Colin Bennett has just launched his new site, with a large update to his already impressive folio. Colin’s senior designer over at the respected Stand design agency. See more of his folio at colinbennett.com

I’m doing a talk at Glasgow University on effective poster design and what rules to follow to make your poster memorable. This is part of their Media Week and I’ll be focussing on what people who are starting out in design, should remember when it comes to making their work effective, memorable and any no-no’s they must avoid. I’ll then go on to a Photoshop tutorial to show some tricks to remember (if you have a laptop with PS, feel free to bring along). No experience necessary and if you’re looking to learn new things then do join.

It’s free and it starts at 1pm 21/01 in the Williams Room, John Macintyre Building – http://goo.gl/maps/cJb0

I should also note, the above poster is fictional (for now).

Julian Dicken, aka Broken Face Design, is an illustrator and graphic design based in Glasgow. I guess I can relate to his displeasure of celeb culture and I admire his blatant disregard for political correctness through the insult, firmly stamped on their goofy looking faces.

Excellent typography and character designs in his gig posters too, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for these so I can swoop one up for my room.

See more at Broken Face Design

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

Telephone Me is hybrid live-action/animated piece about language working as a double agent, carrying a hidden meaning with it for reasons yet-unknown.

Beautiful work by MK12

I’ve been a fan of Erik Hamline’s work for quite some time now. This talented 23 year old from Minnesota, has an imprssive folio over at woodsandweather.com and also runs his own screen printing and design studiio at steadyprintshop.com. I’m a sucker for this style and would really love to see more work like this, coming out the UK.

Dirty Basement – Talent by Association ft. MC Freeflow(HD Version) from Joe Crogan on Vimeo.

Video for Dirty Basement’s “Talent by Association” ft. Mc Freeflow by Joe Crogan. Enjoy the lasers.

We are now running a Tumblr photo blog, with a daily dose of inspirational imagery and moving pixels from around the world. If you would like to suggest some work, leave a note in the comment box.

Check it out daily, as it’s always getting updated.

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Lucy lives in Glasgow, where she occupies her time as a visual artist, illustrator, and primarily musician. Lucy performs and records with Kenneth Wilson in the band, Trees, as well as in collaboration with other improvisers and musicians. She has just finished her illustration degree at The Glasgow School of Art, where she created a temporary record shop.

“I most recently exhibited a ‘by donation’ cd shop at the Glasgow School of Art degree show, in which all artworks and covers, of which there were 35, were designed, and hand printed by myself in editions of ten. The project began life as an investigation into the phenomena of underground culture and shifted focus to the independent record shop as a pivotal space for the dissemination and exchange of subcultural music and ideas.”

“Record shops are community centres just as much as they are music retailers with individuals reciprocating obscure and treasured information, learning, discussing, dispersing myths and lore. They are places in which access to such coveted knowledge can inspire one in to acting, to quote artist Emma Hedditch, it is this knowledge which “transforms, teaches, and inspires us into acting, making, performances, making and recording sounds”. My hope was that the project could instill the sense of excitement and discovery that I had experienced in record shops, and all that I feel I had learnt and been inspired to do from visiting them.”

Lucy Duncombe and Hanna Tuulikki – Mind Less Mind Full

“The project is a response to the life and works of British experimental film maker, Jane Arden. The results form the basis of an audio visual performance piece scheduled to take place at an exhibition in London, August, 2010, curated by Charlotte Procter.
As musicians, visual artists and illustrators, Hanna and I both have a fascination with the voice and the relationship of sound to image. As vocalists we are drawn towards experimentation both within song structures and free improvisation and this practice is informed by the idea that song can be understood as a sculptural process that finds expression using the materials of the body, and thus, vocal sound making or song as portrait of the self. John Cavanagh on oscillator”

You can see more of Lucy’s work at daphneofthedunes.blogspot.com/ and she can be contacted via lucy-duncombe@hotmail.com