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19—25.10.18
5th Birthday!

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Conference & Panel Discussion
Friday 19th October
Mitchell Library, Glasgow

11.00am-5.00pm
Doors open: 10.00am

A series of insightful talks and discussion from creative industry leaders.

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Naresh Ramchandi/Pentagram

Pentagram is the world’s largest independent design consultancy. The firm is owned and run by 21 partners, a group of friends who are all leaders in their individual fields. They design architecture and interiors, books, branding and identities, digital installations, exhibitions, films, products, posters, and websites from offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin and Austin.

Speaking on behalf of Pentagram is Partner Naresh Ramchandani.

 

KesselsKramer

Established in 1996, KesselsKramer is an independent, communications agency in Amsterdam, London and now in Los Angeles with about 50 people of 10 different nationalities.

Speaking on behalf of KesselsKramer is Co-Founder, Erik Kessels.

 

GraphicDesign&

GraphicDesign& is a pioneering publishing house dedicated to creating intelligent, vivid books that explore how graphic design connects with all other things and the value that it brings. Established by graphic designer Lucienne Roberts and design educator Rebecca Wright, GraphicDesign& partners graphic designers with experts from other fields to inform, educate, entertain and provoke – and to challenge perceptions about what and who graphic design is for.

Speaking on behalf of GraphicDesign& are Co-Founders, Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright.

Noeme Le Coz

Noemie Le Coz is an Australian, independent graphic designer, illustrator and art director, living and working in New York City. While very diverse, her aesthetic approach often merges minimalism with a distinct sense of play. Strategically, her work aims to elevate brand offerings by pinpointing audience appeal and distilling core messaging down to its clearest and freshest visual form. Previously at Pentagram Design, RoAndCo Studio, Hugo & Marie, Partners & Spade, Google Creative Lab and Apple.

 

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun, in which he employed much of the typographic and layout approach for which he is known. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called “grunge typography” era.

 

Noviki

Noviki is a graphic design studio established by Marcin Nowicki and Katarzyna Nestorowicz, based in Warsaw, Poland.

Noviki studio’s signature is a content-driven approach based on the idea of design as a source for searching and exploring the borders of contemporary art expression. Noviki practise works across various media.

Speaking on behalf of Noviki are Co-Founders, Marcin Nowicki and Katarzyna Nestorowicz.

 

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David Carson: Explore

Go on a journey of exploration and experimentation with one of the world’s most iconic designers alive in graphic design.

David Carson is one of those people who needs little introduction… Breaking all established rules, David Carson built up unstoppable momentum, carving his name into the world of graphic design and contemporary culture.

 

2-day Workshop,
Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October
The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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About David Carson

David Carson, American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s.

Cited by Graphic Design USA (NYC) as “One of the top 5 most influential designers of the era” along with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.

“Carson forged graphic design into a cultural force and a medium with its own shape and direction.” AIGA, 2014

“David Carson was the last person whose work for a magazine shifted wider contemporary design” Creative Review, 2014

“Styles come and go. David’s design is a language, not a style.” Massimo Vignelli

“He significantly influenced a generation to embrace typography as an expressive medium” Steven Heller, 2010

Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer—ranked eighth in the world—and a California high-school teacher when, at age 26, he enrolled in a two-week commercial design class.

Discovering a new calling, he briefly enrolled at a commercial art school before working as a designer at a small surfer magazine, Self and Musician.

He then spent four years as a part-time designer for the magazine Transworld Skateboarding, which enabled him to experiment. His characteristic chaotic spreads with overlapped photos and mixed and altered type fonts drew both admirers and detractors. Photographer Albert Watson, for example, declared, “He uses type the way a painter uses paint, to create emotion, to express ideas.” Others felt that the fractured presentation obscured the message it carried.

In 1989 Carson became art director at the magazine Beach Culture. Although he produced only six issues before the journal folded, his work there earned him more than 150 design awards. By that time, Carson’s work had caught the eye of Marvin Scott Jarrett, publisher of the alternative- music magazine Ray Gun, and he hired Carson as art director in 1992. Over the next three years, with the help of Carson’s radical design vision, Ray Gun’s circulation tripled. Because Carson’s work clearly appealed to a youthful readership, corporations such as Nike and Levi Strauss & Co. commissioned him to design print ads, and he also began directing television commercials.

