MA show private view

On Friday night, Over 200 visitors enjoyed the private view for this years MA show at the Public in West Bromwich. Guests were welcomed by School of Art and Design staff and students and had the exclusive opportunity to view 3 floors of displays prior to the public opening on Saturday 29th.

Students feel Shattered

Level 5 Graphic Communication students studying the ‘Branding in Context’  module and Level 6 students undertaking their Final Project module were given a shattering start to their live assignment by attending a private gig by upcoming band Shatter Effect. The students are being asked to produce a campaign to build on the bands already impressive award-winning marketing.

Tutor Jeff Leak said,

“Shatter Effect are a five piece band who sound amazing and their performance was equally full of energy. We’re really pleased to be given the opportunity to work with them on this project and know that our students will pull out all the stops to produce some innovative work that exploits social media and creates new online guerilla marketing initiatives.”

Shatter Effect are due to release their new album - ‘Decade in the Dark’ – later this year. You can find out more about them here, check out their last video and maybe even go along to one of their upcoming national tour dates:

http://www.shattereffect.co.uk/

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShatterEffectMusic

http://www.twitter.com/ShatterEffect

How to Use Type by Lindsey Marshall and Lester Meachem

Discussing who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience and appropriateness of type and communication, Lester Meachems new co-written book, 'How to Use Type' has just been published by Laurence King.
How to Use Type includes illustrated activities and case studies linked to key issues discussed in the text. Find out more at http://www.laurenceking.com/product/How+to+Use+Type.htm

Unusual Sheet Music - by Lena Matthies

unusual sheet music from Lena Matthies on Vimeo.
Experience  the work of MA student Lena Matthies. She is passionate about music and finds inspiration in her surroundings. Working with a group of singers and musicians Lena has designed and produced posters, films and books that explore this idea.

This work can be seen as part of the MA exhibition at The Public in West Bromwich from 29th September

Free font DejaVu Serif

DejaVu Serif is a free font available in a very useful 8 weights. Designed by DejaVu Fonts, and brought to you by Font Squirrel, it can be downloaded free from here.

Latest location for Freebox

Freebox, the innovative freecycling initiative from MA student Dorothee Schmidt has a new home. During the month of October the newest Freebox will be located in the entrance way to the Public, West Bromwich. So if you visit the MA final show, remember to take a look at Freebox and if you have something you no longer need but others might, then bring it - or if you see something you like in Freebox, then take it.
Freebox is will also be located within the students union of Birmingham City University, during the coming academic year

http://freebox-uk.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/freeboxwolves
http://einherzfuerdodo.blogspot.co.uk/

MA Show Countdown 2

Here is selection of tempting examples of work that will be on display, as the MA show continues to take shape and take over the Public in West Bromwich.
The exhibition opens from September 29th - be sure not to miss it!
Designs shown here are by Richard Woad, Lena Matthies, Andreas Olymbios, Fred Munnelly and Dorothee Schmidt.

Bigmouth

Take a look at Bigmouth, as free display font from Timo Kuilder. It's a character set with limited punctuation. Is a free download available here at Behance.

Designer - FE Week, Greenwich, London

Designer

FE Week was a launched in September 2012 and is the only newspaper and interactive website dedicated to the further education sector.

Now in its second year, FE Week has quickly become a strong title in the sector and is expanding quickly.

We are currently looking for a designer to join the FE Week team. The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the graphic production of the online and print edition of a weekly newspaper FE Week and general graphic design for the organization.

More information on the role can be found here: http://feweek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Job-description-for-GD-17-09-12.pdf

Junior designer - Uniform, Liverpool

Uniform are hiring

We're looking for an exceptional junior designer to join our award winning brand communications agency.

What we are looking for: someone with a bag full of ideas, passion and ambition, a keen eye for layout and a sharp attention to detail. The successful applicant will be working on exciting brand, print and digital projects for clients large and small.

If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you today. Please send PDF portfolios (Max 5mb) to jobs@uniform.net