Leonardo exhibition-last few weeks

Staff and students have recently  enjoyed visiting the highly acclaimed Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at Birmingham Art Gallery. Celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the show displays 10 of Leonardo da Vinci's finest drawings from the Royal Collection. 

"Some of the drawings date back to the mid 15th century and in amazing condition. It's fascinating to see leonardo's work close to and have the chance to try and decipher some of his famous Mirror writing" said Jeff Leak

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/10drawings/MicroSection.asp?themeid=2698

Junior Designer - MR PORTER

Junior Designer
MR PORTER – a dedicated men’s wear site from the NET-A-PORTER group is the first global shopping destination of its kind. MR PORTER offers an edited product selection of the best in men’s style, from global designer labels to niche specialist brands alongside original editorial and style advice. MR PORTER is powered, curated, edited and served by an independent world class team who benefit from the global infrastructure of the NET-A-PORTER group, a site with ten years of online luxury retail experience delivering to over 170 countries worldwide.

The Role:
We are looking for a talented Junior Designer to ensure the MR PORTER editorial, merchandising and sales content is brought to life with unique, user friendly, high quality design, without jeopardising site performance.

“Stylish men across the globe are about to find e-commerce quality” NY Times
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Responsibilities

• To produce innovative, user-focused HTML and flash based solutions that are
multi-faceted and incorporate all of the elements of a great experience while being within style guidelines.
• Sophisticated sense of typography and an understanding of its relevance to a good design both online and offline.
• Should be aware of trends and new ideas and should be able to interpret those into fantastic creative.
• Meet stringent deadlines while having the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Ensure that image jpeg quality is at maximum on all pages designed as well as fonts and type are all readable on a range of web design requirements.
• Working on HTML emails and promotional emails.
• Sourcing images as required.
• Development of technical skills to stay abreast of software changes.
• Retouching images as required.
• Supporting the Art Director
• Any other ad hoc duties within art dept/editorial when needed.

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Essential Skills & Requirements

• Proven design experience
• Solid experience of working across a range of web design projects from websites to new media and print.
• Ability to work quickly from concept creation to finished product
• Must be detail-oriented, deadline driven, and able to multi-task with solid organizational, time management, and follow through.
• Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines
• Photoshop skills
• Proficient knowledge of Illustrator, Flash, Indesign and Fireworks
• Pro-active and able to show initiative/ideas to constantly improve the editorial quality of the site.
• Must be able to work overtime when necessary to meet business needs.
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Location: London, W12

To Apply: http://tinyurl.com/87ccpt5

Please apply online with your CV and examples of previous design work.

placement Appetite—London W1

Graphic design work placement

Appetite, an award-winning brand and communications agency, is looking for talented and enthusiastic graphic designers for work placements.

About you:
You are an enthusiastic and talented student or graduate designer with a passion for ideas and craft. You have a good knowledge of typography and the fundamentals of print and digital design. You are a good communicator, a team player and pretty handy with Adobe CS4.

About us:
We are brand creators and developers, providing the clarity and inspiration to stimulate behaviour change and success. We see, imagine, and create brilliant brand opportunities that transform organisations and deliver commercial breakthroughs.

What’s on offer:
— An internship in our London W1 office with expenses paid (min 2 weeks).
— A chance to produce lovely work for some big clients.
— A studio full of great people from 7 nationalities.

Please send us up to 5 examples of your work to jobs@appetiteuk.com. Please make sure that the attachments do not exceed 5mb.

Junior Creative Artworker - Leeds

Junior Creative Artworker
We’re Hiring. Come join us.

Manifest Communications is an award winning Creative, PR & Social Media agency with offices in Leeds and London. We require a Junior Creative Artworker to join our thriving Leeds team.

You’ll be a skilled individual with 2+ years experience. Capable of taking existing creative campaigns and translating them across – POS, brochures, leaflets, press ads and more. Delivering production perfect, proof read files to publications, printers and other suppliers. The desire and ability to contribute creatively, would be an advantage but not an immediate requirement.