After leaving Ray Gun in 1995, Carson established David Carson Design. The firm was instantly successful and attracted well-known, wealthy corporate clients. In 1995 Carson produced The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson (revised edition issued in 2000 as The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson), the first comprehensive collection of his distinctive graphic imagery. This was followed by the boldly experimental books 2nd Sight (1997), Fotografiks (1999), and Trek(2003). In 2014 Carson was awarded an AIGA Medal.

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Noviki: Graphic Design Utopia

Tackle the problems we face each day as designers together.

Solve issues, build creative solutions, develop strategies for becoming more conscious and more productive to improve our lives as designers.

Post-noviki workshops are a highly effective change management activity that help you and your group reach a shared understanding and achieve valuable learning objectives.

2-day Workshop
Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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About Noviki

Noviki – Graphic designers by training and identification as a post-studio interested in creating alternative frameworks for projects understood as a research process exploring graphic design, curatorial and exhibition practice in post artistic world; with corollary interests in the clash of post-conceptualism and technology-based tools. Noviki post-studio’s signature is a context-driven approach. Noviki understands exchange with other disciplines as being an essential part of their post-studio work. Our post-studio shapes its position and tools operating in various media, creating printed, video and virtual images, participating in panel discussions, giving lectures, organizing exhibitions and conducting workshops. All noviki post-studio activities are distributed and summarized by blockchain of love.

Noviki works were published in the following publications: ID Pure, Slanted, “Pretty Ugly Graphic Design & Lifestyle Visual Rebellion in Design,” “Culture Identities” by Gestalten. Noviki were external advisors in KABAK Royal Academy of Art in the Hague and in Warsaw Academy of Art, gave many performative lectures in art collages and Universities across Europe and Asia. Run workshops in Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Tehran museum of contemporary art and Brno Biennale.

 

 

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Erik Kessels: Redefining Celebration

Its GDFS’ 5th birthday so KK will be looking into the concept of birthdays, celebration and researching new ways of thinking about it.

2-day Workshop
Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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About Erik Kessels

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and curator and is since 1996 Creative Director of international communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and London.

As an artist and photography curator Kessels has published over 50 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images, is editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and has written the international bestseller Failed It!

Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS of Photos, Album Beauty, From Here On and Unfinished Father.

In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2017 his mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin and Düsseldorf.

Workshop Info

We live in an age where most of the tools we use are close to perfection. Our computers, phones, applications and navigation systems make no mistakes but perfection may not be a good starting point for coming up with new ideas.

Deliberately working towards making mistakes, and from there, finding new directions could lead to innovation.

If you’re not willing to humiliate yourself, make mistakes and downright fuck-up, you should consider working in a cubicle farm. It’s safer there. 

Because as a creative, you’ll be called an idiot at least once a day.

That’s okay.

Making mistakes and failures, is how you progress.

Without it, you’ll be stuck in the same old safe zone.

In other words: boring.   

So if we want to do this thing we love, make stuff, we have to get over our need not to fail.

Kick your old habits, shake up your thinking and together we’ll embrace failure, make mistakes and make progress!

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Caviar: Making a Music Video

A hands-on introduction to the art of music videos with Caviar.

Working with the likes of Cardi B, Selena Gomez, Jay Z and Dua Lipa, Caviar are an award-winning entertainment company with offices in Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Paris & Madrid.

2-day Workshop

Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Caviar

Caviar is an award-winning entertainment company with offices in Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Paris & Madrid.

Our passion is to entertain audiences, wherever they are.

Caviar’s ever growing circle of creators is rooted in branded content, film, digital and post production.

Workshop Information

The world of music videos is one of the craziest, radical and most experimental commercial art-forms going. Still in its infancy – with MTV airing the first video in 1981 (Video Killed The Radio Star!) – the genre has developed and reflected artistic, cultural, socio-economic and technological changes in the last 30 to 40 years. We have seen many directors from the likes of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Jonathan Glazer to name but a few, transfer their creative skills from short to long form. 

