GC Year 02 Master Blog

Be curios, be inquisitive, be creative.

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Digital content may dominate popular reading habits but two Australians have found a market for the gentler art of bespoke book-making.

Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson would prefer not to tally the hours it takes them to create just one of their finely printed tomes.

In their Sydney studio, they use printing techniques more familiar to Johannes Gutenberg than the 21st century and a single fine press book can sell for up to Australian $8000 (£4000/US$6000).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32429132

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Students and recent graduates can expect professional insights into every level of their creative paths. Offset is an opportunity to meet future employers and offers instructions on how to enhance employment through step by step guides in getting internships, crafting a better portfolio, best practice for industry, lectures on design history and portfolio evaluations presented by young professionals, well established designers and legendary figures.

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My life in typefaces

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books -- remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

Matthew Carter Ted Talk

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

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The Design Blog:

Founded, designed and curated by Ena Baćanović - designer based in Zagreb - Croatia, The Design Blog brings you carefully picked high quality inspiration, featuring works of designers and design studios from all over the world, with the main focus on young designers/ students. Except from the daily inspiration, whole week is filled with different types of inspiring posts and sections that are design-related.

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A FESTIVAL OF ART, CREATIVITY AND DISCOVERY, WITH A SOCIAL HEART BY THE HOUSE OF ST BARNABAS WHY NOT GO ALONG AND GET INVOLVED?

MONDAY 21ST - SUNDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER

ART SOCIAL STEMS FROM THE BELIEF THAT THE POWER OF COMMUNITY WILL BE THE DRIVING FORCE FOR TRUE SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE MORE REASONS WE HAVE TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH A SHARED VISION AND A SHARED MISSION THE MORE CHANCE WE HAVE TO SUCCEED.” NADRA SHAH,  DIRECTOR OF CULTURE & FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

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Having Their Say

Artists Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei’s seven mile walk through London to mark the current refugee crisis.

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Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei walk together in London to mark refugee crisis

Tomorrow (17 September) artists Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei will join together for a seven mile walk through London to mark the current refugee crisis. They will each carry a blanket to symbolise the need that faces 60 million refugees today. The artists welcome members of the public to join them and ask that they too bring a blanket in a gesture of support. The walk will begin at 10am at the Royal Academy of Arts, home to Ai Weiwei’s new solo show set to open this weekend. The artists will then walk across London and finish in Stratford. Over the next few months, the artists will repeat this action in cities across the world.

Today  (17 September) artists Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei will join together for a seven mile walk through London to mark the current refugee crisis. As artists this is their way of ‘Having Their Say.” 

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FIVE TIPS FOR ESTABLISHING YOURSELF AS A FREELANCE DESIGNER

https://www.talenthouse.com/articles/five-tips-for-establishing-yourself-as-a-freelance-designer

Thinking of a future as a Freelancer? What does it take to establish yourself as a freelance designer? Find out in this article from Talenthouse.

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Oh Comely is a magazine that makes people smile, full of quiet moments and stories. Read it with a cup of tea or a toddy.

Not only full of beautiful photography and great articles but stunningly designed too!! Worth a look?  

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Alumni Bio.

Olly Wilkins graduated from GC. in 2012. 

Throughout his degree he continued his passion for all things bike! His work experience took him to Amsterdam and the US riding and covering his experience for a bike magazine. 

Since graduating Olly has continued to follow his dream, working as a Brand Manager/ Graphic Designer/Mountain bike Rider at DMR bikes.

“The prospect of choosing a ‘career’ really scared me.  Making career choices don’t need to be as cut and dry as my mind certainly makes them.  I imagined myself choosing a route which would end me in a Homer Simpson type life. slaving away and unable to stop.

Certainly that would be more the case had I chosen a different subject but graphic design allows for a huge amount of breathing room.  It’s as broad as your imagination can allow it.  If you’re really into anything out there then you can apply it to graphics and make it happen.  

If you have vision then you’ve got something that so many people DON’T have and wish they did. It’s really special as a subject and unique in many ways.  It took me a long time to realise that!”

Catch what he is up to at.... 

http://www.dmrbikes.com/category/team/olly-wilkins/

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TVPaint is an incredible piece of software. With it you can create hand drawn, paperless animation that looks traditional. UCA Farnham has now installed this software in some of the Mac’s in the library. Great for those of you who love drawing but want to explore motion graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B8lB3Gf_w

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For eight straight years YOUWORKFORTHEM were involved in providing the design community with one of the best, most original and creative book collections online. They brought books like Muller-Brockman's Grid Systems to the masses and helped many independent designers/publishers rise to new fame. At last you have a one stop shop for researching texts for CTS!

http://books.youworkforthem.com/

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Blog of the New Zealand based Graphic Designer Hannah Dollery

Hannah is currently working as a Senior Graphic Designer for Trelise Cooper in New Zealand. She curates the design blog, Good Design Makes me Happy, which has a constantly growing readership from all around the world and is a wonderful source of inspiration. (this is currently one of my favourite blogs, take a look!)

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More wonderful motion design from Moth Collective, an animation studio based in London. The focus of all their work is to explore their love of all things drawn. A collective of graduates from the Royal College of Art, they set up their studio in 2010 winning a BAFTA nomination in 2011.

They are:-

 DAVID PROSSER, DANIEL CHESTER AND MARIE-MARGAUX TSAKIRI-SCANATOVITS.

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This is a great little film. Make yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy! We would really like you to consider transforming your still work and make it move!!

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Are you an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship isn’t always a flash of genius from a dark corner of the mind: We gradually shed more and more light until the solution is dazzlingly clear. Constraints can inspire clarity, and then creativity. One of the best feelings when creating something new is how infinite we feel while doing it. But in order to reach that point, we sometimes have to be just the opposite.

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A global animation project by Universal Everything, collaborating with over 20 different animation studios worldwide to create a living mural on one of the world’s most iconic buildings.

Embracing emerging technologies, Universal Everything’s process always starts from drawing. The hand drawn techniques seen in this film are akin to the early pioneers of animation Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Walt Disney.

Using these timeless techniques mean this film could have been existed in 1920, albeit with a 21st century twist - bringing our influences of global pop culture, modernist graphics and physics simulations into a playful exploration of this iconic building.

Creative Director: Matt Pyke Animation Director: Chris Perry Sound Designer: Simon Pyke / Freefarm - freefarm.co.uk Producer: Greg Povey On-Site Producer: Mic Gruchy - grup.tv