November 12, 2009 • 11:10 pm 0
Excitingly, I am making my way back to London tomorrow. My initial purpose for the said visit will be to attend the opening night of “Signs of Revolt”, an exhibition organised by Noel Douglas and Tony Credland, intended to show how graphic design has connected with social movements over the past 50 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Design Events , Graphic Design, Jonathan Barnbrook, Noel Douglas, Signs of Revolt, Tony Credland
October 29, 2009 • 6:34 pm 0
As promised, here’s the story of my return to London and The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence.
Arriving in London on a damp but fresh autumn morning I crossed over the murky waters of the Thames from Embankment on the Hungerford footbridge and made my way towards the Oxo Tower, confident and excited about the possibilities the day would offer.
As I passed through the Oxo Tower, I found myself in front of an iconic figure of the industrial age. The Barge House is a magnificent structure; the embodiment of history, and on Saturday was set to host some of the greatest minds examining the current social, economic, political and environmental challenges that face us today. The location couldn’t have been better, a relic of the industrial revolution that was to stand as a relic of a new revolution, a revolution for good, a part of ‘The Great Transition’. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Design Conferences, Design Events, Social Design, The Bigger Picture, nef , Bigger Picture Festival, Great Transition, Interdependence, nef, New Economics
October 24, 2009 • 10:00 am 3
I’ve been to a few design exhibitions and lectures in my time, not many, but enough to have an idea of what goes on at these types of events, as a spectator. To date, my only taste as a contributor came from exhibiting at D&AD New Blood at London’s Old Billingsgate Market earlier this year.
As a design graduate, New Blood certainly appears to be a great way to extend yourself into the design world, pitching to offer opportunities to not only meet other design students, but more importantly to meet Designers (with a capital D) – the intent being that those all-important connections will land you, the graduate, ‘a job’.
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Filed under: D&AD New Blood, Design Conferences, Design Graduates, Design Students, Graphic Design
October 21, 2009 • 10:12 pm 3
On Saturday 24th October, this month’s Bigger Picture Festival (organised by the New Economics Foundation) draws to a close with the main attraction of the programme – The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence. Within the confines of the Bargehouse, on London’s South Bank, the Bigger Picture are hosting a series of events, workshops and talks, designed to open discussions surrounding the current social, economic, political and environmental challenges that face us today.
Filed under: Design, Design Events, Social Design, Social Networking, The Bigger Picture, nef
October 13, 2009 • 8:57 pm 0
Thingaweek is a weekly photography project that is now in its seventeenth week and can be seen over at flickr.
Originally inspired by the Cardiff based annual photography challenge photomarathon, which challenges participants to spend a day taking photographs based on a number of previously determined themes. Each participant is given a roll of film, which only has enough room for the number of themes given, which means the participant has to carefully and purposefully choose the subject of each theme and only has one shot to get it right. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: #thingaweek, Design Students
October 9, 2009 • 9:50 pm 0
My introduction to the realm of blogging is a reaction to a series of events that have happened over the past week, which involve two extremely passionate creative individuals, they are Kate Andrews who I’m sure a lot of people are familiar with and Lauren Currie better known as Redjotter to the blogging community.
Filed under: Design, Design Graduates, Design Students, Graphic Design, Social Networking, Students
