Edinburgh's Telford College is again holding its End of Year Show at the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh in June.
As well as open public viewing, we plan to hold a dedicated industry night where a select group of industry practitioners and potential employers will be invited to view the work on show and get talking to the next generation of designers, photographers and illustrators.
HND Graphic Design student Kay Cochrane has been hard at work organising a way to raise funds for the show. Kay has set up a funding campaign through IndieGoGo - check out the page for all the details - and please feel free to donate anything you can to help out!
NC Project Display
10 April 2011
The last day before the Easter break saw the NC Graphic Design groups present their 'Seven Deadly Sins' projects. They were tasked with designing banner visuals for a Waterstone's Bookshop season of themed titles.
The emphasis in this project was on illustration, and although each student had been asked to choose two sins to depict, many went further and created some fantastic visuals for all seven deadly sins across a range of media including banners, posters, tablet technology, editorial and packaging.
The emphasis in this project was on illustration, and although each student had been asked to choose two sins to depict, many went further and created some fantastic visuals for all seven deadly sins across a range of media including banners, posters, tablet technology, editorial and packaging.
Gill and Ross Shortlisted for Marketing Award
7 April 2011
Great news today for HND Year 2, as Gill McColl and Ross Duncan were both shortlisted for the Marketing Society's annual Creative Student Award.
Both students passed the first stage of the judging process by submitting a written proposal for a campaign to raise the profile of Maker's Mark, the famous American Bourbon.
This is a major achievement - Edinburgh's Telford had only this year been invited to submit entries alongside Scotland's Art Schools and Universities, and the shortlist contains just six students drawn from those institutions.
Gill and Ross have been invited to appear in front of the judging panel on the 27th of
April, where they'll give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a 10 minute
Q&A session.
The final winner of the award will be announced at the annual Marketing
Society Star Awards on the 19th of May at Glasgow's Fruitmarket Gallery
- all shortlisted Creative Student candidates will be invited to attend
the ceremony as complimentary guests.
Both students passed the first stage of the judging process by submitting a written proposal for a campaign to raise the profile of Maker's Mark, the famous American Bourbon.
This is a major achievement - Edinburgh's Telford had only this year been invited to submit entries alongside Scotland's Art Schools and Universities, and the shortlist contains just six students drawn from those institutions.
Gill and Ross have been invited to appear in front of the judging panel on the 27th of
April, where they'll give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a 10 minute
Q&A session.
The final winner of the award will be announced at the annual Marketing
Society Star Awards on the 19th of May at Glasgow's Fruitmarket Gallery
- all shortlisted Creative Student candidates will be invited to attend
the ceremony as complimentary guests.
Massimo's 12
31 March 2011
HND Year 2 were treated to an excellent session today from one of our mentors, Ian Kirkby from the Lewis Creative Consultancy.
Ian had set the class a short project based around Massimo Vignelli's assertion that there are probably only about a dozen really good typefaces. The task was to select a list of twelve essential typefaces and then design a set of posters promoting an exhibition of 'Massimo's 12'.
For the record the typefaces were:
Serif: Bodoni, Bell MT, Sabon, Nouvelle
Sans Serif: Helvetica, League Gothic, DIN, Metro, Futura, Gill Sans
Slab Serif: Rockwell
Script: Hancock
The overall judgement was that the top design came from Paul Dankool and his Rockwell poster. The twelve posters are available to view in our gallery pages, and are on display in the design studio, and Ian plans to exhibit them in the Lewis studio as well.
Ian also presented a recent branding project which Lewis had worked on, and took the class through the various stages of ideas development the agency had proposed to their client.
This included a detailed analysis of the client's current image, a proposed set of branding aims, and some great web samples, including some cool grid-based wireframes and visuals incorporating the new branding and some very sleek web typography.
More:
Massimo Vigelli wiki
MPA Roses Commendation
28 March 2011
More congratulations to HND Year 1! This week Terry Smith picked up a commendation for his entry to the MPA Roses Awards 2011. Terry chose brief 8. 'Younique' set by Manchester-based Branding specialists Like A River -
"Great advertising & design connects with its audience. In six steps connect yourself with a hero. Present as a book and show us how unique your are."
Terry's solution -
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This year MPA Roses had 337 entries from across the UK. Full details and results on the DRUM's Roses Student Creativity Awards page.
"Great advertising & design connects with its audience. In six steps connect yourself with a hero. Present as a book and show us how unique your are."
Terry's solution -
This year MPA Roses had 337 entries from across the UK. Full details and results on the DRUM's Roses Student Creativity Awards page.
Well Done Abbie!
21 March 2011
Congratulations to HND Year 1 student Abbie Macpherson, who came second in the FE Colleges section for Show Racism the Red Card, the UK’s premier anti-racist charity.
Abbie and Design Tutor Helena Good travelled to Hampden Park in Glasgow for the prizegiving on Thursday 17th March. There were over 2000 entries this year from Schools and Colleges across Scotland. As well as three posters, Abbie also submitted a video, which was shown at the event as an example of 'outstanding creativity'.
This is only the second year that Show Racism the Red Card has been open to FE Colleges, and we have prize winners in both of years - Ross Duncan won the award in 2011.