Year 0's invade Maryport:save bird, draw, eat, leave.

As part of a 12 week 'Visual Literacy' module, year zeros (but heroes) recently took a day trip to sunny Maryport to do some drawing and generally take in the sights and atmosphere of the historic coastal town.


When we visited, Maryport was COLD (about -45 by our reckoning) and it colder still when we got down to the harbour.




As well as drawing, some of the students done a little bit of animal rescuing. Alex (21. She talks to the animals) can be seen here with some kind of small bird that she rescued from a train station bin after it walloped it's head off a pane of glass and landed amongst the litter (Granted, it only hit the glass because the students were acting as if they'd never seen a chaffinch in all their puff and it was trying to get away from their flapping arms and booming voices). She bore it's weight for 30 minutes or so before it buggered off without so much as a thanks.
Note Tebitha's (21) look of abject disgust and 'along for the ride' 2nd yr Katie's (21) look of "I'm not in the slightest bit bothered by all this bloody fuss".




Lunch.
When in a coastal town you are duty bound to hunt out a chippy. FACT!



Happiness is deep-fat fried in batter with curry sauce. Apparently.


After grub, drawing...




"The view's quite good but not as good as this text from my Mum", says Oli (21) whilst Alex (21, still) implements her renowned 'sneaking into the side of a photo whilst looking innocent' move.


Thanks Maryport, you were great. We'll be back next year. With hats. And gloves. And massive thick coats.

Year One, Third Project

An Introduction to Animation

Here's a small selection of work produced by our plucky first year students during a two week, intensive introduction to the wonderful world of creative animation:

Storyboard Concept by James Cook and Edward Hanley (both 21)...

...and here's the finished animation


There wasn't a specific outcome required, the students were simply asked to explore ways of making the inanimate move. What you will see below covers a rich tapestry of mood, emotion and scenario. There's even the heartwarming love story of a potato and a tomato. Enjoy...

Whisky + Illustration =

Jura, using illustration to promote their de'il's water.






Glenfiddich Whisky run an annual artist in residence programme that welcomes several artist a year to their remote highland distillery.
Daniel Zalcus:

What's very long, very pink and makes Megan laugh?

We'll tell you on Monday!

Macs Have Many Uses

No.1 in an occasional series...

Who needs a cheap and cheerful cork pin board when you have a thousand pound's worth of Apple Mac sitting just in front of you?

Graduation 2014

The day was a little overcast with light rain but that didn't dampen the spirits of the Grillust™ students (now all 33) when they graduated earlier today.

Here are the photos from the family album:


'Big Jim' Millington, the Mayor's wheelman.


Henry VIII (wives not pictured).


'Little and Large' (the archbish' and JVLB).


We managed to line up a small selection of our graduates in front of a wall...


...for the 'money shot'.


The afterparty.


Luci and Dom having just consumed their complementary glass of wine (Blue Nun).


Man love!

The Grillust™ team wish all our graduates every success for the future and please remember to keep in touch.

Design Your Future Manchester 2014

We're just back from the two-day UCAS Art & Design event held at the Convention Centre, Manchester.

It was a very busy two days for 'Team Cumbria'. We met lots of interesting people (hello), answered lots of questions and gave out lots of prospectuses and leaflets to interested students (and their tutors).

The only disappointment was the lack of free rubbish this year. Normally you can't move for USB pens, frisbees, pencil sharpeners, 30/60 set squares, rubbers, tote bags, popcorn etc.

This year, it was clear that the cold wind of austerity had finally arrived at DYF with the freebees reduced to a motley selection of bags and pens. However, we can happily report that it remains impossible for anything living to walk past Nottingham Trent's stand without coming away with a black shoulder bag. They remain the undisputed Higher Education champions of giving away bags to strangers...

Here are a few photos from across the two days:


'Team Cumbria' 9.55 day one. From left to right: Robbie, Marty, Mikey, Giuliana and Julia.


Busy, busy, busy...


Giuliana explains quantum mechanics to two interested passers by.


'The Prof', evening day one. We once again adjourned to the pub with the 'wall of crisps'.


Sadly no, it's in the bin (unfortunately there's a lot of 'waste' at DYF).


We were a little concerned that the 'Doncaster crew' might not be able to find their way home.


This was the largest 'fashion watch' we saw across the two days.

Design Magazine

These aren't images from a new collection of midcentury magazine design, rather they're examples from our recently uncovered collection of 'Design' magazine. Design was an industrial design magazine and our library has a collection ranging from 1961 - 1990; due to the recent upscaling of the library space, these archived magazines have been brought out of storage. It's easy to loose yourself in the thousands of pages containing stunning editorial layout, gorgeous photography and jaw dropping illustration. We wholeheartedly encourage you to go and do exactly that.

Sarah Maycock on Sarah Maycock

A Little Film About... Sarah Maycock from Handsome Frank on Vimeo.

Jean Jullien on Jean Jullien

Edwin Burrow (21) of 3rd year, this one's for you...


A Little Film About... Jean Jullien from Handsome Frank on Vimeo.

Aug(de)mented Reality

by Hombre McSteez