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Pride is 50 !

THIS BLOG IS NOW ARCHIVED  

The RoyalMail has launched new postage stamps to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pride;

The designs are based around the idea of ‘a march through time’, and were brought to life by animation studio Animade. NB Studio commissioned Birkin thanks to her “joyous and colourful style of illustration” – which seemed the perfect fit for the milestone celebration for the LGBTQ+ community.

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/nbstudio-royal-mail-pride-stamps/

Dear 2021...

 It seems (according to Spotify, Facebook and other platforms ) that its time to look back on the year . I came across this beautiful project where 2 friends exchanged weekly postcards across the Atlantic which visualised their weeks in data. 

http://www.dear-data.com/theproject 

"Each week, and for a year, we collected and measured a particular type of data about our lives, used this data to make a drawing on a postcard-sized sheet of paper, and then dropped the postcard in an English “postbox” (Stefanie) or an American “mailbox” (Giorgia)!

Eventually, the postcard arrived at the other person’s address with all the scuff marks of its journey over the ocean: a type of “slow data” transmission."

Poster Masterclass

One of the most brilliant designers in the UK's history was Tom Eckersley who worked mainly in public information illustration (that's posters that tell you stuff - to you & me!)  A new book has been published to celebrate the work of Eckersley "The graphic designer and poster artist was one of the key contributors to the explosion of visual print culture in Britain during the 20th century." 

Along with designers such as Abram Games , Eckersley was a master of the art of minimalism and gestalt; as the poster for the London Underground below shows. The Visual metaphor of the scissors immediately says shortening / cutting to us. See more of his work here : TOM ECKERSLEY

 

You Made It !

We are almost at the end of another year - huge congratulations to the leavers in the A2 year for their patience and resilience - as well as their fantastic work. You can see the work on our Flickr exhibition here https://www.flickr.com/photos/asfcartdepartment/albums/72157719399051731

A'level Results come out this year on August 10th and we look forward to hearing about your celebrations and progressions to pastures new ! 

We took advantage of the gorgeous sunshine yesterday & took our class photos A level Graphic Design Class of '21 (The Covid Year!) As the A2 students enter their final stages of the course, we wish them every luck (not that they will need it as they are a talented bunch). 

 

So what do you know ?

Fed up doomscrolling ? Try taking the Design week Quiz to see how much you know about 2020 and design ? 

https://www.designweek.co.uk/take-design-weeks-quiz-of-the-year-2020/