Staffordshire University-First place for winners!!

A lot has happened since May for our Graphic Design and Illustration students.....so, by way of a summary of achievements (so far!).....

MPA Roses Student Creativity Awards

Gemma Brownhill/Category Winner + Over all GOLD Winner

Calum Rudd/Shortlisted

Melanie Milne & Laura Malpass (Second Yr)/shortlisted

D&AD Creative Awards

Ben Brand/In-book

Richard Kingham/Nominated (Awards ceremony 16th June!!)

Shine Awards

Jessica Sidaway/Winner

ISTD Awards

Ben Anslow/Merit

Penguin Design Competition

Gary Devreede/Shortlisted

RSA Royal Mail Stamp Competition

Charlotte Lench/Winner

The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers Picturing Time Competition

Lily Blythe/shortlisted

Mat Lucas/Shortlisted

Curtis Free/Shortlisted

Jenny Poppitt/Shortlisted

Jason Murphy/Shortlisted

Watch this space for winning announcements!!!!!

CV=ipad

The winner of a Creative CV competition, the first run by Staffordshire University’s Careers Centre, has been announced. John Ellis, a 3^rd year Graphic Design student, is delighted that his bold CV poster designed to ‘introduce a small name with big ideas’ caught the eye of the judges andlanded him the prize of an iPad.

Mark Kent, Head of Staffordshire University Careers Centre, said that the event had been a great success, attracting over 50 entries from a range of creative disciplines and all of a very high standard. He said ‘Our panel of six judges, drawn from the local creative industries had a hard time picking the overall winner and the standard of entries was so high that we decided to award a further three prizes to runners up’. All of the judges agreed that having a CV that stands out definitely increases a student’s chance of getting noticed in a highly competitive graduate labour market. The Careers Centre team are now hoping to make the competition an annual event.

John will be presented with his prize on the opening night of the Art & Design Show on 10^th June at the Stoke campus of Staffordshire University by Pro Vice Chancellor Rosy Crehan.

We are very grateful to our judging panel, left to right: Steve Cranston, Lilac Films, Joanne Hine, PlinkFizz, Tony Altham, AdGiftsOnline Limited, Amanda McDonald, Yes Agency, Matthew Rice, Emma Bridgewater, Johnathan Scane, Jackson Hammond.

It's a win,.win situation!!!

There's no stopping third year Graphic Design students in the field of competition! This just in-------Gary Devreede has been shortlisted for the Penguin Book Cover Award, Charlotte Lench has been shortlisted for the RSA Royal Mail Stamp Design competition and if that wasn't enough, Ben Anslow received a Merit in the istd International Typographic Awards!

An all round amazing achievement by the students, on top of working towards the 'final push' towards their degree and final show......

SHOW

Watch THIS space.

Preparation is now underway for what will be one of the biggest and best Graphic Design and Illustration final year shows. June 10th is the opening night, then the show will run throughout the week until Saturday 18th June.

GOLD! for Gemma....

Following Gemma Brownhill's category win in March at the Roses Awards (see march 25 post)---she went onto win the coveted GOLD Award for best student work over-all!!!! Well done Gemma. (Pictured here with Rich Kingham-wh0 has been nominated for a D&AD award)

Sharpen your pencils.

For the second year running, D&AD permitted lecturers to observe the judging process of their most prestigious awards. Over 5 days, both student and professional work was put through its paces at Olympia in London, in over 20 categories ranging from graphic design, product, advertising, art direction, illustration, web, packaging, branding, direct mail to radio and tv....... Packaging Design was the most pondered over and discussed - taking some 8 hours to decide which of the 216 entries made it through to the final stages........results are not yet known and will be confirmed soon at the D&AD Awards evening, this year to be attended by both industry and students!

Each category was judged by 6 industry professionals in what was a highly rigorous judging process. One thing that is reinforced, year after year is the importance of an original, creative idea. This of course is also reflected in the student categories.......so, remember.....communicate, don't decorate.

The judges' survival kit.........

















The most important packaging of all...courtesy of D&AD!!!!!.....this acquired quite a bit of interest actually.....not sure why.........