2015 Programme
| Friday 9th October | Monday 19th October | Tuesday 20th Oct |
Wednesday 21st Oct |
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| THYPE Exhibition Opening 7pm–10pm |
Impact by Design 6pm-8pm |
Music 10am-close |
Music 10am-close |
| 1 Day Workshops 10am-6pm |
Live 2-Day Project 10am-6pm |
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| Off Grid Exhibition Opening 7pm-late |
| Thursday 22nd Oct |
Friday 23rd Oct |
Saturday 24th Oct |
Sunday 25th Oct |
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| Music 10am-close |
Music 10am-close |
Music 10am-close |
Music 10am-close |
| Live 2-Day Project 10am-6pm |
2 Day Workshops 10am-6pm |
2 Day Workshops 10am-6pm |
Conference & Panel Discussion 2pm-8pm |
| Launch Night 7pm-late |
Club Night 11pm-3am |
Closing Drinks 8pm-late |
The festival promotes the best of international graphic design and visual communication, with networking and socialising playing a key role in the festival.
Live 2 Day Project
Information
Work on a creative design-led brief over 2 days with mentorship from some of the top creative practices in Scotland, with the opportunity to present and have your work reviewed by It’s Nice That, Creative Review, Creative Scotland and Danielle Pender of Riposte Magazine. The strongest 16 participants will be offered work placements with their mentor agency, be featured online and given a design bundle, with the top 3 winning the 2015 GDFS best-up-and-coming Award!
This is an opportunity to create a piece of personal work with industry level creative direction, meet like-minded people, develop your professional practice and enjoy yourself!
Shortlisted participants will be offered
– Work-placements with their mentor agency
– GDFS Best Up and Coming Award
– Graphics bundle
Mentors
Freytag Anderson
Touch
MadeBrave
O Street
Graphical House
Kerr Vernon
JamHot
Tangent
Recoat
STV Creative
D8
Dates
21st-22nd October 2015
10am-5pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£60 (£30/day)
Judges
It’s Nice That
Creative Review
Danielle Pender – Riposte
Creative Scotland
Live 2 Day Project Mentors
1 Day Workshops Overview
Information
The workshops are centred around; creative processes, conceptual thinking, visual communication and professional practice. They offer opportunities to develop creative problem solving abilities, expand practical skills, build on current knowledge, challenge ways of thinking and offer the chance to collaborate, learn and grow.
The workshop processes and outcomes vary greatly but this year include: conceptual thinking, print making, type design, illustration, film and animation, digital coding, web design, physical construction, strategy development and far more within the broad world of visual communication.
All of the workshops are open to students, professionals and the general public.
Spaces are extremely limited, so please apply quickly to avoid disappointment.
Dates/Times
20th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£50
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Codebase
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Workhorse Press
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Recoat X Harvest
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STV Creative
1 Day Workshop - Workhorse Press
Biography
Workhorse Press is a Risograph based design & Print studio based in Edinburgh, setup in 2010 by illustrator Dominic Kesterton & designer Orlando Lloyd.
Working with a variety of cultural organisations and clients to product highly finished printed outcomes, the studio’s practice revolves around combining skills of Design, Illustration & Risograph printing together to create bold and unique graphic work.
The studio also offers it’s Risograph printing services to individuals, organisations and collaborative projects.
Workshop Details
Our workshop will be collaborative, unpredictable and fun. Participants will be guided through the Risograph process to produce improvised, colourful prints. Printing both individual and overlapping artworks with other participants, the outcome will be a body of printed matter (that participants will take away with them) that is completely exclusive to the combination of people in attendance on the day! All work will be brought together to create a Risograph exhibition within the space.
Workshop spaces are limited, so please apply quickly to avoid disappointment.
Get InvolvedDates/Times
20th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£50
1 Day Workshop - Recoat X Harvest
Biography
Recoat is a Glasgow based Arts Organisation made up of artist duo, Amy Whiten and Ali Wyllie. Recoat started out as a gallery in 2007 but has evolved and grown so that they now specialise in curating mural projects, exhibitions and education programmes in the field of Contemporary Urban Art. They’ve worked with the likes of Insa, Sheone, 1010 and Matt Mignanelli to name a few and work regularly with Scottish artists like FiST, Mark Lyken, Susie Wright, David Galletly, Fraser Gray and Kirsty Whiten. They aim to fill our streets and homes with the finest quality art made by brilliant, talented people.
