tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75613677104796579522012-02-08T12:11:14.990Za blog supporting the HND Graphic Design course at Edinburgh's Telford College.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-60208525478754718662012-02-08T11:59:00.008Z2012-02-08T12:11:15.093Z

Our NC Graphics groups A & B recently completed their first competition project - a YCN brief to promote Heinz Salad Cream to a younger audience. As part of the brief, we also asked the classes to devise a digital presentation, featuring their research, a series of posters, and either an ambient or digital in situ idea. Here is a short selection from the finished work, showcasing some good copy

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Whilst HND 2 Graphics are out on work placement, their Visual Communications cousins, HND New Media, are currently on a trip to Berlin to the Transmediale Festival of Art & Digital Culture. Today they stopped off at the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art gallery, ostensibly to see the db exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda, but also to catch some great work by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy

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It's that time of year again when our HND2 students go out into the world of industry on a work placement. Placements are a crucial rite-of-passage for any fledgling designer, but given the current economic climate, gaining valuable industry experience is more important than ever to the success of our course. We'd like assure all the agencies who've agreed to offer a placement that our designers

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Our consignment of the YCN Student Annual 2011 arrived in the studio towards the end of last week. Produced in an edition of 15,000, the Annual is freely distributed across creative education, and to leading creative agencies internationally.The annual showcases of all the Commended work from 2011, plus the live creative briefs for 2012. This edition features a series of five interviews with

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The studio corridor is currently being graced by a massive series of design-in-context posters, designed and compiled into a series of collages by HND1 in their class with tutor Alex Gunn. All the usual suspects are featured - the Constructivists, Bauhaus, Swiss Style, the Futurists, Dada and so on. Check them out -

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Editorial Design may be an endangered species (see Magculture's Jeremy Leslie's recent comments in Design Week), but it's still one of the most glamorous sorts of briefs to work on.Our annual editorial project was set back in November, where the HND2 students commissioned HND Photography Students to supply them with images based on a theme.This year we went for 'REAL' and each student was given a

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Some images from our recent Event Night, which was a great success. Graduates, mentors, tutors and of course HND 1and HND 2 and students got together for a series of short talks and a great 1-hour project, all in celebration of their respective connections to our HND Graphic Design course.For the project, a total of 12 teams put their creative minds together to come up with a 'graduate toolbox'

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We are just about there with preparations for our event night on Wed Dec 7th. The festivities will take place in H001/2 (the lecture theaters just behind the Hub), and a sizeable number of former graduates have confirmed that they'll be attending.HND 1 and 2 will be sporting our traditional white and black t-shirts, and a full catering service will be provided. The itinerary will hopefully be

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By popular demand - Nic Cameron's Kinetic Typography for the MyType/National Museums of Scotland project - put together using Flash.First off, the MyType Invite (note - this version contains no audio): and secondly, the MyType WordPlay demo (also no audio, but this one is interactive) -

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A big thanks to our newest Mentor, the Line Agency's Rufus Spiller, who delivered an inspiring talk last week to our HND Year 2 class. Rufus also popped up at the D&AD event at ECA, where he spent some time with our students doing a very useful portfolio surgery. Check out the full presentation:

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HND 2 have just finished 'MyType' - a brief to attract twentysomethings to a aeries of late night exhibitions and happenings at the National Museum of Scotland (currently running as 'RBS Museum Lates').The mentors were involved in art direction on these projects and provided lots of useful and constructive criticism during the design process.Samples of kinetic type and interactive apps found

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D&AD will be celebrating their 50th year in 2012, and with their new project briefs hot off the presses, this is the time of year when the organisation tours the Universities and Colleges of the UK, spreading the word of its amazing Education Network, and delivering workshops, lectures and seminars to the creatives of the future.These events are also a chance for tutors from the various

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Our annual review night, originally scheduled for Nov 30th, has now been moved to Dec 7th. This year we've invited many of our former students back, to meet up with our current crop of student designers, and to catch up with former mentors and tutors in a celebration of our recent successes.We've just distributed a nice poster for the event, entitled 'Graduate Come Back', designed by HND Year 2

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A first batch of five D&AD Student Awards 2012 briefs have been published. The sponsors and clients for these briefs includes Channel 4, IHG, Interbrand, and Ministry of Sound. For the first time ever, D&AD have also opened up one brief to anyone under the age of 26, and to all recent graduates. Full details and download packs are available if you log into the D&AD site.The long-awaited 2011 D&AD

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Here are two great type games, guaranteed to amuse and possibly to inspire the current HND 2 Project 'MyType'.The first one is KernType - where you can adjust the kerning on a word and receive a score out of 100. The second one is shapetype - where you can adjust a glyph by manipulating anchor points.

