LCC  Illustration and Visual Media: OPEN DAY – Saturday 8th December (cannot go, am busy) https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/illustration/undergraduate/ba-hons-illustration-and-visual-media-lcc

• animation, computing, photography and printmaking
• going through student work: why I like this – Comic book strip, can make own story, my interpretation different to the person next to me, would like to talk to the artist about it as what their idea of the story is

CSM Graphic Communication Design: OPEN DAY – Friday 7th December (might be able to go) https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/illustration/undergraduate/ba-hons-graphic-communication-design-csm

• technical and conceptual graphic design as well as designing for and being aware of the individual.
• the reasons they give for applying:
  • developing hybrid practices, specialist approaches, general and strategic graphic communication design education.
  • typography, coding, illustration, interaction, moving image and branding
  • team-working skills
  • exploration and experimentation
  • live briefs engaging local government, non-profits and companies
  • support and feedback from a larger community of professional design practitioners.
• https://youtu.be/n_L5bSjuXHQ – watching this showed me how there is a very illustrative side to graphic design by seeing some of the students work
•  I really like this piece. I would like to know how it was done, what did the artist use?

Camberwell – Illustration – OPEN DAY – ? https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/illustration/undergraduate/ba-hons-illustration-camberwell

• illustrator within commercial, social, political and cultural contexts,
• developing the core values that underpin the practice
• Chronopolis – Daniel Clarke
  • this piece really intrigued me since I would like to start animating and making my illustrations move.

 

Chelsea – Graphic Design Communication – OPEN DAY – ?  https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/communication-and-graphic-design/undergraduate/ba-hons-graphic-design-communication-chelsea

• emphasis on live projects in collaboration with the creative industries
• I can’t understand much about the course from the website but it has definitely caught my attention.
• more hands on in its relationships with industry, benefit?

 

LCC – Graphic Branding and Identity – OPEN DAY – 8th December (again am busy on 8th ) https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/communication-and-graphic-design/undergraduate/ba-hons-graphic-branding-and-identity-lcc

• strategic thinkers and creative communicators
• tools to become a professional practitioner
• historical, social, cultural and commercial contexts
• Practical projects and technical workshops are designed to enable you to develop and deliver the right message, to the right audience, at the right time, using the right media.
• Their reasons to apply
  •  deliver branding in the context of graphic design studio practice.
  • Focuses on brand strategy and narrative as well as design and implementation.
  • across a wide range of 2/3/4D/communication/graphic design contexts – print, packaging, motion, interaction and experience design.
  • projects recently set by Landor, Rufus Leonard, Radley Yeldar, Studio PSK and Anyways.
  • Access to a range of events  providing final year students with opportunities to connect with industry, including a portfolio preview evening, D&AD New Blood and the LCC Design School degree show.
• the course blog: https://gbilcc.wordpress.com/
  • what interested me the most is the final year students inviting industry experts for a portfolio review.
• my thoughts : strategic view of advertising and branding, most applied out of the courses but does not help me develop my creativity further? less focused on creative side.

 

SUMMARY

some are more art and communication related some are more branding and identity and some are in-between, I need to choose which I would prefer and whether I would benefit from a course that is more industry oriented. I guess this would benefit me and how I would like a career in this, however will I enjoy it that is the questions. They all require me to apply my skills, however, I need to be clear on how far I am willing to stretch myself an my application to the industry thus far in my process of university. Again I come to the conclusion that I need to talk to my tutors.