oday my K College colleague and I, who also teaches on the HND and BA programmes, took a trip to the Design Museum to attend the tutors’ brunch and to receive the briefing for the forthcoming ‘Design Factory’ brief 2014/15. Now in its fourth year K College students have managed to rise to the occasion by producing some great entries, and each year we have had students produce winning entries with two of our who were selected being judged to be in the top 10% of entries. Fred Sirman, who is a current HND Graphic Design student with K College was one of these, and his work can be seen below. This was a response to the ‘Designing Identities’ brief which examined an aspect of British culture. Well done, Fred!
“Design Factory is the [Design] museum’s annual HE project for BA design students, spanning product, fashion/textiles, graphics/illustration and architecture/spatial design.”
“Design Factory enriches academic curricula by offering students a range of unique opportunities including:
• cross-over into the creative industries
• the motivational factor of external deadlines
• professional feedback on short-listed work
• input from practicing designers at the Design Factory Student Symposium
• cross-college networking
Students work to an exploratory and experimental design brief. Participation includes 2 museum research visits, a competitive judging process and the Design Factory Symposium for selected students.”
The forthcoming brief looks great.
