The Traditional Group Photograph
A great showing this year at the 4th Annual Christmas Graphic grads get together at The Ferret, Preston! There was was much festive cheer in the room, a lot of old friends catching up, lashings of banter & gossip, and some giddiness thrown in.
Gareth enjoys an early Christmas dinner
Happy Christmas to one and all and we hope everyone has a good 2020!
Rescued from the library skip by Andy, this fantastic book demonstrates an incredible range of typography. Resetting the type digitally would be a joy, perhaps an idea for a workshop or two. Enjoy.
Knowledge and courage are required to achieve the best results in typography … Fine typography is the result of nothing more than an attitude. Its appeal comes from the understanding used in its planning; the designer must care.
Advice to be heeded:
Evaluate your elements. Eliminate everything that isn’t absolutely necessary. Simplify, simplify, simplify.
The graphic design first years have finished their semester and their final project was the packaging brief. The premise is a simple one: take a low value item and repackage it in order to be sold for a higher price. This can be achieved through three-dimensional design, surface graphics or a combination of both.
The tutors have never run this project so early before, but the final outcomes assuaged any initial fears. It was especially pleasing to see some students consider craft and materials (stocks and printing techniques), and also engage with the technicians thereby bringing another dimension to the brief with the addition of techniques such as laser-cutting and embossing.
Here we feature a great placement review by Holly McNicholas who has just finished here placement at Glorious Creative. You can read her full post here.
Here we feature a selection of lovely ornate door knockers that were all photographed in Robin Hood’s Bay back in 2013. Interesting to note that most follow a nautical theme reflecting the villages long history with the sea, also if you have new been it’s well worth a visit!
Here we feature the seasonal special of Ted & Andy’s Graphic Adventure – ‘Folder Guidelines’.
This video is a page-by-page, turn-by-turn, and in some parts explicit in detail…guide to laying out and submitting your folder for assessment on Friday 13th December. With no stone left unturned, you need to follow the format Andy demonstrates when finalising, crafting and finessing your project work for assessment.
Conference week 9 is 3 months away folks…put it in the diary!
Here we feature a few concept examples of creative packaging culled from our recent graduates portfolios. The brief - Take an everyday average item from a supermarket shelf, for no more than a couple of £’s, then apply an idea, re imagine and re package. Place back on the shelf and see who’s prepared to pay a little more for the item.
Pocket Tissues
Antibacterial
Heavy Duty
Scented
Ice Cream Cones
Twist for a new Doo!
Sleepy Tea
Second Best in Show - No 2’s
All the above solutions help raise a smile and go some way to making the world a slightly happier place. “There really is no excuse for bad design…under any circumstances” - Rev Jackson Whitehead
Here we feature a few examples of the design development from the year 2 students Bauhaus 100 project. This exercise was a chance to brush up on the students typographic layout skills. Building upon their year one magazine layouts the students had to consider, copy, composition, grids, general typographic principles, hierarchies of information, image, cropping , colour and detail.
Final Crit wall
Last week, the first years were briefed with writing a ‘lonely hearts’ advert, with the task to look for a friend (or more). Imagining being airdropped into Preston with no money, no contacts, no nothing, the brief called for a creative response using only words to attract the attention of another. Using the classic structure of act one, two and three; plus brevity and wit, the best examples raised a smile but also incited a response.
We write words everyday, but this brief always challenges as it brings a supposedly simple task back into conscious thought. Thinking about what you’re actually writing requires thought, concentration and time. But, the more we write, and the more we read, the better we get.
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.
