Young Creative Network

Recently we had a visiting lecture from YCN's Creative Producer Ally Carter. She introduced the Graphic Design department to their annual Student and Professional Awards programmes and discussed the broader work of YCN. 

The Young Creative Network is a small team that helps organisations around the world to connect with their members and find talent for their campaigns and commissions. 

You can find out more about what they are doing through their website:

www.ycn.org

Tom Foley

Recently the students had the pleasure of having typographer Tom Foley visit. Thomas Foley (1983) is a graphic designer, typographer and type designer currently living and working in London. 

Thomas graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2009 with an MA in Communication Design and has since worked with Polimekanos, Micha Wiedmann Studio and Atelier Dreibholz. Thomas has carried out lectures and workshops at universities including Central Saint Martins, UWE, Limerick School of Art and Design, Dun Laoghaire Institute, and the University of Santa Clara. Thomas is currently working as a Font Designer at Dalton Maag.

Tom delivered a captivating talk and revealed the tediousness that can be involved with designing a new font, but also the enjoyment in being able to create something so usable.

Tom also ran a workshop with the first year students, to help with their Art and Language module. The students learned a lot about the basics in typography and some new interesting techniques in context. 

The lecture was informative and and the students produced some excellent work with the help of Tom.

Photography by: Tatsu Ishikawa

Jose A Garrido workshop results

Below are the results from a typography workshop run by Jose A  Garrido. This work was displayed in and around the studio.

Noem9studio

Fabiola Correas Lisbona

Fabiola Correas Lisbona

Lucy Taylor

Oran Kane

GFSmith

For most graphic designers, paper is very exciting. So when Mark Jessett a representative at GF Smith was invited for a presentation, the graphic design students couldn't wait.

Mark Jessett had everyone captivated, and brought along with him enough paper to keep everyone amused. He answered questions, and showed what new technology can do, for example a paper that becomes transparent in light, who'd have thought it! 

The afternoon was fun filled, but also everyone was supplied with information that was both valuable, but easy to digest.

The students would probably have the same lecture again if they had the chance, as many of them have said it was their favourite lecture ever. He of course had some wonderful paper gifts that he gave away.

Even staff with a broader knowledge than the student thought that the afternoon was a valuable experience. Paper is extremely important in design and it's making connections with the best companies that really make it easier to get the job done to the best standard.

Check out GF Smiths website: http://www.gfsmith.com/
Photography by: Ashley Henderson

Jose Garrida

The Graphic Design department recently had the pleasure of having exchange student Jose Garrida visit and study for while. He might have been studying here, but there were also chances to learn from him, he did a lecture to show off his work as well as a typography workshop. 

Jose, presented his work to the majority of the graphic design department and the majority were blown away by the quality and quantity of it for a student. You can check out is work by clicking here or visting here http://www.noem9studio.com/.

During the talk, Jose gave the students here advice and shared his experience in the industry, he said that he found the website www.behance.cm the most helpful tool to him. If you're interested in following Jose on behance head here http://www.behance.net/Noem9. 

Jose's Typography Workshop

Jose ran a typography workshop with some of the graphic design students, the workshop was simple but created some very beautiful work. 

During the workshop the students created some digital typography work, and used acetone too transfer print the work. This is a simple technique, but a lot of the students haven't tried it before. The work was displayed in the studio and admired by everyone who came in.

Photography by: Joanne Cookney