THE DESIGN HUB OPPORTUNITIES

Hi all,

Below are the details for the up coming Design Hub opportunities (possibly mentioned by Kamal during taught time). Please make a note of the deadline and meeting times. Do not enter/apply for positions if you can not fully commit your spare time to The Design Hub projects/activities. 

Should you have any questions please email myself or Kamal.

THE DESIGN HUB OPPORTUNITIES

> click 'read more' below

Coming soon

Fuel the Arts

Recently year two BA/FD Graphic Design students at the college were set a task to set up a campaign to raise awareness of something they're passionate about, something that is important to them. They were divided into teams of four or five. One team came up with a campaign to raise awareness of the government cuts to the arts, they decided to call the campaign 'Fuel the Arts'. They completed various tasks and have raised awareness.

Above are some images from one of the marketing tactics they used to raise awareness, they littered the streets with origami with simple messages, they stuck things up with stickers with QR codes and URL's leading to various networking sites.

Another thing created by the team was a video, showcasing the local artist Amy Eaton and what the Fuel the Arts campaign is about. Filmed by Aaron Golden. 

The Design Hub on Facebook

The Design Hub has now set up a facebook page for people to 'like', this will enable people from all over the world to see what's going on in and around the college! You can access the page by clicking here, or copying and pasting the link https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Design-Hub/403536766381910?fref=ts into you browser search bar.

Sky Creative Award won at New Designers

Nick Martin's work was selected by Sky Creative for an award at New Designers this year, 2012.
The work chosen for the award was based on animation and typographic design. Animated Science Stings were developed for the concept to be used in television advertising, museum installation, exhibitions, trailers and educational packages.

The award consists of a placement with the Sky Creative and prize money.

http://www.inkcreative.co.uk/index.html

http://www.inkcreative.co.uk/motion.html

What's new?

Today I'm feeling turquoise.

Today I'm feeling turquoise was designed by Pentagram as a holiday card, but it's so much more than that! It is'an attempt to do something that should have been done a long time ago: pairing up colours with their respective moods.
It's interesting because we all associate red with danger or anger, but what about the more obscure colours? Where do they fit in? Well that's what this is for. 

 Cyan, the colour of blind faith

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Purple, the colour of self obsession.

Above are inserts, the book continues like this telling us that brown be the colour of indifference and grey the colour of self consciousness. It is a must for and budding visual communicator. It is the first stepping stone into understanding colour and learning more about it, organised in an approachable way.
More information can be found on the pentagram website.

The Way Things Go

This is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss (movie title in German: Der Lauf der Dinge). It documents a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine.

Part 1

 Part 2

Part 3

More info on wikipedia

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.