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Andy Neal

Senior Lecturer

Andy's career began as a musician; composing and performing material with Detritus, and recording the albums Perpetual Defiance and If But For One (Edge Records/Music for Nations). He then studied graphic design over a period of six years; initially in Cornwall, and then in Edinburgh, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Visual Communication and later with a Master of Design (MDes Graphic Design).

He worked commercially in Scotland with Millhouse Design Consultants developing the print & exhibition spaces for the (then) new National Museum of Scotland, as well as working on broader editorial and identity projects. He then moved to Navyblue Design Consultants working as a New Media Designer on web, CD-Rom and moving image projects for clients that included Tony Stone, Ellesse and Orange, together with award winning work for EPCC (part of Edinburgh University).

Andy started teaching part-time in 1998 at Glasgow School of Art, and set up [ nbuffalo ] in 1999 as an informal umbrella for his own commercial and personal work. He has been teaching at Falmouth since January 2000, co-ordinating both the first year (2001–06) and final year  (2006–2016) of the BA(Hons) Graphic Design programme. He is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers, has been an invited assessor at the ISTD Student Assessment Scheme since 2004, and part of the education team since 2013.

He continues to design under the [nbuffalo] name, and his wider design & research interests include recording & re-utilising creative processes, together with exploring the broader communication complexities of liturgical form and space. He doesn’t like ‘categories’, but is equally at home lecturing about process or typography as he is playing guitar in experimental rock & electronica outfits or in liturgical spaces.

He lives and works in Cornwall, UK.
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  • Qualifications
  • Research Interests
  • Research Outputs
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    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    1998
    MDes Graphic Design
    (Edinburgh College of Art)
    1997
    BA(Hons) Visual Comunication (First class)
    (Edinburgh College of Art)
    1995
    HND Graphic Design
    (Falmouth College of Arts)

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2011

    International Society of Typographic Designers; Premier Award (Falmouth Butterfly).

    2006

    Futurebrand Award; FutureTalent Best Tutor.

    2000

    International Visual Communications Association; Gold Award External Multimedia (EPCC CD-Rom / NavyBlue).

    2000

    Scottish Design Awards; Commendation (EPCC CD-Rom / NavyBlue).

    1997

    Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship.

    1997

    Adobe Power of Design; Design for Print overall winner (Rebirth typeface).

    1997

    Donside Design Award.

    1995

    Proctor & Stevenson Design Award.

    Membership of external committees

    • ISTD Education Team

    Research Interests

    Research centre and group affiliations

    DiaGram

    Research topics

    • design process
    • liturgical space
    • Typography
    • design practice

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    Book Section

    Neal, Andy and Star, Dion (2017) [DiaGram]; Rethinking Graphic Design Process. In: REDO: Cumulus REDO Conference Proceedings, Design School Kolding 30 May - 2 June 2017. ReDo Cumulus 2017 . Design School Kolding and Cumulus International, Online (worldwide) / Denmark., pp. 81-95. ISBN 9788793416154
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    Conference or Workshop Item

    Neal, Andy (2018) designdice™ GDEN2018 [w**ichcraft]. In: Graphic Design Educators’ Network – W**chcraft, 6-7th September 2018, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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    Neal, Andy (2018) designdice™ BDF2018. In: Birmingham Design Festival 2018, 7–10 June 2018, Birmingham, UK.
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    Star, Dion, Neal, Andy and Rudolph, Ashley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9666-9099 (2016) [STÖRUNG] – Workshop & Public Lecture on Disruption & Design Process @ Werkwoche: International Design Week, Augsburg. In: Werkwoche International Design Week, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. Faculty of Design. Friedberger Str. 2. 86161 Augsburg, Germany..
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    Star, Dion, Neal, Andy and Rudolph, Ashley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9666-9099 (2016) Werkwoche International Design Week 2016. In: [STÖRUNG] – Disruption / Design / Process, 14 - 18 November 2016, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. (Unpublished)
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    Exhibition

    Salkeld, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-965X and Rudolph, Ashley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9666-9099 (2017) STUFF. [Exhibition] Item availability may be restricted.
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    Design

    Neal, Andy (2016) The Claze; Time to be friends. [Design] Item availability may be restricted.
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    Neal, Andy (2016) NCC Branding. [Design]
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    Device or Product

    Neal, Andy (2018) designdice™. [Device or Product]
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    Events

    YearDescription
    2016

    Delivered a 4 day workshop and lecture with Dion Star & Ashley Rudolph at the Werkwoche, Faculty of Design, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Graphic Design
    • Typography
    • Design Process.

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Graphic Design
    • MA Communication Design

    Professional engagement

    Independent professional practice

    Ongoing professional practice as a designer (working under the [ nbuffalo ] name).

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    Invited assessor at the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) annual student assessment scheme (since 2004).
    Member of the ISTD Education team (since 2013).
    Invited moderator at the ISTD annual student assessment scheme (2013).

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