The six shortlisted proposals for the new Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square have been unveiled.

The ‘Ten Green Bottles’ Portfolio show in London went down a treat….with many graduates managing to get placements and interviews. It was a great evening with graduates, students, tutors and designers from several different agencies… all getting the chance to catch up/meet over a few drinks.

It looks set to go on to become an annual event.

Here’s a few snaps from the evening…check out our show-reel which we projected onto one of our hostel bedsheets.

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!

TEN graduates from the University of Central Lancashire are going to be showing their portfolios in the Crown Tavern on Clerkenwell GREEN on the 1st July from 6pm.
Come and join us for a few BOTTLES!

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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Here are a few snaps from last Fridays deadline.

Manchester-based Dorothy has created a poster to promote Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition, Picasso: Peace and Freedom, which runs until August 30. The poster features a bespoke font designed specially for the exhibition entitled Picasso ‘68

Alexa Meade is an installation artist whom has an innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships. She paints with acrylic onto human skin and clothing.