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!
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!
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!
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.
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).
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.
'Back to the Future' is a series of photographs by photographer Irina Werning, each subject try's to recreate a photograph from their past. Some interesting results.
Bored of listening to you iPod while you work, well a twitter link led me to this, a combination of chilled out music and live radio communications in LA. You are listening to Los Angeles live. Creates a very inspiring soundtrack to work to.
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.
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