A good site for all self respecting design students
/Jampacked with print, drawing and writing. Google Images this is not.
D&AD New Blood Awards hit for six
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In July, Preston students managed to win a fantastic six pencils at the D&AD New Blood awards. Look through the links below, get inspired and get to know the standard required. Plus, a special mention to Harriet who was involved in three pencils and showing us all what's possible!
Amy Wooding – Us to You in 1 Hour
Ashton Hoban – John Lewis Saves the Day
Charlie Bulmer – Fighting Conceptions
Harriet Richardson – Boredom - The Bored Game
Harriet Richardson – Samples
Harriet Richardson & George Townley – Creative Block
Dominic Parsons wins Creative Conscience award
/Year 2 Graphic Design student Dominic Parsons, is a prize-winner in the Creative Conscience Awards. His project is about computer hacking ‘Type for Change’.
“Entering design competitions in the second year gives us a great opportunity to have our work recognised by industry before we go out on placement.”
The project ‘Type for Change’ visually communicates the achievements of the online activist community highlighting the true power for change we all have at our fingertips. ‘Type for Change’ is a composite typeface that has been designed to represent this world-wide community. It has been created by sourcing and compiling different keys, taken from both PC and Apple keyboards from all regions and nations across the globe where online activism has become an important tool for change.
Winner!
Jonathan Mount wins a YCN award
/Jonathan Mount a second year Graphic Design student has won a YCN Design Award Commendation in the Fedrigoni Paper category. The competition brief was to design a highly coveted Christmas gift for Fedrigoni using their Constellation range of paper. His entry ‘Standles’ features a range of candle stands engineered from the paper range, based on the three festive gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
“It’s great to engage on briefs where the physical is of importance as it shows the wide gamut of disciplines within design as a whole. The encouragement and feedback from tutors and industry professionals has helped enormously as I head into my placement year.”
Student nominations for ‘RAF Active’ brief design award
/A live brief run by Coley Porter Bell, a top London branding agency visited the graphics course to deliver the ‘RAF Active’ project. The brief was to create an identity and visual language for the new RAF Active campaign and bring it to life through inspiring and exciting applications, eg. social media platforms, posters and apps.
The prize was a placement at CPB and prize money.
Year 2 BA(Hons) Graphic Design students, Lucy Child, Huzaifa Sidat, Brandon Thomas were nominated and went to the London based agency to present their projects.
It was a great opportunity for the students to work on a real life brief and have the experience of visiting a design agency and present their work to industry.
Lucy Child's entry - EARN YOUR STRIPES
BJL briefing bus – one-day design briefing
/BJL Communications Agency, Manchester visited in the briefing bus to give a one-day briefing and critique/feedback at UCLan for Graphic Design and Advertising students.
The brief was to encourage people to buy a Metrolink Monthly Season Pass.
The winners were Shohaib Iqbal and Louis Murphy-Hancock from Year 2 Graphics and Ashley Schofield and Bethany Wilkinson from Year 4 Graphics.
All the students won placements at BJL.
