February 2012
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Salford Carnival
Our Graphic Design students will be bringing all the fun of the fair to Islington Mill next week when they showcase the best of their work to creative agencies from across the North West.
‘Salford Carnival’ will celebrate the talent of more than 100 students from the our BA Graphic Design and MA Communication Design courses as they exhibit their impressive portfolios and invite employers to enjoy...
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Research + Practice Symposium
- How important is research in practice?
- Do designers still use sketchbooks?
- Is there enough time to work on projects that are not profit driven?
These issues will be debated by key members of the design community
and academic staff from the School of Art and Design in this symposium.
Keynote Speakers
Nick Hard + Jeff Knowles - Planning Unit
Planning Unit will be joined...
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Life and Times of a Wartime Art Student
An exhibition of work by Kate Herbert
This exhibition shows how a working class girl from Lower Broughton, Salford, realised her dreams and ambitions by passing a scholarship to Salford Art School. It was when Kate was an evacuee at the beginning of the Second World War that her artistic ability was spotted by a teacher. Come down and see some of the amazing work she’s produced.
The...
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'ei8ht' - MA Final Show
The exhibition ‘ei8ht’ is a group of eight contemporary artists working individually with different backgrounds and styles. Two years of working together within a shared studio space on MA programmes at the School of Art and Design has come to an end. Sharing ideas, conversations and techniques daily has allowed them to share inspirations and work towards a final group show to mark...
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All The World's A Screen - Sabbatical Presentation
Sabbatical Presentation - Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould
Wednesday February 8th 2012 - 4pm Media City, Room 2.36
Art and Design lecturers, Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon will be giving a presentation about the interactive telematic project developed and presented during their residency at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA Study Centre from 1st March to 31st May 2011
As part of...
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January 2012
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Guest Lecture Series: Taylor Nuttall →
Taylor Nuttall 9/02/2012 12.00pm Allerton Studios G18
Taylor Nuttall is the Co-Director of Abandon Normal Devices (AND) - a regional festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. He has a wealth of experience both as an artist moving into the field of digital technologies, as well as supporting artists and projects that emphasise how new technology impacts on the world, in his...
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5 a day with Mike Byrne
Mike Byrne graduated from our BA Design Studies degree course in 2004. He worked for several years as a developer in Manchester before moving to New York in October 2011 to see what all the fuss was about. He works for interactive agency Area 17. We caught up with him before Christmas when he was working on a project at Pivotal Labs in Manhattan to see how that New York life was treating...
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5 a day with Sam Ingleson
Sam Ingleson is a multimedia visual artist who’s art practice is centred in social engagement and participatory performances. She graduated from our BA Visual Arts course in 1998 before going on to study an MA in Contemporary Fine Art, again here at Salford. She’s stayed with us and is now Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Education, working with teaching practitioners and artists. We...
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Type Tarts Exhibition - Call For Submissions
If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. Step in to any Central London call box and you can contemplate up to eighty cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged either in luxury apartments, fully-equipped chambers or the privacy of your own hotel room.
So pervasive are these things, and so curious is...
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December 2011
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Fashion students present to Photolink Creative...
Sixty of our BA (Hons) Fashion Design students were briefed by Photolink Group Creative Director, John Whalley, to design and create a fashion garment promoting Photolink and in-house brands such as Little Black Dress to the outside world. A week later they went back and presented their work.
From t-shirts to knitwear, bags to dresses, the designs incorporated elements and values from each...
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MOVIEMEN - New Media Showcase in Salford
Nikola Brunelli & Andrea Marcaccio are exhibiting a new film about Salford on Saturday 17th December, at the Lowry Outlet on Salford Quays. Andrea and Nikola have been guests in Salford for 3 months - as artists in residence, they have been making new media documentariesfor create@salford; working with a number of organisations including the University of Salford, the Lowry, Islington Mill,...
Islington Community Art Project
Fifteen storeys of a Salford tower block will be transformed into a multi-coloured light show pulsing in time to music and sound on Thursday 15 December when a special arts project celebrates the creativity of the local community.
The event has been organised by Alasdair Swenson, a technician at Salford School of Art and Design, Third Year Visual Arts student Rebecca Kevill and Visual Arts...
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November 2011
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JUNEBUM PARK: PUZZLE
The University of Salford is pleased to present a series of video works by Korean artist Junebum Park and the University’s inaugural exhibition at MediaCityUK. The exhibition will be the first artistic work to utilise the large video wall situated in The Egg in The University of Salford building at MediaCityUK.
‘Puzzle’ shows a group of participants trying to complete a given task. As the...
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Lino Cutting workshop
Some lovely images from the recent Lino cutting workshop with our Graphics students…
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Typo London Review →
Some of our Graphic Design staff recently took a trip to London for the Typo 2011 conference. Here’s what they thought about it…
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October 2011
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WatchA great video documenting the recent 12 Hour Project completed by Fashion students at Salford and RMIT University in Australia.
The brief was to produce a garment from components received in a “mystery parcel” put together by the students of the other institution, on the other side of the globe. Students had to design, produce and then present finished garments within a 12 hour time frame, via...
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WatchA great video documenting a creative technology research project ‘All The World’s A Screen’ by two Salford lecturer’s Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould…
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On the 28th and 29th June May 2011 audiences from Manchester (at Madlab) and Barcelona (Hangar.org, Pobleneu) were joined together for an interactive, generative cinema experience. Pobleneu is...
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Manchester and Salford Illustrated: Student Winner
Last night saw the launch of Manchester and Salford Illustrated - a showcase of some of the very best commercial artists and illustrators in the area, around the theme of ‘What does Manchester mean to you?’.
The exhibition was organised by ‘Wood Street’s Creative Friends’ – a group of people from Manchester’s creative community, dedicated to galvanising the creative talent in...
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5 a day with Miz DeShannon
Miz graduated from our Design Management course and has since been involved in a number of projects since including Festival Director of MAPS, a music writer for the likes of Skiddle, Beardrock and Soundblab and has most recently taken on a new role as Project Manager at Manchester based charity Forever Manchester. We caught up with her over Twitter on her first day in the new job to see what she...
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Urban Screens →
Interested in creative technology? Follow one of our lecturer’s research blogs documenting her ‘Urban Screens’ project.
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Guest Lecture Series: Paul Iddon →
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Paul Iddon is Managing Director and joint owner of Kernel UK Ltd, Kernel are an Anglo-Danish Brand and Communication Agency with offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Manchester.
Paul has broad experience in International Branding, and Place Identity. Clients include: Aldi UK, Grundfos, Danfoss, Cocio, Great Places, Regenter, Tulip, Quaker, Pepsico, Arla Foods UK, Nordic,...
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Box Making Yesterday
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Some pretty good efforts from L6 yesterday!
