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textwrap: May 2014

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Tuesday, 27 May 2014. On Thursday May 1st I attended the latest LongLunch. The venue was Glasgow School of Art's new and extremely impressive Reid Building, and the speaker, introduced as the designer who needs no introduction, was Pentagram's Paula Scher. After the talk and a huge ovation, Scher signed posters (including the one shown here, a nice birthday present), and accompanied a big section of the audience to the CCA.

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textwrap: April 2014

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Saturday, 19 April 2014. Upbeat Government figures published earlier this week, and reported in the DRUM. Suggest that the creative industries produced a growth of almost 10% in 2012, outperforming all other sectors of UK industry by generating a stunning £8m per hour. Design saw an employment increase. Can you assemble the various bits of an idea into a coherent narrative, into something people other than yourself can understand?

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textwrap: January 2015

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Wednesday, 14 January 2015. Poster, has already been widely ridiculed. In terms of visual communication, real ideas in election campaigning have been in decline since the late 1990s. The 2010 election is a case in point, where the main campaigns ran embarrassing parody posters based on 'Ashes to Ashes' - a popular TV show featuring a time-travel plot and set in the early 1980s. By 1983 the UK had woken up to what it had really voted f...

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textwrap: March 2014

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Sunday, 16 March 2014. Talking of Creative Exchange, the current exhibition running there is called 'Experience', and features work by HND Visual Communication - Interactive Design. The show focusses purely on one project, the YCN Competition submission for 2014. The opening night was last Friday, and as well as a big turnout across our various Vis Comm courses, the event attracted graduates and industry professionals from a variety o...

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textwrap: November 2014

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Saturday, 8 November 2014. One of my final year students came to me with an interesting idea for his end-of-year project. He was writing a novel, and wanted to design and self-publish it, both in print and in digital formats. The writing was 'a bit experimental', but he also wanted to explore format itself, and he'd heard me mention ergodic. And House of Leaves. With all this in mind, Ross set about creating an organic, stylistically ...

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textwrap: December 2014

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Mastering the history of videogames. Sunday, 28 December 2014. Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland is currently hosting the rather superb Game Masters. A major exhibition showcasing the work of thirty of the most influential computer games designers and studios, and featuring 100 of the greatest video games since Tomohiro Nishikado's seminal 'Space Invaders' (1978). Robotron 2084 - Viz Kids/Williams, 1982, Designed by Eugene Jarvis.

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textwrap: Talking to your Target Audience(s)

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Talking to your Target Audience(s). Sunday, 12 April 2015. In case you are unaware, there's a General Election happening in the UK. We go to the polls on May 7th in what promises to be the most exciting campaign in living memory. Back in January on textwrap I looked at classic campaign posters. Under the auspices of the popular and capable Nicola Sturgeon, is threatening to secure the bulk of seats north of the border, leaving Labour ...

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textwrap: Fast Product and Big Gold Dream

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Fast Product and Big Gold Dream. Monday, 22 June 2015. A highlight of this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. Was the world premiere of 'Big Gold Dream', a music documentary, ten years in the making, about Scotland's post-punk era in Edinburgh and Glasgow during the late 70s and early 80s. The film is actually in two parts, with the first (this release) to be followed later this year by a second part called 'Songs from Northern Britain'.

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textwrap: Classic Election Posters

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Design education and visual communication. Authored by chris m hughes. Wednesday, 14 January 2015. Poster, has already been widely ridiculed. In terms of visual communication, real ideas in election campaigning have been in decline since the late 1990s. The 2010 election is a case in point, where the main campaigns ran embarrassing parody posters based on 'Ashes to Ashes' - a popular TV show featuring a time-travel plot and set in the early 1980s. By 1983 the UK had woken up to what it had really voted f...