Workshop Details
This workshop is brought to you by Jamie Johnson, one of the founders of Harvest Skateboards and Amy Whiten of Recoat. Both Jamie and Amy have a shared background in Illustration and both make work for exhibition, clients and on the street. In their personal and business lives they push for and love collaborative projects, believing that it can be a key way to develop and grow the best work.
In October they hope to bring all of this together and take you on a journey of drawing exploration and experimentation with 2D and 3D mediums to create a collaborative mural/ installation/ sculpture in the great Glasgow outdoors.
Wear an old t-shirt….
Get InvolvedDates/Times
20th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£50
1 Day Workshop - CodeBase
Biography
CodeBase is the largest technology incubator in the UK and one of the fastest growing in Europe.
Workshop Details
An introduction to web design and digital development. This workshop will equip you with the skills to build a simple website.
Get InvolvedDates/Times
20th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£50
1 Day Workshop - STV Creative
Biography
We’re a hybrid creative agency. What is that? Well it means we combine award winning creativity and rock solid production to provide our clients with a beautifully rounded and efficient service they love us for.
Workshop Details
STV Creative are back again! Last year we brought a creative film and typography workshop to the GDFS, this year we’re mixing it up. Putting a commercial spin on the day’s proceedings; taking advantage of our team’s expertise we’ll explore and apply creativity in a practical environment. Without giving too much away, we’ll be taking on branding, copywriting, marketing, film, and motion. Prepare to test your brain and pull on your fun pants. (fun pants are optional.)
Get InvolvedDates/Times
20th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£50
2 Day Workshops Overview
Information
The workshops are centred around; creative processes, conceptual thinking, visual communication and professional practice. They offer opportunities to develop creative problem solving abilities, expand practical skills, build on current knowledge, challenge ways of thinking and offer the chance to collaborate, learn and grow.
The workshop processes and outcomes vary greatly but this year include: conceptual thinking, print making, type design, illustration, film and animation, digital coding, web design, physical construction, strategy development and far more within the broad world of visual communication.
All of the workshops are open to students, professionals and the general public.
Spaces are extremely limited, so please apply quickly to avoid disappointment.
Dates
23-24th October
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
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It's Nice That
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Studio Moross
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HelloMe
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Colophon
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The Rodina
2 Day Workshop - Colophon
Biography
Colophon is a London & New York-based independent type foundry established in 2009 by The Entente (Anthony Sheret & Edd Harrington) and joined in 2013 by Benjamin Critton Art Dept. The foundry’s commissioned and bespoke work in type design is complemented by independent and interdependent initiatives in publishing, curation, exhibition, and pedagogy, with a focus on local and international partnerships with institutions both large and small.
Workshop Details: Type Design from Research to Production
The workshop involves research, writing, the creation of your own font/lettering and type specimen. The research will involve taking photographs, making sketches and collecting ephemera, interesting materials and evidence. The writing comes in the form of explaining your research, process, decision making and final outcome. With the surrounding area of Glasgow acting as your starting point, you will develop a custom typeface or lettering based upon your findings and evidence.
Throughout the workshop we will be running 1-2-1 critiques and discuss the basics and details of type design from initial conception, through drawing to final output. You can work by hand, or on computer — whatever you feel more comfortable with. However, ideally we would like to see this as a digital file by the end of the workshop.
At the end of the workshop we will be running a final critique where we will ask you all to present your projects, from the initial research to the final output. This will include the typeface itself and also the typeface used within a design. The restriction here, is to make a piece of risograph printed ephemera, either a poster, booklet, set of postcards or other which will be printed with Workhorse Press’s risograph.
Get InvolvedDates/Times
23rd-24th October 2015
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
2 Day Workshop - Studio Moross
Biography
Studio Moross is a highly respected, London-based agency run by famed multifaceted illustrator and art director Kate Moross, that creates unique approaches to music-based visuals for a range of clients including Disclosure, One Direction, Young Turks, Jessie Ware and Sam Smith.
