| Description | A significant amount of the material relates to exhibitions that Teal Triggs organised and curated at London College of Communication (LCC). This includes the Making Histories exhibition, which featured work by ex-staff and students who attended the School of Graphic Design, and the New Views Symposium, which was held in conjunction with the exhibition and offered a platform for discussing views on graphic design history and practice.
The archive also contains work created by students, alumni and staff of the School of Graphic Design at LCC. There is also marketing material produced by LCC, and research material collected by Teal Triggs as examples of graphic design. This includes the Fontworks Archive, which was donated to the School of Graphic Design in 2006.
The collection mostly consists of paper records, including books that were used in some of the exhibitions. There are also some Audio Visual items, and some objects including glass bottles. |
| Individual or organisational biography | Professor Teal Triggs was born in the United States and has a background in Graphic Design, American Studies and Art History. She is an educator, historian and writer, and her research focusses primarily on graphic design history, design research methods, self-publishing and feminism.
In 2005, Triggs organised the two day New Views Symposium - an event that focused on Graphic Design History and its relationship to design education and professional practice. Speakers and delegates came from across the globe to share views from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. It was held at the London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle.
Triggs completed her PhD in 2006 at the University of Reading, where her thesis was on the graphic language of British fanzines. Triggs' book 'The Graphic Design Reader' was published in 2018 and was co-edited with Professor Leslie Atzmon.
As of 2025, Triggs is Associate Dean in the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Prior to joining the RCA, Triggs was Director of Information Environments (IE), Course Director for MA Design Criticism, and Head of Research at the School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts.
Triggs is a Fellow of the RCA, Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and of the International Society of Typographic Designers (FISTD). Triggs is founding editor of the Journal of Communication Design and has received several Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grants for her work on design, feminism, and comic books.
Further information about Professor Teal Triggs' career can be found on the RCA website (url link correct as of September 2025): https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/professor-teal-triggs/ |
| Custodial History | The archive was held by Professor Teal Triggs in her office until it was transferred to the Archives and Special Collections Centre at London College of Communication in 2012. |