About Live Project

Work on a live project with mentorship and guidance from Scotland’s leading design agencies.

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 2019!

This year’s challenge will be set by It’s Nice That.

Live Project Judges

GF Smith

GF Smith is an independent British company that has provided the creative world with paper since 1885.

Katie Guthrie

Graduating with a degree in painting Katie Guthrie is a mural artist and illustrator who’s creative career has lead her to focus on exhibiting, mural design and commercial projects.

It’s Nice That

Founded in 2007, It’s Nice That has grown across many platforms and reaches over a million people each month. These include the website which is updated daily, a bi-annual magazine Printed Pages, a summer symposium Here and the monthly Nicer Tuesdays talks series.

About Swiss Typefaces

Swiss Typefaces is a Swiss-based type design specialists company established in 2006. It is widely recognized for their pioneering approach of typography, from design itself to licensing structure. Based in Vevey, on the shores of the Swiss Riviera, they gained international recognition for their unique design skills and unique aesthetic. Swiss Typefaces engages in a wide spectrum of activities related to typography, from education, publishing to retail and full custom corporate fonts.

Inspired by the magestic stillness of the Alps and Lake Leman’s crystal surface, Swiss Typefaces’ mission is to find the balance between beauty and strength. Fashion and timeless luxury influence them to take style to another level. Spray paint on the walls and trains, that’s the adrenalin that fire up their creativity.

Fashion brands such as Rick Owens, Mugler or Vogue magazine, as well as clients including the City of Stockholm, the Dubai metro, Western Union, eBay, SKY Sports, ProHelvetia, or recently Inter Miami CF, the soccer club founded by David Beckham which will join the Major League Soccer in 2020 are some of the renowned brands having worked with Swiss Typefaces for exclusive designs.

This is who they are and what inspires them.
Creative places and different attitudes fusion together to represent the Swiss Typeface brand, the designers and their lifestyles.

swisstypefaces.com

Workshop Info

Yung Type Icey

«He was interested in talking about type design history until I told him that we were still designing new typefaces today. I never heard of him again.»

During this two-day collaborative workshop, participants will be familiarised with the basics of letter design such as proportions, weight, contrast, etc. by designing their own letters according to a set of defined rules. The brief will focus on playful interactions among individuals, leading to an intuitive introduction to type design and its principles.

Participants of all level and backgrounds are welcome and the brief will be made to adapt to each unique profile while leading up to a striking and coherent common result.

About Angus Hyland

Angus Hyland studied information design at the London College of Printing and graphic art and design at the Royal College of Art. After running his own successful studio in Soho for ten years, he became a partner in Pentagram’s London offices in 1998. He has been named one of the UK’s top ten graphic designers by The Independent, and has received over a hundred creative awards, including five D&AD silver awards.

pentagram.com

Workshop Info

Workshop: Brand Identity

The Task: Rebranding a recognised ‘household’ name in the retail sector.

The Subject: The business, which will be revealed at the workshop, has both a high street [100+ stores across the UK] and on-line presence.

For the year to 30th June 2018, the business reported revenue of £110m – a rise of £1m over the previous year. However, the business reported a loss of £3.1m in 2018 compared to profit of £2.5m in the previous year.

The business has stated that:

“We know we face further challenging times ahead. However, with a new brand vision and identity that will impact everything we do as a brand and how we communicate with our customer, we believe that the long-term future success and growth of our business is within our grasp”

The business retails and wholesales clothing and other products aimed at adults 18-65.

About Ciaran Globel

Ciaran Globel 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.

instagram.com/ciaranglobel

Workshop Info

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 2-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.

About VICE

VICE is the world’s leading youth media brand. Launched in 1994, VICE operates in approximately 35 territories across the globe making 1500 pieces of content each day with a focus on five key businesses: VICE.com, an international network of digital content; VICE STUDIOS, a feature film and television production studio; VICELAND, an international television network; a NEWS division; and VIRTUE, a global, full-service creative agency with 26 offices around the world.

vice.com

Workshop Info - Visual Storytelling

We will introduce you to different facets of VICE and how they function together, focusing primarily on visual story-telling across different platforms and creative methods.