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YCN have just published their Call for Entries of the 2011/12 YCN Student Awards. This year's live creative briefs include clients such as ESPN, SEGA, M&S, Heinz, The CO-OP, and the Independent. The deadline for submissions is March 30th 2012 - and the briefs can be found here.

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As Erik Spiekermann once observed, "a real typeface needs rhythm, needs contrast, it comes from handwriting, and that's why I can read your handwriting, you can read mine."So as part of their Typography unit, HND Year 1 were tasked with celebrating the handwritten word with a project entitled 'Write It Out!'With the proposed client as the National Museum of Scotland, the brief required two

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HND Year 2 presented their first mentor project of the year earlier this week, a fairly recent D&AD brief which we dusted down and reworked due to the fact that the client has just recently changed their corporate identity.Age Concern, now Age UK, had set the task of tackling ageism and highlighting their mission to confront and eradicate it. The mentors agreed this was not the easiest of

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Well done to NC Graphics for their terrific set of typography posters. This is just their second class project, and their first with any substantial digital work, and across both groups the results are refreshing, bold and confident.It helps that we gave them some great subject matter to investigate - an event at the London Design Museum, focussing on a typographer (Brody, Renner, Frutiger, Gill

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Earlier this week, some of our HND students made the trip to Spain to attend the Alliance Graphique International (AGI) Open Conference in Barcelona. The guys were lucky enough to see some of the world's most famous graphic designers showing their work and sharing their ideas.Tadas, Jonny, Viktorjia and Sarah meet the one and only Paula Scher.Pentagram illuminaries Paula Scher, Angus Hyland

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Abbie Macpherson and Sarah Crawford, YCN winners 2010/2011Earlier this week, YCN staged their annual Student Awards in Shoreditch Town Hall, London.I attended along with fellow Design tutor Alex Gunn, and two of our three winners - Abbie Macpherson (White & Mackay brief) and Sarah Crawford (Boost brief). Unfortunately Gill McColl (Ted Baker brief) was unable to make the trip down, but we were

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Talking to the Line Agency's Rufus Spiller - our newest Mentor.Well done to all who participated last Wednesday evening as our new Mentors for 2011-2012 came along to the Design Studio to meet HND Year 2.Fuelled by wine and an excellent buffet, the mentors enjoyed our famous speed dating ice-breaker, and then settled down to watch Steven Brown, Zia Vest and Nic Cameron present their solutions to

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It's been a whirlwind summer for HND Graduate Gill McColl. As well as a stint at the Touch Agency, and starting up a successful freelance career, Gill's final project 'Take the Proverbial' has become real commercial success.Gill's work - a series of contemporary proverbs in retro-typographical styles - now has its own e-commerce website, and a distribution deal in a number of high profile shops

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HND Year 2 have just submitted their first main project of the year, 'Conspiracy'. The brief was to choose a well-known conspiracy theory and develop an integrated promotional campaign to raise its profile with the general public.One standout example comes from Steven Brown, who chose the NASA Moon Landings, and based his idea around the strapline 'Reasonable Doubt'.Steven mixed condensed sans

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This is a very busy time in the world of design and education.Towards the end of this month I will be attending the annual YCN Students Awards Ceremony in London, to see two of our own (recently-graduated Sarah Crawford and current HND Year 2 Abbie Macpherson) pick up their YCN Commendations. I'll also be collecting the third award on behalf of Gill McColl.We have just renewed our D&AD University

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The Design Team brought together all the graphics classes for this years' induction, and created a schedule of short ice-breaker events to get the groups working and thinking together in the studio. HND1 and HND2 were involved in a speed-dating session followed by a one day team-based project, both of which were led by HND2 student Michael Kerr. The teams then presented the following day to

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Our graphic design students will be working in a revamped studio space in R310 this year. The studio now boasts an awesome black and white mural, depicting the design process. The mural, which is 5.5m long and 2m in height, was created by HND Visual Communication graduate Adam MacDonald, who spent a week over the summer drawing out the characters, icons and diagrams in his own unique style.

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As we prepare for the new session, we've been informed by D&AD that all University Network members will be receiving ten free entries to the Student Awards this coming year. The 2012 briefs will be rolling out during October and as usual will feature as part of the project delivery for HND 1 and 2. Some other interesting news is that in collaboration with Google, D&AD recently launched Show

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l/r - Chris Hughes, Graphic Design Tutor, Fiona McKenzie, Regeneration Manager for National Grid, Michael Kerr, David Hiddleston, Curriculum Manager. Well done to HND Year 1 student Michael Kerr, whose Graded Unit project, a live brief for National Grid to produce signage for the Forthquarter development in Granton, was selected as the winning submission. Michael produced a fully integrated

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All HND Final Project work has been graded and issued. A gallery of the completed work exhibited at the Final show last week can be viewed here.

