get it off your chest…

We are soon going to run a taster project to give people in Yr10 or Yr11 an opportunity to work with us on a design brief. The taster project will take place in three sessions running on Saturdays over a six week period in April and May. The brief will be to take a social issue that you are passionate about, and to visualise your thoughts and feelings by creating a challenging and exciting design for a t-shirt.

This is a fantastic opportunity to come and have a go at Graphic Design, so if you are reading this and you're in Yr10 or Yr11, or have any younger brothers, sisters, cousins, or friends who might be interested, then please get in touch with us and sign them up! All the details are on the poster above…

We are looking forward to meeting and working with some fresh, new, design faces!

monkeying around…

Sock Monkee, or Chris Sandlin, which is the name his mother gave him - is a U.S. based illustrator specialising in the craziest character driven illustrations and some great looking typography work. Most of this illustration work gets applied to t-shirts for some cool, independent clothing labels - there is also his very own line of t-shirts on the online shop page. First years may find this inspirational as a late addition to your NCFE & Unit 34 research documents, as well as giving you some ideas for how to apply your finished illustrations onto t-shirts in the coming couple of weeks. There is even a photo-shoot section, which you first years may also find helpful (use the Look Book link on Chris Sandlin's website)

You second years may just find the combinations of socks and monkee's and drawings nice to look at!!

Visit Chris Sandlin's website and portfolio here

Visit the Sock Monkee online store here

Always watching…