   
  Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design 1975
       Foundation Art & Design
   
skills
  Teaching design, contextual theory and history. Course leadership, curriculum development, group teaching & assessment. Publication design, typography - periodicals, books and new media. Design leadership & management. Macintosh systems expert in prepress, networks and multimedia. Systems architect and integrator, technical support for creative producers.
 
references
  References available on request.