Big thanks to Mike Maloney and Daniel Grimes for their ideas on placement with us last year.

Happy Friday!

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Graduating from the Preston graphic design course back in 1990, David started working at Williams & Phoa then moved into designing for fashion clients at Gary Rowland Associates. After which he spent 12 years freelancing in London then setting up a new venture “DWHD” (promotional poster above) with three friends in 2010.

Read David’s entry to our Preston Profiles section by clicking here.

More profiles to follow soon.

Here’s a short film of the brand launch – a 500 person protest on the steps of Parliament House – to fight for $500m worth of extra funding and support from the government for people living with the disease.

Join the fight at fightdementia.org

Alzheimer’s Australia from Interbrand on Vimeo.

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In 1980 the D&AD launched its first ever student awards. In January of that year 74 heads of department from Art Colleges, Art Schools and Polytechnics from all over the United Kingdom came to London to receive briefs set by David Abbott, Chris Wilkins and Rod Springett.

The first submission consisted of 254 entries and the Graphics course at Preston was to sweep the board in all three catagories “setting the standard for others to follow”.

The judges were to comment  ”there was one outstanding and very exciting presentation from Preston Polytechnic….the execution was excellent, they had thought through the briefs thoroughly and come up with some very original concepts”

Tutor Ben Casey and student Susan Lee receive the first ever first Prize from Alan Parker

The following year the Preston Graphics course was to continue its success with a futher raft of nominations and a first prize award for a poster design set by Alan Fletcher

Selecting the best work from the 1981 D&AD student submissions. Alan Fletcher – Pentagram  Geoffrey Seymour – Advertising Film Writer  Neil Godfrey – Collett ,Dickenson, Pearce & Partners

Chihuly is widely regarded as the most exciting and spectacular artist working in contemporary glass, credited with elevating the medium from the realm of craft to groundbreaking fine art. A prodigiously prolific artist, whose work balances content with thorough investigations in to the properties of glass, Chihuly began working with the material at a time when reverence for glass-making and technique was paramount.

It’s one of the most impressive fine art exhibitions I’ve been to in a long time and the setting reflects this. Well worth a visit and on until the end of March if you are in London at any point.

I recommend watching it in full screen with the music on.

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

He has also recently hit Smithfield in London:

The fabulous construction is the south east’s entry for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and it will visit south coast towns during the Olympics.

It has been handcrafted by a team of boatbuilders using the contributed parts that include original parts from the Mary Rose and HMS Victory which sit alongside more mundane objects but which all have their own unique story. The largest object is an 8ft long plank from a felled yew tree and the smallest is a cocktail stick. Other parts include acoustic guitars, a violin, a didgeridoo, a tennis racket, hockey sticks, a toy helicopter, a children’s train track and a Victorian police truncheon. Hidden among them all is that famed little piece of the guitar which rock legend Jimi Henrix played in 1960.
Each timber item was donated by a family or individual to represent their own personal story and have now been assembled to form the 30ft long hull of yacht.
The unique vessel is the brainchild of artists Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, who appealed to members of the public to come forward with wooden objects that they would like to see included.

Graduating from the graphic design course at UCLan Preston in 1996, Sarah brings our tally to 36 for contributions to the Preston Profiles section here on TDOD. Sarah carved her career at some of the best branded packaging consultancies in London, working on some of the greatest drinks brands with a good measure of luxury brands to boot.

Read Sarah’s full profile here.

More profiles to follow next week.