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Congratulations to Adam Macdonald, who picked up a new internal award for HND 2 - 'concept of the year'. This award recognises connection and realisation - where sketchbook evidence links directly into an innovative and original visual idea. In Adam's work, his CABE Mentoring project - focussed on attracting more people to Edinburgh's public parks - translated into an appealing positive plus

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We can't stop winning awards!This is Final Show week for HND2, and last night we held our Industry/Press Night at the exhibition venue, the Dovecot Studios in the centre of Edinburgh. As usual a whole host of industry practitioners, mentors and ex-students joined the current final year class in a celebration of talent and hard work over the last two years. As an added bonus, YCN had earlier

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Check out some great samples from the HND 1 Graded Unit work on our gallery page. This year the group was given the choice of four briefs -1)Forthquarter - develop signage for the National Grid's Forthquarter development in Edinburgh2)IAMS - rebrand IAMS dogfood3)Shoot the Bunny - highlight the advantages of disposable batteries4)Rubbish - reinvent the printed magazine.The full pieces of work are

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Congratulations to HND 2 student Ross Duncan, who picked up Silver for Creative Student at the annual Marketing Society Awards on Thursday 19th May, The event took place in Glasgow, and we had two nominees in attendance - Ross and Gill McColl. Both students had already been through a written submission and a presentation with the judging panel for the 'Makers Mark' brief. The Gold award went to

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With our 'Not Another Student Show' 2011 in the final stages of preparation, the HND Graphic Design course has been receiving some good press coverage.The DRUM has again featured our students in its round-up of Degree Show previews - alongside Glasgow School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Lincoln, and Grey’s School of Art.We've also received some great press on the STV website - an

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HND 1 and 2 were treated to an excellent talk today from Paul and Matthew Scharf of GF Smith - the Hull-based organisation which sources, develops & manufactures some of the world's best-quality paper for the Graphics and Printing Industries.The guys took the students through GFSmith's major collections, which included their many text and cover grades used for all major print processes including,

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Sample visuals from Abbie Macpherson and Jonny Pateron's Aviva brief for D&AD which received an InBook Award.Check out the full entry on the D&AD website.

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The D&AD results came in last week, and the news has been great for HND Visual Communication. This year we have followed up our 2010 success with an InBook in Advertising for Abbie Macpherson and Jonny Paterson, HNC Graphic Design. Abbie and Jonny worked on the Aviva brief - to create a campaign to help Aviva get 500,000 children from around the world off the streets and back into education. As

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Edinburgh's Telford College is again holding its End of Year Show at the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh in June.As well as open public viewing, we plan to hold a dedicated industry night where a select group of industry practitioners and potential employers will be invited to view the work on show and get talking to the next generation of designers, photographers and illustrators.HND Graphic Design

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The last day before the Easter break saw the NC Graphic Design groups present their 'Seven Deadly Sins' projects. They were tasked with designing banner visuals for a Waterstone's Bookshop season of themed titles. The emphasis in this project was on illustration, and although each student had been asked to choose two sins to depict, many went further and created some fantastic visuals for all

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Great news today for HND Year 2, as Gill McColl and Ross Duncan were both shortlisted for the Marketing Society's annual Creative Student Award.Both students passed the first stage of the judging process by submitting a written proposal for a campaign to raise the profile of Maker's Mark, the famous American Bourbon. This is a major achievement - Edinburgh's Telford had only this year been

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HND Year 2 were treated to an excellent session today from one of our mentors, Ian Kirkby from the Lewis Creative Consultancy.Ian had set the class a short project based around Massimo Vignelli's assertion that there are probably only about a dozen really good typefaces. The task was to select a list of twelve essential typefaces and then design a set of posters promoting an exhibition of '

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More congratulations to HND Year 1! This week Terry Smith picked up a commendation for his entry to the MPA Roses Awards 2011. Terry chose brief 8. 'Younique' set by Manchester-based Branding specialists Like A River -"Great advertising & design connects with its audience. In six steps connect yourself with a hero. Present as a book and show us how unique your are."Terry's solution - This

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Congratulations to HND Year 1 student Abbie Macpherson, who came second in the FE Colleges section for Show Racism the Red Card, the UK’s premier anti-racist charity.Abbie and Design Tutor Helena Good travelled to Hampden Park in Glasgow for the prizegiving on Thursday 17th March. There were over 2000 entries this year from Schools and Colleges across Scotland. As well as three posters, Abbie

