Jonty Valentine
Journeyman designer
Journeyman designer
I am a graphic designer, lecturer and sometimes a curator and writer.
Hold an MFA qualification from Yale University and a BFA from University of Canterbury, both in graphic design.
Am from Christchurch, but now live in Auckland, New Zealand.
I am presently employed as the Discipline Lead in Design at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.
Freelance as a designer and was co-director of the award-winning design and Risograph print studio Index,
which specialised in design for artists and cultural institutions.
My primary area of research is New Zealand graphic design history.
I was the co-editor of the periodical The National Grid (with Luke Wood).
Alongside numerous publication design outputs, significant research outputs include
authoring the book Mark Cleverley: Designer and curating the exhibitions
Just Hold Me, Printing Types and Mark Cleverley: Designer at Objectspace gallery.
I have chapters published in the critical design publications One and Many Mirrors,
Forms of Inquiry and Dwelling in the Margins...
And more!
All a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organisation of a unitary ambience and a game of events.
Contact:
jontyvalentine@yahoo.com
Links:
https://www.commonplace.org.nz/
https://www.thenationalgrid.net/