January 12, 2021

Science Festival - Industry Briefs - 2020

January 12, 2021/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature a solution to the recent industry brief set by Ric Bixter of The Chase Manchester

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January 11, 2021

Edit Brand Studios - Industry Brief - 2020

January 11, 2021/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature a couple of final year response to recent the industry set brief by Edit Brand studios

Wordmark

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The thinking - Sketch book

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Odd outdoor advertising

January 08, 2021

Bottle UK Seawater - Industry Briefs - 2020

January 08, 2021/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature a couple of final year solutions in response to the recent industry brief set by Forepoint.

Brand - Wordmark

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The brand wordmark

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January 08, 2021

The Male Pill - Industry Briefs - 2020

January 08, 2021/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature Emma Barber’s solution to the recent industry brief set by Chris Mason .

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The brand mark

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A very strong, well thought through and deceptively simple design solution to what was a sensitive and challenging subject and brief.

January 07, 2021

RDInsights

January 07, 2021/ Ted Howell

RDInsights is a series of lively and informal interviews conducted by graphic designer Mike Dempsey RDI with fellow Royal Designers. These memorable conversations and inspiring stories span a wide range of design disciplines.

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Below we’ve highlighted the graphic designers:

Derek Birdsall RDI
Graphic Designer Derek BirdSall became an RDI in 1993.
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Margaret Calvert RDI
Graphic designer Margaret Calvert became an RDI in 2011
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Michael Wolff
Graphic designer Michael Wolff became an RDI in 2011.
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Mark Farrow
Graphic designer Mark Farrow became an RDI in 2009.
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Roger Law
Graphic design & caricature designer Roger Law became an RDI in 1999.
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Peter Brookes
Graphic designer, Peter Brookes became an RDI in 2002.
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Ivan Chermayeff
Graphic designer, Ivan Chermayeff became an HonRDI in 1991.
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Pearce Marchbank
Graphic designer, Pearce Marchbank became an RDI in 2004.
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January 07, 2021

A RUM DO! - Industry Briefs - 2020

January 07, 2021/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature a selection of final year students response to the recent industry brief set by Brandon Manchester. Brief - Create a fresh new rum brand.

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Brand Values

Brand Name

Brand Toolkit 1 - Symbols

Brand Toolkit 2 - Colour & Typography

Brand Toolkit 3 - Illustration

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The Brand Story

Hand made paper wrap around

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Wordmark

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Brand Story

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Brand wordmark

Brand Story & Background

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Some excellent work and benchmarks for years 1 & 2 to analyse, absorb and ultimately learn from. Nice!

January 07, 2021

The Brazilian Creative Club (Clube de Criação) - Re-reborn

January 07, 2021/ Ted Howell

Advertising lecturer, Guy Lawrence, has recently seen this piece of work for sharing here on The Disciples. A winner at Cannes Lions, Clio and London International Awards; the project promoted the Brazilian Creative Club Festival – the biggest event in Brazilian advertising – in a way that is truly new.

Technology and creativity evolve at a dizzying pace. So how to promote the Brazilian Creative Club Festival – the biggest event in Brazilian advertising – in a way that is truly new? With an idea that changes like the world: every second. Using an exclusive algorithm, we created a campaign that was mutable in all its aspects: logo, tagline, colors and typography. A campaign that never repeated itself. The result was 9 different posters: each version of them could be seen only once. As they were living and mutating, the posters were digital-only: they were never printed or shown in a static way to the audience. Each one had its individual link, so the algorithm could work in real time. And we also replaced traditional media by an innovative one. The mutating posters were turned into guerrilla projections in dozens of different sizes on places that are often visited by our target audience: agency professionals, producers, students, and artists.

January 04, 2021

Typoems – 1977

January 04, 2021/ Ted Howell

An excellent find by Andy in his archives of Preston-past, this beautiful little book (and the tutors behind it) gave genesis to the typography projects we run today. Each example elegantly demonstrates the two pillars of Preston design: ideas and craft. The brief was to extract maximum meaning with limited means.

At first glance, you’d assume it to be a contemporary publication; either due to it being ahead of its time, or indeed timeless in its design. The last slide details the table of contents and the student designers included, note a young John Rushworth.

December 18, 2020

One week project: Pattern

December 18, 2020/ Ted Howell

As semester 1 takes its toll, here is the last post from Year 1 (this year)…

A new brief – based on pattern – took on the Christmas theme. It asked our young designers to make a connection between their client (a fundraising charity who rely on things like nice wrapping papers to fill up their coffers) and the Christmas season itself (in any form from snow to full-blown Santas).

The proof of course was in the (Christmas) pudding, and seeing the papers actually wrapped around a gift. It was a great turnout and showing for the final crit, with full use of the large format printers and a really pleasing range of ideas and connections; some of which are below.

December 16, 2020

England's Green & Pleasant Land

December 16, 2020/ andy Bainbridge

Here we feature a piece of work that has yet to be resolved but interestingly was in production as lockdown was imposed on March 19th 2020. The whole project stems from a table of natural meadow grasses taken from the book below.

The book was part of a set of agricultural cyclopedia from the Edwardian era - 1901 -1910. That short, often romanticised and tranquil period, sandwiched between the end of the Victorian era and just before the social upheaval and trauma of the Great War of 1914 -1918.

Stage 1 - Turn the list on its side to symbolically mimic grass.

I personally found this list of meadow grasses intriguing, as it listed the recommended combination of grass varieties when sowing one acre of virgin pasture (the numerals indicate the lbs per acre of seeds need for each grass).

The word pastoral came to mind, that idealised version of a long lost country life, lost now to mass consumption and the need for intensive ranch farming. This true English meadow, listed above, now only exists in small pockets, scattered across our national landscape. However the tables would appear to be turning once more, as our nations environment(s) and eco systems take on an increasingly more important role in the fight against climate change.

Here we see the grasses listed in the book, some you may recognise?

Stage 2 - Choosing appropriate typefaces to use for each grass.

The second stage of the design process was to source a series of condensed typefaces and fonts that were Edwardian or Edwardian in look and feel. These were all taken from large type display books and then photocopied several times in order to have enough letters to work with.

This process was necessary, as I was using the old school cut and past method, in order to create each strand of grass. So it was spray mount, a cutting mat and a sharp scalpel initially. Once I had created an aesthetically pleasing grass strand I then took to the machine and scanned them in.

Stage 3 - The composition takes shape as each grass strand is considered and positioned.

As I noted at the start of this article, the project has yet to be resolved. The intension was and still is, to finally silk screen the composition onto a large format and an appropriate paper stock.

Stage 4 - Considering colour and fine tuning the auxiliary information.

The weight of seeds needed to plant one acre, is positioned under each stalk of grass, see below.

Looking back over the past few months and the on going national trauma that is Covid 19, I can’t help but ponder on the parallel’s that his piece of work raises?

‘England’s Green & Pleasant Land’ silk screen prints will be available… one sunny day in the future.

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Science Festival - Industry Briefs - 2020

Edit Brand Studios - Industry Brief - 2020

Bottle UK Seawater - Industry Briefs - 2020

The Male Pill - Industry Briefs - 2020

RDInsights

A RUM DO! - Industry Briefs - 2020

The Brazilian Creative Club (Clube de Criação) - Re-reborn

Typoems – 1977

One week project: Pattern

England's Green & Pleasant Land

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