James King
Designer
James King is a designer, researcher and occasional lecturer. He studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins and soon after gained an MA from the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art.
Work
James now works independently; mixing commissioned design work while developing his own self-initiated projects and research. He often collaborates with other designers and non-designers. His self-initiated work is concerned with conceiving of and visualising possible applications of new and emerging technologies. Some of this work recently appeared in Design and the Elastic Mind, the 2008 exhibition at MoMA and has since been added to MoMA’s permanent collection.
James taught graphic design for two years at Central Saint Martins. He considers the opportunity to write a design brief and see it interpreted by ten different students in ten different ways to be much more rewarding than the salary. He hasn’t set the same brief twice.
He is constantly trying to find ways of working as a designer at the intersections of design and other disciplines. Recently, he attended a workshop in Norway to learn about DIY biotechnology and hopes to use this knowledge in his next design projects, as long as the other members of 115 don’t mind too much.
Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow (2007)