Graphic Design Now In Production
Graphic Design course leader Noel Douglas features in a major new exhibition that is touring the USA this year. Featuring work produced since 2000 in the most vital sectors of communication design, ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ explores design-driven magazines, newspapers, books, and posters as well as branding programs for corporations, subcultures, and nations.
British Animation Awards comes to University of Bedfordshire
The British Animation Awards Public Choice Tour 2012 concludes in Luton during the 15-17 February. See the very best and latest British animation talent from ‘Gorillaz: Stylo’ by Pete Candeland & Jamie Hewlett, to ‘Tchaikovsky – An Elegy’ by Oscar nominated director Barry JC Purves A chance to see the Red Bull Canimation Award winning work of Luton-based, University of Bedfordshire Animation Graduate Chris Butcher
Animation Graduate Wins Red Bull Award
Animation Graduate Chris Butcher, already a ‘Barbican Ideas Tap Award Winner 2011′, has another prize to add to his collection, the Red Bull Canimation 2011 Open Stop Motion Trophy.
Nigel Grimmer – Staff billboard commission
The Roadkill Family Album, is an ongoing series of works shown here for the first time in a public location. Taking the form of an alternative family album using his friends and family the series highlights the constructed nature of images in Nigel’s photographs. Each piece silently questions the role of the human within nature, paring it with self destructive nature displayed within pockets society.
Ben Gets Creative With Business
A graduate and staff member in the art and design department, Ben Hodson has won a number of awards for his company. ATP Media, based out of the Hat Factory in Luton has recently been awarded at both a local and national level. The creative business has just received a Future 100 award and one of the directors, Ben Hodson won Community Businessperson of the year in the Luton’s Best of Awards ceremony at Luton Hoo last week.
Rebecca Meanley – Drawn In
Rebecca Meanley, a Visual Art Practice lecturer, will show abstract paintings in her exhibition, ‘Drawn In’ which explores the relationship between the artist and the canvas.
Ben Hodson – The Re Show
Staff member Ben Hodson is taking part in an arts council funded exhibition called “The Re Show”. The Re… Show is a group show of 12 artists. The venue for the show is the ‘Street Dreams’ workshop in High Wycombe. Street Dreams is a charity that equips young people with life skills and provides them with personal development opportunities.
Sława Harasymowicz – Dispatches
Sława Harasymowicz, a London based artist and lecturer in the Division of Arts and Design will be opening Dispatches, on Tuesday, 1 November in London.
Sława said: “The show is called Dispatches because it relates to the idea of ‘dispatching’ memory, and information, whether authentic, or ‘assumed’. It is a narrative which offers no explanation. I think it is an interesting opportunity to show art in the middle of a major political institution’s building.”
Nigel Grimmer – Time’s Relentless Melt
Friends and family enter Nigel Grimmer’s photographic work through his continual reworking of the family album format. Disrupting our expectations of “traditional” family portraiture Grimmer obscures the identities of his models, protecting them from the viewer’s gaze; his family are pictured turning their backs to the camera, or masking themselves with a variety of disguises and props.
Break Out At The Rebel Zoo
Recently graduated MA student Anna Skopinska has turned her masters project into a real publication Grafik Rebel which was just launched in August in Warsaw. For the launch Anna, as part of her new studio, Rebel Zoo Studio put on an exhibition featuring Design For Communication’s Course Leader, Noel Douglas and typographer and designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Masters students show at the Hat Factory
The MA Art & Design students are exhibiting at the Hat Factory gallery from the 12th of September, come see the graduates work.
Luton Textile Archeology
The Artist Sew n Sew invites you to a private view of an exhibition ” Luton Textile Archaeology ” in The Hat Factory, Gateway Gallery, Bute St , Luton. An installation of textiles, soft sculpture, relational art and photography on the theme of haptic, memory and association, made of vintage and contemporary, obsolescent and discarded textiles.
