Category: Awards

We are proud to announce that 2 of our students received Bronze and 1 student’s project was highly commended for the Creative Conscience Award 2021.

Flora McRae – Bronze: www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/flora-macrae
Jack Jones – Bronze: www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/jack-jones
Lauren Dutch – Highly Commended: www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/lauren-dutch

More shortlisted projects from students: Imogen Hunter, Daisy McAllister, Daisy Wilkinson and David Perry.
www.creative-conscience.org.uk/shortlisted-entries

Congratulations to them and to all of the students who entered this year’s competition as well.

Creative Conscience
Creative Conscience is an award for students projects that promote sustainability, freedom, equality and well-being. This reflects in many ways the nature of our course, the reflections, conversations and the work produced by the BA students.

creative-conscience.org.uk

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

We are extremely pleased to announce that Sally Mosley, a recent graduate from BA HONS Graphic Design, is a 2020 Creative Conscience competition award winner. 


Creative Conscience is an international organisation which aim is to inspire, train and reward creatives to apply their talents to socially valuable projects involving sustainability, freedom, social justice and well-being. https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/

Sally, who recently graduated with a first-class honour degree, had submitted her work to the competition earlier this year. The successful project titled “The Hand You Were Dealt”, is a beautifully designed card game that explores the idea of privilege in society by inviting the participants to interact and start a conversation. https://sallymosley.com/the-hand-you-were-dealt


On finding out about her win, Sally took to social media and commented:
“…Really excited and grateful to have received this amazing award and to be associated with such a fantastic organisation. Thank you very much!”


Congratulations from the Graphic Design team.

https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/sally-mosley/

The City ID Award for Outstanding Design Process is presented to the Graphic Design student who has demonstrated a robust design process throughout their final project to achieve an exceptional body of work.

This year’s winner is Lottie Johnson who receives an award and £500 prize money.

Cal Jepps of City ID had this to say:

“The standard of work produced this year was amazing, especially in the wake of such unusual circumstances, so all the shortlisted students should be extremely proud of what they have accomplished.

The decision was not an easy one to make, but we felt like Lottie’s exploration of the subject and her evaluation were both really strong, and she ticked all the criteria boxes we were looking for. We were torn between a number of students as they all tackled very different project topics with some beautiful outputs – ultimately Lottie just had that little bit extra in documenting her process fantastically well.”

The announcement was made to Lottie online by City ID attended by course leader Colum Leith and Lottie’s 3^rd year tutor Carol Stevens.

City ID are a Bristol based design agency that develop unique design, information and wayfinding solutions globally to integrate people, movement and places.

https://www.lottiejohnsondesign.com/

http://www.cityid.com/

Stacey Olika

This year’s list at Rife magazine features another round of the city’s most impressive young people.

The nominations for this list came flooding in from day one of the launch and didn’t stop coming until the deadline. With the help of the young people we work with at Rife, we managed to whittle down tens upon tens of nominations to the final list and it definitely wasn’t easy. From swimmers to app developers, each and every one of these Bristolian or Bristol-based entries were jaw-dropping. Stacey Olika, an alumnus from the UWE BA Graphic Design course is one of those people – congratulations!

Stacey is a graphic designer, creative producer and curator. Her work explores how identity and culture is navigated in today’s society through a range of mediums. She has  co-curated Why Are We Not Here for Test Space at Spike Open Studios which addresses issues regarding the lack of representation in arts institutions, is a featured artist at Rising Artsand has recently facilitated a new publication, Conversations About Race, to generate much needed conversations in the city. She is the founder of Agents of Change, a programme to shine light on emerging creatives. She recently led the Uncomfortable Truths project at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.

She says, “To be honest I didn’t expect it at all, I never expect recognition because I’m doing something I’m passionate about and I love. But the fact that people see what I’m doing and it’s influential, is greater than where I ever saw myself going.”

Kayleigh Munn, a third year student on the BA Graphic Design course has won a coveted award in the best student book category for her publication ‘Vegas Baby’ at this year’s British Book Design and Production Awards in association with The Publishers Association, Oxford Brookes University, The Bookseller and BookMachine. Students Tom Woodhouse and Lottie Johnson were shortlisted in the same competition with their books.

With fierce competition from hundreds of submissions nationwide, the judges were impressed with Kayleigh’s submission with the judges commenting on the “huge level of maturity and professionalism” and the outstanding “innovative style and illustrations” of her book.

The award along with a £500 cheque and the opportunity to complete an industry internship was presented to Kayleigh at a gala event and dinner on Thursday 21st November 2019 at London’s Landmark Hotel.

As one of the most prestigious and popular literary events of the year, the awards recognise and promote the excellence of the British book design and production industry by celebrating the best books of the year. These include everything from photographic books, art and architecture monographs, to scholarly, academic and reference books.

http://www.britishbookawards.org/

We would like to congratulate Kirtis Clarke, our very own Graphic Design Alumni 2017 who made it onto the BME Powerlist 2018.

Kirtis is a pioneer of today’s design community and is paving the way for BME creatives in the city. Describinghimself as a ‘multidisciplinary creative-of-sorts’; he is a programme assistant at Arnolfini, has an ongoing freelance design practice and is in the process of creating an experimental studio.

http://www.bristolbmepowerlist.com/phone/index.html