"i predict a riot…"

Thursday night was the private view and awards ceremony for the Northern Design Competition 2009 at Leeds Metropolitan University. Our three nervous finalists got suited & booted for the occasion. Alex, Jack, and Jake were three of thirteen people shortlisted for the Young Northern Designer category. There were to be three winners selected for prizes, and the rest were to be given runners-up awards. We are very proud to say that both Alex Hindle & Jake Holt were selected as winners of the category, being presented with a trophy, a certificate and cash prize monies of £500 each, which was presented to them by Ricky Wilson, lead singer of The Kaiser Chiefs!!! Very special indeed…Jack Townsend was awarded a runner up prize of £100.

The award was judged by world renowned designer Wayne Hemingway, who had this to say about Alex's advertising project;

"This student certainly has an eye for advertising, coupled with a flair for graphic design, this entry shows a good understanding of the range of skills required to be successful in the creative industries."

Wayne Hemingway also passed comment on Jake's theatre poster project;

"This is an excellent range of posters which have demonstrated a high level of expertise in the field of graphic design. The theme and style of each is both creative and eye-catching."

All-in-all a fantastic night for Alex, Jake & Jack, and our little graphics course from Blackburn!!

lights…cameras…action

Its Showtime!! National Diploma Graphic Design Final Show 2009…opening night :)

as the lights go up…

The lights are up in place…the day of the show is finally here. The staff are scurrying around finishing up the absolute last little jobs that need to be done to help make the show look perfect. It's looking good…hopefully see some familiar faces at the opening private view tonight!

always watching…

salford school of art & design college competition

As part of Salford University's School of Art & Design end of year exhibition, they decided to hold a College Competition, where art and design students at a Further Education institution could enter work and have a chance to exhibit at the final show. We put forward some of our students work, and two of those students have been shortlisted in the competition. Jack Townsend has been selected in the Graphic Design category for his advertising project, and Rebecca Morris has been selected in the Digital Design category for one of her illustration projects. The students are to make an appearance at an awards presentation on June 10th at Salford's School of Art & Design.

keep rollin', rollin', rollin'…

Everyone is hard at work preparing for the exhibition opening night, sanding & painting the exhibition space, although I think the smell of paint is going to some peoples' heads…

northern design competition 2009

Recently all our second year students entered a favourite piece of work into the Northern Design Competition 2009, which is hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University. Art & Design students from all over the north of England have entered, and out of the 13 finalists for the Young Northern Designer Category, we have had three of our students shortlisted. Alex Hindle was selected for his advertising project, Jake Holt was selected for his theatre posters project, and Jack Townsend was selected for one of his illustration projects.

They are now due to appear at an awards ceremony down in Leeds, on the 18th June, where there will be a private viewing of all the finalists work, and there will be an awards ceremony to determine an over-all winner from all the finalists. We are keeping our fingers crossed for our three students to be among the grand prize winners…well done lads!!

You can view their work online, along with all the other entries for the Young Northern Design Competition at;

http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/northerndesign/finalists.html

"it's a date!"

Not that we are trying to get ahead of ourselves, we still need to put the exhibition up on display first, but we have a date planned for you! Our final show opening night is Wednesday 17th June 2009, and doors open at 6pm. Many parts of the college will be open on the evening, showing off the final work of many of its great students…just don't forget to come visit us! We will be exhibiting work on the third floor of the Art & Design building, St. Pauls Street…hope to see you there!

back to the script…

Busy, busy, busy - thats us! We are now back at college after our week off, in fact we were back yesterday, but we have so much to do, we nearly forgot to say hi…

We have started preparing for the exhibition already, the rooms have been transformed, and the exhibiton boards are in place, so now the painting begins!!! It feels like it was only yesterday that we were doing this with last years graduating students…