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Not My Circus Not My Monkeys

Alice Goodliffe

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A playful and socially focused designer with a focus on publication design and exhibition identity. My work mixes tactile, traditional methods with digital techniques to champion collaboration and experimentation. 

I challenge the tradition of print by playfully pushing the limitations of book design. I use type, printing, textiles, and code to bring my designs to life.

A playful and socially focused designer with a focus on publication design and exhibition identit...

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At the very end point in the final year of our graphic design degree, we are beginning to feel the universal panic, stress and confusion at what comes next. How do we go about getting a job? Who is going to hire us? Do we even know what we want to do? How do we get there? 

It feels daunting and impossible to break into the creative industry. Despite loving our course and working so hard for the past three or four years it still feels like an unfeasible task. This is something we find ourselves constantly discussing with friends and peers as we reach this crossroads in our lives.

This exhibition 'Not My Circus Not My Monkeys' aims to create a space to capture this shared feeling whilst giving a platform to a group of ten talented emerging artists. Working together and discussing our worries, fears and problems means we can begin to face our creative industry, break through and begin to change it together.

Our exhibition took place 16-17th May at Studio 18, a gallery space in 30 Millbank, an iconic grade two listed office building that has long been part of London's political and commercial business hub.

>> Identity, publication design and organisation, made possible with the bounce fund grant.

Final work

NMCNMM Publication

To document this shared feeling, we explored the individual experience of each artist through a series of interviews, with the hopes that the common themes can highlight these issues we are trying to address.

Warning: Contains flashing images
  • flipping through pages of book with red text
  • book inside paper bag with red western text cover
  • open page spread of book with red text with interview form an artist
  • exhibition space full of multidisciplinary art with red vinyl identity throughout
  • framed crayon and pencil drawings on plain wall with textile samples hanging in the foreground
  • latex pots on a table with the background of a building outside the windows
  • red vinyl monkey on textured column
  • red vinyl text saying 'please do not touch'
  • red vinyl on floor with exhibition title with a person walking over

Research and process

Poster GIF

Warning: Contains flashing images
  • letterpress workshop with prints from condensed metal type
  • letterpress workshop with western style woodblock type
  • risograph workshop with Ellie printing posters

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Not My Circus Not My Monkeys

At the very end point in the final year of our graphic design degree, we are beginning to feel the universal panic, stress and confusion at what comes next. How do we go about getting a job? Who is going to hire us? Do we even know what we want to do? How do we get there? ...

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