Congratulations to the following students who have just been talent spotted by a panel of top industry professionals at this year’s D&AD new blood festival 2020.
Emma Barber - Hannah Gurney - Bella Loughlin - Ellie Spickett
All the staff would like to say a big well done and well deserved. We wish you all the best in the future!
New Blood Festival – Ones to Watch
“This is the last design I had the privilege to work on with Milton. He told me he wanted to create something to enhance the sense of community during the covid19 crisis. It was his belief that a designer has a responsibility towards society to make it better. For everyone.”
Ignacio Serrano
Since he passed, for the last week I have tried – unsuccessfully – to write a post detailing the impact and influence of Milton Glaser on my life. What dawned on me was that this was a narrow, selfish lens to use. Milton Glaser didn't effect me. He effected the world.
Having said that, I still remember the day when Manchester design studio Drawing Board relented and opened their doors to a teenaged me and a couple of other friends who, pre-internet, were drawn to the world of graphic design in a magnetic way. A book had just been released, a copy of which they had in the studio, it was called A Smile in the Mind. We were taken through that book by an infectiously talented junior designer who showed us page after page, idea after idea. It was a genuine epiphany for me and changed my world forever, to think that graphic design not only provides the backdrop of our lives, but can also be so incredibly witty, incisive and ultimately beautiful.
Making it to New York a couple of years later, I saw Milton’s I ♥ NY logo for the city was everywhere, whether official or not. It’s incredible that something so simple can embody so much. But the I ♥ NY logo was just one piece in a vast body of work, all of which emanates from drawing and sketching.
Please read Rowan Moore’s obituary taken from the Observer last weekend.
And this piece in Design Week.
Here we feature a homespun free style alphabet created in Berol felt tips during lockdown.
Full Alphabet
Eliza’s Pens
Milton Glaser “pushed everyone to always be drawing and sketching”, telling his students that: “Drawing is thinking.” This echoes Glaser’s comment to Design Week: “If you can’t draw as a designer, you’re in real trouble.” “Many people in graphic arts are incapable of drawing, and this limits them to layout, collage and typography,” he continued. “I come to each project with an open mind, then what emerges stylistically is something that is driven by the audience.”
We just came across this little gem while roaming through our hard drive and couldn’t resist posting. We think it dates back nearly a decade and was done by Mark Young in his 2nd year. Mark now works for Straight Forward Design - London.
Simple.
Here we feature a selection of year 2 and 3 moving image pieces, some are short stings and some show the project in their entirety. However one thing that they all have in common is their craft and attention to detail, plus the detailed story boarding and visual narrative.
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A massive well done to all the Graphic Design final year. In unprecedented times you have brought together a body of work to shout about. Eyes are peeled for the full reveal!
Click here or below to read the Graphic Design course newspaper.
Professor Ben Casey talks about the visual communications courses at Preston.
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Please click on the image above to hear about the Graphics course at Preston.
The Disciples Of Design are a global collective of design academics, practitioners, artists and students. We have one common thread – University of Lancashire in Preston, UK; and one common aim – the creation of an ever evolving visual hub for the sharing of ideas and thoughts.
