Paul Honeywill

Teaching interests

Publishing was originally a regional vocational College Diploma inPublishing and Book Production. Since taking over the subject leadership in1986 a series of revalidations have made the course a named Masters award, andfor a long period of time the only MA course within the Exeter campus, Facultyof Arts. The course enjoys a reputation with undergraduates from the United Kingdomand the European Community from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain andFinland. It regularly attracts international students, including people in publicsector or government posts within their own country. This has included studentsfrom St. Lucia, Belize, Malaysia, America, Canada, China, Mexico, Venezuela andBrazil. Two MA submissions have gone on to win and become runner up in the SueThomson Foundation National Publishing Awards hosted by Book House, which wasestablished by the Publishers Association as the official industry trainingprovider.

Key to the course is work based and placement delivery withinthe structure. Work based learning was originally situated within a developingpublishing company (Intellect) who were invited into the University to share anoffice alongside the course. This enabled both student and company to sharegrowth experiences and operational contexts of a small business. Work placementallowed the student to research a publisher of their choice outside of theUniversity, to provide contrast and also potential career route. The developingpublishing company has now grown into a medium size business with offices inBristol. This work based experience company has now been replaced with theUniversity of Plymouth Press making the level of engagement beneficial on morelevels to the student. With UPP truly looking after the academic needs of thestudent, students now undertake enterprise at a deep level with a range ofoutside practitioners from the industry including authors, artist, editors,marketers, fundraisers and so on. This hands on learning model is innovatorywithin Publishing education in Britain. (Several courses produce newspapers ormagazines, but there are no similar examples of University presses directlysupporting learning and teaching objectives at Masters level).

Research interests

http://www.mapublishing.co.uk/icon/index.html This site is a directory of Internet icons and computer symbols used on websites from around the world. Each category of computer icon is ranked according to worldwide use. Therefore, this directory can be used as a visual resource for website designers who need to know which icons/symbols have appropriate semantic values.

Grants & contracts

UPPs initial bid for this contract was against 30 otherorganisations; the unique selling point was to include 20 contemporary Romanianartists together with the 20 texts in translation. Through partnership withPeninsula Arts the launch event of the series has been developed into aRomanian Festival (November 2009) which supports Romania’s cultural message andfight against cultural stereotyping. Having won the contract I made a trip toBucharest in May 2009 to finalise details for the promotion of the series andby extension UPP/UoP. Further developments resulted: first, subsequent to thebook launch and related exhibition (hosted by Peninsula Arts), in January 2010further launch events will take place at the Romanian Cultural Institute inLondon, Belgrade Square. Second, a further funded contract is under negotiationfor a major project to publish Romania’s leading contemporary artists. Incometo the University in support of this project to date is £120,000, to bereleased from Autumn 2009 over a 5 year period, on publication of titles intranslation. The second successful RCI publishing project bid value is £180,000..

 Other recent collaborations that have successfully attractedfunds are from Asian Arts which promotes diversity and equality, have beendeveloped with the local Chinese community and Plymouth Racial Equality. Thisallowed Mandarin speaking publishing students to produce a bilingualpublication in support of the local Chinese community in the South West. Apartnership between the University and the City Museum and Library for jointpublishing projects; the first, which is under contract, is the South West involvementin the Slave Trade, Human Cargo. Thistogether with another African/Caribbean proposal from Racial Equality buildsanother list of UPP publications.

Publications

Books

Honeywill, P., Carpenter, D. 2000 Digital Magazine Design , Intellect, p1-161 , ISBN 978-1-84150-086-7

 Honeywill, P. 1999 Visual Language for the World Wide Web , Intellect, p1-192 ISBN 1-871516-96-X

Honeywill, P., Lockhart, A. 1997 Digital Design: Using QuarkXPress 4 ,Intellect ,  p1-192ISBN 1-871516-76-5

            BookChapters

Yazdani., M. Barker., P. (eds) 2000 IconicCommunication, Intellect, Chapter 14, ISBN 978-1-84150-016-4

Sassoon, R., Gaur, A. 1997 Signs, symbols and icons: Pre-history to the computerage, Intellect 74,76,77 155-169 ISBN 1-871516-73-0

            AcademicReferred Publications

Honeywill, P. 1999 AComparison between Maya Hieroglyphs and Computer Icons, ArtificialIntelligence and Society

 Honeywill, P. 1996 The Elephants Memory, Intelligent Tutoring Media 7 (2) 75-77ISSN 0957-9133

 Honeywill, P., McVeigh, B. 1996 Bug and Digital Creativity, Contrasting two CDs, Intelligent Tutoring Media 6 (3/4) 162-164 ISSN0957-9133

 Honeywill, P.,Vranch, A., Phillips, M. 1995 Converging New Technologies  forArt and Design Education, Digital Creativity, Proceedings for the 1st Conferenceon Computers in Art & Design Education, Universityof Brighton 137-143 page extent 298 ISBN 1-871966-72-8

 Honeywill, P., Thorn, T., Vranch, A., Phillips, M. 1995 The Virtual Studio: Collaboration through digital networks, Intelligent Tutoring Media 6 (2)63-72 ISSN 0957-9133

 Yuxing,X., Honeywill, P. 1995 The world’s largest book market: Short-term pitfalls,long term opportunities, Logo, 6 (3) p162-165 ISSN0957-9656

 Honeywill, P. 1994 Paper Made Computer Icons, Intelligent Tutoring Media 5 (1) 11-20 ISSN 0957-9133

Additional information

http://www.uppress.co.uk  Developing the University of Plymouth Press which is located within the Faculty of Arts, School of Media and Photography. Publishing works that extend the intellectual reach of scholarship while helping to define new areas of knowledge and learning. In keeping with the University of Plymouth’s mission the Press fosters understanding and partnership between communities to enrich the cultural life of the region. The Press delivers this through creative innovations in printing and new publishing media to broaden the accessibility of knowledge.

Links

http://www.mapublishing.co.uk Programme Manager of the Masters Publishing course at the University of Plymouth.