{{Short description|English artist and graphic designer}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Jake Tilson''' (born 1958 in London) is an English artist,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tilson-market-forces-t13230|title='Market Forces', Jake Tilson, 2009}}</ref> graphic designer,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/ma-design-writing-criticism-in-conversation-with-jake-tilso/ |title=MA Design Writing Criticism in conversation with Jake Tilson - News & Events |access-date=28 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208071444/http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/ma-design-writing-criticism-in-conversation-with-jake-tilso/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> writer<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.quadrille.co.uk/author/jake-tilson/200 |title=Quadrille Publishing - Jake Tilson Bio |access-date=28 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707061815/http://quadrille.co.uk/author/jake-tilson/200 |archive-date=7 July 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and publisher.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fvu.co.uk/artists/details/jake-tilson/ |title=Film and Video Umbrella |access-date=6 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005025102/http://www.fvu.co.uk/artists/details/jake-tilson/ |archive-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Author and designer of ''A Tale of 12 Kitchens'' (2006), he published the arts magazines ''Cipher'' (1979–1981) and ''Atlas'' (1985–1993), taught in the Communication Design department at the Royal College of Art (1987–1999)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-dan-fern|title = Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Dan Fern}}</ref> and also works as a journalist. A retrospective exhibition of his art work was held at the Museo Internacional de Electrografia in Cuenca, Spain (1997),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mideciantmuseo.blogspot.co.uk/2011_11_01_archive.html|title=Museo Internacional de Electrografía}}</ref> part funded by The British Council. He was an early adopter of the World Wide Web as a medium for art, using his website ''TheCooker'' (1994).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/drawing-turner/drawings/ruins-pantheon-oxford-street-1792|title = The Ruins of the Pantheon, Oxford Street 1792}}</ref><ref name="ruskin-sch">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/research/year/1994 |title=The Ruskin School University of Oxford — Research |access-date=28 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926075433/http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/research/year/1994 |archive-date=26 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a graphic designer he has produced work for companies such as Paul Smith, Haworth Tompkins, Royal National Theatre and Warehouse plc. He is a trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/this-year/about-us/|title = About us}}</ref>
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==Early life and education==
Jake Tilson was born in London, the son of Joe Tilson and Joslyn Tilson (née Morton). His grandfather was Alastair Morton,<ref name="apollo-magazine">{{cite web |url=http://www.apollo-magazine.com/features/7509023/the-forgotten-pioneer.thtml |title=Apollo Magazine | the Forgotten Pioneer |website=www.apollo-magazine.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615185124/http://www.apollo-magazine.com/features/7509023/the-forgotten-pioneer.thtml |archive-date=15 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> who ran his father's business the Edinburgh Weavers, commissioning artists such as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.<ref name="apollo-magazine" /> Jake studied painting at Chelsea School of Art from 1976–79, and at the Royal College of Art from 1980–83. He won the Royal of Art Major Travelling scholarship and spent a year working in Paris, where he had his first one-person exhibition at Galerie J et J Donguy.
==Work== In 1979 he set up the small independent press, The Woolley Dale Press, which enabled him to publish limited edition book works and the arts/literary magazine ''Cipher'', helped by a grant from the Greater London Arts Association. After leaving college in 1983 he continued publishing, including the trilingual arts magazine, ''Atlas'', which sold in 15 countries. Atlas became the name of his next independent press in 1993 which published his audio works and books such as ''3 Found Fonts'' (2003). Throughout the 1990s Tilson exhibited widely and had a commercial dealer, the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London. During this time his work was primarily collage based wall pieces and sculptural dioramas. He was Erna Plachte artist in residence at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (1994–95)<ref name="ruskin-sch" /> where he developed his website ''TheCooker'' (1994) as well as designing websites for the Laboratory at the Ruskin (1994) he designed websites for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1995) and the Royal College of Art (1996).
