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Graven Images is the cross-disciplinary Glasgow design studio founded by Janice Kirkpatrick and Ross Hunter in 1986.

This group of creative designers and architects has an international reputation for diverse and iconoclastic work ranging from brands, books and typefaces to bars, shops, offices and exhibitions.

This desirable new book, designed and written by Graven Images, gives an insight into the organisation and its work.



About the Author

Professor Janice Kirkpatrick is an acknowledged design critic and theorist and is a regular contributor to many publications. She also lectures internationally and is an experienced exhibition curator and broadcaster, writing and presenting the BBC's millennium series on design "Designing Our Lives" in 2000.

In addition to her work as a Designer and Director of Graven Images she is a Governor of Glasgow School of Art, Chairperson of The Lighthouse - Scotland's International Centre for Architecture, Design and the City and a Trustee of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

She was awarded the prestigious role of Conran Foundation Collector in 1997.

Ross Hunter is an architect, and one of the founding directors of Graven Images Limited.

Having trained at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, he qualified in 1987. In parallel with a two year stint at Elder and Cannon he established Graven Images, with co-director Janice Kirkpatrick.

The company is predominantly involved in corporate graphic design, interior and exhibition design.

Graven Images employs a total of 18 staff, working for retail, manufacturing, professional services and government organisations.

The company has, since inception, been deeply involved in the promotion of design as being central to the health of our economic and cultural lives.

Ross is Chairman of the Merchant City Civic Society, a council member of Friends of GSA and a founding director of 3FOLD, specialists in workplace research and design.


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