When it comes to user interface design, James McDonald’s got it on lock down. I’ve always admired how all his work is so crisp, sharp, balanced, effortless, harmonious and never cluttered. Working with UI design myself, I highly appreciate the attention to detail he adornes to his work. James is 20 years young and is one of the lucky few to be invited to Dribbble, where is work is getting a lot of love.

James also contributes to the highly popular, 365psd.com where he donates photoshop files for designers and creatives to use, for free. An example of which, is above.

James is on the look out for work with a Glasgow based agency. If you could benefit from his excellent skills, contact him through his site: enthusiastik.com. You can also follow James throught his Twitter.

I was approached by a company in LA to design the interior for a new store they were opening in Glasgow International Airport. Planeshop is a flexible retail concept, where a new brand occupies their space for a limited time as oppose to a permanent strore. Check out the Superfuture site for more information on this venture.

I designed a custom wallpaper to wrap around the interior and reflect the brands unique concept, with the same individuality within the illustration. I had a great time working on this project and I’m chuffed my illustrations are gracing the K-Swiss store.

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A close up detail of the wallpaper, you can see more images of the installation at my folio, spacewood.co.uk

With the world in financial crisis, creativity is a non-essential. Apparently. It’s hard to look to the future and see it positively. So what you going to do about it?

Dress up. Dance. Look good. Let go.

Showcasing fashion, electronic music, visual art, performance art and photography, Nightwalk is a celebration of Glasgow’s night culture. Playing with what defines a club night, the Friday Night Takeaway team have assembled a myriad of up-and-coming Glasgow-based independent designers, performance artists and DJs and given them a platform.

With models working the runway down the centre of the dancefloor, DJs playing the latest in cutting edge electronic music from the stage, and photographers and videographers feeding a live stream of your unique fashion statements from the centre of the crowd, spectators, models and clubbers become one, united by one mission: to reinvigorate the forgotten art of hedonism.

DESIGNERS:
Torres
Emma Shannon
Frederick Morrison
Fi*Be
OLANIC
Betty Spoke
William Chambers
Jill Kennedy
Loula Creates
Shona Douglas
ten30

DJs:
Ursula
Chris Lamb
Mustang Sally
Neil Templar

PERFORMERS:
Stevie B
Lady Munter
Alessandro Guarino
Markus Makavallian

All proceeds go to St Margaret’s Hospice. Early bird tickets available from Arches Box Office – call 0141 565 1000 or ask at the counter.

Joseph Pielichaty is a creative explorer taking his first steps as a creative after graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in July 2010. Having studied Graphic Design, he notes that his passion for the subject’s diversity allowed for him to develop personal projects that questioned what can be labelled as art as well as design. He is shortly moving from his home in Nottingham to Glasgow, where he is working as a Graphic Designer as well as focusing on a collection of ongoing, personal projects.

“One of my more illustrative projects, The Stars Are Made of Ink is composed of honest, self-reflective statements and drawings found within the pages of my sketchbooks. Pieced together like a jigsaw, the finished print became like a doodled self-portrait that gives both everything away about my personal life and nothing away due to its cryptic, labyrinth-like aesthetic. ”

“My Blue Skies project takes the form of a small book, created during the long nights in Edinburgh when I would dream of escaping my responsibilities and fleeing the country. However, unable to make this a reality, I took to traveling via the pages of a newspaper, and cut out various segments of blue skies belonging to the countries I wished to visit. Within the space of few weeks, this regular, cathartic task meant that I had tallied up thousands of air miles without ever leaving my room.”

“My personal project 193/8 was a major piece in my final year of study and was based on a brief that asked me to develop a typographic shrine. It resulted in a series of experimental datagraphics, which were uniquely developed whilst traveling through the post to my address in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh. Giving a physical form to each of the items’ journey allowed for the development of a new, abstract form of mapping.”

You can view more of Joseph’s work at his folio site: josephpielichaty.co.uk

This screen printed poster is the resolution of a personal project, where I explored the ideas of the Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect. I removed the word ”nothing” with a hole puncher, and then used the holes removed to create the word “something”, playing on the idea that something can come out of nothing.

I wanted to produce a calendar for 2010 that would encourage you to do something with the year, so I produced a less conventional calendar that acted as a countdown that faded as each page was torn off.

Edinburgh based graphic design agency Touch, set a brief to create a viral advert for them. I wanted to highlight that the company try to make the most out of paper, and also wanted to play on the idea of touch, by creating this stop motion animation.

20 year old Edinburgh College of Art student, Jamie Scott, moved from Peebles in the Scottish Borders to Edinburgh in 2007 to begin his foundation course, before specializing in Graphic Design the following year. He likes to work in a broad way, whether that be spending time in the print workshop or working digitally. For him the most important thing is having a concept that he can immerse himself in and have fun with; his most recent project being a personal one where he researched into the Chaos Theory and spent hours with a hole puncher. Jamie recently completed a work placement at Project in Edinburgh, and will be beginning his final year of studies later this month.

You can see more of his portfolio at jamiescott.co.uk

Emma Crichton recently graduated with a First Class BA Hons Degree in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art. Experimenting with different subject matter she is interested in the relationship between people, objects and nature. In terms of the aesthetic, the physical and the emotional.

Emma is currently exhibiting her series ‘I started to laugh…’ in Street Level Gallery Glasgow as part of the group exhibition ‘Futureproof’ which showcases the work of emerging photographers from around Scotland.

Emma says “The images I have made for this series are nostalgic. I am photographing people that I want to hold on to, who are important to me and who I can’t be with all the time. The other elements I have photographed such as the still-lives, animals and landscapes are for me all ultimately related to one another.”

Emma has completed internships with Dazed and Confused magazine and Rankin Photography and is now living and working in London. You can see more of her work at emmacrichton.com.