Truth lecture

When 'Truth' came for their guest lecture i knew little about their work. Like 'Thoughtful' they are a young agency, only recently (at the time of the lecture) celebrating their second year. 'Truth' design was started by two people, both with outstanding backgrounds in the industry, these are Darren Scott - graphic designer and typographer, and Jane Kaye - managing and marketing. In the lecture Darren and Jane came across as very nice people, and their website www.truth-design.co.uk also shows their friendly and informative nature.

They chose to present their work as a power-point presentation and were very thorough with their explanation of their work. The most enjoyable aspects of their lecture were the 'Fat Hog' paint brush product and identity design, the rebranding of 'Christy's', and product design for 'Durex'. 

Also I was especially impressed with Darren Scotts range of typefaces, some of these consist of:

• Amplifier (2006)
• Aggregate (2006)
• Bad Angel (1999)
• Berliner (1996)
• Mechanic gothic (1999)
• Nitrogen (2003)
• Rub-On (1997)
• Sodium (2000)

Truth (www.truth-design.co.uk)

Thoughtful lecture

'Thoughtful' were the first design agency to visit our year at Stockport college, when they arrived i think we all had little idea what to expect. The beginning of their lecture consisted of a pitch on power point, as if they were speaking to a client. They introduced themselves and their work and anything else they deemed necessary in 60 seconds. I believe they chose to do this in order to emphasise how little time an agency gets to pitch their work, and how much detail must be included in order to gain interest. Although this was over in 60 seconds, it was a very clever and informative method of education. The rest of the lecture consisted of telling us about their short history as an agency, and showed us examples of their work with 'howies' and other clients. 

'Thoughtful' are now stationed at Stockport college and are working with students in the second year of the graphic design course. The most recent examples of work by 'Thoughtful' and their students is their work for 'The Tate'. More on this and other work by 'Thoughtful' can be found on thoughtful.squarespace.com 

Thoughtful (http://thoughtful.squarespace.com/)

Tal Rosner lecture

I was very excited when i was told Tal Rosner was coming into our college and giving a guest lecture. If it wasn't for about two weeks before (when i saw his work on a late channel 4 programme about up and coming illustrators and animators) i would have had no idea who he was. After seeing his work i was very interested in learning more about him, his style and how he achieved his strange film manipulations. 

When he came in he seemed very nervous, and as he said, it was the first time he had presented a lecture to students. He showed us examples of his work with very little dialogue in between. This wasn't a problem as i don't believe his work needs much explanation. He showed us the work which i saw on television, which he filmed on a train, this one was especially good. He also showed us moving image which he created for the london symphony orchestra, he went into a bit more detail on this one, which was good as it showed us a bit of how he worked with the orchestra and conductor, and what was expected from him. Also he showed us a clip from the opening sequence of 'Skins' (an English sitcom about the lives of a group of college students) of which until then, i had no idea that he created.

I enjoyed this lecture immensely.   

Tal Rosner (http://www.talrosner.com/) (www.youtube.com)