June '09 events archive
Ulster Festival
08 - 20 June 09
It is the 160th anniversary of the School of Art and Design and this year’s Festival is an important occasion in our calendar of celebratory events.
Visit festival website for full listings.
Student Shows
09-20 June 09
This year is the 160th Anniversary of the School of Art and Design and the 2009 show is taking on a special look in celebration of the occasion. The striking new foyer on the Belfast campus will be a spectacular showcase, highlighting momentous events across its 160 years.
Students from each of the many disciplines will exhibit their work as the campus is transformed into Belfast’s biggest gallery.
The work ranges from fashion, photography and architecture, to ceramics, painting and product design. This is a great opportunity to sample the breadth and quality of ideas from our newest graduates as they prepare to take their first steps into the world of the creative industries.
PANI Awards 7:00pm £2/£4
9 June 09 - Studio Bar
Students from the University’s Visual Communication course, as well as the Communication, Advertising and Marketing course have been working with local advertising agencies as part of a collaborative project with the Publicity Association Northern Ireland (PANI).
Throughout May, six student groups have been working with six top advertising agencies on a competitive advertising campaign to be pitched to a jury in June. This exciting initiative has given students the opportunity to put their creative and marketing skills to use in the design of a simulated advertising campaign under the guidance of professional mentors.
The jury has come to its decision and the winning team will be announced at this presentation event, amidst the cream of local creative talent.
Bruno Magg 7:00pm - £2/£4
10 June 09
Bruno Maag served his apprenticeship as a typesetter for the Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland’s largest daily paper and fell in love with the smell of ink and the clatter of printing machinery. He studied typography at Basel School of Art and cut his professional teeth designing type at Monotype, in the UK and the States, where he designed fonts for the New Yorker magazine.
He established Dalton Maag in 1991 which has grown to a large foundry with offices in the UK, Switzerland and Brazil. It creates fonts for companies such as Tesco, Toyota, Burberry and Puma. A speciality of the company is its expertise in non-Latin scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic and Greek. Bruno will talk about visual noise; how to stand out without shouting.
David Hurn 7:00pm - £2/£4
11 June 09
“50 years a photographer without dying of malnutrition.”
David Hurn has a long-standing international reputation as one of Britain’s leading reportage photographers. As a freelance photographer, he gained his reputation with his coverage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
He is renowned for his portraits in the sixties with stars such as Ursula Andress, Julie Christie and Peter O’Toole and for his work on the set of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ with the Beatles and Jane Fonda on ‘Barbarella’, as well as the Isle of Wight rock festivals.
Illustrate This! 8:00pm - Free
18 June 09
Bare walls, free markers and a passion for drawing are the simple ingredients for this experience. Student and graduate illustrators from the University’s Visual Communication course will participate in an illustration event that is sure to provide an evening of inspired creativity.
The irrepressible Kev Largey will be the MC for what promises to be a memorable experience with interesting music, interesting people and no doubt an interesting piece of collaborative wall art to boot.