 But today the art and process of making a music video with creative longevity and budget is now more challenging than ever. Despite this, it still remains one of the best vehicles for a blank canvas creativity and a gateway into the moving image industry. Our workshop looks at the beginning of the process, giving an introduction to nurturing an idea into a pitch, as well as highlighting the magic that can happen when working as part of a team to further propel that idea.

Over the 2 days, we will briefly look at the history of the genre, break-down the industry process, creatively and with production in mind. We’ll use real label briefs and videos as examples as we look to creatively develop MV ideas with the label, artist and budget in mind. This process will end with each participant pitching an idea to the group and getting constructive feedback on your approach. We will then discuss the process of the actual video that was created for the specific track.

Combining techniques and collaborating with other creatives always produces exciting results; our practical workshop will give a hands-on introduction the art of imagining and pitching a music video.

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Or Type: Alphabet

How can we enrich the culture and history of our alphabet?

What if our references are to come from something new and unexpected rather than historical?

Challenge tradition and explore new ways of designing letterforms with Icelandic foundry Or Type.

2-day Workshop
Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Or Type

Or Type is a Danish/Icelandic digital type foundry, founded in 2013 to publish typefaces designed by GUNMAD (Guðmundur Úlfarsson & Mads Freund Brunse).

Their typefaces aim at challenging the conventions found in typographic traditions and contemporary values. Working with vernacular references and from intrinsic ideas, their typefaces are designed to have their own reason for being, rather than filling a gap in the font market. Being a digital foundry, existing typefaces are constantly brought up in order to create a new take on previous ideas.

Workshop Information

During this 2-day workshop we will look into new ways of creating letter shapes for the latin alphabet.

By observing different environments at different scales, you will have the opportunity to developing your own methods for designing type with our support.

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StudioSpass: Installations and Interventions

Investigate diverse ways of working together to create a collaborative interactive print installation to be exhibited at the festival.

During our workshop we will give a peek inside our creative process, working and playing with different scales and techniques on typography, patterns, structures and more.

2-day Workshop

Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About StudioSpass

Studio Spass is a Rotterdam-based agency that works across print, branding, web and spatial design projects as well as animation and photography. Founded by Jaron Korvinus and Daan Mens in 2008, the studio combines a rigorous, considered and intelligent approach with a playful sensibility.

They understand that powerful and effective visual communication needs both original ideas and faultless execution, and the team prides itself on its perfectionist eye for the little details as well as its innovative conceptual thinking. Jaron and Daan continue to oversee the studio’s output and have built a diverse team of specialists as well as a wider network of creatives on which they can draw.

Studio Spass works closely with clients and believes in genuine collaboration to develop the best visual solutions possible but that doesn’t mean slavishly following a brief – rather they like to challenge their clients and make sure their designs are answering the right questions.

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Pentagram: Poster Power

Fight for what you believe in!

Explore the power of words and symbols with Pentagram’s first ever communications and advertising partner.

A self-proclaimed  lover of words, Naresh has driven global campaigns for brands including Ikea and Sainsbury’s, written and produced short films aired on channel 4, written 63 thought pieces for the Guardian, spoken at the House of Commons and inspired 40 million people worldwide to live a greener life by co-founding Do The Green Thing.

Naresh is quite an extraordinary guy. This is an opportunity, not to be missed.

“I am known by a couple of words. You could call them names. They are Naresh and Ramchandani. The first means King of Kings, and the second, Son of Ramchand. They are pretty big words to live up to. Thanks Mum and Dad.

I am also known by some other words that are a little easier to live up to: Londoner, Indian, Partner, Parent, Average Guitar Player, and Writer – a big word which in my case means a chooser and arranger of words for commercial and sometimes social purposes.”

2-day Workshop,
Saturday 20th–Sunday 21st October
The Lighthouse, G1 3NU

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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Erik Kessels and David Carson Q&A

Saturday 20th October
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

19.00-22.00
Doors open: 18.30

Take part in an open discussion with two of the most iconic names in the design industry.

