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21/04/2016
Join us for the unveiling of the brand new 2016 identity and October Programme with an evening of talks, music, drinks and design to celebrate Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2016! 6.30pm Wednesday 18th May 2016 The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Ln, Glasgow G1 3NU This is your opportunity to grab the first tickets for GDFS 2016, […]
18/03/2016
Send us your SHORTS! Last year we premiered Roadliners a short documentary film produced and art-directed by O Street and Pretend Lovers, which followed Glasgow-local Tam and his Road lining crew. Following on from the success of the evening, we are expanding to showcase a number of short films. If you have a short film you would […]
20/02/2016
Our Off Grid exhibition originally shown at Southblock Glasgow travelled to Nancy, France, to be shown at Galerie My Monkey. My Monkey has been showcasing innovative work from both up-and-coming and established designers from around the world for more than 12 years and we were honoured to be the first guests from Scotland. With […]
10/02/2016
I don’t think we’ve ever had a greeting like our arrival in École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy. We were invited to give a lecture about the festival and our studio and were generously welcomed by 7 60×40 inch billboard sized posters in the main entrance hall of the University. Each poster was created by groups of graphic design […]
10/01/2016
Mohawk was founded in 1931 in upstate New York, where the Hudson and Mohawk rivers come together and since then, has evolved to become the largest privately owned fine paper manufacturer in North America. We are proud to be partnered with Mohawk for GDFS 2015. Mohawk put people, innovation and craftsmanship at the front of what […]
04/01/2016
As 2015 comes to a close, we look back at the progress we’ve made. GDFS is officially the largest event ever hosted at Scotland’s National Centre for Design & Architecture, The Lighthouse and the entire 2015 programme sold out! We’ve welcomed an astounding 20,000+ participants and visitors to our past two festivals, with 30% of participants travelling from […]
30/12/2015
You can now see all of our past projects under Archive > Projects or right here: http://graphicdesignfestivalscotland.com/2015/projects/ All 2014 projects have been archived and all of the projects and events from 2015 will be added in the coming months. Enjoy!
17/12/2015
Tennent’s made sure that all of our festival visitors and participants were watered and provided a good dose of commotion lotion for all of our exhibitions! Tennent’s kindly provided us with a range of drinks including Heverlee, Black T, Lemon T, Tennent’s Lager, Menabrea and the delicious limited edition T in the Park beers along with […]
Our talks conference and panel discussion this year was expertly facilitated by the top man Rob Alderson. Speaking and participating on the panel were Studio Moross, HelloMe, Colophon, The Rodina and People of Print’s Marcroy Smith. The variety of talks were incredible from HelloMe’s meticulous and detailed insight into his process to The Rodina’s verging […]
On Tuesday evening at GDFS 2015, we showcased Roadliners, a short documentary film produced and art-directed by O Street and Pretend Lovers. Roadliners documents the unnoticed art of painting lines and type on roads. The film follows Glasgow local Tam and his roadlining crew as they lay down lines and letters by hand. “Born from a shared appreciation for these uncelebrated typographers-of-the-road and the craftsmanship […]