Christopher Murphy, is a
British writer,
designer and educator, who has worked as part of the digital arts collective Fehler, along with artists Christophe Behrens and Otaku Yakuza.
Design work
Fehler's works in various analogue and digital media have been featured in the design anthologies ''Radical Album Cover Art: Sampler 3'' (); and ''CD Art: Innovation in CD Packaging Design'' (). His work, on his own and as part of Fehler, has been exhibited in
MUTEK in Montreal, Argos Centre for Art and Media in Brussels; Sintesi in Naples; Up Close in Malta ; and at
Lovebytes
Lovebytes is a digital arts organisation based in Sheffield, UK, established in 1994 and best known for the Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art.
Founded by Jon Harrison and Janet Jennings who are the directors of the organisation.
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in Sheffield.
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, Murphy has worked within the field of audio-related design since the 1990s. He was co-founder of Fällt, an independent publishing house specialising in experimental music, fine art, design and criticism,[ for which Fehler was the design arm. Murphy produced work for independent labels including Fällt, BiP-HOp, 1,024 and Bremsstrahlung Recordings. His work for Bremsstrahlung Recordings, a homage to the ]System 6
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operating system of the Macintosh, was featured in the book ''The Cult of Mac
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Murphy was a senior lecturer in interaction design
Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Beyond the digital aspect, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) produ ...
at the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, the author and co-author of six books and a regular conference speaker, and has spoken in several countries on the topic of multidisciplinary approaches to design.
Adrian Shaughnessy, writing in '' Creative Review'', described Fehler as, "...a William Morris for the digital age."[ Shaughnessy also wrote in ''Eye'' that Fehler and Angela Lorenz defined in certain manifestations of their work a, "new aesthetic for digital design."]
Published work
As author:
* ''The Design by Committee'', Northern Ireland Design Alliance, 2012.
As co-author:
* ''HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas' Approach'', friends of ED, 2009.
* ''Glitch: Designing Imperfection'', Mark Batty Publisher, 2009.
* ''The Craft of Words - Part One: Macrocopy'', Five Simple Steps, 2013.
* ''The Craft of Words - Part Two: Microcopy'', Five Simple Steps, 2013.
As contributor:
* ''Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: The Web Evolved'', Apress, 2012.
References
External links
Eye Magazine · Historical DigitalFällt PublishingMonographic
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1969 births
Living people
British album-cover and concert-poster artists
British graphic designers
Academics of Ulster University