28 June 2011
Design graduates set for leading exhibitions
More than 100 of this year's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design graduates will exhibit at some of the UK’s biggest showcases for young designers over the next few weeks.
Sixty-eight graduates from the Digital Interaction Design, Jewellery & Metal Design, Product Design and Textile Design programmes at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee, will be among the 3500 exhibitors at the prestigious New Designers event in London, which opens for its 2011 run tomorrow.
Also travelling south this week are 31 Illustration and Graphic Design graduates, who will be taking part in the New Blood exhibition, while 20 Interior Environmental Design graduates will exhibit at Free Range later this month.
Exhibitions such as these are visited by tens of thousands of people each year, including some of the important and influential figures in the design industry. This gives exhibitors the opportunity to develop contacts with trade professionals, potential employers and the media as well as having the chance to win awards, work placements and recognition.
Professor Mike Press, Associate Dean of Design at DJCAD, said he was sure the graduates exhibiting at all these events would once again show why the institution is widely recognised as one of the UK’s top art and design colleges.
'Each year, those graduates representing DJCAD at New Designers and other exhibitions show they are among the best in the country and are at the forefront of design practice.
'We are very proud of our graduates, and this is an excellent opportunity for them to showcase their work and prove they deserve to be leading the way in proving how design can address major cultural, social and environmental issues. By exhibiting, the students will make essential new contacts and spread DJCAD's and the University’s reputation as a leader in teaching and research.'
New Designers takes place at the Business Development Centre, Islington, over two parts. The first, which will see Textile and Jewellery graduates from DJCAD exhibit, will be held from Wednesday, 29th June until Saturday, 2nd July. Digital Interaction and Product Design graduates will exhibit at the second instalment, taking place from Wednesday 6th to Saturday 9th July.
DJCAD graduate Elizabeth Humble, who won the 2010 New Designers Goldsmiths’ Company Jewellery Award, will also be exhibiting as part of "One Year On", a special exhibition which New Designers describes as 'a focused zone, showcasing a group of 50 young designers with an entrepreneurial flare and a strong body of work'.
Illustrious design organisation D&AD will be hosting New Blood at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, from Friday 1st to Monday, 4th July. The exhibition showcases the best graduates in graphic design, visual communication, advertising, digital media, illustration, photography and other commercial creative arts in one place.
Free Range is an Old Truman Brewery special project set up to provide new creative graduates with the opportunity to showcase their work on an international level. The show takes place from Thursday 14th to Monday 18th July.
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