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.
The set up
Here we feature Thomas Mcinally, Roberto Bagnoli, Ryan Tinsley’s entry for the Creative Conscience Student Awards 2014.
“This project is a social experiment to test people’s levels of conformation. Focusing on the figure of Kim Jong-Un, the trio created his portrait out of dominos in an art gallery and filmed people’s responses for two days. The aim of the campaign was to raise awareness for the oppression and lack of human rights for the mass population of North Korea”.
Please click image above to play the film.
Tom & Ryan get to grips with the set up
This project was the first in a long line of success over recent years for Preston Graphics students in the Creative Conscience Awards. The whole project came about with one simple word connection based around the word toppling, ‘domino toppling’ and ‘to topple a dictator’. This connection sparked the whole project off and provided the core concept onto which the students could then build around and upon to create a great final year project.
This summer, UCLan students won gold, silver and bronze at the Creative Conscience Awards.
Seven students from our graphic design and advertising courses recieived awards, which celebrate projects that aim to improve local communities and inspire and help change people’s lives through ideas and design.
“There were so many passionate and touching projects submitted this year, all of which championed worthy causes that don’t often get spoken about in public.”
Graphic design student Dom Parsons won gold for a typeface he created for the Grenfell Tower campaigners and community. The design incorporated the structure of the building that tragically caught fire in June 2017 and the typeface was designed to create a unified voice for the two-year anniversary of the disaster.
Advertising students Ran Duan and Xuebing Liu won silver for their own touching project focusing on organ donation. They aimed to help start more conversations with children without scaring them. Teaming up with the NHS Organ Donation organisation and the Build a Bear Workshop, they reuse the hearts and eyes from old toy bears and use them for new toys.
Jay Austin and Gabe Aplando, final year graphic design students, earned their bronze prize for their project ‘Fence Fairies’; a typeface designed to be used on banners, picket signs and newspaper adverts in aid of the protests against fracking.
Jonathan Mount and Lucy Child also received bronze for their community project; ‘The Wood House’; a charity that reclaims and repurposes different types of wood whilst supporting vulnerable people. The design makes use of the organisation’s resources as well as aiding delivering their message.
Chrissy Levett, founder of Creative Conscience, said: “There were so many passionate and touching projects submitted this year, all of which championed worthy causes that don’t often get spoken about in public.”
Big thanks to Creative Conscience and we look forward to seeing you again next year.
Here we feature a Creative Conscience Award winner from 2018 by Andy, Nathan & Troy with their concept of communal energy generation in partnership with Adidas.
Sometimes a word has two meanings
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The Adidas three strips used as a graphic devise
Black& White photography with a green glowing focus point.
In context - Poster 1
In context - Poster 2
In context - Poster 3
The mechanics
Energy storing wristband concept
App - Personal data recorded, stored & shared
Heat sensitive touch points
Environment - Landmarks around London light up to show support
Environment - Communal sporting facilities powered by electricity generated
An excellent example of a well thought through concept based on a clever word play and backed up with a clear, distinct and appropriate visual look and feel.
Not before time, we'd like to congratulate this year's award winners.
At D&AD New Blood, advertising had fantastic success with a Yellow and Graphite Pencil. Graphic Design came away with the Wood award.
Also congratulations to our winners at this year's Creative Conscience awards.
Amazing (hard) work everybody.
Ya wang (DIANA), Jemma Redpath, gail mcfadzean & olivia downing (tutor)
james clarke, louis murphy-hancock, nathaneal johnson, andy Boakyi-aboagye & troy witter
Have a look at their projects:
D&AD - Jemma Redpath
D&AD - Gail McFadzean
D&AD - Ya Wang (Diana)
Creative Conscience - James Clarke & Louis Murphy-Hancock
Creative Conscience - Andy Boakyi-Aboagye, Nathaneal Johnson & Troy Witter
Here we feature another Creative Conscience Award success. Generation Adidas is a concept that would allow Londoners to help power their city through exercise and movement.
Here we are proud to feature a piece of work created by two of our 4th year students, Louis Murphy-Hancock & James Clarke, that has just won a Creative Conscience Award 2018.
The concept of trying to create a coherent and organised front to tackle the current refusal by those in government to acknowledge the importance of the creative arts in our primary and secondary schools, is timely.
We think the time is right for a clarion call and with several prominent figures in the creative arts already beginning to voice their opinions with respect to this subject, maybe we have found a banner under which we can all march?
“Entering design competitions in the second year gives us a great opportunity to have our work recognised by industry before we go out on placement.”
The project ‘Type for Change’ visually communicates the achievements of the online activist community highlighting the true power for change we all have at our fingertips. ‘Type for Change’ is a composite typeface that has been designed to represent this world-wide community. It has been created by sourcing and compiling different keys, taken from both PC and Apple keyboards from all regions and nations across the globe where online activism has become an important tool for change.
Winner!
The Disciples Of Design are a global collective of design academics, practitioners, artists and students. We have one common thread – UCLan in Preston, UK; and one common aim – the creation of an ever evolving visual hub for the sharing of ideas and thoughts.