Our workshop leaders work across both the editorial and client sides of the business and will be offering an insight into how digital mediums bring stories to life within the current media landscape.

By answering a live brief, we will guide you through the process, ins, and outs of developing your creative and visual idea to fit a range of digital platforms.

About Wilfrid Wood

I was born in London and grew up in rural Sussex. I studied graphics at Central St. Martins, then got a job in publishing. I got bored of that and applied to train as a ‘head builder’ for the satirical TV program Spitting Image. When that ended I became a freelance sculptor.

I live in East London. My studio is in Hackney Wick, right next to the Olympics.

www.instagram.com/wilfridwoodsculptor

Workshop Information

Coming soon!

About Design33

Design33 create progressive, high quality digital products. Specialising in technical development and great user experience, we value the implementation of design just as highly as the creativity behind it. We love authenticity, originality and simplicity.

Workshop Information

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

About Kelly Anna

Kelly Anna is a freelance Artist and Print designer who is fast making waves in the art world with her bold & confident figurative works. Her work stands out thanks to its empowering messages — implicit in style, and explicit in the recognisably witty scrawlings. Whilst working in Print over the last few years, Kelly Anna has had some incredible names wear her prints, ranging from Beyonce, Cara Delevingne, Foals, London Grammar and more.

kellyannalondon.com

Workshop Info

Day one will consist of research, design development and print making. Participants will learn how to experiment with mark making and collage which will then be translated into textile prints and graphics for apparel. Participants will learn valuable techniques of how to turn their work into factory ready artwork for printing onto apparel using useful mock ups and spec sheets. Participants will walk away with their t-shirt artwork ready to send off to Everpress for its first print campaign.

The second day will be based around the marketing and business side of selling their garments. Led by the Director of Everpress who are a global marketplace built to support local/grassroots brands & reduce the waste in fashion through made-to-order apparel campaigns. Launched in 2016, they’re championing creativity and are on a mission to empower creative independence in a sustainable way. This class will teach Printing techniques, especially digital vs screen. How best to market a campaign – posting, photography, ads etc and also how to incorporate selling products into their professional lives

Each participant must have a laptop with adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.

About Foilco

With over 30 years of best practice in stamping foils, Foilco strive to inspire the use of the most varied and diverse range of stamping foils in the industry. It is our genuine aim to keep hot stamping foils as relevant and impactful as possible. This is achieved through educational programmes, design events, offering high level technical support and a continued dedication to developing new colours, patterns and themes. By offering such a wide and unrivalled spectrum of colours from stock, we endeavour to remove the restrictions to creativity to open up the freedom of choice and individualism when considering stamping foils. Specialist in-house facilities allow for complimentary testing of our product portfolio on any chosen material. Working alongside the industries print fraternity, we have developed a robust catalogue of technical grades that work on almost every type of application; to optimise not just the right colour or shade but to enhance the result achieved with the artwork and material for each project. An eco-conscious company, Foilco supply and support those in the luxury product markets, FMCG packaging sector, label makers and graphic arts community.

Workshop Info

The workshop has been created by Foilco for you to get the chance to get hands-on with stamping foils, use either the traditional printing equipment (hot stamping) or more modern, innovative equivalents (toner foiling). The workshop is built on 5 key principles:

Play – The most important thing about the workshop is to play and have fun. There are no set rules. We want you to enjoy yourself.

Learn – Learning and educating are key to really explaining what Foilco do and what foil is about. By understanding this you can really start to use foil in the best possible way.

Create – You can’t come to one of our workshops without actually creating something. You will create the weird and wonderful and all using foil.

Think – Thinking is what leads to creativity. We’ll ask how best can you use foil in the future and how can foil help in your design and creative work.

Foil – Finally foil. Put simply it’s what it’s all about. We work with it all the time, so we are here to help you work with it.

We’re always on the lookout for new foil innovations and innovators, so we’re bringing the playground and we want you to have fun in it.