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About Erik Kessels

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and curator and is since 1996 Creative Director of international communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and London.

As an artist and photography curator Kessels has published over 50 books of his ‘re- appropriated’ images, is editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and has written the international bestseller Failed It!

Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS of Photos, Album Beauty, From Here On and Unfinished Father.

In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2017 his mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin and Düsseldorf.

About David Carson

David Carson, American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s.

Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer—ranked eighth in the world—and a California high-school teacher when, at age 26, he enrolled in a two-week commercial design class.

Discovering a new calling, he briefly enrolled at a commercial art school before working as a designer at a small surfer magazine, Self and Musician.

He then spent four years as a part-time designer for the magazine Transworld Skateboarding, which enabled him to experiment. His characteristic chaotic spreads with overlapped photos and mixed and altered type fonts drew both admirers and detractors. Photographer Albert Watson, for example, declared, “He uses type the way a painter uses paint, to create emotion, to express ideas.” Others felt that the fractured presentation obscured the message it carried.

In 1989 Carson became art director at the magazine Beach Culture. Although he produced only six issues before the journal folded, his work there earned him more than 150 design awards. By that time, Carson’s work had caught the eye of Marvin Scott Jarrett, publisher of the alternative- music magazine Ray Gun, and he hired Carson as art director in 1992. Over the next three years, with the help of Carson’s radical design vision, Ray Gun’s circulation tripled. Because Carson’s work clearly appealed to a youthful readership, corporations such as Nike and Levi Strauss & Co. commissioned him to design print ads, and he also began directing television commercials.

After leaving Ray Gun in 1995, Carson established David Carson Design. The firm was instantly successful and attracted well-known, wealthy corporate clients. In 1995 Carson produced The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson (revised edition issued in 2000 as The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson), the first comprehensive collection of his distinctive graphic imagery. This was followed by the boldly experimental books 2nd Sight (1997), Fotografiks (1999), and Trek(2003).

In 2014 Carson was awarded an AIGA Medal.

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Ciaran Glöbel: Sign Painting

Explore a contemporary approach to traditional craft.

Learn the basic techniques of rendering lettering by hand, approaching brushwork and understanding of materials in a hands-on workshop with one of Scotland’s most prolific sign painters.

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Ciaran

Ciaran Glöbel is a self-taught signwriter and commercial artist specialising in hand-rendered typography, working primarily with enamel and acrylic. Since opening his workshop in Glasgow city centre in 2013 he was worked for a variety of independent and corporate clients including DF Concerts, Jameson Whiskey, Network Rail, Academy Music Group, Irn Bru, BBC Scotland and many more.

Workshop Information

The tradition of signpainting is a long and venerable one, but the dawn of the digital age saw these once ubiquitous compositions all but disappear from our environment. Replaced by cheap and easily produced plastic substitutes.

As times and tastes have changed, the techniques and outcomes of hand painted lettering have re-ignited in our cultural lexicon and countless individuals from around the globe have favoured the brush over the keyboard and began to re-explore the more tactile aspects of typography.

Our 1-day workshop aims to introduce participants to the basic techniques of rendering a piece of lettering by hand, approaching brushwork and understanding of materials.

Tradition and technology don’t have to be mutually exclusive, so while there is a strong foundation of manual skill and draughtsmanship, the use of familiar design packages can revolutionise the way in which hand rendered lettering can be achieved and so we will explore a more contemporary approach to an antiquated craft.

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Studio Something: Designing Ideas To See If They Work

Start something with Studio Something!

You’ll be supported in coming up with an idea, testing it in the simplest and most effective way possible and then prepare it for launch!

By the end of the day, you’ll hopefully have your very own venture!

The workshop will be hosted by Studio Something founders and creative directors Ian & Jordan.

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Studio Something

Studio Something are a lean, progressive, passionate creative business that thrives on partnerships and collaboration.

“We work with brands with vision; brands that are powered by like-minded people who aren’t afraid to challenge and do things differently to get noticed.

We have an entrepreneurial spirit and believe in making a difference. That’s why we also create brands, products and (some) things. We are thinkers, but we are also doers.”

