01.3 / By way of a CV
born / London
Monday 8 April 1968 (19:45)
Central Middlesex Hospital
Lived in Cedar Road / Cricklewood
grew up / Margate
Lived in 301 Canterbury Road / Garlinge/Westgate
1972 — 1979
Garlinge Infants & Juniors
1979 — 1984
Hartsdown Secondary Modern
1984 — 1986
Dane Court Grammar
art school / Norwich
1986 — 1987
Maidstone College of Art
(Foundation)
1987 — 1990
Norwich School of Art
(BA Hons Graphic Design)
apprenticeship / Clerkenwell
1991 — 1995
Apprentice to Alan Kitching (RDI)
at The Typography Workshop / Clerkenwell
1990 — 1992
Assistant to Phil Abel
at Hand & Eye Letterpress / London
1989 — 1994
Freelance graphic designer for:
Economist magazine /
Faber & Faber /
Bostock & Pollitt /
masters / Brighton
1993 — 1995
University of Brighton
(MA Sequential & Narrative Design)
teaching / London +
1993 — 1998
First year tutor in Typography
Visual Communication Design BA (Hons)
Middlesex University
1993 — 1995
First year tutor
Typography + Graphic Design BA (Hons)
Colchester Institute
1996 — 1998
Second year tutor
Typography + Graphic Design BA (Hons)
Visual Communications Design
Kent Institute of Art and Design Maidstone
1996 — 1997
Second year tutor
Typography + Graphic Design BA (Hons)
University of Brighton
1999 — 2001
Research Associate in Typography & Letterpress
Visual Communication Design
Middlesex University
(Three-year research position cultivating the culture of research in the visual communications department at the university.)
2000 — 2001
Second year tutor Information Design
at London College of Printing (Communication)
London Institute
2001 — 2006
Area of Study Course Leader
Typo/Graphic Design BA (Hons)
at London College of Printing
(now London College of Communication)
2002 — 2004
Visiting Senior lecturer
MA Typo/Graphic Design
London College of Communication
2006 — 2007
Visiting tutor
Northumbria University
London Metropolitan University
studio / Limehouse
1995 — 2001
The Typographic Studio of Mr Smith
Typography & Information & Exhibition Design
1999 — 2000
Consultant typographer with Imagination Ltd.
Overseeing graphic information system for the BT TalkZone at the Millennium Dome
workshop / Old Street & Kennington
2006 — 2010
Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop / Old Street
Typography & Letterpress Design practice
2010 — 2018
Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop / Walworth & Kennington
Typography & Letterpress Design practice
2018 — 2021
The New Typography Workshop / Walworth & Kennington
School of Typography & Letterpress
practice / Somerset
2018 — 2024
Smith’s Rules / Bruton — Somerset
Art / Design & Letterpress Printmaking practice
Contact
Smith’s Rules
Unit 5 / Riverside
Station Road Industrial Estate
Bruton / Somerset BA10 0EH
Kelvyn Laurence Smith
mrsmith@smithsrules.com
01749 705 574
07866 258 171
We at right at the end of the Station Road Industrial Estate — (over the bumps) & down to the left — follow the signs to ‘Riverside’. You can park outside the unit.