Cecilia Garside

Cecilia is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration at Liverpool John Moores University.
After completing an MA in Multimedia Arts, Cecilia continued her combined interest in animation and user interaction by designing and coding navigation for various CD Roms, stand alone pieces and websites. Over the years this then evolved into a more specific interest into the communication and interpretation of information through text and image, especially through Typography, semiotics and narrative sequences. She was a founding member of 1990’s typography collective ‘Beaufonts’
She has also worked in a range of design studios and creative agencies including: LMU, ICDC, FACT, Splinter, Uniform, and Neville Brody Research Studios.

Becoming a lecturer in 1998 and she has taught in Liverpool Community College, LJMU, Alghero University, Sardinia, and Camberwell College of Art, London. Since working at LJMU she has curated a range of exhibitions that have showcased the research work by herself and other Liverpool Art and Design School staff.
She has also been the image curator for the publication ‘Left to Right’ and all four editions of the visual language theory books ‘Visible Signs’ by Professor David Crow.

Exhibitions:
'Authorship' graphic art in Garrett,M. (2024) 'Authenticity 'exhibition, Chelsea School of Art, London
‘Women and Visible Signs’ graphic art in O’Shaughnessy, M. (2021) Communities of Practice exhibition, ERL, LJMU
'L' graphic art in Jones,M.(2020) 'Ride your Pony No.03' Exhibition, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Warrington
'Armchair manager' graphic art in Mitchell,I. (2018) 'I Don't like soccer' Camp and Furnace, Liverpool
'Les galets sur la plage, Tableau A' graphic art in Jones,M.(2018) 'Ride Your Pony' No.02', Liverpool Independents Biennial
'Goldfinch' graphic art in Hand, D. (2018) 'Dawn Chorus' exhibition, Bishops Castle, Shropshire
'The secret language of knots' graphic art in Jones, M. (2017) 'Ride Your Pony' exhibition, Islington Mill, Salford
'MLK' graphic art in Of Rights and resistance (2017) Museum of Slavery, Liverpool
'Collecting collecting' graphic art and curation in Garside, C. (2017) Liverpool School of Art and Design, LJMU
'Ladies night’ graphic art/typeface Mitchell,I (2015) ‘re-Type’ exhibition, Exhibition Research Lab Gallery, LJMU

Conferences:
'Semiofest' - presentation of paper 'Is the Future Rubbish' Casa Da Musica, Porto, Portugal, 2024
'Communicating Complexity' Session chair, Elisava, Barcelona, 2024

Degrees

1997, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, MA Multimedia Design and Production
1994, Liverpool John Moores University,, United Kingdom, BA (Hons)
1993, Middlesex Polytechnic, United Kingdom, Foundation

Certifications

LJMU, PGCert part 1

Academic appointments

Visiting Lecturer, University of Sassari, 2013 - 2013
Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design and Illustration, Liverpool John Moores University, 1998 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts, 1998 - 1998
Sessional lecturer, City of Liverpool College, 1997 - 1998