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Here is a short selection of HND Year 2 submissions to D&AD 2011. A full gallery of all submissions will follow. HND Year 1 also submitted this year - they were allocated the Aviva Brief - and their submissions will also be posted shortly. For digital-only submissions, the first round of judging is already underway, and shortlisted students will be announced shortly. The main judging takes

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One of our first year HND Graphic Design students, Abbie Macpherson, has been selected as a finalist in the Show Racism the Red Card Project for 2011. The competition accepts any form of media that is creative, inspirational and based around the anti-racism theme. Abbie aubmitted a series of three striking typographic posters - Show Racism the Red Card is the UK’s premier anti-racist charity.

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HND 2 were treated to a great talk earlier this week by two leading industry figures from great agencies - Iain Lauder, Creative Director at Redpath, and Gus Chalmers, MD at Union.As part of this event, the class were given out a new Mentoring brief - the Marketing Society's Creative Star Student Award for 2011. This brief is also going out to Edinburgh College of Art, Gray's School of Art (

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Thursday 24 March is Twestival Day, and one of our HND students, Gill McColl, has won a competition on Twitter to design the logo for Edinburgh's Twestival event.Twestival is the largest global grassroots social media fundraising initiative to date. Over 200 international cities from Buenos Aires to Bangalore, Seattle to Seoul and Hong Kong to Honolulu have participated in Twestival. The event

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Earlier this week HND 2 returned from their month-long work placements, and the feedback this year from the agencies has been phenomenal. As well as writing up short reports on their experiences, the class are now hard at work on their D&AD projects, which are deadlined for March 11th. Three HND 2 students - Sarah Crawford, Emma Hart and Natalie King - kindly offered to free up some time and

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2009 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland’s greatest poet and an iconic figure in popular literature. In support of the Scottish Government’s ‘Homecoming Scotland’ celebrations, the NC Graphic Design students at Edinburgh’s Telford College were set a brief to realise a single Burns poem as a double-page spread.Two years on, and this time around design tutor and

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Edinburgh Telford's newlook quarterly newsletter, the 'Word' has just been published, and featured a nice article about our HND Visual Communication course, as well as an overview of the mentoring programme and some nice pieces of HND 2 work.Check out the whole newsletter in pdf.

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This week Helena and I went to the D&AD Event at Glasgow School of Art. We took along eleven HND1 students. Other attendees included tutors and students from most of the Art Colleges in Scotland - the hosts Glasgow, ECA (Edinburgh), Gray's (Aberdeen), Duncan of Jordanstone(Dundee), and Edinburgh Napier.D&AD's Director of Education Rhiannon James introduced the Student Awards and New Blood, and

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-3492689612287589302011-02-02T22:20:00.006Z2011-02-02T22:54:59.827Z

Earlier this week HND 1 presented concepts for their YCN project to Helena.The class was given the Glayva brief - to create activity that resonates with a new younger target, and that drives awareness of White & Mackay's self-styled 'best liqueur in the world' and how it should be mixed and enjoyed. Looking through the work, this is probably the strongest all-round submission that the class

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-51324981990834225412011-02-01T11:45:00.003Z2011-02-01T11:52:20.441Z

D&AD have announced the full details of the upcoming D&AD Glasgow Education Day, to be held at the Glasgow School of Art on the 8th February.The workshop event, held between 2.00pm - 4.00pm will be hosted by Navyblue's Creative Director Simon Shaw. All the events are free, but if you wish to attend you'll need a ticket, which can be downloaded from the D&AD website. I'll organise these later this

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-90324963555886966412011-01-24T19:36:00.008Z2011-01-25T12:54:13.447Z

D&AD are hosting a student event at Glasgow School of Art on Feb 8th. With our HND2 students out on work placement, HND1 are getting the opportunity to make the trip, with Helena and myself, to Glasgow for a day with D&AD.The provisional timetable of events is as follows:11.00am - 12.30pm: D&AD Talk - Student Awards and New Blood12.30pm – 1.30pm: University Network Tutors meeting and lunch2.00pm

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-19001047978114174012011-01-14T12:26:00.026Z2011-01-14T20:09:21.851Z

HND Year Two.On Wednesday we finally managed to put on the review, retitled '16 Weeks and Counting', and using NC student Jonathan Walton's event branding. We had the professional touch of the college's new Events & Communications Co-ordinator, Lyndsey Dougan, and of course an amazing amount of organisational work from all the tutors and students.This event was a departure from previous annual

