RSA Students Award 2021 – Hacked!

We are pleased to announce that our students Izzy Tippins, Ella Coldray (Watson), Jared Appleton won the RSA students award 2021 for the brief “Bridging the Divide”.

Hacked! is a board game for 8 -11 year olds that educates and informs youth on the ways algorithms can shape our everyday lives, and how to combat them.

This is how they describe the project: Youth are increasingly online and consuming content on the internet from a young age with little understanding of how algorithms shape their experience of social media platforms. Hacked! is an educational board game with an accompanying teacher pack that can educate young children (8-11) on what algorithms are, how they work and how they affect the information we consume. The game is designed to be an interactive, collaborative and fun approach to unpacking the topic of misinformation and can be used to supplement existing curriculums on internet safety and digital literacy.

Well done again!

Izzy Tippins: www.izzytippins.com
Ella Coldray (Watson): www.ellacoldray.cargo.site
Jared Appleton: www.jaredcplappleton.wixsite.com

An Ode to Tomorrow – Publication 2021

A Publication by Level 3 students of UWE Bristol Graphic Design BA.

As every other year our level 3 students have joined forces to generate content, design and produce a printed publication. This year, An Ode to Tomorrow explores the realms of the possible and the impossible, aiming to provide a platform for dreams and imagination. By taking a speculative look at the potential of tomorrow and our ability to succeed in an era with a great number of challenges, we pose questions that we don’t always ask ourselves. Published in a limited and numbered edition of 500 copies, An Ode to Tomorrow includes an interview with artist and researcher Professor Teresa Dillon about the future of repair as well as a detailed discussion with Dr. Paolo Ruffino about the end of Game Over in videogame culture. Through an experimental and collaborative process we ultimately ask the question, why must we sit in society’s confined limits? We no longer need to be managed and controlled. Let’s imagine a new future, speculating to change, speculating to a time without limit.

Links and names to the editorial team as well as all final year students are included.

More information can be found on: odetotomorrow.xyz

Yee Poon

Introducing Yee Poon: Yee graduated UWE Graphic Design in 2016 and is now a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in Bristol.

Yee talks us through her experience interning and various design jobs which include Halo, Orca and Peloton to name a few. We see a selection of Yee’s proudest design projects and an insight into her current employment at Supple Studio who work with clients including NSPCC and The Royal Mail.

Yee believes the UWE Graphic Design course helps you to have a better understanding of your own practice and gain confidence in yourself and your abilities.

To view more work, visit @yeeepoon

Creative Conscious Talk – Apr 21st

Creative Conscience is an award for students projects that promote sustainability, freedom, equality and well-being. Some of our Level 3 students were awarded in the previous two years! This award reflects in many ways the nature of our course and your projects. Last year winner: Sally Mosley: https://www.typenowhere.com/sally-mosley-creative-conscience/

CC Award Deadline: May 14th 2021

Zoom Talk Apr 21st
Creative Conscience Director Chrissy Levett is giving a talk/workshop for UWE graphics.
You will know more about the organisation mission and award program.

Zoom Talk – Wed Apr 21st – 2PM
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83213518986

Don’t miss this chance to learn more about the entry rules.
Note that you can enter for a specific category or the the Open Brief, using your existing projects.
https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/awards/

SCRR-B Apr 15th on Zoom

Hi Everyone,
Come along to the final event for the series RE-WORK IN THE FUTURE, run by Street Corner Reading Rooms-Bristol, to re-think our current work structures and work culture and open a conversation on the future of work!

The current Pandemic has highlighted the cracks within our system and radically changed our ways of working.
But does anybody want to go “back to normal”? Maybe this is the best time to re-imagine an alternative norm.

RE-WORK IN THE FUTURE
With guest speaker: Will Stronge
Thursday, April 15 – 06:30 – 8:00 pm

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81233471836?pwd=dWhEZUVhSHIyTVpXUGlDd3dRZ1FWUT09

To get to know more about the project!
Check out: https://padlet.com/ugolinimarco/djq9khiviwxiyh0

This event is run by: STREET CORNER READING ROOMS, a student-led project convening invited speakers and participants in a series of events in the spirit of togetherness and difference. Events might use readings or talks as a springboard to discussions and artistic interventions, resulting in documentation that could take multiple forms.

SCRR has been initiated as a partnership between Philosophy, Fine Art and Graphic Design programmes at UWE Bristol and offers the opportunity to students and alumni to submit a proposal to receive funding for a specific reading room idea. The initiative seeks to make the diversity of voices present in the student body heard and is supportive of pluralist discussion and anti-prejudice agendas.

Abi Will

Introducing Abi Will: Abi currently lives and works in Bristol and graduated UWE Graphic Design in 2016. Abi is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator with experience as a Workshop leader, Party Planner and Quiz Mistress!

Abi has worked as a designer at Exeter Phoenix, designing artwork for theatre shows, cinema, exhibitions and planned events.

In this video, we see a glimpse of Abi’s favourite projects and events but also an honest insight to how she has found life since graduating and the difficulties faced during the pandemic.

Abi believes the UWE Graphic Design course taught her to be adaptable, resourceful and felt encouraged to be herself. “Keep on doing what you are doing and stay fabulous!”

To view more of Abi’s work, visit:
abiwill.co.uk
@abiwilldo
Or email hello@abiwill.co.uk

To view Abi’s quizzes, visit:
@bucksquizz on Facebook, Instagram & Tiktok.

Oli Scotton

Introducing Oli Scotton: Oli graduated UWE Graphic Design in 2017 and is now a Graphic Designer at SEA, a branding studio in London.

In this video, Oli discusses his experience on the course and how he found his design voice through the projects and teaching.

Since graduating Oli worked for Midas in Bristol; later moved to London where he secured an 3-month internship which since progressed from a Junior position to Mid-Weight designer at SEA.

Oli’s advice to current and prospective students is to experiment with processes and make the most of the facilities at UWE Bristol.

To view Oli’s work, visit:
@oliscotton