Today marked the launch of 2 brand new iphone apps created especially for our BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Fashion Styling and Image Making programmes. The first (feautured above) entitled ‘30’ showcases all of the final year Fashion Design students and one piece from their final collections. Users are able to see a 360 degree view of the garments as well as find out more information about the designer and contact them directly.
The 2nd app entitled ‘Folie en Famille’ is a collection of inspirational short films created by students and inspired by fashion. Both apps are now available to download on the iTunes store via the following links:
30: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/30/id529885527?mt=8
‘Folie en Famille’: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/folie-en-famille/id529899045?mt=8
Our Graphic Design students are putting on the Not So Secret Salford Show in Manchester’s Northern Quarter at hip new creative venue, 2022NQ very soon…keep your eyes on http://www.secretsalfordshow.co.uk/ for more updates and in the meantime join in on the Facebook page by telling us your biggest secret…
We’re loving this creative response to a brief by some of our current 2nd year Advertising Design students. The brief was to create a new campaign to promote Swarovski crystals. The team created a new spin on the classic fairytale ‘The Princess and the Pea’.
Lucy from BA (Hons) Graphic Design Level 6 has been collaborating with a fashion stylist from Preston on her major project -here are a sneak peek of her photos…
MY FINAL AUTUMN/WINTER PHOTOGRAPHS.
These photographs were taken to project and show the fashion of Autumn/Winter 11, which I think I have done so quite successfully. All of the above images have been airbrushed, around the models eyes, skirt and sometimes arms in order to make the images look of a commercial standard when blown up to a larger size.
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The dates for this years degree show will be Thursday 14th - Sunday 17th June, with a friends and family preview on Wednesday 13th.
We’ve got big things planned this year and are very pleased to announce the shows will be held at our brand new campus at MediaCity, showcasing some of the state of the art technology and facilities through innovative student exhibitions.
So keep your eyes peeled for more info coming soon and make sure you get those dates in your diary!
A lovely feature in a recent issue of POP Magazine with one of our Fashion Styling and Image Making graduates, Louby McLoughlin, as the senior fashion assistant on the shoot.
Louby Mcloughlin / 2010 Graduate / Senior Fashion Assistant / POP Magazine / Issue 26 Spring Summer 2012
BA (Hons) Graphic Design students were recently asked to create designs for George Orwell’s prolific ‘1984’ book cover, as part of an ongoing exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Exhibition organizer and photographer, David Dunnico has documented the rise of CCTV surveillance in a series of graphic black and white images over a number of years. Alongside this, Dunnico has built up a collection of editions and ephemera about George Orwell’s 1984, showing how the book’s changing covers reiterate how every new generation of readers find Orwell’s work increasingly relevant to their own times.
All of this work has been brought together in a new exhibition ‘1984 Looks Like This’ showing at Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Student’s work will be shown along side David’s back catalogue of photos and collection of 1984 pieces. David said:
“When researching the cover design of 1984, I realised how many fans had produced their own designs – and some of these were better than some of the actual covers I had collected. There are a lot of people who produce work and not enough places to show it. When people are starting out it’s hard to get together enough work to make a solo show, so the chance to design something ‘real’ and tangible is good experience.”
The exhibition is free to enter and runs until Sunday 1st July, 2012. To see the full collection of designs by our students, please check out the gallery on our Facebook Page.
31 March – 16 June 2012
Private View: Friday 30 March 6pm – 8pm
As part of Littleborough Arts Festival’s 10th Anniversary public art commission, artists Maxine Kennedy and Salford lecturer, Paul Haywood are designing a bespoke selection of colours that will represent the Pennine edge. They have recorded a range of colours; capturing the richly diverse and intense hues of both urban and rural landscapes.
The artists are fascinated by environments and horizons that evidence the unique identity of a location through traces of colour that have been weathered by natural processes, human interactions and ambient conditions.
The exhibition will transform the gallery space into an oversize colour swatch and provide an opportunity for visitors to find out more about the project.
See their website for more info at: www.colouredge.org
Touchstone Rochdale Art Gallery
The Esplanade, Rochdale, OL16 1AQ
01706 924492
Admission free
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
“New Blood” is an independent group of innovative contemporary artists working out of the BA (Hons) Visual Arts course at the University of Salford; sharing ideas and challenging perspectives. The group has formed to create a fresh new approach to showing art in a large central space; making contemporary art accessible to the public in the North West.
This is the first group show of its kind to take place at The Triangle, Manchester. An exciting collection of contemporary paintings, photographs, sculpture, installation and performance art are all brought together in one large gallery space.
Please take time to ponder and wonder, question and be challenged and above all, enjoy the wit, energy and creativity the exhibition offers.
Venue: The Triangle, Exchange Square, Manchester, M4 3TR.
Open: 19th-28th March - Monday to Saturday 10am until 5pm, Sunday 12 noon until 4pm.
For more info please see the Facebook event.
In December Photolink Creative Group set a brief for fashion students at the University of Salford to design a one off piece of fashion that could be given to clients or used as a marketing tool to promote Photolink, as well as in-house brands Littleblackdress.co.uk and consumer insight and strategy department HT&E.
Photolink gave them five weeks to come back and present their finished designs to Photolink founder David Walter, group creative director John Whalley and Little Black Dress editor, Nathalie Gibbens.
Three stand-out favourites were picked and winning teams were presented with their prize (a day’s studio time) at the University of Salford last week. Above is a small book about the project put together with design intern, Naeem Mitha.
