Reminder – Fred Flade talk tonight Posted by: Eva

5pm – Thursday 18th March – in the gallery – Fred Flade

Creative/Design Director with 13 years experience working across design disciplines with a focus on digital design and communication. Born in Munich, Germany. Studied marketing
at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising. Worked in an advertising agency in Munich before moving to London in 1994.

Joined digital agency Deepend in 1997 becoming the agency’s design director shortly after. Won a number of international awards with websites for Volkswagen’s New Beetle, the Design Museum and Hoover’s Triple Vortex Vacuum Cleaner.

Co-founded digital communications agency de-construct in 2001. Worked as executive creative director with international clients such as Panasonic, Adidas and SCA as well as looking after smaller clients like Frost Design, the Barbican Centre and the Crafts Council. Won major awards with sites for designer Vince Frost, the Barbican Centre, Panasonic and others.

5pm Evening Lectures in the Gallery at Epsom. Book at the normal email address: lectureseriesepsom@ucreative.ac.uk

Win an iPod Touch Posted by: Tom

We all know and love the Epsom canteen so here is your opportunity to be entered to win an iPod Touch and also critique the Epsom canteen!

It is very important that you take part in this survey as it will help them to understand what they are doing right, or wrong.

Please spend 5 minutes to fill out this survey honestly and you can WIN!

https://survey.ucreative.ac.uk/catering

Thanks!

Processing? Yeah! Posted by: Luke the Student

Tuesday 16th March – 2pm

Venue Rm 210

First up a long overdue thanks to everyone for turning out to the Processing workshop and then the continued interest in holding another one. As a result I have been persuaded. This Tuesday there will be another chance to indulge in the brilliance that is monospaced code. Whilst the previous session was an introduction into Processing specifically, this session will focus around some of the programming principles that are essential in creating more complicated applications. Luckily these are universal and once you’ve got an understanding of the logic you can work across Javascript, C++, PHP, Processing & Arduino.

So there is a bit more theory in this lesson, but it is still crucial to bring your own laptop with Processing installed as this will allow us to explore working code snippets. It’s just more interesting that way.

There is no room confirmed as yet, though I will endeavour to get this posted by Monday afternoon. As before if you are interested then just put a comment on this post.

NOTE If you missed the first session but want to come along and get caught up then do not dispair! For we have successfully captured and trained an additional number of people who will be able to offer assistance should you require it. Please let me know ahead of time so I can be aware of numbers. Cheers

VISUAL (GENERATOR) RHETORIC Hand-in FRIDAY + Presentation Skills Notes Posted by: matt

ALL SECOND YEARS: Final submission is (drop-in work): 12.00pm to 1.00pm: FRIDAY 12TH MARCH: Room 215.

As per our seminar sessions, submission should include works produced and created for:

NOTE: TASK WORK IS D&AD BRIEF WORK. THE TWO ARE INTERCONNECTED. TASKS ARE COMPONENTS OF A PROCESS LED APPROACH TO A BRIEF. THEREFORE, BY DEFAULT TASK WORK IS LINKED AND ALIGNED TO THE REQUIREMENTS SET OUT IN THE D&AD BRIEF. STUDENTS WHO HAVE ENGAGED WELL WITH TASK WORK WILL BY DEFAULT HAVE MORE DEVELOPED TASK COMPONENTS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTENDED MUCH FURTHER INTO MORE RESOLVED AND REFINED (FINAL) PIECES. SO FOR THE FINAL TIME THE FOLLOWING IS REQUIRED:

1. 6 Compulsory Task (Failure to submit multiple permutations to each of the compulsory tasks will reflect negatively on your final marks)

2. A selection of multiple responses to all other tasks. WHICH WILL INCLUDE MORE DEVELOPED PIECES THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD AS WELL FORMED EXAMPLES THAT ADDRESS THE D&AD BRIEF BY DEFAULT – PROVIDING YOU HAVE TAKEN A PROGRESSIVE APPROACH WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE TRANSFORMED, REFINED AND DEVELOPED YOUR TASK WORK THROUGH CONCEPTUAL AND VISUAL PERMUTATIONS (AS THE ORIGINAL BRIEF OUTLINES).

