Category: Opportunities

Creative Lives in Progress are now LIVE with their next Portfolio Review.

Registration closes at midnight on 18th May

To get involved, click here.

As part of the Biennale internationale de design graphique 2021, le Signe is pleased to announce our summer school Faire Parler les Lettres (Let Letters Speak) with Naïma Ben Ayed from 14 to 18 July in Chaumont, preceded by two short sessions by video conference on Tuesday 8 and 29 June  at 18:30 o’clock CET. This summer school is open to students in graphic design and typography as well as professionals interested by the cohabitation of writing and letter design systems. Letterforms are not neutral. They  convey  (hi)stories and cultures. This workshop is located at the intersection between language and letterforms.

The French language contains many words of foreing origin, namely words that come from writing systems other than Latin, such as Arabic or Greek. What are these words’ itineraries? How did they get into the French language,  from one alphabet to another one? We will invest these these questions through letterform design. Each participant will create a digital lettering in Latin letters starting from a word chosen from a different language/ writing system.* This workshop is an invitation to experiment with the notion of typographic matchmaking, i.e. the visual harmonisation of different writing systems. All of these created letterings will become one page of a collective booklet printed by risograph and a series of posters.

• This workshop is open to graphic and type design students as well as professionals particularly interested in the cohabitation of  scripts and type design. We will be using Glyphs software.

To find out more, click here.

*Naïma Ben Ayed is specialised in Arabic type design, yet any writing system that is familiar enough to the participants and in which they can bring together a corpus of graphic and typographic references will be welcomed.

Registration to this summer school is free of charge.
For further information, contact
Susanne Schroeder
susanne.schroeder@cndg.fr
+33 603 101 749

Creative Conscience is a community built organisation ONLY focused on helping to build a better world. 

The Creative Conscience awards welcome projects by students and graduates (up to two years) from any creative discipline. We are now accepting submissions for the 2021 awards until the deadline on 14th May 2021. This has change and been extended from our pdf. briefs due to Covid-19 you have more time.

The awards are the perfect opportunity to push your curiosity and create the change you want to see in the world. You can enter the awards solo or in a team (up to four), and you can tackle an issue of your own choice or work from one of our game-changing briefs.

By entering you will be directly supporting our work as a charity, helping to build a fairer, healthier and more sustainable world.

Click here for more information or click here to enter.

Deadline midnight BST 14.05.21

Strike A Light organise art, music and food events in and around Gloucester. They are looking for an intern to work with and support their team to contribute to effective marketing and the smooth running of projects, shows and other events. The internship will also provide you with the opportunity to develop skills and learn more about marketing & administration and other job roles within festivals and events, to support your future career.

• Paid internship
• Part-time hours | 3 days a week
• 1 year

To find out more or how to apply, click here.

Closing date for applications: Monday 26th April

Interviews: Thursday 6th May

Radium are an Emmy Award winning music and sound design creative studio working out of their Bristol / Yeovil studios. Radium are a sought after for their ability to conceptualise, create and capture sound worlds. Radium can be heard in high profile film and game trailers including Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros, Disney, 20th Century Fox & EA Games. 

They are looking for an enthusiastic Graphic Design student who understands layout, preparation for both print and digital to support their Visual Team as a paid design intern.

If interested, please contact Andrew Diey at Andrew@mescaline.co 

A Bristol City Football podcast (One Stream in Bristol) is looking to streamline their visual content and need a Design Volunteer to make their appearance look just as appealing as their audio content.

Design formats required: Instagram, Twitter & Facebook Post Layouts

• Instagram stories
• Headliner backgrounds
• Stickers
• Poster designs

Design style:

• Open to all disciplines – to be developed through moodboards/inspiration

Date required: On Going

If interested, please contact Stanley Hughes at stan@featherhouse.com or call +447463734922

New Futuress Online Course & Fellowship Program

Design and its thinking have historically been complicit with multiple structural systems of oppression—serving to concretize, perpetuate, and disseminate power and privilege. Contemporary struggles for social, spatial and environmental justice are efforts to undo these historical systems of oppression which exist in our world by design. Our new Online Course and Fellowship explores the construction of these systems, and examines the designed past and the pastness of design, brushing its histories against the grain.

About

Against the Grain: Critical Perspectives on the Designed Past is conceived and curated by Nina Paim, curator, researcher, editor, and Futuress co-founder; and Cherry-Ann Davis, designer, researcher and writer. This Online Course and Fellowship Program aims to democratize access to the writing of design history—in a broad sense. Our transdiciplinary approach provides participants with intersectional feminist and decolonial insights, using various methods and approaches—including, but not limited to: source criticism, archival research, oral history, and more. By weaving in various fields and disciplines, we challenge the established epistemologies and give voice to historically silenced narratives and perspectives.

Find out more here

Online Course

Start 16/04/21 | Ends 04/06/21

• 8 lectures available live or asynchronously
• Access to Futuress Slack platform
• Lectures open to add

Price Solidarity €240 | Basic €120 | Student €40

Register here for Against the Grain Online Course

Fellowship Program

Start 16/04/21 | Ends 28/06/21

• 4 collective brainstorm sessions
• Individual coaching on demand
• Access to Futuress Slack platform
• All results will be edited by & published by Futuress

Free of charge | Maximum of 32 spots

Apply here for Against the Grain Fellowship