Iraq – The Next Step by Ben Hodson & Ian Rowlands
Staff member Ben Hodson and Luton based photographer Ian Rowlands have brought together an emotive exhibition at The Hat Factory throughout July 2011. This exhibition is part of an ongoing project in which they seek to challenge some of the stereo typical images we see coming out of Iraq. The artists present the nation’s history, with its savagery against humanity, but they also aim to look to the future with hope.
2000 images for the University of Bedfordshire open day.
If you are coming to the University of Bedfordshire open day tomorrow or if you are visiting any time soon, make sure you stop by and check out the thousands of images we have put up in the main entrance to the campus centre. The images show recent; events, work, staff, students, projects, exhibitions, trips and lots of the exciting stuff which goes on in the Art & Design department. If you are a current or recently graduated student come and see if you have made it on the wall!
Ben Hodson published in Digital Photographer
Staff member Ben Hodson has been published in Digital Photographer Issue #110. Ben was interviewed and profiled on some of his recent Iraqi work over the last year.
Chris Butcher selected as a winner of the IdeasTap & Barbican: Animate Brief!
BA (Hons) Animation 2009 alumnus Chris Butcher has been selected as one of six winners for the IdeasTap & Barbican Animate Brief for his graduation film “Rewind”. His animation is being screened as a short before Akira at the Barbican from 24 – 30 June 2011. The IdeasTap & Barbican Animate Brief is part of Watch Me [...]
Liva Cabule scoops 2nd Prize in the Puffin Design Award!
Final year Illustration student Liva Cabule has scooped the 2nd prize in the Penguin/Puffin Student Awards announced last night at an awards ceremony at Penguin’s head office in London. Every year Penguin books ask students to design a cover for a famous book of theirs, this year their childrens division asked students to rethink Roald [...]
Photos from the 2011 Art & Design degree show
Congratulations to all the students for a great degree show. There are a few images in this post, to view and download the rest of images from the 2011 degree show go here: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102062 Preparation: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102050 The Fashion Show: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102037
New Campus Centre welcomes Spatial Design
The University of Bedfordshire’s New Campus Centre in Luton, is home to the BA(Hons) Interior Design and BA(Hons) Interior Architecture Degree Show 2011 until 16th June 2011. The Final Major Projects on display are developments of the Interior/Architectural design project ‘Spatial Dichotomies‘. Students were asked to design for two contrasting user groups, accommodated within one [...]
2011 University of Bedfordshire Fashion show.
Tomorrow evening (6th June 2011) the 2011 Degree show will be showcasing the next generation of creatives. At 9:00pm at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts the Fashion Design students will be showing you their final collections. The event is free, but make sure you get there early to get yourself a seat. Refreshments are [...]
You are invited to the 2011 Degree Show
You are invited to the 2011 University of Bedfordshire Art and Design Show. Luton Campus, Park Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU. Private View: Wednesday 8th June 6 till 10pm. Including the Fashion Show and Dance Display starting at 9PM in the adjacent UK Centre for Carnival Arts. The Art & Design students and staff [...]
Unusual Suspects by Photography & Video Art Students
Unusual suspects is an exhibition opening at the Hat Factory, created by five students who met on photography course at University of Bedfordshire. They have come together to bring you their own interpretations of the medium in variety of forms. Ksenija Kucerova’s works varies between drawings combined with found images, stop motion animation, and [...]
Spatial Design takes to the stage, again…
Year II Spatial Designers have just completed a collaborative project working alongside students from the Polhill Campus in Bedford. Following on from last year’s successful ‘Making Performance’ project, Year II Spatial Designers once again teamed up with Year II Contemporary Theatre Practice students/directors ) and Year I Theatre and Professional Practice students/actors. This ‘creative team’ [...]
Spring has Sprung!
Design for Communication course leader Noel Douglas has been published in ‘Springtime’ a book on student protests around the world. The book produced by Verso includes a large section on the UK student movements against increased tuition fees, Noel has illustrated these struggles in a 16-page section, some images of the spreads are below.
