James Brocklehurst

James is Associate Head – Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions, for the School of Art, Design and Architecture, and subject lecturer for the BA(Hons) Graphic Design With Typography and MA Communication Design programmes. He is a practitioner and researcher within the field of graphic design for interactive media.

James' teaching centers on understanding graphic communication concepts and processes, as applied to a range of media. His area of specialism is graphic design for digital interactive media.
He managed the BA(Hons) Graphic Design with Typography programme at the University of Plymouth for eight years, lectured on the BA(Hons) Illustration and MA Publishing programmes, and has experience of writing and managing higher education art and design programmes for the Open University, the University of Brighton and South Devon College. He has helped students win a number of international design awards, including the D&AD New Blood Awards, the YCN Student Awards and the ISTD Student Assessment Scheme. James' students have had their work showcased in Computer Arts Magazine and Creative Review, and have, upon graduation, gone on to work for some of the world's leading creative agencies, including Leo Burnett, M&C Saatchi and Jones Knowles Ritchie.
Live student design projects that James has coordinated include those run in collaboration with House of Fraser, IBM, Skint Records, The Met Office, It's Nice That, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and the English Riviera Global Geopark.

Between 1999-2004 James created animated artworks and videos that investigated the notion of a 'digital aesthetic'. These were exhibited at the LUX Centre London, The Cyberart festival in Bilbao, broadcast on MTV2 and published on the Arts Council funded multimedia DVD Hi-Fi Rise - Sonic Cities From Another Timeline,produced by the artist group Semiconductor.
James has written articles on mobile app design and development for online publication Smashing Magazine, provided 'web for business' mentoring for SMEs as part of a LSC funded 'Business Innovation' programme, and delivered bespoke professional training courses on web design for graphic design agencies.