Ravensbourne - The Degree Show
Ravensbourne - College of Design and Communication in North Greenwich were having their degree show today, so I decided to attend seen as I had a couple of friends who were showcasing their work so I thought it would be nice to show my support and I just kind of felt like I needed that bit of inspiration for the day. Two birds one stone anyone?
Ravensbourne have actually been doing the degree show since the 16th of June and it will finish on the 20th, I chose to go to today's one because of what was on Motion Graphics at 6pm, Graphic Design at 7pm and Product Design and Interaction at 8pm.
Here are a few images taken from the event below:
This was the first piece of graphic design work I saw was by a student called Chiamaka it's really hard to tell from the image I took but her work was based upon the artist Tyler the Creator, and she went for a funky piece of work where her sketch of him (in felt tip might I add) almost looked 3D based on the folded pieces of paper, it was bursting out the page each strip had a different piece of him that when finally accumulate looked as you see above. I definitely think she captured Tylers energy and wacky creativity, good piece of work.
Work from a student called Josh.
This piece of work was from a student called Milly Huynh I really liked her information design piece, (follow the link). Her work demonstrated the consumption and danger of our sugar and fat intakes which have not been made aware to majority of the public, the poster basically shows all the ingredients in each of ten foods that she chose that contain 50/50 sugar and fat. The foods chosen can be broken down based on the categories provided. But i really did like this piece one of my favourites from the event.
Simple infographic about coffee, being a coffee lover I was certainly intrigued by this piece of work.
A bit of branding work, this mainly caught my eyes simply because of the colours on show and 2. because it's branding work which is also what I love doing, so it was nice to see someone elses for a change. I didn't catch the students name for this piece of work unfortunately.
The other day I was looking at the D&AD website for the yellow pencil winners, new blood awards and others and I noticed this brief for the competition it was to repackage Purdey's but it was nice to see a different kind of solution to the brief here is one yellow pencil winner I came across online http://www.dandad.org/awards/new-blood/2014
Having spoken to some of the students we discussed areas of graphic design we were both interested in and spoke about prospects after university (at least for them), some students have already got something lined up in either a job or a paid internship so the moment they finish they are walking straight into a job, which I guess is what the benefits of going to Ravensbourne is, as they do have ties to a lot of industries (i've heard) so in this case it would definitely be it's not what you know, but rather who you know.. But it was certainly nice to hear from students, as I was in this position last year, (in fact i'm still actually looking for something full time in my field) so it was helpful to hear how these students (that didn't have placements lined up already) plan on breaking into the industry and what step they were going to take if they were unsuccessful so on and so forth.
Overall though I can say it was a brilliant degree show with some really good quality and inspiring work which I know will spur me on to continue in my path as a graduate designer, just that bit of inspiration I needed.
Once the show was over a host of people gathered to unfortunately watch England crash out of the world cup.. sad times.
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