Thaipography

Here we feature a great typography project that has recently been sent to our offices by x Preston Graphics student Tim Sumner. This self published book was inspired by the typography that Tim encountered in Thailand on his globe trotting adventures.

Card board wraparound case

Front & back cover designs

Forward

Slideshow

The typeface

For more on this project follow Tim here.

Creative Conscience – Winners 2020

Our congratulations to recent graduates Ellie and Bella, and particularly to current final year Sara Esat who entered a self-initiated project completed entirely in her own time. Ellie, Bella and Sara were all awarded at last night’s Creative Conscience awards.

Well done to all!

Ellie won Gold for Parliament re-brand.

Bella won Bronze for Destruction Workers.

Sara won Bronze for 말해봐 (Tell Me).

D&AD 2020 Ones to Watch – Success

Congratulations to the following students who have just been talent spotted by a panel of top industry professionals at this year’s D&AD new blood festival 2020.

Emma Barber - Hannah Gurney - Bella Loughlin - Ellie Spickett

All the staff would like to say a big well done and well deserved. We wish you all the best in the future!

New Blood Festival – Ones to Watch

Squarespace – Ones to Watch

Class of 2020 – Website

Click the image or the link.

Enjoy!

(And please share!!)

uclanclassof2020.com

For the love of it - Conference Week 8

Here we feature our official Conference Week 8 ident and this year’s theme - ‘for the love of it’. We are also close to finalising the full line up for the week and once we have our bucket list completed we will let everyone know. This year’s week of talks, workshops and folder surgeries runs from Monday 11th through until Friday 15th February, 2019.

However what we can say is that it’s shaping up to be a belter!

Conference week 7 - Luck

This year heralds our 7th annual conference week event and we have an outstanding selection of guest speakers from the world of Graphic Design, Illustration & Advertising who have all kindly agreed to come into our studios here in Preston.

With it being our 7th annual event, this years theme is based around the 'role of chance & luck within the design process'. The week commences Monday the 12th of February running through until Friday the 16th.

The week is kicked off by Gary Holt, founder & creative director of Someone - London followed by Mark Elwood, executive creative director of Mullenlowe - London.

On the Tuesday we have Karen Hughes, founder & creative director of Edit Brand Studio - Manchester who will be teaming up with Rachel Simpson, founder & creative director of Bird - Preston. Then in the afternoon we welcome artist, illustrator & writer Paul Davis.

Wednesday sees the traditional visit of Paul Crowley and the BBC UX&D team from Salford. This will be their fifth year at conference week. They will be running a series of workshops that give our students an insight into how they approach idea generation.

Thursday is somewhat of a show stopper as we have two double-headers. In the morning we have Garry Blackburn & Simon Elliott, co-founders & creative directors of Rose Design - London. Followed by Jim Sutherland founder of Studio Sutherl& as well as copywriter and poet Nick Asbury, partner at Asbury & Asbury.

Also, in the evening we have a special screening of Design Disruptors at The Continental public house hosted in conjunction with Forepoint, Creative Lancashire & UCLan.

Then if that were not enough we round the week off with Ben Tallon, illustrator, art-director and host of the podcast series Arrest All Mimics, followed by Jack Renwick, founder & creative director of Jack Renwick Studio - London.

All talks will start at either 11am or 2pm daily, but we advise you to take your seats early to avoid disappointment. It just remains for us to say watch this space for more information as and when we get it.

You lucky people!

ADvent

ADvent is the latest project from third year UCLan advertising students Gail McFadzean and Olivia Hampson. A series of clips and quotes featuring advice from members of the design and advertising industry - useful for students and peers alike. 

Running every day throughout December, the videos features tips for students on how to enter the industry along with opinions on where the advertising and design industry is heading.

Follow @uclanadvent on Instagram and Twitter for daily instalments, starting this Friday.