Students Attempting to Smile...

Beware – not for the faint-hearted!

Exhibition 2015 - 3 Days to Go!

Our annual exhibition opens this Saturday, 30 May an as usual everyone's invited!

The private view (with drinks and nibbles) is on Saturday 30 May, 6.00–9.00PM and you're invited to that too!

We're closed on Sunday but the exhibition is open all next week 1–5 June, 10.00AM–4.00PM.

Meanwhile it's 'all hands to the pumps' as our gallant Year 3 students make the final preparations.

Here's a photographic catch-up.


Cubes in space!

The 'bespoke wall typography' department. 

 Lots of little boxes (none of them made from 'Ticky-Tacky').

Cubes in Space II. 

 "Honestly Dave it was this big."

...courtesey the late, great Tibor Kalman 

Some of that 'bespoke wall typography'...

 ... that ties in with the exhibition poster.

The 'cube typhoon'. 

Adam smiles, Sophie works.

Exhibition 2015

This year's graduates are now busy converting the studio into their exhibition space....

...here we see arch conspirators Sophie Driffield and Jhon Bedoya (both 21) wondering if pushing Edwin Burrow (21) or Adam Reid (21) off their respective ladders IS a good idea.

Disaster

 

Studio Randoms

We've not created a grillust blog post for a wee while because things get a little busy around this time of year - which makes for a lively and vibrant studio - and we love it that way.

 

It's Official, We're Healthy!

Carlisle (left) and Preston (right) yesterday...

We always thought Carlisle was a healthier place than Preston but now it's been officially proven.

Read on...

and now for something completely different...

The Shock of the Old (IV) - Logos and Marks from Das Plakat C.1905

Q: How did people design logos before computers?

A: Very well indeed, as these examples (all over 100 years old) will demonstrate...

Incoming!

BREAKING NEWS...
Although tensions have been running a little high in the studio following the recent disappearance of a pack of Revels from someone's desk, nothing quite prepared us for this vicious and totally unprovoked intercontinental ballistic pen attack on innocent student Elinor Prescott (21).

The identity of the 'evil genius' perpetrator (Jam*s Wildi*g) shall remain shrouded in secrecy.

UN Peacekeepers have now arrived and things have calmed down a bit...

We Done Seen an Eclipse!

The skys were grey, the prospects looked dim, but then...

...the clouds suddenly thinned and with our own naked eyes (no need for welder's goggles or pinhole cameras round here) we saw this magnificent sight:

Photo courtesy Mr. Thomas Selwood (21)

year 1 Photo Experiment Books Thinking Through Image Making

As part of the twelve week, rolling programme of short projects that is 'Thinking Through Image Making', Yr1 graphic designers recently completed an issuu publication of photographs (whilst illustrators were off drawing people in the nip). The photos were taken in accordance with two rules which they each randomly selected and then manipulated in photoshop.
Here's a random selection of results.

Will fuller

Abigail Wilding-Armstrong

Sarah Nevison

Kyle Bridson

Tom selwood