Shillington College

Pictoplasma – Crim Collective

This week saw the infamous Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin. In 2006, Paul Heys of The University of Huddersfield and myself, set up an educational based collective (Crim Collective) of design and illustration students, this year we were invited to take part in the festival, so I flew out with 4 students and set to work transforming an incredible building in the heart of Berlin's Mitte district, as part of the Pictoplasma Character Walk.

An amazing time was had, creating the exhibition and mingling with many of the other Pictoplasma artists. If you ever get chance to visits Berlin I suggest timing it around this event held each year, it's a mix of an incredible atmosphere, incredible work set to the backdrop of an incredible city!

Secret Wars Battle

Melbourne students should definitely head down to the next Secret Wars event on the 13 April if this video is anything to go by.

secretwars.com.au/melbourne/

Manchester Design Symposium

This week we headed to the very first Manchester Design Symposium. The afternoon consisted of talks and discussions around the Value of Design. There was an impressive line up of speakers including Illustrator Si Scott, Eye magazine co-owner John Walters, type guru Bruno Maag, legendary graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook and Tom Dorresteijn of Studio Dumbar. It was a great event, full of inspiration and amazing work!. We are looking forward to next years event already!

The days events were concluded with a Blab Mancunian night of inspirational talks. This was organised by Northern Digitals. Six creatives were asked to talk about what inspires them. Speakers included Magnetic North, Cahoona and one69a. A perfect end to a great day!   

Publishers Club & Inkygoodness Time Lapse Video

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For those of you who couldn’t get along to the Publishers Club x Inkygoodness Manchester event you can now check out a time-lapse video of the whole day – courtesy of photographer Rob Watson!

For more images from the event or to purchase one of the beautiful Totummy Zines head over to Blanket Magazine or Ammo website.

Cover Artists: Daren Newman (Purple), Lesley Barnes (Red), Simon Wild (Gold) and Stephen Chan (Green)

Featured Artists also include:
Letsbrock / Karo Akpokiere / Claire Hartley / Alison Richards / Holly Lawton / Patrick O’Leary / Oliver Cuthbertson / Marnie Pitt / Dean Zappy / Christopher Ross / Will Adams / The Pern / Christopher Guest / Kayleigh Day / Carlos Garde-Martin / Claire Senior / Mags James / Laura Gee

Printed by Ripe Digital and Screen printed covers by one69a

The zine can be purchased from the Ammo website whilst stocks last. All proceeds will be used towards future events & more printed goodness!

Check out more photos of the finished zine here!

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).

Mr.Bingo at BLAB

If you haven't made it down to one of Manchesters BLAB nights, then fear not, you can watch the talks here! A particularly good one to watch is Mr.Bingo, he takes you into his weird and wonderful world.

Matt Booth

The students in Manchester had the pleasure of an afternoon lecture by Manchester's digital wizard Matt Booth. Matt shared some of his insights and experiences in the digital world, as well as showcasing some of his exciting iPad and iPhone apps! Matt also runs Northern Digitals and BLAB meet ups.

Me & My Pen - Daren Newman - Exhibition

I know where I'm going to be next Thursday night.

meandmypen.com

¡Viva! 17th Spanish & Latin American Film Festival

The Cornerhouse in Manchester is running a Spanish Film Festival for the month of March.

This months exhibition at Common Bar

The current exhibition at Common Bar in the Northern Quarter is by Matt Saunders, an illustrator and animator based in Leeds, with special guests Kristyna Baczynski, Amy Lord & Rebekah Whitney and Fon/The Pern.