His most recent exhibition was at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, commissioned by Haworth Tompkins Architects as part of the Common Ground exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.htinvenice.com/ |title=Haworth Tompkins at Venice Biennale |access-date=28 May 2013 |archive-date=24 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424075904/http://www.htinvenice.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/venice-architecture-biennale-2012/6005 |title=Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 | Architecture | Wallpaper* Magazine: Design, interiors, architecture, fashion, art |access-date=28 May 2013 |archive-date=11 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511172343/http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/venice-architecture-biennale-2012/6005 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
thumb|Exhibition, Jake Tilson and Kyoichi Tsuzuki, A Net of Eels
==Selected bibliography== No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism, Rick Poynor, 2013, Laurence King, {{ISBN|1780671032}}.
How To Survive Modern Art, Susie Hodge, Tate Publishing, 2009, {{ISBN|1854377493}}.
The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris, AVA Publishing, 2008, {{ISBN|2940373825}}.
The Designer and the Grid, Lucienne Roberts, Rotovision, 2005, {{ISBN|2880468140}}.
Influences: a Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design, Anna Gerber and Amy Lutz, Gestalten Verlag, 2006, {{ISBN|3899551524}}.
New Media Design, Tricia Austin and Richard Doust, Laurence King Publishers, 2005, {{ISBN|1856694313}}.
Elizabeth David – Her Life, Work and Influence, Eddie Cass, Portico Library Gallery, 2007, OCLC 747321710.
All Messed Up – Unpredictable Graphics, Anna Gerber, Laurence King, 2004, {{ISBN|1856693902}}.
Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design, Christian Küsters and Emily King, Thames & Hudson, 2001, {{ISBN|0500282978}}.
Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity, a Celebration of Art, Architecture and Design (Cutting Edge), Melvyn Bragg, Thames & Hudson, 1999, {{ISBN|0500019061}}.
New Media in Late 20th-century Art (World of Art), Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson World Art series, 1999, {{ISBN|0500203296}}.
==Selected bookworks == ''Light & Dark'', Woolley Dale Press, 1979, {{ISBN|0 907508 00 6}}.
''Exposure'', Woolley Dale Press, 1980, {{ISBN|0 907508 07 3}}.
''8 Views of Paris'', Woolley Dale Press, 1980, {{ISBN|0 907508 08 1}}.
''The V Agents'', Woolley Dale Press, 1981, {{ISBN|0 907508 11 1}}.
''Excavator-Barcelona-Excavador'', Woolley Dale Press, 1986, {{ISBN|0907508189}}.
''One World – A Guide'', Warehouse PLC, 1987, ASIN: B001OQ29O4.
''Breakfast Special'', 5 books, Woolley Dale Press, 1989, {{ISBN|0 907508 23 5}}, {{ISBN|0 907508 24 3}}, {{ISBN|0 907508 25 1}}, {{ISBN|0 907508 26 X}}, {{ISBN|0 907508 27 8}}.
''The Terminator Line'', Woolley Dale Press, 1991, {{ISBN|0 907508 28 6}}.
''3 Found Fonts'', Atlas, 2003, {{ISBN|0 907508 37 5}}.
''A Tale of 12 Kitchens'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Artisan, 2006, {{ISBN|1841882623}}, {{ISBN|1579653200}}.
''In At The Deep End'' – cooking fish Tokyo to Venice, Quadrille, {{ISBN|1844009750}}.
==Selected audioworks ==
''City Sounds of the Everyday'', podcasts, Atlas, 2012
''City Picture Fiction'', audio CD, Atlas, 1996
''Hungerford Bridge'', tide and trains, audio cassette, Atlas, 1998
''Hannahsleeps'', audio cassette, Atlas 1998
''Gate 23'', audio cassette, Atlas, 1993
''Foundsounds'', audio CD, Atlas, 1993
==Public collections== Tate Gallery Collection.
Chase Manhattan Bank.
Arthur Andersen & Co.
BBC World Service.
The Principal Financial Group, USA.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *http://www.jaketilson.com/ *http://www.areaatlas.com/ *http://www.thecooker.com/ * {{Art UK bio}} * [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tilson-market-forces-t13230 Tate Gallery Collection] * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rvy23#synopsis Jake's Sustainable Fish BBC Radio 4] * [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/11/booksonhealth.features Paul Levy: Marinated well, and served with new fonts] * [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/city-sounds-of-the-everyday/id551649534 iTunes] * [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/t/14793/Jake+TILSON.aspx Debrett's] * {{discogs artist|Jake Tilson}}
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