Technically accomplished across AI, ID, PS and the like, your key attributes being – attention to detail, professional pride and the ability to work without distraction in a fast paced lively studio atmosphere.

With a salary to reflect your experience and skill level, you’ll be in a key position to service recently won accounts at the sharp end of production.

Interested? Send a CV with covering letter to, Shaun Beaumont, Manifest Communications Ltd, Canalside Buildings, Roundhouse Business Park, Graingers Way, Leeds LS12 1AH or email info@manifestcomms.co.uk

Placement - Dew Gibbons Design

Design Placement (Paid)
An exciting opportunity for a young creative individual to gain a valuable insight into the world of packaging and branding. You will have a graphic design degree or equivalent, a portfolio overflowing with creative talent, a lust for learning, and of course a keen interest in all the design world has to offer.

Please send your CV and Portfolio samples/website details to Lucy@dewgibbons.com

Internship - Eventica

Graphic Design Internship
Eventica is a well established company with over 16 years of experience in organisation, management and design of b2b, social and cultural events as well as a dynamic range of PR, media and government relations support. We are looking for a graphic design intern to be involved in day-to-day company’s work as we are getting prepared for some very exciting Olympic related projects next year. It is an ideal opportunity to gain experience in a fast moving environment and learn how the events are created.

Immediate start, 1-3 month internships available.

Hours: 9:00 – 18:00
Expenses paid, £120 per week.

Please send your CV along with the portfolio to Varvara:vz@eventica.co.uk (max. 3MB). Only successful applicants will be contacted.

More B-Hive success for Sotiris Theofanous

More exciting news today from B-Hive. Final year graphics student Sotiris Theofanous has been successfully shortlisted in the graphics category and will be presenting his design ideas to the panel of judges next week. 

Judges for graphics are Giles Poyner from Holman , Stephen Walls from Tomorrow People,  Ant Jones from Orb, Gavin Auty from Viva Aspire , Craig Spivey from Vital and
Simon Jolly from Cognition.

Congratulations Sotiris

Exhibitions and Artists’ Projects Curator

The New Art Gallery Walsall
Ref: NS30211

£23,708 - £27,849 per annum

We are seeking a visual arts professional who will organise ambitious and stimulating programmes of contemporary art, including exhibitions, commissions and residences, working with regional, national and international artists, galleries and other partners. You will have knowledge and experience of planning and delivering contemporary art programmes with artists working across a wide range of media.

The New Art Gallery Walsall opened in February 2000 in the heart of Walsall town centre. Home to the Garman Ryan Collection and a vibrant programme of contemporary art, it seeks to present the very best in the visual arts and to provide wide-ranging opportunities for artists and audiences.

Closing date: 16 March 2012

Interviews: 4 April 2012

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin but, as people from ethnic minority groups are under-represented in our workforce, we would especially welcome applications from these jobseekers. Appointment will be on merit alone.


For more details visit: http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/apply/4411933/exhibitions-and-artists-projects-curator/?LinkSource=JobDetails

B-Hive Success for Daniel Dean and Ray Chan

B-Hive, the Midlands based initiative that nurtures creative talent in the areas of marketing, design, PR and digital, is coming to an exciting conclusion. Entries have come come from over 8 Midlands universities and colleges to secure one of 30 prestigious paid placements within high-profile creative companies.

News 'hot off the press' is that 2 Wolverhampton University graphics students have been successfully shortlisted. Daniel Dean and Ray Chan will be presenting their entries to the judges in the end stages of this fiercely contested event. Daniel and Ray, both final year students, have submitted work in the categories of graphic design and marketing. Results  will be out and prize giving takes place on Wednesday 14th March at the Zellig Building, Custard Factory, Birmingham.
Congratulations Daniel and Ray

Free Box

Graphics MA student Dorothee Schmidt is looking for support with her project.

Dorothee's design initiative is to set up a community freecycle area within the School of Art and Design. Her project, called Free Box is currently located on the ground floor in the MK building. "It is designed to make people happy" she says. So if you see anything you like, just take it, or if you have anything that you no longer want to keep, but that you think others would appreciate, bring it along and contribute.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Box-Wolves/264566340288981