Shillington College

Manchester Design Symposium

This week we headed to the very first Manchester Design Symposium. The afternoon consisted of talks and discussions around the Value of Design. There was an impressive line up of speakers including Illustrator Si Scott, Eye magazine co-owner John Walters, type guru Bruno Maag, legendary graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook and Tom Dorresteijn of Studio Dumbar. It was a great event, full of inspiration and amazing work!. We are looking forward to next years event already!

The days events were concluded with a Blab Mancunian night of inspirational talks. This was organised by Northern Digitals. Six creatives were asked to talk about what inspires them. Speakers included Magnetic North, Cahoona and one69a. A perfect end to a great day!   

Dana Tanamachi

Stunning work by Dana Tanamachi a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer living in Brooklyn, New York. www.danatanamachi.com. She also works at www.louisefili.com a design company that specalises in restaurants & food packaging. Some really inspirational work. 

BARTHOLOT

Check out the website of Bartholot a Berlin-based freelance designer with an emphasis on photographic illustration and art direction. Striking use of colour and unusual composition. www.bartholot.net

Publishers Club & Inkygoodness Time Lapse Video

inky publishers manchester from robert watson studio on Vimeo.

For those of you who couldn’t get along to the Publishers Club x Inkygoodness Manchester event you can now check out a time-lapse video of the whole day – courtesy of photographer Rob Watson!

For more images from the event or to purchase one of the beautiful Totummy Zines head over to Blanket Magazine or Ammo website.

Cover Artists: Daren Newman (Purple), Lesley Barnes (Red), Simon Wild (Gold) and Stephen Chan (Green)

Featured Artists also include:
Letsbrock / Karo Akpokiere / Claire Hartley / Alison Richards / Holly Lawton / Patrick O’Leary / Oliver Cuthbertson / Marnie Pitt / Dean Zappy / Christopher Ross / Will Adams / The Pern / Christopher Guest / Kayleigh Day / Carlos Garde-Martin / Claire Senior / Mags James / Laura Gee

Printed by Ripe Digital and Screen printed covers by one69a

The zine can be purchased from the Ammo website whilst stocks last. All proceeds will be used towards future events & more printed goodness!

Check out more photos of the finished zine here!

New Australian Council of the Arts work

 

Loving Sydney-based studio, Ascender's, new work for the Australian Council of the Arts. Super simple, super effective. I believe this was worked on by Adrian and one of our grads, Victoria. Great work guys, and looking forward to seeing the new website!

Camera lust time!

So anyone who knows me also knows that I like my toys and in particular cameras (to be used, not looked at by the way!). I've been keeping an eye on this little baby that Fujifilm have been developing for the last year and now that it has been released it's been gettng rave reviews!

Apart from the beautful "Leica M-like" looks this is signalling the next evolutionary step in digital photography. In particular it's a large-sensor compact camera. Based around a 12Mp APS-C CMOS sensor, Fuji EXR processor and 23mm F2 Fujinon lens (equivalent to a 35mm semi-wideangle).

If I was in the market for an intro to mid weight DSLR I would go for this  – this is going to win awards!

Price @ £900 / $1400

Digital Photography web preview

DigiRevTV video review

 

 

Lettercult: Best of 2010

For some really awe inspiring typography check out Lettercult: the best of 2010. Definitely worth getting a cuppa, putting your feet up and having a good scroll as there's 13 pages of goodness (and that's just day 1).

GoRed!

The GoRed! project is now live. Created by The Partners, (Last weeks D&AD lecture in Manchester) the GoRed! project commissioned over 140 illustrators and designers from around the world to create either a head, a body or some legs, in order to create up to 64,000 different combinations, resulting in a custom print which you can buy, helping out the Richard House children's charity.

Pick Me Up

The UK’s first contemporary graphic art fair which will return to the Embankment Galleries for its second year running, from 17 - 27 March 2011. This year’s Pick Me Up highlights will include an open studio with legendary designer Anthony Burrill, a selection of the best new talents in graphic design and illustration from across the world. Tickets are £7 a day. Go check it out!

Portfolios : Dos and Don’ts « The Tenfold Collective Blog

We’ve been receiving quite a few job / internship inquiries lately, which is very flattering and much appreciated. It’s great to connect with young designers and see new work coming from all over the world. We’re always excited and want to chat and share feedback etc. That said, if you are going to send us (or any other studio or agency) something, we do have some advice to offer.

via www.tenfoldcollective.com