Brandhouse

We recently had Crispin Reed from Brandhouse - Brand Agency based in London, leading on a live creative project brief based on the 7 myths of Middle Age, working with our third year Graphic Design students. Design concepts from the group were taken to the design team at Brandhouse for further development. This was a fantastic experience for all involved working within a live brief.

Kamal Gohil

Sand blasting

Sandblasting glass is a technique to decorate glass. A high powered air compression device called a sandblaster is used to fire tiny pieces of stone like sand at the glass causing the sand to chip away parts of the glass.

Designs can be put on using stencils to cover the parts of the glass that you do not want to be blast. You can also work in different layers.

Here I worked with typographic elements on both sides of the glass which causes an overlapping effect.

by leslie büttel

Old school

Little booklets found in a vintage shop. They are both from the fifties, and the covers look awesome.

Re Type opening evening

Opening evening of the Re Type exhibition. It was a big success, plenty of people and good feedback. A big thank you to everyone that took part in the workshop and all the support received.

by Samuel Donohoe

Letterpress - photoshop tutorial

Letterpress is a beautiful print technique, but not everybody has the opportunity to just go and press something with a letterpress.

Here is a good tutorial where it is shown how to achieve an authentic letterpress effect in photoshop.

Work of Allen Coté

by leslie buttel

Re Type Exhibition

A few students produced a typography poster each for a workshop Nom De Strip by William Hibberd. Students were tasked with exploring the purpose of type and the strong reactions different typefaces can provoke.

by Samuel Donohoe

Mark making

The first years looked at calligraphy and type. 

We experimented with various pen types to produce abstract marks or even an experimental type. As pens we used ruling pens, automatic pens, but also plastic forks, dough scrapers, a jar lid, sponges, a pipette...

Type Tart - Student Showcase

In the centre of the gallery Students have produced their own ‘type tarts’ in response to a brief set by Curator, Caroline Archer. The resulting work was displayed in the centre of the gallery during the exhibition > Mon 9 Jan – Fri 27 Jan

Here some impressions of the exhibition opening event. Curator, Caroline Archer, also held a free public talk in the Studio Theatre on that day with all HE Graphic Design students.

http://www.typographichub.org/

Helvetica

"Helvetica is a feature-lenght independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives". This film was a part of the three week lecture series held for all HE Graphic Design students and public.

www.helveticafilm.com

Comic Sans by Vincent Connare

Vicent Connare recently came in to talk about working professionally in the software industry, and different typeface projects he has undertaken in the series of lectures held for HE Graphic Design students. Connare has been working as a font engineer and type designer for over 20 years now. He was trained as a painter and photographer in New York and holds a Masters degree in Type Design from the University of Reading. In 1993 he joined Microsoft Corperation as a typographic Engineer and worked on custom type projects for Microsoft products. Here he designed and produced two of the most popular typefaces of the 1990's, Comic Sans and Trebuchet. Today, Vincent works for Dalton Maag Ltd, which is a London based Type design agency, which specializes in corporate font solutions, branding and type design. Here he notably designed the lettering for the Ministry of Sound logo and has recently released his latest font design, Magpie OpenType.

http://connare.com/

http://www.daltonmaag.com/

by Alan danby.