Workshop Information

Studio Something is a creative agency with the aim to make things people genuinely like. Quite simple, really. They work across advertising, production and design for clients such as Coca Cola, Universal Music, Channel 4, Innis & Gunn.

They also have their own venture side of the company where they can support internal ideas and try to make them companies in their own right.

With this comes a lot of testing – and pretotyping as well as prototyping. This means doing a basic version of an idea to see if people actually like it.

This was done with their ventures welbot.io/hello a wellness at work platform – which just used a Whatsapp group to test the main theory behind it. Studiowave (another of our products) was simply tested by playing two youtube videos at the same time.

So in this workshop we want to be able to come up with an idea and then test it in the simplest and most effective way possible. And hopefully by the end of it, you will have your very first venture! Hosted by Studio Something founders and creative directors Ian & Jordan.

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Edwin Pickstone: Letterpress

Explore the roots of typography in The Caseroom at Glasgow School of Art’s Letterpress collection.

Explore and experiment with wooden type, presses and ink, gaining experience with the fundamental materials and historical foundations of poster design.

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Edwin Pickstone

Edwin Pickstone lives and works in Glasgow. Focusing on the material nature of print Pickstone uses letterpress technology, collaborating with artists and designers on a wide range of projects. His work spans academic, artistic and design worlds, with particular interest in the history of typography, graphic design, the nature of print and the book. He is currently Lecturer, Typography Technician and Designer in Residence at The Glasgow School of Art, where since 2005 he has cared for the school’s collection of letterpress printing equipment. He has spoken and exhibited internationally.

Workshop Information

Letterpress printing is a printing process with a rich history extending to 1440 when the printing press and moveable type was brought to the Western world by Johannes Gutenberg. Letterpress printing revolutionised printing and the ability to produce printed communication for the masses.

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Stance: Positive Change

How can your work create positive change for the environment and society?

Sustainability doesn’t only help the environment but it can also have financial value and business benefits.

In this hands-on fast-paced workshop we challenge each other to identify and change something which could positively impact our people and our planet.

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Stance

Stance is a design & digital studio specialising in brand strategy, identity design and visual communication across physical and digital experiences.

We work internationally with clients from tech innovators and fashion retailers, to travel trailblazers and leading policymakers.

Large or small, we help our clients communicate what they do better with considered design, which we believe has the power to transform businesses, engage new audiences, and improve our environment.

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How can designing more responsibly improve experiences, make money and save the world?

Design plays an integral role in shaping every part of our lives. As designers in 2018, it is our responsibility to consider how our work can create positive change for the environment and society.

Flipping the traditional model of make-use-dispose, our generation has an obligation to help shape modern systems of design communication that aid companies and consumers to re-use, re-purpose and re-generate.

We must educate ourselves so we can approach design problems in a more sustainable way. This is a challenging process for everyone, but doing so is not only better for the world we live in, it can also create long-lasting value for companies and customers.

The purpose of this workshop will be to research, identify and re-develop a product, piece of packaging or system of information that can positively impact people and our planet.

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International Magic: Open Foundry

Explore concept, communication, production, typography and open source Technology through Open Foundry.

Open Foundry is a platform for open-source fonts in a noise free environment; it’s time to reboot Open Foundry for 2018 and re-consider its existence.

The platforms hosts specimens from Anthony Burrill, Marc Kremers, Spin, More Soon, Damien Poulain, Unfun, DVTK.

Dive into the creative process behind the new platform and collaborate on a new series of specimens to be exhibited on the Open Foundry Platform in 2018.

 

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Library
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About International Magic

International Magic is an experience design studio led by Adam Rodgers and Stefan Endress, pioneering new modes of interaction and visual communication. Driven by ideas, art and technology to form advanced systems that fuse aesthetic principles and high performance. We believe in the power to entertain and innovate for the next generation.

Our approach has led to many successful and long-term relationships with clients around the world such as Adidas, 032c, FKA twigs, Warp Records, Manchester International Festival, Kanye West / Yeezy Supply, Somerset House & Management Artists.

