Illustrator - Vitra—London EC1M5PG

Illustrator for showroom window
The Vitra showroom team is looking for a young illustrator who would like the chance to help design this year’s Christmas window at the Clerkenwell showroom.

The chosen illustrator must be able to work free-hand and at a large-scale.

Please send examples of your work to valerie.droulers@vitra.com by the 19th of October.

Digital designer - Wish Want Wear,London

Digital designer – 2 days a week

Wish Want Wear is seeking a digital designer to join our talented team in a part time position. You will be responsible for conceptualising and designing all branding and marketing communications for the company.

2 days a week
This position is a unique opportunity for someone who is keen to take on lots of responsibility and shape the look and feel of a luxury website. Its a great role for someone who is interested in graphic design and web design for the fashion industry. Its perfect for someone who likes to have creative license and would like to work in an open environment which fuels creativity

Responsibilities include:
-Taking ownership of the branding and designing of websites and micro-sites
- Production of weekly newsletters, marketing material and ongoing website enhancement
- Projects also include occasional identity design, photography shoots, creating collateral for events

Required Skills
- A relevant online portfolio which demonstrates at least two years experience in a retail field – preferably fashion based.
- Knowledge of current e-commerce best practice and trends.
- Strong computer skills with your own MacBook Pro and your own copy of Adobe CS5
- Proven experience in a fashion/ editorial digital space and must be well versed with designing for the web and email newsletters
- Ability to seamlessly switch between print and digital
- An interest in graphics, photography and typography
- Organized and reliable with attention to detail – can handle multiple simultaneous tasks and work in a fast-paced environment
- Some HTML coding would be an advantage but not a pre-requisite.

If you feel this is for you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your CV and few relevant samples of your work to careers@wishwantwear.com.

Graphic Design Placement - The Network, London, Turnham Green

Graphic Design Placement

The Network is one of the top 10 field marketing and events companies in the UK. We are currently looking for a graphic designer to work in-house on a range of projects within the events and marketing team. A good knowledge of photoshop, illustrator, indesign, power-point/keynote is required.

Please submit your CV and portfolio to jaquline.murphy@thenetwork-uk.com

Damien Hirst - Artist Rooms

Readers of this blog may remember Artist Rooms Ed Ruscha exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery (if not click here). One of the latest shows in this series is now on at The New Art Gallery Walsall.

This ground-breaking, new display will feature Damien’s sculptures, paintings and prints presented within the Garman Ryan Galleries. The display will be accompanied by a series of inspired satellite exhibitions, events and activities through the course of the year.

ARTIST ROOMS On Tour is an inspired partnership with the Art Fund - the fundraising charity for works of art, making the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international contemporary art available to galleries throughout the UK. ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.

The exhibition is free and on until 27 October 2013. For more information visit:
http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/damien-hirst

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

This time last year we highlighted Design Matters with Debbie Millman - a fantastic archive of interviews with notable individuals from the design world.

This post highlights a broadcast from earlier this year of an interview with Erik Spiekermann.

Erik Spiekermann is author, information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Unit et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany’s largest design firm. He is responsible for corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing, Bosch and way-finding projects like Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts. He is board member of the German Design Council and Past President of the ISTD International Society of Typographic Designers, as well as the IIID International Institute for Information design. 

Listen to Debbie Millman's wonderful discussion with Erik Spiekermann at

http://observermedia2.designobserver.com/audio/erik-spiekermann/32368/

One Plain One Fancy - update

Readers of this blog may remember earlier posts about 'One Plain One Fancy' a competition from Mat Dolphin - if not, take look at selected entries for from graphics alumni Louise Carrier and final year student Loren Russel Ahern. One of the most recent entries to be featured and shown here, is by graphics student Haydn Ellis. To find out more about One Plain One Fancy and to enter visit http://www.matdolphin.com/play/illustrations/one-plain-one-fancy/

Congratulations Haydn

Embracing Our Differences competition

Embracing Our Differences invites artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students to participate in its new visual art exhibit celebrating diversity. 45 artists will be selected for the exhibit. Since 2004, the exhibit has been viewed by more than 850,000 visitors. The exhibit will contain 39 billboard-sized images of the selected artworks. In the judges’ discretion, an additional six honorable mention selections may be made.

Final selections will be chosen based on artistic excellence in reflection of the theme “Embracing Our Differences”. The art-work will also be evaluated on how effectively it will read outdoors when enlarged to billboard size – 16 feet wide by 12 1/2 feet high. Artists are encouraged to use bold saturated colors and strong lines. Final selections will be made by a 3-judge panel of professional artists, curators and art professionals.

The mission of Embracing Our Differences is to use art as a catalyst for creating awareness and promoting the value of diversity, the benefits of inclusion and the significance of the active rejection of hatred and prejudice.

There is no entry fee and there is no limit on the number of entries. for more information click here

Eligibility

Artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students are eligible. National and international submissions are encouraged.

Prize

A total of $3,000 in awards will be presented.

Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? Love Your Body: 2013 Poster Contest

Deadline: Postmarked December 3, 2012

The National Organization for Women Foundation hosts an annual poster contest to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign. Winning posters will be chosen based on how well they counteract the media’s use of narrow, unrealistic, negative images of women and/or challenge advertisers that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies.

Posters should be graphically attractive and use a dynamic message. We especially look for images that demonstrate beauty is not limited by body size, body type, ethnicity, age or physical appearance. The winning posters will be displayed in schools and other public settings, so please consider this when designing your poster.

Poster should be no larger than 9" x 12". Artists may submit multiple posters in the same category, but may not submit posters in different categories. Category is determined by the age of the designer/artist. Only original artwork will be considered.

There is no entry fee.

For more information click here

Previous winning entries by Lisa champ and Marie Bushbaum

Artists in Residence in Visual Communication

2 visual communication graduates, Blair Frame and Sangita Kumari have recently been made Artists in Residence within the School of Art and Design during 2012/2013. The roles involve supporting students, whilst also continuing to develop their own practice within the School.
To see more of Blairs work click here

Design Culture module visit to the Icon Gallery

As part of the module 'Design Culture', final year students have enjoyed visiting the Icon Gallery to see  'Arefin & Arefin - The graphic design of Tony Arefin'. The exhibition on until 4th November, is a comprehensive survey of work by Tony Arefin (1962–2000), a graphic designer who emerged during the late 1980s as one of the most important figures in the British art world. With his numerous catalogues for institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery, ICA, Chisenhale Gallery and Ikon itself, Arefin had achieved such art world dominance by the early 1990s that design critic Rick Poynor described him as ‘single-handedly processing the print needs of the entire British art scene’.

Whilst at the Gallery students also took in 'And Europe Will Be Stunned', the film trilogy by Israeli artist Yael Bartana. Centred on the activities of The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), a political group founded by the artist, who call for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to the land of their forefathers, the films traverse a landscape scarred by the histories of competing nationalisms and militarisms. Collectively they address narratives of the Israeli settlement movement, Zionist dreams, antisemitism, the Holocaust and the Palestinian right of return.

For more information about these exhibitions visit:

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/