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-57465042570138005752010-12-19T12:02:00.006Z2010-12-23T09:42:26.095Z

It's not exactly t-shirt weather, but our HND 2 students finished off the year by designing their annual review t-shirts. In what has become a bit of a tradition, these t-shirts display one thing they have learned or specialised in during the semester.The standouts last year were Artur Pasiek's 'SWISS' and Hannah Bloomfield's designer black, featuring the CMYK rich black values 30 30 30 100.This

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-53100814562824707642010-12-17T17:39:00.011Z2010-12-18T11:13:23.813Z

HND Year 2 student Rachel Patrick has won the London Design Festival's one hour typography competition. The LDF asked designers to select a quote from a list of 80 quotes on design, and create a typographical poster in just one hour.After a huge response in entries, the LDF's William Shaw and Richard Wolfströme, designer and Board member of the International Society of Typographic Designers,

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-76514300646402636812010-12-16T11:38:00.014Z2010-12-16T12:38:34.014Z

Examples of Jonathan Walton's winning entry for '14 Weeks and Counting'. Jonathan's campaign, entitled 'Installing Designer...', uses clever wordplay and an instantly recognisable digital dialogue message to create a humorous and effective concept that obviously appealed to the target audience.Poster:Banners:Invite:T-Shirt:

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-63881927300382767952010-12-15T21:54:00.003Z2010-12-15T22:03:02.204Z

Congratulations to Jonathan Walton, who secured the bulk of votes from HND 2 to win our '14 Weeks and Counting' campaign. Jonathan's concept of 'Installing Designer...' just edged out Jody Hogg's 'Discovering Concepts', closely followed by Alistair Kerr's 'Finding Yourself' and Michelle Becker's 'Design Recipe'. Jonathan's work will be integrated into the final campaign visuals for the Review,

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-42513229306449219042010-12-14T19:39:00.007Z2010-12-14T22:31:02.538Z

Today we managed another nice get-together for the NC classes - this time in the Hub alongside HND 1, whose 'Show Racism the Red Card' video work was shown on the giant multiscreen.All the submissions were strong, and we have a great chance of following up Ross Duncan's win last year with another award.Two real standout submissions came from Jordan Porteous and Sarah Tucker. Jordan opted for a

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-43660592521604580512010-12-13T20:01:00.005Z2010-12-13T20:13:06.220Z

It doesn't happen very often, but four of the Design Tutors got together with both NC classes to assess the final NC project for 2010 - the campaign for our rescheduled '14 Weeks and Counting' Review.After a short crit, both classes mounted and exhibited their work and were give the opportunity to vote on a winning submission. Later this week, HND 1 and HND 2 will get their chance to vote on the

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-15366022714381962642010-12-09T13:39:00.009Z2010-12-09T14:15:40.443Z

If any of you joined the Grafik mailing list following the magazine's demise in July 2010, you'll have received a nice email today - the full 100-page pdf of the unpublished final issue from June 2010.As with all issues of Grafik, it's beautifully laid out and brilliantly typeset, with lots of great articles and some amazing work by many of today's leading graphic designers. Contents for issue

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-89845591495140037202010-12-07T20:38:00.013Z2010-12-10T18:45:33.603Z

Despite the horrendous snow, today a number of our NC students managed to get in and work on their final project of the year, '14 Weeks and Counting' - the exhibition campaign for the HND end-of-year review.To get them back into studio mode we watched this five minute interview with Paula Scher, which sums up much about what it means to be a graphic designer. Scher talks about her student days,

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-63384014499910827122010-12-06T11:47:00.006Z2010-12-06T12:03:31.508Z

With the ongoing weather problems, the Design Team has decided to reschedule the Review. It will take place early next block. In the meantime, the NC students will still work on their campaign designs, and we'll vote on the winner towards the end of next week. All Year 1 and 2 deadlines have been extended as well. If anyone has any work they want direction on please email myself or Helena with

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-69904237609903039292010-12-02T16:10:00.006Z2010-12-02T16:39:18.414Z

Scotland's Design Agency of the Year for 2010, Whitespace, recently hosted Talkspace 01 - an event aimed at allowing local designers to share ideas and debate the current concerns of the industry. Our HND students Adam MacDonald and Emma Hart went along and were really inspired by the community of practice and by the general vibes.The inaugural event featured Mark Ecob, book designer and

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-65794266991664403902010-11-28T17:47:00.013Z2010-11-29T09:54:25.985Z

One of our HND graduates from 2010, Tania Meiring, has just secured a job with Dorset-based agency CreativeByte.Tania is now working in a small, talented team, and inside the first week has already produced her first pieces - packaging visuals for Linsar LED Televisions.As Creativebyte point out on their website, they are a relaxed bunch, but that doesn't mean that they don't expect a new

