We Love Design-In-Context

The studio corridor is currently being graced by a massive series of design-in-context posters, designed and compiled into a series of collages by HND1 in their class with tutor Alex Gunn. All the usual suspects are featured - the Constructivists, Bauhaus, Swiss Style, the Futurists, Dada and so on. Check them out -

REAL Magazine / Editorial brief

Editorial Design may be an endangered species (see Magculture's Jeremy Leslie's recent comments in Design Week), but it's still one of the most glamorous sorts of briefs to work on.

Our annual editorial project was set back in November, where the HND2 students commissioned HND Photography Students to supply them with images based on a theme.

This year we went for 'REAL' and each student was given a subject area such as arts, technology, environment, travel, etc. The deliverables consisted of a cover, masthead, three double-page spreads and the archived image source. Here are some sample spreads -



Jordan Porteous - Real Politics



Terry Smith - Real Extreme Sports



Steven Brown - Real Fashion



Nootcha Promyong - Real Food



Abbie Macpherson - Real Arts




Kat Rebacz - Real Words



Nijal Munankarmi - Real Health




Tassia Woodger - Real Technology



Zia Vest - Real Economics

Design Event / Toolbox Project

Some images from our recent Event Night, which was a great success. Graduates, mentors, tutors and of course HND 1and HND 2 and students got together for a series of short talks and a great 1-hour project, all in celebration of their respective connections to our HND Graphic Design course.

For the project, a total of 12 teams put their creative minds together to come up with a 'graduate toolbox' which could be issued to design students as they take their first steps out into the commercial world. Our team filmed the whole event, and clips of some of the presentations will soon get posted up here. Click any image to view them all in lightbox.























You can also check out our galleries area to view samples of work that were shown on the evening. These comprise various project pieces that HND2 have produced this semester.

Event Night, Dec 7th

We are just about there with preparations for our event night on Wed Dec 7th. The festivities will take place in H001/2 (the lecture theaters just behind the Hub), and a sizeable number of former graduates have confirmed that they'll be attending.

HND 1 and 2 will be sporting our traditional white and black t-shirts, and a full catering service will be provided. The itinerary will hopefully be as follows:

From 6pm - arrival, photos, food and drink, then a schedule of short events, including a welcome from Helena Good and presentations by Iain Lauder, Redpath, and Hannah Bloomfield, Multiply.

There will then be an awesome one hour project, plus feedback, followed by presentations by Ian Kirkby, Lewis and Emma Hart, Story.

Finally, some more food, drink and photos to end the evening around about 8.30pm

Kinetic Type/MyType

By popular demand - Nic Cameron's Kinetic Typography for the MyType/National Museums of Scotland project - put together using Flash.

First off, the MyType Invite (note - this version contains no audio):



and secondly, the MyType WordPlay demo (also no audio, but this one is interactive) -

The Spiller Effect

A big thanks to our newest Mentor, the Line Agency's Rufus Spiller, who delivered an inspiring talk last week to our HND Year 2 class. Rufus also popped up at the D&AD event at ECA, where he spent some time with our students doing a very useful portfolio surgery. Check out the full presentation: