Shillington College

We have a winner!

Shillington student Gary Hanna's 'A String of Pearls' poster, for the Lost in the Forest Institute poster brief, was awarded by Greg Quinton (The Partners) as the winner at last nights D&AD North Lecture in Manchester. Well done Gary! He's won a years D&AD membership and the D&AD annual (as modelled in the picture).

Lost in the Forest Institute - D&AD North poster brief

The brief set by Lost in the Forest Institute was to design a poster for the first D&AD North talk by Greg Quinton (The Partners) which will take place on the 9th March in Manchester. Our Full time students took part and LITFI chose one students design (from each of the Colleges/Universities who took part) to be printed to promote the upcoming talk. Gary (pictured above left - with John our Course Director) was the lucky winner and received a free ticket to the talk, his poster design printed up as well as the chance to go on to the next round of the competition! Well done Gary!

Gary's design along with Jamie and Nick's work will be entered into the next stage of the competition. Competing against the best three designs from other Colleges, Universitie's in the North. The winning design will be chosen by Greg Quinton and announced on the night! The winning student will receive student membership to D&AD along with a copy of the D&AD Annual!

We are all going along to the talk and will be very excited about the announcement. Good luck guys! 

 

Shillington student and graduate poster competition to HELP THOSE WHO HELP US.

 

Shillington College are running a competition to raise money for the State Emergency Service (SES) in QLD, VIC & NSW entitled 'I get by with a little help from my friends'. This competition is open to any current or ex-student of Shillington College or Shillington School worldwide.

I am sure every ex-student (Australian or otherwise) is aware of the severe floods that effected Queensland, Victoria and Northern New South Wales. All the staff at Shillington College would like to give back to those in the SES who have been truly heroic and selfless in their efforts across the country to save lives and help those most in need. Now again in the last 24 hours they have made great efforts to save and assist those adversely effected by Cyclone Yasi.

So if you are interested in flexing your creative muscle, and help those, who are helping us all the time. All you have to do is submit a poster design based on the title 'I get by with a little help from my friends'. We want to see the most original and striking artwork, it can be purely typographic, type and image, done by hand and photographed. It's completely open to interpretation, you can use the words in the title or choose your own inspired by the title.

The Lecturers at Shillington College will select the top 20 entries which will then be posted on 15th Feb on the Shillington facebook page for online voting.

Voting will close on the 28th Feb. The winning poster will be printed and sold online, with all profits going to SES in QLD, VIC and NSW.

The designer of the winning poster will receive a single print of there A1 poster, plus a $100 AU voucher for itunes.

Submission Deadline: 14th Feb
Poster Specs: (A1) 841mm x 594mm portrait, CMYK (no spots or pantones). Final artwork must be 300dpi.
For voting submit 72dpi file 427pixels x 604pixels to: info@shillingtoncollege.com.au
Please include your full name, which college you were enrolled, or are currently enrolled, at and the year of study.

We look forward to seeing all submissions and encourage you to put your design to a positive use, if not for this competition, for others who are in need across the world. 

Sarah wins Best Corporate Brochure at the Shout awards

Our very own Manchester Full time Lecturer Sarah McHugh has won the Best Corporate Brochure award at the Shout awards for freelance project MANUAL. The Robert Horne Shout awards recognises innovation, excellence and creativity in design and print.

Commissioned by Chung Tyson Architects and supported by CEBE (Centre for Education in the Built Environment), MANUAL - Thoughts on workshop teaching in Architecture, is a documentary record of teaching workshops carried out at Manchester School of Architecture. 

"Using the structure of a typical Manual as inspiration and structure, studio process work and reflective texts are thematically organised into a series of separate booklets. The booklets are bound together and the spine is left exposed - reflecting the 'making' theme within the content."

 

 

 

 

Thanks Sydeny FT for participating in my poster

I managed by a hair on my chin to complete my entry to the AGDA Annual poster competition. Thanks to the help of my class iphone chums (downloading the images several times) and for some awesome contortionist hand models. So Cheers to Kathy, Lucas, Heather, Catherine, Jules, Justine, Adam, Mikey, Clare, Karlee, Mary, Dinu and Sean for taking part. Thanks to Jen for her speedy typing of my Rationale. It wouldn't have sounded as rational without you.

The brief was quite open which can sometimes make things even harder. The short version: Challenge the notion that design is only about beautiful things and show that design has a greater value and it is in this value that design can effect real change.The objective: To promote the role of graphic design as a key driver for business innovation, thought leadership and cultural change.

My entry is entitled 'Engage at a cellular level' and was a comment on the design communities future. Our success is our ability to embrace and harness social networking(communities) and mobile devices (any medium) as a platform for design communication in order to form closer and more meaningful relationships with the community, our clients and their customers.

Happy with the result. If you have a moment go and check out some of the other entries at the AGDA poster annual gallery.

I strongly advise that if you do see any poster comps that you enter them. Gets the grey matter working and demonstrates your skills and desire to do work above and beyond college. Can be a great addition to your folio and says a lot about you.

Lee :>) Here is the finished product. PS there is no photoshop trickery on the phone images, all for real.

The masked crusader gets environmental recognition

 

 

I started this job back in 2007 working on the original concept and execution for the flagship Mad Méx restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney Australia. Was stoked to get a mention in the Society of Environmental Graphic design merit award for the in-store branding. My wife and the guys at Holycow design advertising have continued to develop and champion the Mad Méx brand into several other locations across Sydney and in now in Melbourne. Its always good when Aussie design makes it into international awards, especially American ones. Check out the other contenders at SEGD there are some other Aussie entries.

LUCHANDO POR EL SABOR! VIVA MM!

 

Posted by Lee. Not Jen. Jen does not have a wife! Yet!

Some green design kudos

I noticed whilst browsing this years 'Semi-Permanent' conference website that desktop magazine is having a competition for the front cover of the June 2010 issue. Covering all design things 'green'. All you have to do is interpret or communicate 'sustainable design'. The top 10 will be displayed on the big screen at 'Semi-Permanent' Sydney and voted on by your peers on the conference and mag website. The top 4 will be printed as a set of four for the June edition.

So could be a good chance to get your work seen as it is probably one of Australia's widest circulated design mags. If you don't give a go you'll never find out.

 

Under Consideration

Under Consideration is "an online network  dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts". Its purpose is to question, push, analyze and agitate graphic design and those involved in the profession. The network includes BRAND NEW, focussing on brand and identity work, FOR PRINT ONLY, showcasing compelling print projects, and you should all have a bash at WORD IT, a really fun monthly word challenge which all you Shillington Students would rock at!

 

Design the new international peace logo

On International Peace Day, 21st September, the Peace is Breaking Out competition will go live! Start thinking about your design today and you may win a trip to Washington DC to attend the Symposium of Peaceful Nations! more info at: http://www.bebo.com/visionofhumanity

The power of words. Trop Fest 08 winner.

One of our current SYD FT students, Corrie, showed this film as her inspiration. I had seen this last year but then it was removed from Youtube. I was so thankful to see it again.

No lie. The word, images and music brought me to tears. 

All shot on a cell phone and it became the NY Trop Fest winner 08. It is inspiring to see that with a cellphone, imagination and some editing you can move so many people.

Don't walk by.