Design Alliance bring guest speakers to campus, March 22

We are hosting a public talk in partnership with the Northern Ireland Design Alliance here at the Belfast campus, March 22, 6.30-8.30pm. Two leading designers including Viscom graduate Pete Kerr will be talking the talk on the evening. Visit the NI Deign Alliance site for more info.
visit, http://www.nidesignalliance.com for more details and registering attendance.

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Origami design typography posters

Hey people all uni work is handed in so finally I have some time to share my latest inspirations with you all, and these are absolutely beautiful origami, typography based graphic design posters by http://www.happycentro.it, I would definitely love to have one of these on my wall, nice use of texture together [...]

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Unique calendar by Berlin design studio

Hey, check this calendar that I saw this morning while having a cup of tea and looking through some inspirational blogs. It looks unique, interesting, really different, and playful. I’ve never seen a calendar like this before, it might be not the most usable calendar, but as interior detail in you living room would [...]

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2012 Olympics pictograms

I came across these pictograms while I was having a look at the Creative Review blog and thought that they fitted in really well with our signage project and they demonstrate that you can successfully create signage that contains images only and that words are not always necessary to achieve the desired effect. It also [...]

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE: TYPE AND FORM

I just love Alida Sayer’s work; which is inspired by the world of illustrative and experimental typography and gives a different dimension to illustration and visual design.

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Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a designer, illustrator and typographer who lives in Brooklyn. Her work includes designing, in her words, pretty things and drawing styles of type.  Her work spans a vast range of jobs including editorial illustration and designing hand lettering for romantic novel covers. 
I believe that her work has to be admired and when [...]

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Design for Life

BBC2 have recently commenced a six week series about design and through the programme they will be trying to discover the next young designer in Britain.  It is ran on a similar format to that of The Apprentice; the prize to be obtained at the end is to be given the opportunity to work for [...]

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Dirt Poster

Roland Tiangco’s dirt poster.  The recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster.
Utter genius!

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