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-45548742780021931122010-11-25T22:30:00.008Z2010-11-27T10:08:05.235Z

Our HND students are almost 14 weeks into the course that could change their lives. The Design Team is organising a repeat of last year's successful Christmas Review, showcasing the work produced so far at HND level.As well as learners and tutors, industry mentors and graduates will be coming along to see the work, and it will be a great opportunity for the students to congratulate themselves and

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-7928466835938347522010-11-23T20:22:00.019Z2010-11-24T12:19:45.145Z

A nice surprise in the post today - three copies of the world's most prestigious annual for creative professionals - 'Everything is Made', the 2010 D&AD Annual. These limited edition members' versions are hardcover, 23.9 x 25.6 cm (9.4 x 10.1 in.), with a whopping 592 pages.This year the annual was designed by Bob & Roberta Smith, whose trademark style is multi-coloured signs and unusual

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-80411519699138480652010-11-18T14:39:00.020Z2010-11-22T19:54:23.377Z

HND 1 have just finished a one day Guerilla project, set by one of our current mentors, Julie Diver, from the 39Steps Agency. The brief was to work in teams and design a film poster for a possible movie of the recent Chilean Miners ordeal.Hollywood actor Brad Pitt is reported to be in race for screen rights to shoot the film, currently being called 'Los 33', hence the title of this

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-84921238259616258262010-11-15T11:43:00.007Z2010-11-15T12:05:10.637Z

2nd Year HND student Emma Hart has produced the branding for the 'Learner Buddy Project' - a new initiative at Edinburgh’s Telford College which will allow lecturers and students to exchange and share knowledge of evolving media technologies. The idea is to select a team of four students based in learning street alcoves, equipped with data projectors and whiteboard technologies. These 'Learner

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-16071932456239879412010-11-11T14:36:00.011Z2010-11-11T15:00:10.613Z

HND 1 have just finished an MPA Roses brief 'Younique'. The task was to relate yourself to a hero is six steps.One of the more unusual solutions came from Nic Cameron, who produced a 16-page comic book, drawn in Illustrator, documenting his relationship with the Marvel Superhero Iron Man. Here is a four-spread sampler -

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-3562594042912572572010-11-10T18:23:00.016Z2010-11-10T19:52:19.965Z

Big thanks to HND students Rachel Patrick and Emma Hart, who gave two really inspirational presentations of their recent CABE signage projects to my NC Creative Media class today. The class have been given a live brief by PR Consultants ProScot, whose client National Grid Plc are looking for original signage and promotional material for the Forthquarter Land Regeneration project (of which the

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-41133962141791775642010-11-08T10:42:00.004Z2010-11-08T10:49:27.276Z

The SQA website features a nice interview with our HND student Ross Duncan, whose poster design won the 'Show Racism the Red Card' competition earlier this year.

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-29890227522636298252010-11-04T18:25:00.009Z2010-11-19T10:14:49.423Z

Well done to HND 2, who presented their interiors project today to the Principal, Miles Dibsdall OBE.The brief was to produce a set of concepts for a complete redesign of the signage and interiors for Edinburgh's Telford College. The students worked in pairs and all the projects featured great visuals and some really inventive creative concepts. The final pieces will be put on display in the Hub,

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-21070933843284386652010-11-01T23:13:00.012Z2010-11-01T23:59:37.647Z

Our NC groups are now three projects into their course, and are starting to get the message - a good sketchbook is the holy grail of the design process. At any given time, there can between 40 and 50 sketchbooks lying around in the studio, and the Design Team is looking at digitising selections of all our HND student's sketchbooks. Currently, these documents of the inner workings of a

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-84877080474759861402010-10-25T14:16:00.005+01:002010-10-25T14:22:57.652+01:00

YCN have just announced that their up-coming Student Awards programme will be launching online on Monday 1st November at http://awards.ycnonline.com/briefs.

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-55972722892260688962010-10-24T20:13:00.009+01:002010-10-24T22:56:31.827+01:00

After the mid-semester break, both HND 1 and 2 are hard at work on a number of projects - HND 2 have an interiors brief, based around a signage re-development for the Telford campus, and HND 1 have a typeface design project and an MPA Roses brief. On top of that, the 2011 D&AD briefs have just been announced, and Helena, David and I will be integrating them into the delivery over the next seven

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-60585641877341380332010-10-21T14:38:00.012+01:002010-10-21T20:42:12.773+01:00

Designing book covers is still probably the dream job for many graphic designers, and it's something we look at in detail on the HND course.So it's great to see that Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery is curating 'Gray Stuff - Designs for Books and Posters, 1952 – 2010' - an exhibition of Alasdair Gray's rather amazing visual works.Gray is a former student at Glasgow School of Art. But despite his

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-1344864014070760302010-10-14T19:46:00.007+01:002010-10-15T08:59:12.337+01:00

HND Year 1 have just finished a nice print project. This was set by David W and required the class to produce two covers and a doublepage spread for a world music magazine. Check out some of the great pieces this project produced in the Galleries section.

