A key text for all Art & Design students. ‘Ways of seeing’ by John Berger – Published by Penguin

Here is the summer brief PDF for all you new 1st years. Good luck!

Last week the Designers Northern Alliance (DNA) exhibition took place at The Triangle in Manchester. The two day event was ‘designed to bring together representatives from industry and academia from the North to develop closer links and share ideas on best practice.’
It was a great success for both graduates and employers and looks set to become an annual event!

It was also a success for UCLAN with Mike Potts winning ‘Best Graphic Design in Show’ for his Rolling Stone self initiated project…

The project is a series of information graphics archiving the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs and Albums into song length and year of release. The basic premise of the piece is to look visually appealing, yet when approached, become engaging and provide a catalyst for conversation. Something the knowledgeable readership of Rolling Stone magazine and music lovers in general would find captivating.”

(Rolling stone project: click on the images to view PDF’s.)

Cheryl Poyser was also commended in the ‘Best in Digital’ category for her ‘Is facebook pointless’ project.

Congratulations all round!

The graudates exhibiting are: Jennie Spiller, Micheal Potts, Joseph Windsor, Rachel Jarrett, Louisa Mallett, Hollie Jackson Andrew Bovaird, Lindsay Hore, Chris McMahon and Derek Borthwick.

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Dan Freebairn (1st year graphics student) has been in touch about his contribution to the CitID project.

Here is a brief explanation of the project:

Our hope is that creatives from around the globe will make a logo or a visual interpretation of the city closest to their heart. The universal goal is that every city ultimately gets their own identity on CitID, and that both the city and it’s aesthetic contributor gets recognition through this library – a place where you come for visual inspiration and leave with more knowledge about the world we live in.

Dan’s solution for Manchester (above) can be seen here on the site along with his portfolio.

Thanks for sending this Dan.

Many congratulations to UCLAN 1st year digital design student Andreas Lindén for his success in the recent Big Chip Awards. With his work on the Nosey Parker iPhone app.

Produced after winning a placement at Manchester based digital design agency Stardotstar the app cleaned up in both the professional and student catagories.

‘Nosey Parker’ is the only car park location application for the iPhone covering the UK. It gives the user the nearest and safest locations, cheapest prices and further details of over 13,400 car parks – that is 1,8 million car parking spaces – across the country. With an estimated 16,000 car parks in the UK, ‘Nosey Parker’ gives the user access to the largest and most up-to-date database on the iPhone. Reached no.23 in the Apple Apps Store on 2/3/2010. Project produced on work placement at Stardotstar, Manchester.

A brief Flash demo is available here too.

Louise Talbot in 3rd year graphic design has been awarded GOLD in the j20 brief for her work. She goes through to compete for overall bronze, silver and gold over all the briefs set by starpack.

Monday night TV was pretty good for a change. On BBC FOUR, The Gold Smiths programme “But Is It Art?” follows the trials and tribualtions of its fine art students. Then there was a great show “Time Shift” about the development of the art school and some of its famous graduates (why not available on iPlayer BBC?). After that a documentary about Brian Duffy who was one of the greatest photographers of his generation. Along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan he defined the image of the 1960s and was as famous as the stars he photographed. Then suddenly in the 1970s he disappeared from view and burned all his negatives. Try and catch em if you can.