mr. big stuff…

It's that time once again - the great big induction project - Big It Up 2010!! All our fresh new first years were split up into teams and had to re-create larger than life chocolate bars - the selections this year were Toffee Crisp, Curly Wurly, Buttons, Smarties and a Jaffa Cake Bar. Over the course of the induction period our teams worked tirelessly to produce some really tasty looking treats… the voting process proved how good all the work was - two teams tied for second place, and the first place winners only snatched victory by 1 vote!!!

The Big It Up winners 2010 will be announced later this week…we will keep you posted ;)

blast form the past…

We remember all of our students with great fondness, most of the time, and although some of you forget about us very quickly once you're gone, we are (almost) like elephants - we never forget! So as we flicked through the summer edition of Computer Arts, we were really happy to see a very old student of ours in its pages. Ed Hall was an NDGD student several years ago, and after his time with us he progressed to the BA course here in Blackburn too. Ed is now a member of Manchester design firm Love Creative, and has produced some great work, most notably for sports brand Umbro. Creative Arts talked to Ed (in the purple box, pictured) about his experiences getting a job in the design industry. Although it has been a long time since we have seen him, we feel very proud to see one of our own in a design magazine, and would like to congratulate him on being a great success :)

To get a closer look at the article, just click on the picture

Computer Arts is out every month, and is available at most decent news stands

To check out the Love Creative website click here

the more things change…

Things have been quiet on the blog-front during summer - but that's only because we have all been super busy getting ready for another year of fantastic, cool designing! We here at ndgd are getting ready for some changes to take place - the times they are a changing, and we have to do certain things to keep up… so keep your eyes peeled as we get the finishing touches ready. We won't be changing that much though, and we are still gonna be super-cool, and we are still going to be always watching…

stars of the small screen

Blackburn College have recently made some brand-spanking-new promo videos, one of them being for our very own Art & Design centre!! There's plenty of footage of our amazing course, there's a cameo from Sue and Mandy, and we even get to see one of our recent yearbook extraordinaires Lawrence Rhodes talking about NDGD - we are expecting lady fame to come-a-knocking any day now…

You can watch the Blackburn College Art & Design promo video right here

picture perfect…

Well it's here, again, already!!! NDGD Final Show 2010; The Big Picture opens tonight. The final, final, final touches are just being added and cleaned now, and then we are all ready for tonight! Everyone also finally gets to see the 2010 yearbook, which we have managed to keep a closely guarded secret…

So, if you aren't doing so already, come down to Blackburn College Art & Design building this evening, and see our final show - all the other Art & Design courses are also exhibiting, from Photography to Fine Art, from Textile/Fashion design to Media Production…so its gonna be very awesome, and very warm!! The show starts from about 5.30pm.

Hope to see you there…

the final countdown…2010

Yes it's fast approaching…only 1 week until the opening night of the NDGD final show 2010!! exciting :)

Not only is it going to be the opening night of the show, it is also going to be the unveiling of the 2010 NDGD yearbook…Lawrence Rhodes & Tom Moggeridge have been working very hard, and very secretively, to try and produce a really nice surprise for all our second years…we have had a sneak peek and it looks ace.

Hope to see you all come down for the exhibition opening…

a quick lick…

The NDGD exhibition space is beginning to take shape, most things have been given a lick of paint - the walls, the floor, the windows, even some of the students - and now the real fun begins, as we start to design and create everyones exhibition stands… days of painting 6ft tall logos, checking for spelling mistakes, queueing up for the printer, checking spelling mistakes again, and cutting things out with a scalpel blade… oh it only seems like yesterday since we were doing all this for the 2009 exhibition!! It will be show-time in no time at all…