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-82536259391492257842010-10-07T22:43:00.006+01:002010-10-07T23:02:49.856+01:00

D&AD have just announced the beta version of their new website. They've been talking about this site for over a year, so it's great to see it - here.The archive, the President's Lectures, and some university network profiles are already in there. This is obviously not the finished article, and there is a lot of content still to be uploaded, but it does look nice.I've also been given a sneak

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-46053316610757820692010-10-07T18:48:00.008+01:002010-10-08T16:48:40.579+01:00

Sample boards for CABE, HND II.HND II presented their CABE projects earlier this week. Mentors Graham Neish (Neish Design), Graeme Lewis (Nevis Agency) and Alan Lennon (Lennon Design) were in attendance and the class also participated in some interesting peer critique.This was the first chance to test our new presenting easels, which David W purchased at the start of the semester. These allow a

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-71040985601350004932010-09-25T10:41:00.005+01:002010-09-25T10:56:13.670+01:00

D&AD has announced that their programme for 2011 will launch on October 21. The team has supplied us with a full list of confirmed categories, and the deadlines for submitting entries - Deadline 4 March (Upload)Advertising, Animation, Book Design, Illustration, Integrated AdvertisingIntegrated Communication, Moving Image, Open Advertising 2, Packaging DesignPhotography, Typography, What Else Do

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-30511555348909285662010-09-24T14:03:00.017+01:002010-09-25T11:34:11.256+01:00

HND Year 1 are currently working through a number of Typography Units with David W and myself. David has been concentrating on technicalities and layout, and set a great brief on controlling type, whilst I've been looking at the emergence of the 'International Style', and how it has influenced modern approaches to visual communciation.Thanks to HND Year 1 student Nic Cameron who transcribed

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-25168741405703734062010-09-17T12:55:00.008+01:002010-09-17T13:16:20.403+01:00

In between their Induction Brief and their first Mentor brief, HND Year 2 have just completed a short live brief for Edinburgh's Telford College. The College are holding a Learner's Conference in November, and the brief was to create a logotype based around the Conference theme, 'inspire'. The class had to present their logo ideas, and then take some interim client feedback into a second round

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-36203328879929750422010-09-08T23:57:00.003+01:002010-09-09T00:05:24.795+01:00

Blast of Trumpets! Helena has just given out HND Year 2 their first Mentor brief:CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) are looking for new visual communication that will raise the profile of public parks and inspire people to use them more.Background.CABE is the national champion for the Architecture and open spaces in England. Our role is to promote high-quality design by

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-47940091308127520332010-09-03T15:48:00.008+01:002010-09-03T16:03:07.283+01:00

The Design Team has booked a visit to Edinburgh's Dean Gallery to see 'Another World' - a major exhibition of Dada and Surrealist work by the likes of Dali, Magritte, Miro, Ernst, Man Ray and Duchamp. Both HND 1 and HND 2 groups are booked in at 2pm on Thursday 9th Sept.As well as a number of world-famous pieces, 'Another World' includes a series of display cases full of correspondance,

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-83955776483161100162010-09-03T12:09:00.011+01:002010-09-25T10:52:39.328+01:00

First Year HND student Nick Cameron presents his teams' wow project.Year 1 and 2 HND groups presented their WOW induction projects today. The NC classes were invited along and the event was also filmed.Each group had taken the 'WOW' factor concept and developed a visual presentation. The ideas included giant toys (dominoes, playing cards and a remote control Dalek), a set of WOW toiletries, an ad

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-72262462542976327122010-08-30T17:59:00.005+01:002010-08-30T18:10:59.579+01:00

This year's College-wide induction theme is WOW - and the induction project for HND Visual Communication features a collaboration between Year 1 and Year 2.Induction Brief : WOWDesign Studios are always trying to convince clients that their campaign idea or brief solution will have that ‘WOW’ factor.TaskYour team is required to explore the WOW factor in any area of visual communication, and

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-5717109324665050292010-08-30T17:11:00.001+01:002010-08-30T18:16:35.685+01:00

Year 2 HND Student Emma Hart has set up a facebook group for HND 1 and HND 2. She'll take on the responsibility of updating, monitoring and promoting the page, and of course everyone is free to write on the wall, upload photos and share information. This will hopefully turn into a great resource for both groups during their study and beyond.

