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After a year break from school (to work in the real world), Eoin Stanley has gone back to school in Dublin, Ireland. His work showcases a collection of fun and clever designs (I especially like the one featured above, which you can buy here). He has great use of colour, and every piece in his portfolio is candy to the eyes. Go check it out, buy things from him, and read his blog!
More often than not, when you’re playing, something wonderful comes out of it.
This great part 1 of a 4 part series of Designing Minds, features the students of The Art Centre of Pasadena. The graphic design students collaborated with the illustration students to put out a magazine, wrap, with some fantastic results. Watch this episode, and then catch the next 2 here, here, and part 4 should be released onto Youtube any day now.
I’ve always loved the idea of collaborating with students from another department. We have an advertising department somewhere in our school - I would love to receive art direction from them and see what happens… But I think what would be most exciting, is to team up with kids who publish our school paper. Send the graphic design students in for one issue, and see what happens. This video series really shows what potential collaboration has with students. Inspiring!
Graphic design student, Heather Russell has recently gone into business (another student starting a business!) creating handmade toys. Pictured above are her Veggie Deaths: small, morbid - and adorable - fimo characters. She also pumps out handsewn dinosquares; square, plush dinosaurs. It’s always exciting to see students succeeding in creative fields outside their main study - you know they’re passionate. They aren’t for sale online yet, though I’m sure they will be at some point (follow her blog, and maybe they’ll become available there eventually).
But wait! This post is actually featuring two students. The packaging, designed by Heather, was printed by a fellow student, Uhrgalo… his blog is absolutely worth checking out as well.
In this election year of 2008, Kevin O’Callaghan decided it would be important to have MFA design students comment on political and social themes. Yet how they make their statements was the real challenge. O’Callaghan had this 3d class create fashion collections that would be functional and metaphorical, as well as polemical. Model Citizen, is a runway show and exhibition that addresses through clothes and accessories the critical issues facing citizens everywhere.
This looks like a fantastic project from the MFA design students at the School of Visual Arts. I love when projects take on a practical challenge (in this case creating wearable clothing), while incorporating a political or social aspect. There are millions of people who know how to sew, how to use photoshop (or think they do), know how to code websites, etc… but only a small number of people who should actually do all that, and this project is helping to create more of them.
The above collection was designed and constructed by student, Hyun-Jung Hwang.
Finally - we’re featuring an industrial design student. Eric Stafford, a third year student at Humber College shows some incredible renderings on his deviantart (ugh) page. His line quality, colouring, and perspective are spot on. He also seems to be featuring some of his photography now. Definitely go check out his work, it really is incredible.
I came across an interesting site today: myocad.com. Basically what looks like a facebook for OCAD students/fans (is fans the right word? I just mean you don’t have to be a student to join the community). The part that grabbed my attention was the Art. There is a whole database of student-created and added artwork that you can browse through and comment on. I wish all design schools had places like this. I don’t know why showcasing the students work isn’t a top priority for schools, because it is really the most encouraging/non-encouraging factor in choosing a future school.
The other thing I found on myocad was a strong hatred for the students’ own school. There is more than one comment with the same attitude as this: And I think people on facebook still love ocad cause they haven’t graduated yet and have yet to see how totally full of shit most of their classes were in terms of helping them be employable.
Man, chill out, you get to live in Toronto!
Meaning_Making, a series of videos I found discusses the Graphic Design Thesis II work done by University of New York (I think I’ve linked to the right department there) students Michael Mallon, Joseph Mazzaro, Patrick Walsh and Melissa Washin. It’s asks questions about ideas, process, execution, etc. You might find the videos a little pretentious or slow at times, but what the students are saying is very interesting, and a lot of the work shown is fantastic. One piece that caught my attention in the 2nd video is the stenciled statistic on the recycling bin “a plastic milk jug takes 1,000,000 years to decompose” - seems like the perfect place to educate people on that issue! If you’ve got the time, go check them out. Here’s a link to each specific one (but watch them in order): 1 2 3 4 5
Maggie Martz (aka Bipo), a graphic design student at Conestoga College, has started posting her incredible illustration work on flickr. It’s always refreshing to see such organic work amidst the sea of computer-heavy graphic work coming out of a lot of students these days.
The School of Visual Arts graciously has a section on their website dedicated to showing the work of their students. It seems to me like every designer who’s on the verge of being a household-name has gone through this school at one point in their educational career. Anyway, check out the work.
The above piece was done by Amanda Spielman.
Alright, this video is of pieces of the 2008 Kingston (London) University Degree Show. I have seen three of the pieces they show on different websites and admired them all separately - I had no idea they were done by three students to begin with or that the students went to the same school. Major boost for Kingston University in my books. There is so much thought put into the work and the execution is top quality. This is great work from great students from a great school.
We’re showing this not only because the work is incredibly, but also because the video appears to double as a promo video for the school - so here you have this week’s SPV. I’m now split as to whether this video, or Konstfack’s is more effective in attracting students. I think for myself, Kingston University’s video excites me more and catches my curiosity… I want to see the schooling going into these talented students!