One Night Stand Looked Like this

Huge thanks to our resident photographer Derek Anderson whose keen eye captured the celebratory mood of our sell-out graduate show, One Night Stand, at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre Bar.

Derek Anderson / Nikon D600

You can check out some samples of the student work on our Pinterest Show Page, and read a nice review of the event by Pete Bastiman in the DRUM.

It's Almost Show Time

For the third consecutive year, our End of Year Show is being held at the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh (June 13th -17th), with open public viewing for HND Textiles, Illustration, Interior Design and Graphic Design.

We'll also be holding our annual Graphic Design industry night, where a select group of industry practitioners, potential employers and course mentors are invited to view the work, talk design with the students, and indulge in some free wine. Check out the exhibition promo at  www.etcshow.net

Graduate Come Back!

Our annual review night, originally scheduled for Nov 30th, has now been moved to Dec 7th. This year we've invited many of our former students back, to meet up with our current crop of student designers, and to catch up with former mentors and tutors in a celebration of our recent successes.

We've just distributed a nice poster for the event, entitled 'Graduate Come Back', designed by HND Year 2 students Kat and Viktorjia.

This year we've also issued a digital promo, 'we still love design, etc' showcasing many of our awards and achievements, all packaged up in the emerging format of the moment, HTML5.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Taking The Proverbial Even Further

It's been a whirlwind summer for HND Graduate Gill McColl. As well as a stint at the Touch Agency, and starting up a successful freelance career, Gill's final project 'Take the Proverbial' has become real commercial success.







Gill's work - a series of contemporary proverbs in retro-typographical styles - now has its own e-commerce website, and a distribution deal in a number of high profile shops and galleries, where the prints have been selling well.

Take The Proverbial recently made the pages of the Scotsman Supplement, and this week is featured on the influential Computer Arts Magazine's blog, where Rob Carney, the editor of Computer Arts, posted a great review of the work and included some nice quotes from Gill herself.

More:
Take The Proverbial@Computer Arts Blog

Review 2009 Photos

Some great photos for our review night! Click on each pic for a larger version.


HND Year 2 looking mean and moody in black:




Helena congratulates recent graduate Gemma Rundell on her YCN Commendation:




Artur and his winning t-shirt:




Santa gives the thumbs up to Emma Hart's winning t-shirt design:




Carolann and Julie with their mentor, Ian Farmer.




No, its not a new boy band, its some of our NC students.




HND Year 1 show off their t-shirts: