In the 1970s, Booth-Clibborn produced the Dewline Newsletter in collaboration with Marshall McLuhan and the art imprint Motif Editions which featured the work of young artists such as David Hockney, Michael English, and Allen Jones. Booth-Clibborn was a founding member of the Designers and Art Directors Association of London and served as Chairman from 1963 – 1992. The Associations’ annual publication British Design & Art Direction is widely recognized as the benchmark for creative standards throughout the international design community and the exhibition that stems from its annual Gold and Silver Awards has been seen in most of the major world capital cities. A Governor of the Kent Institute of Art and Design and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London, Booth-Clibborn was a visiting professor at Syracuse University and has lectured around the world on visual communications. Continuing to ride the global wave of arts and culture, Booth-Clibborn has most recently turned his discerning eye to creatively emerging metropolises for the City Series, in which the Phoenix region will be showcased.
Author: Nan Ellin is director, Urban + Metropolitan Studies program and associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at ArizonaState University. She is the author of Postmodern Urbanism, Integral Urbanism, and numerous articles that have appeared in History ofEuropean Ideas, Journal of Architectural Education, Design Book Review, Thresholds, Intersight, Lotus, Urban Studies, Encyclopedia ofNew York City, Shade Magazine, and the Arizona Republic. She is also the editor of Architecture of Fear and associate editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Urban Studies.
Designer: Jonathan Barnbrook is a London-based graphic designer of books, films, compact discs, textiles, typefaces, watches, and more. His clients include the Barbican Centre, white Cube, Saatchi Gallery of London, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery of New York City, and Mori Art Museum of Tokyo. Barnbrook designed the two most recent cd packages for David Bowie, and the book I Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now (Booth-Clibborn Editions), a collaboration with Damien Hirst that has been highly acclaimed, winning both the Gold Prize and Grand Prize at the New York ADC (Art Directors Club), the Gold Award at the New York TDC (Type Directors Club) and the Gold Award in the General Entry category at the Tokyo TDC 97-98.
Photographer: Tomoko Yoneda is a Japanese photographer whose projects include “Topographical Analogy,” “Between Visible and Invisible,” and “Scene.” The featured artist of In-Between (v.9), Yoneda holds an MFA from the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited at the Zelda Cheatle Gallery in London, the Ashiya City Museum and Shugoarts in Tokyo.
