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Brian Garman

Senior lecturer, Design, JMS4 co-ordinator
b.garman@ru.ac.za
046 603 7127

Qualifications:
BSc Hons (UKZN), MA (Rhodes)

Address

Room 210 Africa Media Matrix

Upper Prince Alfred Street

Makhanda

Postal address

School of Journalism and Media Studies

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网

PO Box 94

Grahamstown 6140

 
Community engagement

Logo design: Makhanda circle of Unity food security cluster. Book cover designs for Deep South Publishing and Mvusi Books. Logo design for Mvusi books.

Poster designs for Makana Revive and Multi-kulti in Makhanda! programme

Baby Box design for #Every Baby Counts early literacy programme of the Lebone Centre, Makhanda


Courses

During my tenure at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, I have taught the following courses:

JMS2 Semiotics 

JMS3 Design

JMS4: Design

JMS4: An introduction to Web design

JMS4: Introduction to Animation

 

Postgraduate: Comics and the re-imaging of Africa  


Research areas

Artisanal design

Comics

Graphic novels

Textual analysis and semiotics

Visual analysis


Journalism/media outputs

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Investigative Journalism Training Manual design, 2006

National Arts Festival marketing materials, 2011-2019

Highway Africa Conference programme design, 2012-2018

Cape Town Fringe marketing materials, 2014-2017

Sharjah Fringe programme design 2019

Journalism Summit conference and report design, 2024

 

Newspaper design

Cue newspaper design and production, 1997-2018

Scicue newspaper design and production, 1997-2003, 2007-2011

 

Magazine design

Archimedes science magazine, 2001

Rhodos (Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s alumni magazine), 2009-2012

Rhodes Journalism Review Issues 21-34, 2002-2014

 

Book design

Doing Digital Media in Africa, 2009

Harnessing Africa’s Digital Future, 2010

Media Management in the New Age, 2013 

South African Biennale di Venezia Exhibition catalogue 2013 

Yum mo Cookbook layout and design 2014

A Directory of Community Media and Advertising Trends in Southern Africa, 2017

Our Beautiful Words, The Writers Writing, 2020

A Book of Friendships, The Writers Writing, 2020

Growth Growth Growth by Julian Cobbing, book cover design, 2024.

 

Creative outputs

Design, Layout and Bookmaking for Selloane Mokuku's Painkiller 2019

Bookmaking, 2014 – 2024