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Published in BRICKS FROM THE KILN #7 edited by artist Helen Marten and literary agent Harriet Moore with Matthew Stuart
Bricks From the Kiln, 2024. 17 × 22.4 cm, 240 p. Designed by Matthew Stuart.
Images from Public Knowledge Books. Available world wide.
Published by Kunstverein Publishing, 2020
190 x 235 mm, 400 p.
BLOOD is the first comprehensive English translation of the first and only poems of Danish art historian, communist activist and writer R. Broby-Johansen. Translated, edited and designed by Line-Gry Hørup(with literary editing of Phil Baber), Broby-Johansen’s poems are accompanied by a series of full colour photographs by photographer Johannes Schwartz, documenting the Broby-Johansen archive at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.
BLOOD was selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs and nominated for the Danish literary prize Schadeprisen as well as chosen as one of the best artist books and literary books by the Danish newspaper Information. A lengthy review in Tripwire journal of poetics, can be found here.
Line-Gry Hørup is the graphic designer of art-centre Western Front in Vancouver. In 2021 she developed the new visual identity which is in an ongoing close collaboration with executive director Susan Gibb.
Western Front was founded in 1973 by artists Kate Craig, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov, composer Martin Bartlett, architect Mo van Nostrand, and writer Henry Greenhow. Collectively they purchased the Knights of Pythias Lodge at 303 East 8th Ave as a communal space in which to live and work. Artist Hank Bull joined in 1974 and is still a resident.
The original graphic design of Western Front was quite impressive and characteristic. Much of their early work centred around the production of “media art” which utilise corporate ideas and visuals, as well as applied language from mass media and marketing. A large wooden box with stamps was a common tool in this production, and included stamps with practical phrases, but also more beautifully empty statements such as “Extra Fancy” “Imperial Gage” or “Flemish”. The new logo, “wf” for Western Front, is the latest stamp added to the collection.
Custom made typefaces “V-o-i-l-a” and “Western Front Serif” was made in collaboration with graphic designer Ronja Andersen. V-O-I-L-A is the first bespoke digitally designed typefaces including characters of the Canadian First Nation languages Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.
The new website: westernfront.ca was made in collaboration with programmer Paul Bernhard.
Poem and painting by D. H. Lawrence, 1923.
Retyped and printed by Line-Gry Hørup, 2018
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Work:
Line-Gry Hørup (b. 1988, DK) is a graphic designer, editor, writer and teacher working independently and collaboratively with people such as poets, writers, artists, architects, editors and curators.
She works primarily with the production of books and visual identities and co-runs project space, imprint and studio for critical graphic design and publishing: stanza.
Her first independent publication: BLOOD – The Poems and Archive of R. Broby-Johansen was published by Kunstverein Publishing in 2020. Other published writing has appeared in journals such as Danish Ny Jord, Swiss Rote Fabrik Zeiting and latest issue 7 of British Bricks from the Kiln. She is currently working on her next publication — about the poets H.D. and Robert Duncan.
Internships are not available at this time.
Research and teaching:
Line-Gry Hørup’s research and teaching begins from an interest in image making, photography and semantic translation, in particular within the relationship between graphic design and poetry.
She is interested in ways of teaching autonomous work, design, fine arts and creative writing — and holds a professorship at Karlsruhe University of Art and Design — visit seminar archive here.
She has previously been guest lecturer at Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Parsons School of Design – The New School New York and The Royal Danish Academy of Design and Architecture Copenhagen.
Line-Gry Hørup is co-founder of cross-disciplinary association ORBI, and initiated Vinterskolen in 2021, a seasonal programme for visual communication and autonomous work.
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