All work must be labelled clearly with your name and task work should be collated in folders labelled with the appropriate task title ie. TASK 1, TASK 2, etc. 3D work should be labelled, and blog addresses easily visible.

For all the non-attendees in yesterdays session attached in a jpeg with notes regarding improving presentation. The following bullet points are the important things consider:

• Good presentation GAINS POSITIVE ATTENTION: BOND not CLOWN when considering quality. Make your ideas look good so they live longer!

• Presentation of ideas often exists above and beyond your ideas so you should probably leave a day at the end of a module assigned just for this;

• FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION: so always try to pick an APPROPRIATE format for the media/idea that you are presenting. So do you need boards? Storyboards? Booklets? Slideshows? Projections? Wall mounted components? DVD presentation? Flash sequence? Just a blog? Collection of prototypes? Explanatory film? PDF? NB. Boards should be presented photo-mounted to Daler Rowney board (A3 or A2) – NO BLOOD STAIN FINGER PRINTS, NO DOG EARS, TRIMMED, NO BUBBLES, NAMED AND LABELLED APPROPRIATELY;

• DITCH EXTRANEOUS ACCOUTREMENTS: so when handing in work get rid of things that are nothing to do with your work. So some of the things we don’t need to see are: Pullingers bags; Tipex Names in bad handwriting; masking taped name labels; masking tape CD holders; Windsor Newton sticky labels; foam board; fur covered sketchbooks (without very good reason!);

• WORK BOOKS and BLOGS: neatly compiled, labelled appropriately. NEITHER SHOULD INCLUDE REWRITTEN MODULE HANDBOOKS OR BRIEFS TO PAD THEM OUT (WE WROTE THE BRIEF WE NEED IT AS PART OF YOUR SUBMISSION). ON THE BLOGS WHEN POSTING OTHER PEOPLES WORK AS REFERENCE PLEASE LABEL THAT WORK CLEARLY AS REFERENCE MATERIAL eg: REF.: FALLON ADVERT FOR SONY.

• In the case of this module all work on blogs should be labelled with the task title as mentioned.

MG

Relief Printing workshops Posted by: Rose

See the workshops blog to sign up to a series of evening relief printing workshops, starting Tuesday.

Print workshops will soon only be posted on the workshops blog so keep your eye on it.

Rose

Screens in shop now! Posted by: Rose

If you ordered a screen in the shop then you can pick them up now.

It’s only open until 1pm today but they’re open from 10-1 and then 2-4 tomorrow and next week.

If you missed out on ordering one then there will be another chance to order one when the next Screen Printing Inductions start in a few weeks.

Reminder: Great free workshops + talks by interactive artists Posted by: Tom

Photo credit: Dune – Mehul H of Flickr.

If you attended the Processing workshop on Wednesday afternoon you no doubt have seen what cool stuff can be made, well tonight there is a free Decode Lab where you can get a chance to create your own work using the slightly less popular but far superior openFrameworks, the event continues over the weekend with Luke’s idol Karsten Schmidt (creator of the cool decode animation) running a openFrameworks workshop and other artists talking about their work and running demos.

Friday Late: Decode Lab
Friday 26 February
Throughout the Museum
18.30–22.00

Celebrate digital art, design and performance at one of the V&A’s popular Friday Lates, with talks, screenings, workshops and more. Create your own digital artworks in an openFrameworks lab, or listen in as Decode artists explore digital design today.

Digital Design Festival
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 February
Sackler Centre
10.30–17.00

The fun continues over the weekend with talks and demonstrations from Decode artists such as Memo Akten and Jason Bruges. Come and recode Decode in a workshop with Karsten Schmidt, create your own digital artworks in an openFrameworks lab, or explore the history of digital art in a tour of the display Digital Pioneers.