Georgia Lowe
Posted: 07/08/17 09:50 | 2 Comments
OCA tutors and assessors Christian Lloyd and Paul Stickley look at the work of BA (Hons) Graphic Design student Georgia Lowe.
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Linda Donald
Posted: 26/07/17 09:33 | 3 Comments
OCA tutors and assessors Christian Lloyd and James Pyman look at the work of BA (Hons) Visual Communications student Linda Donald.
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Client led projects
Posted: 04/07/17 09:21 | 1 Comments
Undertaking live graphic design projects are a great way of testing your creativity in a real world situation. It can give your design confidence a boost, being asked to produce something in the first place, being listened to as a designer, seeing your work being used and circulated, and being paid for your efforts.
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Visiting an illustrator
Posted: 12/06/17 09:06 | 4 Comments
If you could meet your favourite creative practitioner, what would you ask them? Work-related learning, such as visits to studios, conversations with practitioners, or more involved relationships through live projects and placements, all offer direct ways to help inform your knowledge and understanding of your discipline.
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Laura Jones Arnold, Alice Cleland & Elizabeth Vessey
Posted: 01/05/17 09:15 | 3 Comments
OCA tutors and assessors Christian Lloyd, Jo Davies and Beth Dawson look at the work of illustration 1 students Laura Jones Arnold, Alice Cleland & Elizabeth Vessey.
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Looking at adverts: 17
Posted: 06/04/17 09:54 | 10 Comments
I have chosen to look at anti-ageing commodity adverts in this blog because they frequently combine science with nature and myth in a fascinating way.
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Ed Ruscha
Posted: 31/03/17 09:14 | 1 Comments
Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo on the 29 April in Edinburgh.
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Edgezine – issue 1 aftermath
Posted: 19/10/16 09:11 | 5 Comments
Collaborating with other OCA students has been a real highlight these past few months. All the hard work has paid off and our first issue of Edge-zine is printed and winging it’s way to various destinations in the UK and overseas.
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A finger on the pulse of illustration
Posted: 29/08/16 09:27 | 0 Comments
Because I am researching for the second edition of Becoming A Successful Illustrator I feel I have a finger on the pulse of contemporary illustration. Despite having several books and journals to my name and a sustained career in this area I think it’s simplistic to make absolute announcements about what illustration is as though it were a unified entity to be objectively understood. It’s not. There is no such thing as a typical illustrator either, nor a typical work methodology.
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In conversation: Cherie Jerrard
Posted: 09/08/16 09:53 | 12 Comments
Cherie Jerrard is an illustrator/graphic designer based in Shropshire. Her multi layered reportage work is full of energy and spontaneity, I got in touch to find out more about her work and process of making.
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