The studio pride themselves on experimentation and their ability to offer creative solutions with cheeky wit, eye-popping colour and true style. Studio Moross offers typography, illustration, moving image, branding, packaging and web design with consistent flair and personality.
Workshop Details: Studio Moross’ Rotoscoping Workshop
Rotoscoping is a technique invented almost 100 years ago by cartoonist Max Fleischer. It is a process of tracing over footage frame by frame to create an animated layer of live action footage.
From it’s humble roots in animated cartoons, it has since evolved into a popular animation process and has been used prominently by Walt Disney, The Beatles, Kanye West and also in our own practice at Studio Moross.
Our workshop aims to give an introduction into how Rotoscoping can be used in creative film-making, as well as highlighting the magic that can happen when working as part of a team.
Over the 2 days, we will offer opportunities to discover and experiment with the rotoscoping process, contextualizing the techniques with our own work before shooting and editing a 30 second looped film which each member of the group will rotoscope a section of in their own unique way.
Combining techniques and collaborating with other creatives always produces exciting results. Our practical workshop will give a hands-on introduction into this new technique as well as giving you an insight to how we like to work within the team at Studio Moross.
Get InvolvedDates/Times
23rd-24th October 2015
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
2 Day Workshop - HelloMe
Biography
HelloMe is a Berlin based design studio creating ideas, art direction and design for art, culture and commerce. Directed by Till Wiedeck, the studio was established in 2008 and since gained an international reputation for creating outstanding design and art direction for cultural and commercial clients including Nike (USA), COS, Warp Records, Goethe-Institut, Sternberg Press, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hatje Cantz, Berlin Art Prize, New York Times Magazine, Gutenberg Museum and many others.
Workshop Details: The Black Square
A workshop on the power of simplicity and the beauty of an idea.
Starting with Kasimir Malewitsch’s revolutionary painting “Black Square” (1915) we investigate the endless formal and creative possibilites of the square to create new meaning and surprising visual languages.
Dates/Times
23rd-24th October 2015
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
2 Day Workshop - The Rodina
Biography
Tereza and Vit Ruller are Czech-born, Netherlands-based independent graphic designers, founders of The Rodina and researchers who work on commissioned design projects, while also experimenting autonomously. They invent the ways how experience, knowledge and relations are produced. Interested in connections between culture, technology and aesthetic, studio creates events, objects and tools as the nodes of complex networks. The Rodina specialises in interactive projects, print, video, performances and physical installations. This crossmedia approach allows to examine communication as thousands of small interactions which leads to actions. Therefore are projects by The Rodina multilayered open systems.
Workshop Details: Game of Playbour
The borders between play and labour are disappearing. Work, time and leisure have become unified in one never-ending shift. This is especially articulated through our networked presence in multiinternet reality. Every hour of our play, minute of entertainment and megabyte of shared data generates profit. This realm of the lost division between labour and play is called playbour. All of us have become players in this game. But who is the real winner?
We will produce work individually through multiple quick tasks, to become unified at the end. Each individual work will be part of a large wall installation.
Get InvolvedDates/Times
23rd-24th October 2015
10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
2 Day Workshop - It’s Nice That
Biography
Founded in 2007, It’s Nice That has grown across many platforms – the website which is updated daily with at least nine new articles attracts a loyal, international readership of around 300,000 unique users a month, our biannual magazine Printed Pages, our summer symposium Here and the monthly Nicer Tuesdays talk series. As well as publishing inspirational work, we also harness this creative expertise to help brands communicate their messages to our audience and beyond through our creative agency INT Works.
Workshop Details
“LOOP THE LOOP” is a two day workshop experimenting with loops and GIFs—all to be used as part of a live audio/visual performance at the festival’s closing party.
The workshop will focus on combining analogue methods of making such as collage and stop-frame animation with digital methods of processing such as camera phone apps and glitching — all mixed together for a group show, where participants will have the chance to VJ, remix and distort their work live.
