JOHN ELWYN JONES Books

Welsh-language translation of The Journey is Home . In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It’s a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate in Aberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold, before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in chaplaincy, education, and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsion to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a German academic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market... and then moved to Germany. John is still on that journey.

In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes ofa life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation,of acceptance and joy.

New edition of short stories of Stonewall Award-winning author John Sam Jones, selected from Welsh Boys Too andFishboys of Vernazza, including some unseen work and a new foreword by David Llewellyn.

designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing.Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on “methods”, as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as 'a response to the whole of life.'But designing designin g is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which 'is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.'

The story told in this book is so remarkable that some may find it hard to believe that the author has not allowed the passage of years to embellish his memory of the events he describes.

In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones relocated to the United States with his family for a year, interviewing around 100 artists. They settled in Greenwich Village and embarked on a three-month road trip to connect with artists across the country. Some, like Yoko Ono and Claes Oldenburg, became personal friends. Jones's daughter Nicolette, though young, retains vivid memories of their New York experience and trans-American journey. This book presents a selection of Jones's edited conversations with American artists from 1965-66, published for the first time. Nicolette provides a foreword that contextualizes the interviews, while an introduction derived from Jones's lectures delves into the contrasting ideas behind pop art. Through his personal interactions and deep understanding of the artists' work, Jones emerged as a leading expert on this art period in the UK. This narrative offers insights into a specific time and place—1960s America—making it essential for those interested in the interplay between American art and British tradition, as well as for anyone curious about the iconic figures and the creative climate of that era.