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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Visits for Brief Handover & Q+A: Museum + Beeline

The Beeline Storytelling brief was explained on Tuesday 1st Nov by the Project Manager Steve Boffy. Steve went on to explain the nature of the festival, who the audience were and their likely wants as well as trends in the area of children's literature that may have a bearing on your initial ideas.

An MP3 of the discussion is available [here].
[May take a while to display in browser or download - large file: 48Mb]

Worcester City Museum on Foregate St in the City on tues 25th Oct. Tours and brief talk-throughs were undertaken by the Museum's David Nash and Garston Phillips who also took questions about the brief based at the museum. It was clear that what you can see upstairs in the Museum was only a fraction of the amazing things that the facility has in it's stores..

Students looking over the Bredon Roman coin hoard.

Stephen examines the William Morris textiles

Jesse and Nik look over Art Nouveau furniture


Examples of how the museum focuses on the human story of artifacts.

Albert the [Famous] Albatross!

Garton in the stores - a real Aladdin's cave..

Students hear David discuss the items on the stores

Some of the delicate butterfly and moth collections kept in storage

For your consideration...

Above the door of the former Post Office Research station at Dollis Hill North London is written:

"RESEARCH IS THE DOOR TO TOMORROW"

Visual trends come and go but the need for good research underpinning good and clever solutions will never wain. Please don't think any solutions for our briefs are just about 'eye candy' - they need to be a rounded solution which are well understood and thought-out for the audience[s].

Dollis Hill was where the world's first semi-programmable electronic computer was designed and built in WW2 [Colossus] by a British team including bricklayer's son Tommy Flowers. A world first.

Monday, 14 February 2011

Student Sites Ongoing, Early Feb 2011

I think it's fair to say that there's presently a range of sites presented here. Some are well underway as we would expect at this stage and some [as would be admitted by their authors] would agree that they need a revamp and more time spent on them to bring them up to the standard of many of their peers and of those produced at the same time last year [see past blog posts].

Having said that, there were examples of excellent practice here when we were looking in tutorials. Work that was of good standard with experimentation includes: David G, Arran N, Matt P, Dom G, Israt C, Will and Creative Ben.

[Click to see each site 'live']

David G