The workshop will be held by Karl Toomey and Jamie McIntyre from It’s Nice That/INT Works, along with VJ and animator, Charlie Doran. The live performance will be a collaboration with a TBC record label.
Participants are required to bring a charged smartphone/digital camera with enough free disk space to shoot lots of videos. Cables and chargers are also required. Participants should also have a laptop with Photoshop installed.
(Only 10 spaces available)
Get InvolvedDates/Times
23rd-24th October 2015 10am-6pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£120 (£60/day)
Impact by Design
Information
How can design transform the economy? What impact can design have on innovation?
We are partnering with Design in Action to invite you to an evening of exploration and discovery that aims to unpick the true value of design. Sponsored by Beer52, the event, part of a series headlined by the Graphic Design Festival Scotland, will include talks by Rob Holdway, Co-Founder of Giraffe Innovation; Kerrin Lumsden – Design Leader for Global Brands at DIAGEO; Cara Broadley & Brian Dixon of the Institute of Design Innovation, Glasgow School of Art, and Michael Pierre Johnson of Design in Action.
Spaces for this event are limited, so please apply quickly to avoid disappointment.
Get TicketsDates/Times
19th October 2015
6pm-8pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£10 (Includes drinks reception)
Speakers
Rob Holdway — Co-Founder of Giraffe Innovation
Kerrin Lumsden — Design Leader for Global Brands at DIAGEO
Cara Broadley & Brian Dixon — Institute of Design Innovation,
Glasgow School of Art
Michael Pierre Johnson — Design in Action
Conference & Panel Discussion
Information
5 distinct voices within the visual communications industry introduce them selves and highlights from their work before discussing the future of graphic design together through a panel discussion facilitated by Rob Alderson.
We are delighted to announce that People of Print will now be speaking at, and participating on the panel discussion, as unfortunately, It’s Nice That can no longer participate.
Spaces for this event are limited, so please apply quickly to avoid disappointment.
Schedule
2.00pm – Refreshments
2.30pm – Colophon
3.00pm – The Rodina
3.30pm – HelloMe
4.00pm – Refreshments
4.30pm – Kate Moross
5.00pm – People of Print
5.30pm – Refreshments
6.00pm – Panel Discussion
7.30pm – Close
Facilitator
Rob Alderson
Get TicketsDates/Times
25th October 2015
2pm-8pm
Location
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Cost
£25 (early bird)
£35 (standard ticket)
Speakers
Colophon
The Rodina
HelloMe
Kate Moross
People of Print
International Poster Exhibition
Information
Posters offer a universal platform for communication and have been utilised for centuries to provoke, promote, celebrate, and stimulate.
They act as a simple vehicle for communication and have provided a powerful framework for political agendas, War propaganda and the dissemination of public information, alongside being used as tools to sell commercial goods and services. However out with their functional existence, they provide a canvas for millions of designers around the world.
This exhibition is a showcase and celebration of contemporary poster design from around the world.
Those exhibited are a curated shortlist of 100 entries to Graphic Design Festival Scotland’s 2015 International Poster Competition, which took place between June and August this year (2015). The competition received 3432 entries from 83 countries and was judged by Warriors Studio, Tony Brook (Spin), Adrian Shaughnessy (Unit Editions) and Erich Berchbühl (Mixer & Weltformat).
Curated By
Adrian Shaughnessy
Tony Brook
Erich Brechbühl
Warriors Studio
Exhibitors
The shortlist from the International Poster Competition will be announced in September 2015.
Dates/Times
23rd October 2015 – 12th November 2015
10am-5pm
Exhibition Opening
Friday 23rd October 2015
7pm-late
Location
Gallery 4
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
THYPE
Information
An interdisciplinary exhibition of artists and designers who explore letterforms through their work.
Curated By
Recoat and Graphic Design Festival Scotland.
Exhibitors
- Roid (MSK)
- Greg La Marche
- Maya Wild
- Elph
- Ciaran Glöbel
- Joshua Barr
- Kat Loudon
- Pamela Tait
- Alice Rooney
- Fist
Dates/Times
10th – 25th October 2015
12-6pm
Exhibition Opening
Friday 9th October 2015
7pm-10pm
Location
On the Corner
253-257 London Road
Glasgow
G40 1PE
Off Grid
Information
An exhibition of artists/designers/makers/ communicators who are working on the border of multiple practices and questioning the definition of each of their specialisms.