Workshop Information

The ‘open’ stands for open-source, free and easily available. The word ‘foundry’ is taken from the term ‘type foundry’ and suggests professional quality and industrial heritage. In 2016 (pre International Magic), Stefan created Open Foundry: a platform for open-source fonts in a noise free environment; to highlight their beauty and encourage further exploration.

Version 1.0 launched in the Summer of 2016 alongside specially commissioned type specimens created by Anthony Burrill, Marc Kremers, Spin, More Soon, Damien Poulain, Unfun, DVTK and many more.

Due to the constantly shifting landscape of the internet and the advent of mainstream platforms such as Google Fonts, we feel it’s time to reboot Open Foundry for 2018 and re-consider its existence.  International Magic is currently working on version 2.0 – with a fresh interface and host of new features and ideas, due to launch late 2018.

This workshop will give an introduction into our creative process behind the new platform, covering Concept, Communication, Production, Typography and Open Source Technology. During the 1 day workshop we will offer opportunities to collaborate together and create a new series of specimens which will be exhibited on the Open Foundry Platform.

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Whitespace: Work like a dog!

What does branding mean?
What does branding do?

Discover how to define and design brands in an action-packed day of questioning, exploring and making with Whitespace.

1-day Workshop

Monday 22nd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Whitespace

Whitespace is a multi-award winning creative agency and 3 times Scottish Design Agency of the year. We tackle challenges with an open and collaborative approach. We put the audience first and never settle in our pursuit to deliver the best results for our clients. We help dream up and deliver ideas for clients from Lego, Oxfam, Highland Spring, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Visit Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Channel 4, Visit Scotland, NTS, Sainsbury’s and many many more.

Workshop Information

This workshop is designed to give those who attend a clearer understanding of what branding means, and what it does. Discover how to define and then design brands. Key insights will be revealed throughout the day that you’ll be able to apply to your own work.

You will create from a limited palette of type, colour, pattern, alongside an assortment of curiosities. There will be no computers.

By the end of the day you will have taken a brand from research to narrative, to naming, then design.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who wants a better understanding of the branding process.

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Young & Powerful

Young & Powerful is a national campaign culminating in a celebratory exhibition showcasing posters designed by people age 8-26 from across Scotland Young & Powerful is part of Scotland’s
Year of Young People 2018.

Young & Powerful is part of Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018.

More info here.

Exhibition Opening
Monday 22nd October
18.30-20.30

Exhibition Duration
23rd October-November 25th
10.00-17.00

The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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Little Motel: Animation

Make it move!

An introduction to animation covering basic motion techniques with special tips and tricks from our team.

Learn how to build characters from simple shapes, create your own animated scene and combine your world with everyone else in a collaborative team animation.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Little Motel

Founded in 2015 by Matt Cochrane and Leigh Harrison, Little Motel is a small yet highly experienced motion design studio offering a range of 2D and 3D animation services.

Proudly based at Duke Studios in Leeds, we produce high-end concepts, motion graphic design, animation and 3D for local and international clients alike.

Workshop Information

During the workshop you’ll learn the basic motion techniques needed to create characters from even the most simple shapes.

In the morning you’ll ease into key framing your own animations using After Effects, learning the basics and picking up a few tips and tricks along the way. In the afternoon we’ll put your newfound skills to the test and create your own animated scene. Each scene which will be combined with the others in the group to creating a team animation.

There’s nothing better than seeing your characters come to life. Our workshop will let you explore the process of animating from beginning to end.

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design33: Web Design & Development

Fancy brushing up on your coding skills?

An introduction to web design and digital development. This workshop will equip you with the skills to build a simple website.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About design33

A small team working out of Edinburgh. Passionate about all aspects of technology we are constantly learning from our clients, our surroundings, the other players in our industry and each other.  We stay fresh because we love what we do and it just wouldn’t feel right providing consultation and services that weren’t spot on.

At Design33, we take your project from the idea stage right through to launch day and beyond. Supplying design, logo creation and brand guidelines and then translating these into a beautiful website using the latest web technologies. We also provide training for your team and maintenance to keep everything running smoothly.

