Falmouth BA (Hons) Illustration

December 2015 1st year London Study trip starts!

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Finally after a long train journey from Cornwall we have arrived in London for this year’s study trip.

This year’s trip is lining up to be a good one. visits that have been organised for students include: Faber & Faber, Sparks Studio, Human After All, The Guardian, The Telegraph Magazine, Penguin Books, Egmont, Oh Comely Magazine, Walker Books, The Folio Society, The Artworks, Transworld, Nobrow, Tate Publishing and Dorling Kindersley.

Students can also look forward to our annual Illustration Forum, held at The London College of Communication on Thursday. Speakers this year are: Olivier Kugler, Jonny Hannah and Aude Van Ryn

1st year Falmouth Illustration students complete music project

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1st Year Illustration students have just finished a project that required them to respond to music. Here is a sample of the resultant images….

The Big Draw: Falmouth University

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Last week saw the first Big Draw event organised by the illustration department at Falmouth University. The week had been meticulously organised by  senior lecturer Linda Scott and involved workshops from MA student Poppy Robinson and Illustration lecturer Nick Mott and a daily reading from Moby dick by fine art lecturer Gillian Wylde.

The theme, ‘maritime’ was inspired by Linda’s visit to the library archives of the fantastic Maritime Museum in Falmouth who kindly allowed us to source material to kick start visual responses to the theme. The sessions were augmented with maritime sounds and projected images and films related to the core theme and was also filmed by Film students.

Students from a number of courses took part during the week as did pupils from Helston Community College and Treviglas Community College. All in all it was a great experience for us to host and hopefully for those that took part. Many thanks to everyone who made it happen including Nick Mott, Poppy Robinson, Gillian Wylde, The Maritime Museum, The Big Draw, the Falmouth School of Art and in particular Linda Scott.

Here are a selection of images from the week….

The Big Draw Falmouth University
The Project Space during the Big Draw week
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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Students taking part in the Big Draw
Nick Mott’s Drawing Games Club
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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The Treasure Chest…
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
The Treasure Chest…
Students taking part in the Big Draw
‘JAWS!’
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Experimental film
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The end of the day
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THE BIG DRAW: Every Drawing Tells a Story

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Throughout the whole of next week the Illustration department at Falmouth University will be hosting a collaborative drawing event as part of the national ‘Big Draw’ initiative. The week will centre around  an open ended experimental drawing project that is based on a maritime theme. The sessions will include audio visual elements, performance, a ‘drawing games club’ and will culminate in a private view at the end of the week. Many thanks to The Falmouth Maritime Museum for access to their library archives and to Linda Scott for organising the event.

The sessions are open to all Falmouth students. Any members of the public that are interested are asked to contact Nigel Owen (nowen@falmouth.ac.uk) for further details….

New Designers Exhibition & Private View

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Mark and Keryn have done a great job of putting up, the New Designers Exhibition, the 2nd of our two graduate showcases in London this year. This is physically a considerably bigger show than the D&AD exhibition and includes the majority of this year’s Falmouth Illustration graduating students. This year the students have done a great job of preparing their boards for the exhibition with the help of Cally back in Falmouth. The final show is a credit to the effort that everyone (staff and students) have put in this year. The Private view kicked off at 6pm and before long there was a healthy number of people gathering around the Falmouth stand. In attendance was Ginny Button, Director of the Falmouth School of Art while industry visitors included Sheri Gee from the Folio Society and Louise Power from Walker books amongst others. Also paying a visit during the evening was recent Falmouth Illustration alumni Will Grill, who last week was awarded the Kate Greenaway Gold Medal for his book ‘Shackleton’s Journey’, a project that he began while a student at Falmouth. Here are some pictures from the night….

Entrance to Business design centre
Will Grill
Falmouth Students
Ginny Button and illustration staff talking to Will Grill
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
Falmouth Students
Mark Foreman talking to students
Panorama of the final stand
The finished stand
The finished stand

Falmouth Illustration Student Business Cards 2015

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Here are a sample of business cards from Falmouth Illustration students. Their degree show will be open to the public on Friday 5th of June in Falmouth. The majority of students will also be showing work at their year’s New Designers Graduate Showcase at the business design centre in London between the 1st – 4th July 2015. Apologies to any Falmouth student whose card is not on this post. Please get your card to Nigel and he will post it on this blog ASAP….

Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards

Falmouth illustration Degree show goes up.

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The third years have been working hard to hang their final degree shows just prior to handing the work in for assessment. All are looking forward to the Private. View on Friday 5th June….

Degree show set up in progress
Degree show set up in progress
Degree show set up in progress

Hot off the press! The latest ‘Quotes & Sayings’ annual (Volume 10)

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1200 copies of the 10th Volume of our very successful ‘Quotes & Sayings’ annual were delivered recently just in time to be taken to New York and London. The book looks great thanks to the efforts of all the students that took part, and to Keryn Bibby who did such a great job in designing and typesetting the book.

This book has now become well known amongst many of the top art directors both in Europe and the U.S. and showcases the work of our 3rd year students. Packed with over 90 full colour illustrated spreads in serves as an illustration source book for the visual communication industry.

This will be the last year that we publish the Quotes book. After ten great years we feel that next year will be a good opportunity to run with a new concept. Ideas on the back of a postcard please….

Cover of the latest Quotes & Sayings Annual Volume 10 from Falmouth Illustration students
Lucy Cartwright
Joe Cox
Lucie Ebury
Brigid Johnson
Jerome Twell
Julia Whiting
Padhraic Mullholland
Thomas Pullin

Quotes & Sayings Vol 10 will become officially available at our summer degree show. Please contact Nigel Owen (nowen@falmouth.ac.uk) if you are interested in obtaining a copy.