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D&AD congratulations Joel & Philip !

May 2, 2012

GDC students Joel Baker and Philip Linnemann both opted to enter this years D&AD student awards for Typography and both have just been heralded as winners and awarded with ‘Best of Year’ titles by D&AD – well done!

Come and visit our show in June and see their work and what they’ve been up to since – details will appear here soon.

Links here to Joel and Philips work on the D&AD website.

Vanessa Osborne at GF Smith

April 30, 2012

After graduating from the course back in 2010 Vanessa Osborne started working for GF Smith papers as a creative consultant. Vanessa and her team recently created the five day GFSmith ‘in collaboration’ event with key creative institutions, including It’s Nice That, Made Thought, Monotype and the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department. The exhibition and related events featured live letterpress machines running so you can do your own printing and there was a monotype exhibition of unseen Eric Gill work as well as a vast array of design & artistry.

images via eye blog

Sky Arts Awards success, again!

April 24, 2012

Following on from our success in 2011, Graphic Design Communication stage three students have once again been successful in receiving no less than 8 nominations! These 20-second movies are broadcast stings designed to promote the Sky Arts network and demonstrate a wide and diverse range of treatments and characterisations within moving image. They also have some intriguing titles: Electric Balloons. Headlights, Robot, Fold and Crease, Laaaah, Caravan, Times Four and Imaginings. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Sky Studios shortly and go live on air early next year.

All our entries can be seen here..

Iceland established as creative muse to global design

April 24, 2012

Internationally acclaimed Chelsea College of Art and Design introduce Iceland into the Graphic Design Communication final year curriculum

A new international design project is set to cement Iceland’s position as the new creative centre of the world. As part of a unique partnership between Inspired by Iceland and London’s internationally acclaimed Chelsea College of Art and Design, the entire island is set to become the muse and source of inspiration for the world’s top creative art and design students.

Acknowledging Iceland as a country of creative flair, academic staff working with the Brooklyn Brothers advertising agency selected six final year students from Graphic Design Communication to travel to Iceland in a bid to be creatively stimulated by the country’s natural culture, wonder and existing creative talent.

Students in Iceland met the country’s most talented and innovative designers and travelled across Iceland with them working from a mobile creative studio. With an ever-changing landscape and an imaginative and vibrant culture, Iceland is fast becoming recognised as one of the world’s most inspirational hotspots for the creative soul.

Iceland is fast gaining a reputation for having more creative individuals than any other Country in the world. The government is also committed to supporting Iceland’s creative talent and through large investment have accounted for 12.5 per cent of the creative sector’s total. Whilst using the country as a source of inspiration, the students documented their inspirational journey, which can be viewed on inspiredbyiceland.com and via the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ social media channels.

Crazy Golf at Chelsea

April 10, 2012

As part of stage one’s ‘Bad Type’ project, students have made a nine-hole working typographic mini golf course displaying some of the worst fonts in common use – all made under the guidance of our Chelsea woodwork technicians from a single sheet of MDF.

SAS Scholarships for New Design Talent

March 28, 2012

Award winning design and communications agency SAS (part of MSLGROUP) are launching a £10,000 scholarship programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design, to recognise creative excellence and nurture emerging talent.

The company has created three scholarships totalling £10,000 for students on Chelsea’s BA Graphic Design Communication course. The scholarships will be open to all second year BA Graphic Design Communication students.

Students that wish to apply will be asked to complete a live project in their second year with three winning students being chosen to receive a Scholarship for the final year of their undergraduate degree.

Geoff Thomas Shaw, Chelsea’s Undergraduate Programme Director, hopes that this collaboration with SAS ..

“ensures our new, young designers are more financially confident and feel valued as the next generation of professional practitioners”

David Stocks, Executive Creative Director at SAS said:

“It’s tough for students with the cost of study rising all the time. We believe there is a responsibility on agencies to support and nurture young talent and not just use new graduates as lowly paid interns. The great reputation for creativity that we have in this country will only continue with the support of our industry”.

End of term arrives..

March 24, 2012

After a hectic term full of learning, making and designing for all 3 stages at graphic design communication, a well-earned break has arrived – here are just some scenes from many over the term.

Behind the scenes on awards production

March 24, 2012

This year as the awards seasons started we gave our studios over to making wonderful things for D&AD, Sky Arts and YCN, this means creating shooting spaces for stills and moving image, also taking lighting dolly/track and generators out on location shoots. Here are just some of the things going on in the studios for Sky Arts production.