The talk in the lecture theatre is open to all students,
with a workshop to follow with The Design Hub in the HE Graphic Design Programme.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Former Graphic Design student and highly successful music industry graphic artist Tom Gordon from Fuggart Design will be sharing an insight into the industry and how he came to work with the biggest names in music.
The talk in the lecture theatre is open to all students,
with a workshop to follow with The Design Hub in the HE Graphic Design Programme.
Join the Facebook Event here.
The talk in the lecture theatre is open to all students,
with a workshop to follow with The Design Hub in the HE Graphic Design Programme.
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Tom Tobia Lecture & Workshop
Designer and Futures Pioneer Tom Tobia recently held a workshop with 3rd year Graphic Design students, the afternoons activities involved creating a prototype casing that had the ergonomics to fit all smart phones while retaining a high quality aesthetic. The group was divided into teams to work on different variations of the brief and came up with a lot of interesting solutions.
Tom also held a lecture for all students and lecturers at Plymouth College of Art, where he discussed how he works with people, groups, organisations and institutions to design and explore ideas for social change. He has a lengthy and impressive résumé including having worked for D&AD, Future:Gov and even presented his own TED talk at TEDx Youth Hackney.
Tom also held a lecture for all students and lecturers at Plymouth College of Art, where he discussed how he works with people, groups, organisations and institutions to design and explore ideas for social change. He has a lengthy and impressive résumé including having worked for D&AD, Future:Gov and even presented his own TED talk at TEDx Youth Hackney.
More recently Tom is focusing on community led projects and has founded a number of programmes such as Meet Market (which supports young people to develop confidence and transferable skills) and Assemble & Join (a community led micro-manufacturing workshop. His latest venture being Makerversity at Somerset House, a shared making and learning space which aims to provide affordable and accessible space for experimentation, production and enterprise.
Monday, 17 June 2013
Demand Conflict Free Electronics
Third year student Matt Wilson's animation entitled 'Demand Conflict Free Electronics' has been featured on Noah Scalin's blog: osocio.org
Noah Scalin is an American artist, known for his creation of the award winning Skull-A-Day art project weblog. He runs the socially conscious design and consulting firm Another Limited Rebellion (ALR Design) in Richmond, Virginia. Noah is also the author of several books on creativity, art, and design including 'The Design Activist's Handbook'.
'Demand Conflict Free Electronics' is an awareness campaign that aims to educate people about conflict minerals being used in electronics. The campaign animates a script using simple vector graphics to illustrate a powerful story to convince people to support charities and demand a stop to conflict minerals being used in electronics.
You can view the full project here or to see more of Matt's work, take a look at his website: www.mattwilsondesigns.co.uk
'Demand Conflict Free Electronics' is an awareness campaign that aims to educate people about conflict minerals being used in electronics. The campaign animates a script using simple vector graphics to illustrate a powerful story to convince people to support charities and demand a stop to conflict minerals being used in electronics.
You can view the full project here or to see more of Matt's work, take a look at his website: www.mattwilsondesigns.co.uk
PCA - BA Fashion Show
Two of our own students from the Graphic Design course third year – Sophie Willcox and Jessica Hamley have created some beautiful posters, invitations and the Fashion Show Look book and on top of that Benjamin Parker, also from the third year Graphic Design course has created some amazing motion graphics for the backdrops.
Design Hub members Sam Donohoe and Amy Eaton were also involved as models for the show.
Plymouth Herald has also given the show some exposure here, where you can read a bit more about the event and view some photos from the night.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Pop-up shop
BA/FD Graphic Design programme from Plymouth College of Art opened a pop-up shop venue in Drake Circus shopping mall to showcase student work. An exhibition was set up, along with a series of workshop activities in beautiful hand made printed cards by Hannah Baldwin, stencilled t-shirt printing by Ross Edwards, portrait photography by Tatsu Ishikawa, type design by David Cooper, letter press by Danni Goss and Emily Clark along with the Design Hub team members (Zara Walker, Claude Compere, Eliot Sleep, Sam Donohoe) working on live projects where a studio set up was created. This allowed public to interact with students and see what the programme offers.
Year 3 students used the space to self promote their upcoming event - Summer exhibition at PCA and New Designers, in London.
These beautiful posters "lets fill this town with Graphic Design" designed by typography and calligraphic lecturer Paul Mattock was a big hit and many got sold. Numerous other pieces of work were sold within the Design Hub Outlet (an online site in development), as well as commissions that came through for our alumni.
All in all, a great successful event that was valuable for marketing the programme, showcase of student work on display with good sales, and above all a good student experience. Fantastic.
Further images can be seen through our other online presence - https://www.facebook.com/TheDesignHubPCA
(Photographs by Tatsu Ishikawa, Danni Goss and Kamal Gohil)
Year 3 students used the space to self promote their upcoming event - Summer exhibition at PCA and New Designers, in London.
These beautiful posters "lets fill this town with Graphic Design" designed by typography and calligraphic lecturer Paul Mattock was a big hit and many got sold. Numerous other pieces of work were sold within the Design Hub Outlet (an online site in development), as well as commissions that came through for our alumni.
All in all, a great successful event that was valuable for marketing the programme, showcase of student work on display with good sales, and above all a good student experience. Fantastic.
Further images can be seen through our other online presence - https://www.facebook.com/TheDesignHubPCA
(Photographs by Tatsu Ishikawa, Danni Goss and Kamal Gohil)
Friday, 24 May 2013
Plymouth In Fashion
Over the past few weeks The Design Hub team have been working hard in cooperation with Plymouth City Centre Company to promote this years Plymouth In Fashion Event. The event takes place from the 11th to 16th June at the Piazza, Plymouth city centre and will feature both designs from the fashion students here at PCA and ranges from various stores in Plymouth. Keep an eye out for our posters in and around the city centre or pick up a leaflet from one of the many participating high street stores.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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
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
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
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
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