Manchester PT where treated to an excellent guest lecture spot by desiger Lee Davies from outstanding Sheffield design studio Peter & Paul on Monday night. Lee ran them through a few projects, giving valuable insights into the process behind dealing with client expectations and achieving a successful design outcome.
Thanks Lee!
Loving Sydney-based studio, Ascender's, new work for the Australian Council of the Arts. Super simple, super effective. I believe this was worked on by Adrian and one of our grads, Victoria. Great work guys, and looking forward to seeing the new website!
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!
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.
Danish Designer Mads Jakob Poulsen will be at the Apple Store SoHo, NYC on March 28, 2011 presenting their work and thoughts on graphic design. Previously a senior designer at Wolff Olins, one talent to admire and keep an eye on. Check out the amazing work.
At a recent AGDA talk by the infamous Chris Doyle (known for creating his own identity guidelines that went viral to design studios across the world, which is linked to his name below) now working for the branding studio Interbrand.
Unfortunately I was unable to make it. A couple of the students from Syd FT went along. Lucas, the kind chap he is, picked me up a copy of the newspaper style document they put together which I have photographed and put below. He also very kindly agreed to agreed to write about the talk. So thanks Lucas for the following words and choice links.
Faced with the epic, ever-growing body of work that has gone before, how can today's designers cut through the clutter, let alone create a genuinely original idea?
Presented by Chris Maclean, Mike Rigby and Chris Doyle, The Plight of the Modern Brand Designer covered six dilemmas facing designers today. These included the pitfalls of design by committee, the nature of client/agency relationships (read: master/slave), and standing out in an ever-changing media landscape.
The talk centered around the need to employ design thinking and processes to create solutions to problems in business, and society. They also discussed the need for us, as designers, to embrace a whole host of innovative ways to express ideas – going beyond graphic design, to produce a truly powerful and engaging brand experience. Examples of this included 'Let it ring' campaign and VW fun theory.
All in all a very entertaining and insightful talk, on top of that they gave out copies of 'This Year I Will Try Not To', a collation of common design trends that should be avoided, it is extremely funny and definitely worth a look.
Lucas Black-Dendle
Thanks Lucas really appreciate your words and the lovely paper gift. Lee :>)
MOFFITT.MOFFITT. These guys go into the 'two' good category. Twin brothers both successful designers and creative directors that worked independently for different studios, but in more recent times became infamous for their collaboration. In particular their collaboration on the beautiful and dramatic Australian music talent mag entitled 'DEMO'. It was an instantly celebrated magazine amongst the design community in Australia and the first issue soon became more coveted than the last beer at an Aussie BBQ.
What was so good about it? Well you just have to look at it to see that it transcends above any of the usual music press tat. Not only is it a platform for the up and coming Aussie music talent, it equally demonstrates the great creative talents the writers, stylists and photographers who's work shines out in this large format magazine. Have a look at some of the magazine, Issues 1 & 2 below.
I strongly recommend you go along to the exhibition on at the 'MART' gallery. Incidentally MM did the identity for the gallery. The exhibition is entitled 'NO MORE' and is only on until the 28th Aug so get down there on the weekend before you miss out. Mart Gallery 156 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills. Go now!
After graduating from Shillington in November 2009, Corrie Anderson went on to work at Messy Design in Sydney. Here Corrie and Messy's founder, Jason Yagen, produced a self-promotional piece with the goal of raising awareness about the importance of good typography. For more information click here.
Kokoro & Moi is a multidisciplinary design consultancy based in helsinki, Finland. They specialise in brand identity and development, creative direction, visual communication and interaction. They have just updated their website. Check it out! www.kokoromoi.com
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