Shillington College

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!   

GoRed!

The GoRed! project is now live. Created by The Partners, (Last weeks D&AD lecture in Manchester) the GoRed! project commissioned over 140 illustrators and designers from around the world to create either a head, a body or some legs, in order to create up to 64,000 different combinations, resulting in a custom print which you can buy, helping out the Richard House children's charity.

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.

Computer Arts - Tutorial resources

Computer Arts has a huge resource of tutorials, if you've finished your homework or have some spare time I recommend checking out some of these tutorials to help you become even better…fact.

me&dave guest lecture at London

Mark and Rob, founding partners of London design agency me&dave, came in to the London college today to give a brilliant and insightful talk about how our students need to 'brand' themselves as they enter the industry. Judging by the volume of eager questions asked by the class during the talk, Mark and Rob did a fantastic job and even very kindly spent time chatting with the class afterwards. Thanks guys!

Sambon Fire Insurance Maps

Here are some great examples of old style lettering / typography from some old fire insurance maps in the US. Some are really quite lovely!

For more of these click here.

Glorious Creative Guest lecture

 

 

 

 

Our Full time class in Manchester were kindly visited by Tom Shaughnessy from Glorious Creative yesterday. He gave a great talk about the craft of typography. Showing us past and present work produced at his Manchester studio.

Manchester Design Symposium

 
  
Manchester Design Symposium

1-6pm, 23rd March 2011
Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building
Rosamund St West (off Oxford Road), Manchester M15 6LL

The inaugural Manchester Design Symposium has 'The Value of Design' as its central theme. The event brings together leading thinkers and practitioners from the design world to explore the role and value of design across a range of mediums.  

Speakers include: Si Scott, Music, Michael C. Place of Build, and Studio Dumbar, the acclaimed Dutch design agency - with more speakers to be confirmed. The event will be chaired by Professor David Crow, Acting Dean of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Design. 

Design-led networking events will take place afterwards in Manchester’s Northern Quarter in association with Northern Digitals. The event is developed by Design Initiative in partnership with Independent Northern Creatives, Manchester City Council and Manchester Metropolitan University. 

So stick the date in your diary and watch this space for more information. Tickets will go on sale week commencing Feb 14th 2011 and there will be a discount for INC members and Shillington students (and graduates if I can wangle it!).

Does design education need a curriculum?

Our very own Simon Davis features in a roundtable article in this month's Computer Arts magazine. Along with representatives from other colleges and universities, Simon discusses the role of education in today's design industry. It's issue 181 and on sale in the UK now.

Vintage Irish Book Covers

Hitone: Vintage Irish Book Covers features book and booklet cover designs from the Irish state’s first 50 years. The blog is updated and maintained by Niall McCormack, a graphic designer based in Dublin, Ireland.