Graphic Design Degree Show 2017

 

 

So two days left for the public to come and view our degree show at university. Its open from 10am till 7pm on Wednesday and 10am till 5pm on Thursday. I’ve been trying to promote this on Twitter as much as I can without getting too annoying.

Friday was the opening night; it went well. Busy with people from industry, lots of friends and family all in the Queen’s building at DMU.

I’ve enjoyed working in Queen’s, got use to the unusual shape of the studio, the little bridges that connect all of the room, creative atmosphere and equipment I’ve had access to. Although sometimes I’ve needed a change of atmosphere and walked over to the new Vijay Patel building which has so many spaces to sit and work so that’s been nice too.

I was head of the publicity team for this year’s degree show and we started having meetings in early October organised by my tutor. As a group, we decided on the theme of ‘Set Sail’. Holding the meaning of starting a new journey as we all embark on a new chapter after graduating. This is third year we have been allowed to choose a theme. In previous years it has just been the year, for example ‘Degree show 2012’. I’ll write a full post about degree show organising, designing, fundraising, social media and all of the stuff in between once its completely over J

Our website is www.setsail2017.co.uk Instagram and Twitter is: @SetSail2017 and the hashtag everyone on the course has been using is #SetSail2017

Elliot Priestley created the website whilst being on the team with us. Any updates we had as the design team, he got them done to keep everything consistent, and an all-round great guy ( @elliotpriestley )!

Amy Sarfas has been looking after the Instagram account and has been the other half of the design team for the degree show.

This is my degree show board, featuring my Final Negotiated Project, Major Negotiated Project, competition brief (The Practical Printer and G.F Smith), an ipad with my website, portfolio pages, CV and business cards. I’ll upload each project in full as a separate post as I feel they deserve a post each.

 

 

 

 

Also got given a sunflower for being a part of the team from the tutors. Here is a picture of Ramella, Amy and I with our sunflowers. At first I wasn't sure if I liked this photo, but this is probably the happiest I've looked in months! So yeah, I like this photo :) Photo of us taken by Sunny Singh, whose work is amazing! and can be found here on Instagram @graphicsunny and same for Twitter.

 

I also got featured in the technology degree show book about my experience on the course and my work could be seen on screen throughout campus and on the big screen outside the Vijay Patel building!

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some more photos from the night! A little bit blurry!

Announcements and speeches downstairs!

Awards about to get announced for students and displays.

Ollie won some award for student achievement or something like that, what a guy.

Joe repping my work and Set Sail stickers Chris Edwards ( @_c_edwards ) designed for the show.

 

 Elliot having his photo taken...how fancy! Also had my photos taken and they were very cheesy so I'm not looking forward to the day I have to see them. In fact they may never get used so that's okay ahaha.