Linda Byrne

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Linda Byrne designs books for architecture and teaches the architecture of books. A research focus on publishing practices and the form of the book underpin a rigorous, crafted and experimental approach to teaching and practice.

Linda holds an MA Book Design from the University of Reading and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a senior lecturer on the Graphic Design program at Kingston School of Art leading the publishing pathway and interdisciplinary collaboration, and an associate lecturer at UAL LCC.

Formerly a designer at the Walker Art Center, she has been recognized in the AIGA 50 Books/50 covers and has two AIGA Certificates of Design Excellence. Linda is currently art-director of the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, and collaborates on publishing projects through design partnership Mackinnon Byrne.