Works
2 years ago
Sunday, 3 May 2009
Friday, 1 May 2009
Craig Oldham Lecture
Craig Oldham Lecture
Craig Oldham is a relatively young designer who has progressed very quickly in the design scene. He is probably most well known for his book ’12 IN 12’.
Aimed at students, this book informally advises the best-practice techniques of which he experienced in his first twelve months of building a reputation in the design industry. He emphasizes what he considers are the most important factors involved in this process in twelve steps.
1. Understand what Graphic Design means to you.
2. Be honest with yourself about your strengths and weaknesses.
3. A portfolio is for life, not just for an interview.
4. Placements matter. Do them.
5. The Design industry is small, everyone knows everybugger else.
6. Participate with other people and share your ideas.
7. Graphic Design is just a job, but being a designer is different.
8. Fall off your bike. If you don't fail then you are not trying.
9. Life and work exist outside of London.
10. Designing is only, about, 20% of your job.
11. Have a life outside of Design.
12. Work hard and be nice to people.
As his graduation was fairly recent and his advances into the field have been so fast, the experience he gained is still very much fresh in his memory. The book is produced with a particular emphasis on typography, and gained Craig the following awards and nominations:
1. The ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the ‘Type Directors Club, New York 2009’.
2. Bronze for ‘Best Use of Typography’, ‘The Roses Design Awards 2008’.
3. Nominated for ‘Best Promotional Brochure’ at ‘The Fresh Awards 2008’.
His lecture was simple, informal and humorous, and contained specific referenced his background and his book. It seems Craig has done very well in a substantially short amount of time, and comes across as a great role model for all graphic design students.
Craig Oldham is a relatively young designer who has progressed very quickly in the design scene. He is probably most well known for his book ’12 IN 12’.
Aimed at students, this book informally advises the best-practice techniques of which he experienced in his first twelve months of building a reputation in the design industry. He emphasizes what he considers are the most important factors involved in this process in twelve steps.
1. Understand what Graphic Design means to you.
2. Be honest with yourself about your strengths and weaknesses.
3. A portfolio is for life, not just for an interview.
4. Placements matter. Do them.
5. The Design industry is small, everyone knows everybugger else.
6. Participate with other people and share your ideas.
7. Graphic Design is just a job, but being a designer is different.
8. Fall off your bike. If you don't fail then you are not trying.
9. Life and work exist outside of London.
10. Designing is only, about, 20% of your job.
11. Have a life outside of Design.
12. Work hard and be nice to people.
As his graduation was fairly recent and his advances into the field have been so fast, the experience he gained is still very much fresh in his memory. The book is produced with a particular emphasis on typography, and gained Craig the following awards and nominations:
1. The ‘Certificate of Typographic Excellence’ from the ‘Type Directors Club, New York 2009’.
2. Bronze for ‘Best Use of Typography’, ‘The Roses Design Awards 2008’.
3. Nominated for ‘Best Promotional Brochure’ at ‘The Fresh Awards 2008’.
His lecture was simple, informal and humorous, and contained specific referenced his background and his book. It seems Craig has done very well in a substantially short amount of time, and comes across as a great role model for all graphic design students.
Examples of craig Oldham's work (www.craigoldham.co.uk)
Emphasizing portfolio best practice and '12 in 12'
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Potential Design agencies
LOVE
www.lovecreative.com
The Chase
www.thechase.co.uk
True North
www.thisistruenorth.co.uk
MARK Studio
www.markstudio.co.uk
Glorious
www.gloriouscreative.co.uk
Like a River
www.likeariver.co.uk
Four 23
www.four23.net
Dinosaur
www.dinosaur.co.uk
Thoughtful
www.wearethoughtful.com
Truth
www.truth-design.co.uk
Music
www.designbymusic.com
Tayburn
www.tayburn.co.uk
Hemisphere
www.hemispheredmc.com
Reform
www.reformcreative.co.uk
999
www.999group.co.uk
Origin
www.origincreativedesign.com
Creative Lynx
www.creativelynx.co.uk
A to M
www.a-to-m.com
Funnel Creative
www.funnelcreative.co.uk
Fudge
www.fudgestudios.com
Corporation Pop
www.copop.co.uk
After researching these sites i will be trying to get into contact with the directors to see if I can go round for a brew.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
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)
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
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.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
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