by Ian West | Jan 13, 2017 | Design education
It was a wet Wednesday afternoon in January; Kevin and I were finishing our second pint in Yates’s Wine Lodge. Across from us sat Pete and Martin. We made up a very competitive group who had thrown ourselves into graphic design in the final year and stood somewhat...
by Ian West | Jul 17, 2012 | Design education
To say students spent little time in college may be rather misleading. We did go in to make use of the facilities. As final year students we had priority to such functions as the photographic studio, type room and the print room. I made good use of the photography...
by Ian West | May 4, 2012 | Design education
Most of the course was based around project work. By the final year, the number of formal projects had been reduced; our results would be based upon a combination of course work, our final project, the ‘dip show’ – a mini exhibition of our best work, and a...
by Ian West | Apr 10, 2012 | Design education
1960’s design and the realisation that swinging London may be the doorway of opportunity. In the middle of our course a trip was organised by some of the fine art lecturers to visit the Bonnard exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. However, as well as this...
by Ian West | Apr 9, 2012 | Design education
In the summer of 1966 I heard that a silkscreen printer who specialised in producing the ‘flags’ that estate agents place outside houses for sale, had suffered a major fire. Racks full of stencils repeatedly washed with white spirit, drums of solvent based inks and...
by Ian West | Apr 8, 2012 | Design education
Design education – the delights and tribulations of typography A key subject in the curriculum, and one that was to become particularly important to me, was typography. In the days before computers and desktop publishing, all text had to be set in type – either...
