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Continuing Professional Development
The South West Design Forum announces a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunity for designers in the South West. Based on research and feedback from design businesses across the South West, the South West Design Forum (SWDF) have been working on ways to help the region’s designers keep their heads well above water. As a result we have developed a series of five innovative workshops to meet the needs of the industry and to help them to attract and win more business. Working closely with the Higher Skills Project and Higher Education providers across the South West, the SWDF has collaborated with industry representatives and the Good Design Practice campaign, run by Lesley Morris at the Design Council and Bel Reed at Creative & Cultural Skills, to develop an innovative series of bespoke design focused CPD provision to meet the planned targets outlined in the CPD for Designers in the South West report. The objective is to develop a range of flexible, industry-specific offerings for designers. The workshops will give SW-based design businesses the edge by offering a unique programme of training that will help their businesses not only grow but thrive. The series of programmes have become a reality after the project was awarded approximately £70,000 in development funding by the HERDA SW Higher Skills Project earlier this year. This contribution has enabled the project to recruit a Project Manager to co-ordinate and ensure efficient delivery of the 5 courses. The lead HEI is the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. The courses, which are in early stages of development, will be created in Autumn 2009 to meet the skills gaps identified through a South West training needs analysis conducted with the design industry, and will focus on the following areas:- - Sustainable design, to be developed & delivered by Bath Spa University - Project management, to be developed & delivered by University College Falmouth - Digital Imaging, to be developed & delivered by Arts Institute at Bournemouth - Leadership and management, to be developed & delivered by University of the West of England - Service design, to be developed & delivered by University of Plymouth/University College Somerset In this groundbreaking collaboration, the 5 Universities have agreed to adopt a road show format and will each deliver a course in 5 locations across the regions. All designers across the region will be able to access this specialist and high quality training. The Universities have been chosen for particular expertise in these subject areas so that course development can be as efficient as possible, and to ensure that training is delivered by experts in each field. The initiative will be promoted through the South West Design Forum and its 6 sub-regional clusters comprising some 1500 members, as well as externally to the design industry across the South West.
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The Architect's Finger: A talk by Quentin Newark
A graphic designer working with architects - stories of humiliation and discovery. Quentin Newark is the co-founder (with two partners) of Atelier Works. Atelier doesn't believe in specialisation. They willingly tackle every and any kind of design project. The studio's clients include the Royal Mail, the Labour Party, the London School of Economics, the Design Council, the British Council, the City of Naples, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was chosen as one of the "ten leading graphic designers in Britain" by the Independent on Sunday. The most popular British design magazine, Design Week, in its triennial review of design awards positioned Atelier as one of the 25 "most creative" studios in Britain. Newark's projects include a 6 metre-wide stone sundial for the Houses of Parliament, benches and Islamic screens for Tate Britain, an exhibition for the renovated Roundhouse in Camden, Tony Blair's moving card and Cherie Blair's website, and numerous books, posters and logos. He served a term as director on the board of the leading industry body, Design & Art Directors Association (D&AD). He has represented design at events at Windsor Castle, Number 10 Downing Street, and the British Embassy in Paris. He has judged and chaired competitions of his peers' work, and lectured and examined at numerous colleges; including the RSA Student Awards, London College of Communication, Brighton, Nene, the Chartered Society of Designers, in Oslo, Stockholm and Budapest. He recently ran a two-day workshop for students in Norilsk, once a gulag, now a 'closed city' in Siberia. He was allowed out. His first book about design, 'What is graphic design?' (2002), is a standard text on many college reading lists. It was used by the Moholy-Nagy Institute in Budapest as the basis for their graphic design course. Thursday 25 June 2009 Doors 6pm, lecture starts 6.30pm Lecture Theatre 3, Peter Lanyon Building, University College Falmouth Tremough Camus, Penryn NB. Please note change of venue Tickets £5 CDF members/students, £8 others (please bring CDF membership card or student ID with you on the night)
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| CDF member £5.00Student £5.00Non-member £8.00 |
