UWE Graphic Design graduate Alex Ostrowski’s London Design Agency Lovers, has a feature published on It’s Nice That discussing their recent Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness about plastic in our oceans. Also, Lovers has also worked with Greenpeace on a separate, ongoing campaign, Protect the Antarctic. Ahead of October 2018’s summit of global powers on whether to make the Antarctic the world’s largest protected area on Earth.
Congratulations to UWE Graphic Design students Alice Robinson and Handy Tandra for being shortlisted for this year’s BBDPAwards!
Work experience opportunity for Graphics / Illustration / Print students for The Cary Grant Festival.
£100 prize for the design of an A2 to A6 matt fold, double sided, full colour map for our Looking For Archie: Cary Grant’s Bristol walking tour – part of the Being Human Festival in November 2017 www.beinghumanfestival.org.
Cary Grant, Hollywood’s most debonair star, was born Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904. Many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continued an enduring relationship with the city. This walking tour retraces Archie’s hometown haunts and uncovers Bristol’s hidden cinema history, in the places where it actually happened. Participants will be led on a guided tour of Bristol City Centre featuring the locations that inspired Archie’s journey from Horfield to Hollywood, and the spots where the Bristol Post snapped him on his many visits home, after he’d reinvented himself as Cary Grant.
The map will be of Bristol City Centre and will incorporate photographs of Cary Grant taken by Bristol Post on his regular visits home, as well as clues for participants to collect on the walk. The walk is aimed at 10-15 year olds, and their families, but needs to speak to a more general adult audience as well.
Aiming to be quite funky and/or retro/vintage.
The Festival colours are red, black and white. The photographs are black and white.
More information about the festival is available here: www.carycomeshome.co.uk – you can also look at our festival merchandise here: www.carycomeshome.co.uk/shop to get an idea of our branding. See also www.Twitter.com/carycomeshome and www.facebook.com/carycomeshome
The competition will open in early Sept with a closing date of midnight, 1 October. Expressions of interest with links to online portfolio or examples of previous work invited. Email me at charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk
We are actively seeking a Graphic Designer who is available now to volunteer with Bristol Women’s Voice to help us with the production of our annual report for 2016-17. We can be very flexible around your availability and other commitments.
The ideal candidate will have a graphic design background with the usual skill set, and have a good knowledge and experience of the Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator and Photoshop.
Excellent organisational and communications skills are necessary, as you could be trusted to liaise with internal and external resources. You should also be capable of researching and sourcing information quickly and effectively if required.
To be considered for this role, the Graphic Designer must demonstrate; strong design skills, creative flair, excellent communication skills and able to work to strict deadlines.
We need someone who has their own computer and software and who is able to complete the Annual report within the agreed deadline.
In return we are happy to give you a reference if needed, you can use your finished work in your work portfolio and we will include you in our Annual Report next year as a Volunteer Graphic Designer.
It’s simple to apply just email us your portfolio if you have one and we will email you back with further info on the needed task.
The Happy Film is a feature-length documentary in which graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister undergoes a series of self-experiments outlined by popular psychology to test once and for all if it’s possible for a person to have a meaningful impact on their own happiness.
Can you impact on your own happiness? Most of us have grappled with career goals, relationships and even our own happiness. But how many of us have taken the time to really explore what can make us happy? Would it be meditation, therapy, drugs, or something else? Could you achieve happiness by design? New York based designer Stefan Sagmeister lives in the city of his dreams, creating work for the Rolling Stones and Jay-Z. He’s got his own highly successful design firm, he’s a two-time Grammy winner, and he has had design projects and museum exhibitions shown around the world. Yet, he suspects there must be more to life. Turning himself into a design project, he attempts to change his personality to become a better person. And in the process, he takes us on a personal journey to find out what causes happiness. Things don’t go as planned.
Stefan Sagmeister (Co-Director and subject), Ben Nabors (Co-Director and Producer) and Hillman Curtis (Co-Director)
Film run time 95mins
Website links
www.wedesignforum.co.uk
http://www.thehappyfilm.org/
http://sagmeisterwalsh.com/
@WEDesignForum
@StefanSagmeister
You tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akn0wnQ6rxE
Biography
Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones and the Guggenheim Museum. Besides two Grammies he also won practically every important international design award. In 2012 young designer Jessica Walsh became a partner and the company was renamed into Sagmeister & Walsh. His Happy Show has attracted over a quarter of a million visitors worldwide, and counting, and is the most visited graphic design exhibit in history. The Happy Film is his first film.
Congratulations to UWE graphic design level 2 students Adrianna Bilas and Vivian Vong on winning a wooden pencil at D&AD New Blood!
The role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and passionate Junior Graphic Designer to join a vibrant, industry leading media company in central London. This exceptional graphic designer will join our busy multi-disciplinary design team, reporting to the senior designer, and will be responsible for designing all event collateral such as:
Logos and branding
Brochures
Signage
Print and web adverts
Social media artwork
Website layout design (with opportunity of further web design training)
There is also opportunity to work on large coffee table publications, annual reports and significant print publications. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong, clean and modern approach to design and express their interest, knowledge and skills in branding, print and web design. They will have the ability and confidence to work on projects from concept stage to final delivery, have the ability to work well as part of a team and build productive working relationships with fellow colleagues. Being proactive and confident in their communication of ideas and design is required and a thorough working knowledge of Adobe CC programmes including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator is essential.
Working in a small team will mean more responsibility and will provide an incredible platform for progression and creative freedom. This role is ideal for graduate candidates who are keen to learn fast and ready to take on responsibility. A degree and relevant experience in a graphic design position is essential. Six months to a year’s experience is preferred.
Join the Hennik family!
To apply for this role please email a covering letter, your CV and a link to your portfolio to s.quantick@hennikgroup.com or call me to discuss: 020 6033 7401