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Jamhot: PROCESS? WHAT PROCESS!

Fancy taking a look at how a two person studio comes up with ideas and gets them done?

Excellent – it would appear that this workshop was custom made for you.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Jamhot

Jamhot is a design studio based in Glasgow. For ten years creative partners Craig & Graeme have blagged their way through a series of projects for clients such as Glasgow Comedy Festival, EventScotland, Scottish Government, Tron Theatre, Tennent’s Lager and The European Youth Card, while also occasionally hosting Gab, a series of creative talk events in Glasgow. The duo believe in dreaming big, while staying small and work from their Glasgow studio helping companies and brands communicate in interesting ways.

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DR-Foundry: Modular Typefaces

Fancy learning how to design type?

Learn about letter construction, grids and design your own modular display font and specimen poster with support from DR Foundry.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About DR-Foundry

DR-Foundry is an independent type platform set up by Manchester based designer and typographer Daniel Reed. Daniel created DR-Foundry in 2017 for type enthusiasts to test and download bold experimental display typefaces.

As well as designing his own retail typefaces, Daniel also works with other designers, studios and businesses to help build and deliver their own typefaces.

Daniel describes his work as being bold, honest and playful and has recently worked with on projects for, Antalis, GoGo Penguin, and England FC.

Workshop Information

Display typefaces are a great way to add personality and create a unique voice for any piece of communication, but often they can be overwhelming when trying to design yourself. A good stepping stone into learning about display typefaces is to start with modular typefaces. A modular typeface is an alphabet constructed out of a limited number of shapes or modules. These limitations create an environment to quickly experiment and learn about letterform construction.

This workshop invites you to create your own modular typeface in just a day! During the workshop you’ll learn about letter construction, grids and how to display your finished alphabet on a poster.

In the morning you’ll be given a brief introduction to modular typefaces and how they can be used across a range of applications. You will then move onto learning about how shapes, grids and modules can be used as the starting point to generate your own letterforms. In the afternoon you will experiment and develop your letters either by hand or on the computer. A mid-afternoon crit will take place so you can discuss your progress with others. The day will finish with you creating a simple poster with your alphabet on display. The poster will be printed black onto your choice of coloured stock provided by Antalis.

* Basic IT skills and the use of adobe illustrator are preferable, but this workshop can also be completed by hand if you like to draw! In which case final letters will be scanned in for the printed poster instead.

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STV Creative

Write it, Design it, Pitch it, Bop it

Power through every level of our creative process; from brief taking to copywriting, through designing to selling and pitching.

Unlock your creative powers in a hands-on day with STV Creative.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Library
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About STV Creative

We’re STV’s award winning in-house creative agency. We’re unique. No-one else does what we do.

Our team of specialist Creatives, Producers and Designers create multiplatform marketing campaigns.

And we use our unique product knowledge to help STV’s clients get the best from their ad spend; providing bespoke creative solutions which make the most of STV’s content, platforms and products.

Over the past 10 years we’ve created hundreds of successful ad campaigns for companies of all sizes and sectors. Some of our previous clients include Scottish Fire and Rescue, Glasgow City Council, Ford, Lidl and Scottish Ballet.

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Good Press

Property, Concrete Poetry & Poor Art

Produce a collaborative research-led publication which explores common space, living histories and the design of the everyday.

As a group, we’ll gather information, images, objects, words, phrases and ideas for the publication before using manual techniques to bring everything together for the design and printing of the publication on a risograph printer.

1-day Workshop

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU

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About Good Press

Good Press was formed in October 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland, in order to provide a space to support the promotion, production and sale of independent publications. Previously based in Mono, alongside neighbours and friends Monorail Records, Good Press moved in March 2015 to a new home at 5 St. Margaret’s Place, Glasgow. They also run artists’ projects, produce publications, residencies, external exhibitions, screenings, talks and other events.