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-68225166926847829422010-08-20T09:20:00.004+01:002010-08-20T09:35:58.410+01:00

With the new term kicking off on 30th August, the Design Team has been busy planning the delivery to NC and both HN Groups. As part of this, we are looking at ways that we can improve and develop the Mentoring programme. The format may change slightly this time around, and much of this will be based on the feedback we received from the Mentors towards the end of last session. Helena will be

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-86361939013845904772010-08-11T10:20:00.002+01:002010-08-11T10:37:08.859+01:00

It hasn't taken long for the first really interesting buzzword to emerge from the world of iPad. I've just been checking out an iPad app called 'Flipboard', which allows you to compile your own customised magazine by grabbing content from social networks and selected newsfeeds. The brainchild of former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll and entrepreneur Mike McCue, Flipboard takes normal RSS feeds

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-41885544432287925152010-07-01T11:56:00.017+01:002010-07-01T12:32:06.401+01:00

Earlier this week, I attended the D&AD Student Awards Ceremony at Old Spitalfields Market, London, along with HND Graduate Artur Pasiek and Tutor David Wilson. Students and Tutors from as far away as Stockholm, San Francisco and Hong Kong attended the event.It was a great way to end a hugely successful year for the Design Team. We had a place at the Body Shop table, accompanied by Body Shop's

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-27133181678904232132010-06-16T15:47:00.002+01:002010-06-16T22:42:20.614+01:00

As a University Network Member, we've been given a course profile page on the D&AD website. This is a new feature which D&AD have been working on to try and give all the network members a chance to showcase their students' work. It gets the design work out there in front of agencies and industry leaders and raises the profile of the schools and institutions involved.The site has just gone live

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-75711082389027351842010-06-16T14:11:00.012+01:002010-06-24T20:14:52.799+01:00

A small selection of pictures from Thursday's Private View of the Final Exhibition.The Dovecot is a great venue and the place was packed out. Well done to all the organisers and participants, this year has set a new benchmark in what we can achieve in terms of the quality of student work and the College's ability to show it off in style. More images soon...D&AD In-Book Award Winner Artur Pasiek's

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-8921918143091595992010-05-28T16:37:00.008+01:002010-06-03T14:44:15.916+01:00

Image:Ian Millar.Congratulations to all our HND Year 2 students, who wowed a select group from the Creative Industries last night at the Industry Night Show. The show took place at Paul Bock's Studio 128 and was a terrific success. Each student present a work-in-progress of their final project, and all received plenty of insightful and positive feedback from the creatives and professionals in

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-77573576992522987982010-05-27T08:25:00.004+01:002010-05-27T08:31:07.788+01:00

As part of the Great Big Art Show, our NC Graphics students will get their first chance to exhibit their design work.The show is being run by the Fine Art Team and celebrates the project work of learners from the following courses:BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art & Design studiesBTEC National Certificate Art & DesignBTEC First Diploma Art & Design NC GraphicsNC PhotographyHND Year1 Contemporary Art

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-26565112141800085242010-05-20T20:12:00.006+01:002010-05-21T19:29:11.855+01:00

More than 3000 students entered the D&AD Student Awards this year from almost 300 colleges – up 20% on 2009. Of those, 83 were nominated for Yellow Pencils, and 200 made it to In-Book.One of those was our very own HND Year 2 student Artur Pasiek. A D&AD Award is a fantastic achievement, and a huge career boost – 43% of D&AD winners are in employment within four weeks of gaining their award.Artur

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-49042394352945711792010-05-18T10:41:00.004+01:002010-05-19T18:27:41.853+01:00

The current print issue of The DRUM Magazine, the design and media industry publication, features an article on this summer's upcoming College Degree Shows across Scotland and the North East. The piece features work by final year students from the likes of Dundee College of Art, ECA, Glasgow School of Art, Gray's, and Edinburgh Telford, as well as the dates and venues of all the shows. HND 2

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561367710479657952.post-36594321395794913762010-05-11T10:50:00.004+01:002010-06-16T14:24:35.003+01:00

The Design team is about to launch its 'Industry Night' promotional campaign for the 2010 event.After two previous years Out-Of-The-Blue Drill Hall venue in Leith, we have moved to Studio 128, run by Edinburgh photographer Paul Bock.Tutors, practitioners, critics and mentors will all be in attendance - a select group of industry professionals and educators who have collaborated with and guided

Chris Hughesnoreply@blogger.com