Jack Clarke

I am an educator, designer, programmer, publisher, researcher & writer based in (SE) London. This website has been designed as a space for grey literature, for me to keep track of myself. My current interests and activities include:

  • The aesthetics of retirement, pensions & financial literacy.
  • Financialisation of/in/through the anthropocene.
  • The politics of language & etymological research.
  • Accessiblity in web development and digital publishing.
  • Alternative & institutional pedagogic practice.

You can contact me via email here: j.clarke@arts.ac.uk; or Twitter here: @jackclarke_.

Currently
2021—

I am a lecturer in Graphic Design & Digital Media at Camberwell College of Arts. I teach on undergraduate & postgraduate programmes.

2023—

I write a monthly etymology column for Sticky Fingers In Your Letterbox titled The Remainder. The name (and motivation) for this project is derived from The Violence of Language (1990) by Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

Irregularly
2020—

I publish books through a small press titled Abstract Supply. It is intended as a publishing organisation making textbooks for the 21st Century.

2018—

I work as a part of Ware Collective on music production & events, mostly as a designer.

Previously
2021—2023

Completed an MA in Art & Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London.

2018—2021

Associate Lecturer on MA Design for Art Direction, London College of Communication (UAL).

2017—2020

Co-ordination of curriculum/unit The Expanded Designer for the Design Programme at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon (UAL) across Illustration, Graphic Design & 3D Design courses.

2017—2019

Member of research group Interpolate which explored material language, typography, and code. We presented research at Digitally Engaged Learning Conference (2018) in Toronto & IAM Weekend (2019) in Barcelona.

2016—2019

Associate Lecturer convening a regular module on Concepts of Editing for the Graphic Design, Foreign Exchange Semester Programme at Central Saint Martins (UAL).

2016 & 2018

Guest practitioner at Books From the Future summer school. In 2018 the project recieved a write-up from It's Nice That.

2016—2018

Member of Evening Class, a self-organized postgraduate learning experiment in London. Notably EC designed the book Training for Exploitation? by the Precarious Workers Brigade.

2016—2018

Organisation of a lecture-series titled Re:Tooling for the Design Programme at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon (UAL). Themes included: precarity, automation, responsibility, the media & the city. Invited speakers included David Frayne, Helen Hester, Keith Dodds, Douglas Murphy, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings among others.