The exhibition includes graphic art, set design, jewellery, product design, audio- visual installation, illustration, ceramics and written word/typography.
All work is new, unseen and has been commissioned for this exhibition.
Curated By
Graphic Design Festival Scotland
Exhibitors
- Hannah Clarke
- Al White
- Lauren Law
- Isla Macer Law
- Orlando Lloyd
- Dominic Kesterton
- Yokollection
- Warriors Studio
- Marianne Wilson
Dates/Times
20th October 2015 – 17th November 2015
10am-5pm
Exhibition Opening
Tuesday 20th October 2015
7pm-late
Location
SouthBlock
60-64 Osborne Street Glasgow G1 5QH
Launch Party
Information
A night of music, drinks and the opening of the International Poster Exhibition, marking the launch of Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2015.
A night of music from a wide range of record labels, club promoters and DJs, complimentary drinks and the opening of the International Poster Exhibition to mark the launch of Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2015. Afterparty details to be announced!
Music from:
- Tropical
- 12th Isle
- Handpicked
- Stay Fresh
- On Top
Dates/Times
Friday 23rd October 2015
7pm – late
Location
The Lighthouse – Gallery 4
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
GDFS X It's Nice That Closing Party
Information
GDFS are partnering with the creative titans over at It’s Nice That and a selection of record labels and promoters to bring you a night of live visual performance and back to back sets from Stay Fresh, Tropical, 12th Isle, On Top and Handpicked.
Karl Toomey and Jamie McIntyre from It’s Nice That/INT Works, along with VJ and animator, Charlie Doran will VJ, remix and manipulate a body of visual work live — an extension of their workshop at GDFS 2015.
All GDFS participants of workshops, talks and projects are entitled to a free ticket, however this must be reserved via Eventbrite
Early bird tickets: £6
Standard tickets: £10
Dates/Times
Saturday 24th October 2015
10pm – late
Location
TBA
Open Call Mural Competition
Information
We are offering the opportunity to paint a mural in Glasgow’s West End (approx. 10 minutes from Glasgow Central) as part of GDFS 2015.
Who can enter?
- The competition is open to anybody within Scotland, the UK and Europe
- We require you to submit examples of previous mural work, painting to scale
Key Dates
6/7/15 Competition Opens
14/8/15 Deadline for submissions
17/8/15 Winner announced
Guidelines
The brief is open, we would like to open a spectrum of possibilities and to see your personal interests, ideas, concerns or obsessions.
Yes:
- Celebrate something you love or believe in
- Something which raises awareness of an issue you consider important
- Something functional and informative
- Something expressive and without reason
- Type/image/pattern/
- Detailed/simple
- Representational/abstract
- Anything goes!
Where is the wall?
99 South Woodside Road
Glasgow
G4 9HG
What does the wall look like?
Transport
- You will be responsible for your own transport, however we offer a reimbursement of up to £100 (a receipt and proof of purchase will be required)
- Best mode of transport to reach the wall is by subway to Kelvinbridge Subway Station
What we will provide:
- A large wall space in Glasgow’s West End (approx. 10 minutes from Glasgow Central)
- Transport bursary up to £100
- Any materials required up to the value of £200
- Accommodation arrangements if required (for up to 3 nights)
Materials
- We will provide any materials required up to the value of £200, anything extra required must be provided by you
- We are open to any medium or approach but please consider the size of wall space and budget provided
Music
Information
6 days of curated music and live DJ sets from a selection of Glasgow-based record labels and promoters; ranging from young, up-and-coming artists through to well established international labels.
Each label and promoter will curate a selection of music and series of guests to play records every day within the space, creating a soundtrack for the event.
Dates/Times
20th – 25th October 2015
10am-close
Location
The Lighthouse, Gallery 4
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
22/10/2015
- Craig Gallacher
- Conal Blake (Whilst)
- Al White
- Stewart Brown
- Fergus Clark
- Gareth Roberts
- Ruaidhri McGhee