Shillington College

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! 

 

Beer & Type - Who could ask for more?

Check it out here.

RVLVR Art Project

RVLVR is an experimental project consisting of different artists using the same given picture material to create new artworks.

http://rvlvr.net/

Lost In The Forest Institute - Poster Brief

John, Chris and Vicky from Lost In The Forest Institute came in today to brief our students on a great competition to design a poster for the first D&AD North talk by Greg Quinton (The Partners).

The talk takes place on the 9th March. But more importantly at this stage the winner of the poster competition will be announced on the 21st Feb.

 

Shillington graduate gets her work up big.

Elisha Schnell graduated from Shillington College in May 2010 with an outstandingly unique portfolio. She is what I would call a 'chic geek'. She had an interesting path to design, originally trained as an actress then through an interest in the web became a web master for a corporate and front end programmer later working for a major charity in Australia.

She has always had personal passion for illustration which played a significant role in her design solutions during college projects and in her recently commissioned work for Canada Bay Council, Sydney.

Here are some images of illustrated street banners she sent me today.

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. 

War of the future: Brian Moore's WWIII propaganda posters

A brilliant modern take on the propaganda posters of WWII as if the Internet and social media existed at the time.

Check out more of Brain Moore's images at the Guardian.

Love Star Wars. Love Typography. You'll love this.

Congratulations to all of our current graduates... May the force be with you.

H-57 is an Italian Advertising Agency, you may need to brush up on your language skills to visit their site : )

H-57

The 6 plights of the modern day branding designer talk

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 :>)

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.