Kate McLean Design

/ EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitor / SMELL MAP (Newport, RI) at Newport Visitor Center, RI, USA / 2012

Exhibitor / SMELL MAP (Glasgow) at Glasgow Science Centre  / 2012

Exhibitor / SCOTTISH TASTE MAP at Edinburgh International Science Festival  / 2012

Exhibitor / SENSORY MAPS (SMELL) at “Sensory Worlds” Conference, Edinburgh / 2011 / http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/Sawyer/Conference.html#theme

Exhibitor / SENSORY MAPS / ECA Degree Show 2011, Edinburgh, UK / 2011 / http://www.sensorymaps.com

Exhibitor / PARTICIPATORY SMELL MAP OF EDINBURGH / Edinburgh International Science Festival, John Hope Gateway, Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, UK / 2011

Solo Exhibitor / SMAP: 4 PARTICIPATORY SENSORY MAPS OF EDINBURGH / ECA Evolution House Foyer, Edinburgh, UK / 2011 / http://www.sensorymaps.com

Exhibitor / A PRIVATE SNIFFING: SMELL MAP OF PARIS / ECA, Edinburgh, UK / 2010 / http://ecastudent.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-58-private-sniffing.html

Co-curator and Exhibitor / NO EGO / photographs at Bollington Arts Centre, Cheshire / 2010 / http://noegoexhibition.wordpress.com/

Solo Exhibitor  / THE OTHER SIDE OF PARIS / photographs at American Library in Paris, 75007 PARIS, France / 2009 / http://theothersideofparis.katemcleandesign.com/

Solo Exhibitor / CALENDAR BOYS / photographs at Canalside Gallery, Clarence Mill, Bollington, Cheshire, UK / 2009

Solo Exhibitor / THE OTHER SIDE OF PARIS / photographs at 11 rue Jules Verne, 65006 PARIS, France / 2009

Solo Exhibitor / THE OTHER SIDE OF PARIS / European City of Culture / photographs at Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, UK Author / & Then, NESADSU Alumni Magazine / “Know Your Country’s Typography” / 2008

Exhibitor / ALMOST NOTHING IN COMMON / photographs at WICE, Blvd du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France / 2007

Exhibitor / SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SHOW / NESADSU, Boston, MA, USA / 2004 / http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artcolleges/FullSizeArtWork/ac_id/559/image_id/6720/imageno/9

 

/ GRANTS & AWARDS

Scottish Funding Council "Innovation Voucher" £5000 – Tactile Cartography for the Visually Impaired in collaboration with Fife Centre for Sensory Impairment / 2011

Deutschebank Student Awards – Finalist with Sensory Maps / 2011

Scottish Institute for Enterprise – "New Ideas" Category Winner for Sensory Maps to be developed into a business. Awarded £500 and one year of business support / 2011

ECA Andrew Grant Bequest – Scholarship awarded £3,400 / 2010

Dean's Scholarship for Academic Achievement – Awarded $1,800 per semester / 2001 – 2004

 

/ MEDIA

Royal Scottish Geographical Society / The Geographer – "Smell Maps of Scottish Cities" / 2013

Discovery Channel, Canada / Ziya Tong / Featured in “Daily Planet” / 2012

Kopalnia Wiedzy, Poland / Anna Blonska / “Wyczuwa map nosem” / 2012

Daily Mail Online / Eddie Wren / “Who Nose the Way?” / 2012

Die Zeit Online / Rabea Weihser / “Die Stadt mit der Nase entdecken” / 2012

STV / Karen Greenshields / “Glasgow smells of...” / 2012

The Scotsman / Stephen McGinty / “Glasgow’s odour map revealed” / 2012

National Public Radio, RI / Flo Jonic/ “Experiencing a map with your nose” / 2012

University of Rhode Island Radio / with Ian Reyes/ “Decoding Rhode Island” / 2012

Newport Now / "The Nose Knows"/ by Meg O'Neil/ 2012

BBC Radio 4 / "Sniffing out Danger"/ Producer: Monise Durrani / 2012

Saturday Herald / "Scents and Sensibility"/ by Teddy Jamieson / 2012

Daily Record / "Kate's job not to be sniffed at"/ 2011

Glasgow Evening Times / "Kate will put city's smells on the map" by Teddy Jamieson – a call for early participation in identifying Glasgow's distinctive smells/ 2011

BBC Radio Scotland / Panel discussion on “MacAulay & Co.” talking about the process of creating Smell Maps in Scotland / 2011

Scotland on Sunday / “Follow Your Nose Around Auld Reekie” by Shân Ross about Smell Map of Edinburgh / 2011 / http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Follow-your-nose-round-Auld.6783636.jp

The Pulse Magazine / Smell Map / 2011

STV / “Would you recognise Edinburgh by smell alone?” by Rebecca Gordon / 2011 / http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh-south-east/news/14091-would-you-recognise-edinburgh-by-smell-alone/

ECA News / Sensory Maps / 2011 / http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=1650

BBC2 Graham Norton Christmas Special / featured "Calendar Boys" photography and design / 2008

Radio Europe 1, Paris / Live round-table discussion in French about Arts in Liverpool / 2008

Radio SILK FM / Interview – "Calendar Boys – The Photographer's Perspective" / 2008

 

/ PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS

Design and Emotion 2012, CSM, London / "Emotion, Location and the Senses: A Virtual Dérive Smell Map Of Paris" / Sept 2012

& Then, NESADSU Alumni Magazine / "A Pesky Volcano", Oct 2010 / "True Stories: True Geographies", April 2010 / "Angels and Demons", Nov 2009 / "Pro-Bono Bonuses", Feb 2009 / "Outside the Comfort Zone", Nov 2008 / "Know Your Country's Typography", Mar 2008 / "Little Cultural Differences", Oct 2007 / "Zorking in a Foreign Lqnguqge", Apr 2007

 

/ PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

International Society of Typographic Designers – entry with Merit 2010

AIGA – overseas student member since 2004

RedEye photography network (Volunteer with Photomobile & photography teaching in Leeds in 2008/2009)