Senior Lecturer

Andy's career began as a musician; composing and performing material with Detritus, and recording the albums Perpetual Defiance and If But For One (Edge Records/Music for Nations). He then studied graphic design over a period of six years; initially in Cornwall, and then in Edinburgh, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Visual Communication and later with a Master of Design (MDes Graphic Design).

He worked commercially in Scotland with Millhouse Design Consultants developing the print & exhibition spaces for the (then) new National Museum of Scotland, as well as working on broader editorial and identity projects. He then moved to Navyblue Design Consultants working as a New Media Designer on web, CD-Rom and moving image projects for clients that included Tony Stone, Ellesse and Orange, together with award winning work for EPCC (part of Edinburgh University).

Andy started teaching part-time in 1998 at Glasgow School of Art, and set up [ nbuffalo ] in 1999 as an informal umbrella for his own commercial and personal work. He has been teaching at Falmouth since January 2000, co-ordinating both the first year (2001–06) and final year  (2006–2016) of the BA(Hons) Graphic Design programme. He is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers, has been an invited assessor at the ISTD Student Assessment Scheme since 2004, and part of the education team since 2013.

He continues to design under the [nbuffalo] name, and his wider design & research interests include recording & re-utilising creative processes, together with exploring the broader communication complexities of liturgical form and space. He doesn’t like ‘categories’, but is equally at home lecturing about process or typography as he is playing guitar in experimental rock & electronica outfits or in liturgical spaces.

He lives and works in Cornwall, UK.

External Links

Andy Neal staff picture

Contact details

Telephone 01326 213860

Qualifications

Qualifications

Year Qualification Awarding body
1998 MDes Graphic Design (Edinburgh College of Art)
1997 BA(Hons) Visual Comunication (First class) (Edinburgh College of Art)
1995 HND Graphic Design (Falmouth College of Arts)

Honors and awards

Year Description
2011

International Society of Typographic Designers; Premier Award (Falmouth Butterfly).

2006

Futurebrand Award; FutureTalent Best Tutor.

2000

International Visual Communications Association; Gold Award External Multimedia (EPCC CD-Rom / NavyBlue).

2000

Scottish Design Awards; Commendation (EPCC CD-Rom / NavyBlue).

1997

Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship.

1997

Adobe Power of Design; Design for Print overall winner (Rebirth typeface).

1997

Donside Design Award.

1995

Proctor & Stevenson Design Award.

Membership of external committees

ISTD Education Team

Research Interests

Research centre and group affiliations

DiaGram

Research Topics

  • design practice
  • design process
  • liturgical space
  • Typography

Research Outputs

Publications and research outputs

  • Neal, Andy

    Star, Dion and Laurence King Publishers, (2022), Creativity Begins With You, Laurence King, London, United Kingdom, ISBN: 978-1529420227, Item availability may be restricted.
  • Neal, Andy

    (2021), Myths
  • Neal, Andy

    (2016), The Claze; Time to be friends, Cornwall, UK, Item availability may be restricted.
  • Neal, Andy

    (2016), NCC Branding, Cornwall, UK
  • Neal, Andy

    (2021), Myths, United Kingdom, Item availability may be restricted.
  • Neal, Andy

    (2023), ‘I, Procrastinator’, In: GLAD (Group for Learning in Art and Design in Higher Education); Gathering Ourselves,, 08 September 2023, Central St Martins, London, UK, pp. 1-20
  • Neal, Andy

    (2018), designdice™ GDEN2018 [w**ichcraft], In: Graphic Design Educators’ Network – W**chcraft, 6-7th September 2018, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. 6-7th September 2018
  • Neal, Andy

    (2018), designdice™ BDF2018, In: Birmingham Design Festival 2018, 7–10 June 2018, Birmingham Design Festival 2018, School of Jewellery, 82-86 Vittoria St. Birmingham, B1 3PA United Kingdom, (Published)
  • Star, Dion, Neal, Andy and Rudolph, Ashley

    (2016), [STÖRUNG] – Workshop & Public Lecture on Disruption & Design Process @ Werkwoche: International Design Week, Augsburg., University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. Faculty of Design. Friedberger Str. 2. 86161 Augsburg, Germany.
  • Star, Dion, Neal, Andy and Rudolph, Ashley

    (2016), Werkwoche International Design Week 2016, In: [STÖRUNG] – Disruption / Design / Process, 14 - 18 November 2016, Augsburg, Germany Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, (Unpublished)
  • Neal, Andy

    (2018), designdice™, Cornwall, UK
  • Neal, Andy

    (2017), [DiaGram]; Rethinking Graphic Design Process, In: REDO: Cumulus REDO Conference Proceedings, Design School Kolding 30 May - 2 June 2017, Design School Kolding and Cumulus International, Online (worldwide) / Denmark., pp. 81-95, ISBN: 9788793416154
  • Salkeld, Nicola

    Rudolph, Ashley, (2017), STUFF, In: STUFF Moth, 30 Jan 2017 (on going), Falmouth University, Item availability may be restricted.

Events

2016

Delivered a 4 day workshop and lecture with Dion Star & Ashley Rudolph at the Werkwoche, Faculty of Design, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

Teaching

Areas of teaching

  • Design Process.
  • Graphic Design
  • Typography

Courses taught

  • BA(Hons) Graphic Design
  • MA Communication Design

Professional Engagement

Independent professional practice

Ongoing professional practice as a designer (working under the [ nbuffalo ] name).

Engagement with professional associations and societies

Invited assessor at the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) annual student assessment scheme (since 2004).
Member of the ISTD Education team (since 2013).
Invited moderator at the ISTD annual student assessment scheme (2013).