Gareth Dunt shortlisted for Graduate of the Year Award

2010 BAGC Graduate Gareth Dunt has been shortlisted in the top 10 for the Media & Arts Graduate of the Year Award.

The Graduate 100 initiative recognises and celebrates Britain's outstanding Graduates. This year over 13,000 students have taken part, and as a shortlisted Graduate Gareth will be profiled in the 'Graduate 100' magazine.

Winners will be announced on the 15th September 2010 at a gala dinner in London's Grosvenor Square.

More details on the 'Graduate 100' website.

Many congratulations to Gareth on his nomination.

posted 1st Sept '10

Rotterdam Centraal

Following a visit to Cardiff School of Art & Design by representatives from The Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam last summer, Ian Weir, BAGC Programme Director, visited the GLR in May to continue with discussions about cultural and educational exchanges between our two institutions. Our aim is to provide exciting opportunities for students and tutors from both institutions in the near future.

posted 16th June '10

Olwen is ‘Inspire Wales’ finalist

CSAD’s Director of Enterprise, Director of the Cardiff Design Festival, and BA Graphics Lecturer Olwen Moseley is a finalist for the 2010 ‘Inspire Wales‘ award in the category of Arts, Media and Creative Industries.

The award is to recognise ‘an outstanding contribution by an individual to the enhancement of Wales’s reputation in the arts, media or creative industries’.

Congratulations to Olwen from all on the course!

posted 26th May '10

Switch Show 2010 - images

A selection of images from the BAGC second year 'Switch' show are now available on the Graphics W210 Blog - click here to view.

Congratulations to Steffi Roberts who was awarded a work placement with UWIC's marketing team, and to Matt Cornelius, Ruth Lucas and Jon Sheahan who won placements with The Brand Union in London.

posted 17th May '10

BA (hons) Graphic Communication second year Show 2010

Friday 14th May - Wednesday 19th May

The second year show entitled ‘Switch’ opens this Friday 14th May at 4pm, continuing Saturday 15th may (10am – 4pm), Monday and Tuesday (10am – 6pm), finishing on Wednesday 19th May (10am – 1pm).

The event takes place in 'N' Block at the Llandaff Campus, UWIC, Western Avenue.

posted 11th May '10

BA (hons) Graphic Communication Degree Show 2010

Saturday 5th June - Friday 11th June

On Tuesday 8th June there will be a reception at Llandaff Campus starting at 5:30pm, followed by a guest speakers Andrew Shoben from Greyworld and James Graham from Thoughtful.

Full details on the CSAD News page.

posted 7th May '10

Teaching Fellowship Awards

Two tutors on the BA Graphic Communication programme have been awarded University of Wales Teaching Fellowships in recognition of the quality of their teaching. This is the first time that such an award has been made in Wales; Annie Grove-White and Ruth Dineen are the two recipients.

Congratulations to you both!

posted 22nd Apr '10

Gareth attends D&AD - pics online now

Third year Graphic Communicator Gareth Dunt has been attending the D&AD judging event in London as course rep.

Gaz has taken plenty of pics of the work being judged, and you can see them on his Flickr site here.

posted 21st Apr '10

Wendy Keay-Bright's Best Paper Award

A paper written by BA Graphic Communication Senior Lecturer Wendy Keay-Bright with Fakri Othman has been selected as one of the top papers at the ACHI 2010 conference, held in February this year.

The paper was titled 'Using Rotoscopy Technique to Assist the Teaching of Handwriting for Children with Dyspraxia'.

Visit the ACHI 2010 Awards web page here.

posted 7th Apr '10

W-TWO-ONE-0

We are delighted to launch the inaugural issue of W-TWO-ONE-O design magazine, written and produced by first-year students on the BA Graphic Communication programme at Cardiff School of Art & Design. It reflects both theoretical and practical understandings of the major cultural/visual movements of the last century – revealed through studio projects, articles about designers, and through the design of the magazine itself.

Take a look here.

posted 9th Mar '10

New work added

The second year 'sustainable:me' project has been added to the 'Student work & links' page.

For this project, students were asked to focus on the sustainability of their practice as Graphic Communicators.

View a selection of images here.

posted 2nd Mar '10

UWIC Christmas e-card

This year's UWIC Christmas e-card has been designed by 3rd year Graphic Communication student Jo Hawker. Take a look at it here. Well done Jo!

posted 13th Dec 09

The inaugural AUCB & CSAD Undergraduate Symposium: BA (Hons) Graphic Design/ Communication, Venue: Arts University College, Bournemouth Campus, November 27 2009

The day opened with a keynote address from John L. Walters, Editor of Eye Magazine. The event was carefully conceived to give all final year graphics students from both institutions a timely opportunity to share, and reflect upon some of their wide-ranging research and academic thought – so often confined to the bound, written submission enjoyed only by examiners.

The Symposium is perhaps unusual if not unique. Research networks and conferences for undergraduate students are not commonly staged. Formal, 15 minute presentations and conference-style poster presentations today offer a rare platform on which to test-out ideas and celebrate hard won findings with a receptive, empathetic audience.

Here are some comments from BAGC students:

“A good idea and a valuable experience.”

“good to network with AUCB colleagues”

“very useful to see how people have structured their topics and shaped their arguments.”

“Enjoyable and useful.”

View images from the event here.

posted 1st Dec 09

Politics Show feature

Third year Graphics students Joanne Hawker and Ritchie Evans have designed a poster for a feature on The Politics Show being aired this coming Sunday (15th Nov) at 12.15pm on BBC1 Wales. A film crew came and filmed Jo and Ritchie in the studio working on their design. Congratulations to you both.

posted 13th Nov 09

Fice Featured

Andrew Fice, 2006 BAGC graduate and friend of the course, has been featured as a 'rising star' in this weeks Design Week magazine. Currently working for Parker Williams Design, Fice has worked on some big brands such as Waitrose and WKD. View a scan of the article here.

posted 23rd Oct 09

Computer Arts Feature

Third year Jo Hawker has had her portfolio scrutinised by experts in October's Computer Arts magazine. Jo was praised for her ability to generate concepts then design and implement her ideas. Well done Jo! View a scan of the portfolio clinic on the W210 blog.

posted 22nd Oct 09

Student work in Design Festival

Third year work by recent graduates Tom Harle and Alex Scott has been chosen for inclusion in this year's 'exposé' exhibition of graduate work, part of the Cardiff Design Festival. View the work in the 3rd year section of the 'Student work and links' webpage.

posted 18th Oct 09

SLuG becomes W210

Salt has been poured on the SLuG blog, but it's been replaced by the W210 blog - still the same great taste and groaning with interesting links. Take a look here.

posted 15th Sept 09