Workshop Information

The aim of this workshop is to produce a collaborative risographed publication using the systems and strata of street symbology to graphically and poetically consider common space, living histories and the design of the everyday. We will set out on a walk together with a series of simple propositions for gathering information, images, objects, words, phrases and ideas. We will take “photographs” with our hands and our eyes. Using basic cut and paste processes and working directly on the bed of the risograph machine, participants will produce layered assemblages from their findings that are gathered together in a publication.

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Live Project

Work on a live project with mentorship and guidance from Scotland’s leading design agencies. 20 participants will be offered placements and 3 winners will be awarded GDFS champions of 2018.

Work on a creative design-led challenge over 2 days with mentorship from some of the top design agencies in Scotland and have the opportunity to present to an internationally renowned panel of judges.

This is an opportunity to create a piece of personal work with industry level creative direction, meet like-minded people, develop your work and enjoy yourself!

The 20 participants who create the strongest projects will be offered work placements with their mentor agency. The top 3 selected by the jury will be rewarded with a design bundle and be awarded GDFS Champions of 2018!

This year’s challenge will be set by The Design Kids.

Mentors

Judges

Wednesday 24th–Thursday 25th October
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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Day 1 Schedule

9.30am: Registration
10am: Opening presentations from mentors
11am: Project launch
11.15am: Work with mentors on brief
1pm: Lunch
2pm-6pm: Work with mentors on brief

Day 2 Schedule

10am-1pm: Work with mentors on brief
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Presentations from mentors
4pm: Project deadline
4pm-8pm: Project presentations

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Business Bootcamp

Friday 23rd November 2018
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

10:00-15:00
Doors open: 9.45

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About Business Bootcamp

Build new skills, ask questions, discuss ideas and learn from experienced industry experts through creative talks, advice sessions, directed discussion which any practitioner from the creative industries can attend.

Business Bootcamp will begin with morning coffees, introductions, and initial conversations. Each speaker will then handle one of the below topics, talking for 10 minutes about their approaches and methods.

After the 12 topic talks have concluded, participants will then have the opportunity to spend time with each speaker for directed discussion and advice sessions.

Business Bootcamp is broken down into 12 topics:
1 – The Business Plan
2 – The Legal Essentials
3 – Naming & Defining
4 – Branding & Promotion
5 – Love Your Network
6 – Grow Your Business
7 – Important Systems
8 – Costing & Pitching
9 – Finding Work/Clients
10 – Keeping Work/Clients
11 – Believe in You
12 – Invest in You

Participant Information

Business Bootcamp is open to anyone who would like to develop skills and ideas to assist in working within the creative industries. Supported by Creative Scotland to offer creatives a toolkit to develop creative businesses, skills, and projects.

– Starting a creative business?

– Started a creative business?

– Working in the creative industries?

– Freelancing?

– Graduating soon?

– Unemployed?

– Looking for opportunities?

– Want to invest in your future?

Programme

1 – The Business Plan

Learn how to create a business plan which covers: business offering, brand values, services and products, target audience, competitors, finances, objectives, planning and much more!

2 – The Legal Essentials

Understand how to set up and register a business and ensure you abide by legal responsibilities and financial obligations.

3 – Naming & Defining

Understand the power of your business name and how to develop your brand values and story.

4 – Branding & Promotion

Gain advice and direction on how to brand and promote your business, physically and digitally.

5 – Love Your Network

Understand the value of developing a network that you can utilise to find clients and customers, gain advice and direction, and brainstorm new ideas.

6 – Grow Your Business

Understand the best way to present your previous work and utilise this to gain potential clients and projects.

 

 

 

 

 

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7 – Important Systems

Learn about project management, billing systems, contracts, fees, time-sheets and much more. Getting these things in place early, ensure projects go smoothly.

8 – Costing & Pitching

Learn how to create pitches/proposals for projects and how to build a costing for a client.

9 – Finding Work/Clients

There is no business without clients. Understand how to find clients and develop new work streams.

10 – Keeping Work/Clients

Once you’ve found work and/or clients, you then need to keep them. Find out how to manage client relationships and secure future work.

11 – Believe in You

The most important thing about the success of your business is you. Get inspired.

12 – Invest in You

It’s important to constantly develop your skills and explore new processes. Find out the best ways to do this.

 

 

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