1st years…designer of the week 18/05

Our final 1st year Designer Of The Week award went to Louise O'Hare this week, because all her class-mates thought that her portfolio pages were rather good, especially her typography work! Make sure you share cookies with her…

That is the last DOTW award for this academic year, we now have to wait for a whole new bunch of 1st year students to start in September before we can start giving out awards again!

the end is nigh…

All the 2nd year Final Major Project work is done, and they are in the final stages of 'signing-off week' as we speak - where they all cram into the computer room frantically finishing off outstanding work, while all the staff point fingers at the best and worst work from their two years…the 1st years are going through a similar sort of gauntlet test with their progression interviews…and in the background to all that us staff-members are secretly preparing for the final exhibition, where we turn the studios into a construction site for two weeks & work with the students to turn them into an amazing exhibition space for all our graduating students final work! We hope to see you there on the opening night…invites and details coming soon…like we said - it's nearly showtime…

1st years…Designer Of The Week 11/05

Every week our 1st year students vote for their favourite designs from fellow class-mates during the past 7 days - so being the proud crowd that we are, we thought we would give everyone else a sneak peek. This week Gemma Anderton was voted best designer for her work on the Self Contained brief. This has been a really exciting brief, with lots of nice stuff being produced by everyone, so well done Gemma!!

somewhere over the rainbow…

We were recently approached by Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council to design a new logo for their Children & Young People's Trust. We set our second years loose on the brief and they all submitted a logo to the clients.

After much deliberation, Blackburn With Darwen finally chose Sarah Thain's logo as the winning design. The logo has already been put into print across Children and Young People's Trust literature, and all the other logo entries even got an honourable mention…oooh we are proud! A bit like new parents, but without the dirty nappies!