1 Jun 2015

Top RSA Design Awards for DJCAD Interior Environmental Design Students

For the third consecutive year Interior Environmental Design students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design have achieved success at the RSA Student Design Awards. Third-year students Helen Karwot and Magdalena Borzecka have won prestigious national awards for designing innovative responses to the RSA ‘Creative Conditions’ brief. The pair received the accolades after attending a commercial awareness workshop, submitting spatially related projects, liaising with mentors and attending interviews in London. The Creative Conditions brief was sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland ...

1 Jun 2015

Exhibition celebrating Minnie the Minx artist

An exhibition celebrating the work of the late Beano artist Jim Petrie opens at the University of Dundee’s Lamb Gallery this week. Jim, who died last year, was best known for being the man who drew the "world's wildest tomboy" Minnie the Minx in the famous comic for 40 years. The exhibition, which has been created with the support of Jim's family and DC Thomson & Co Ltd, who have lent material for display, opens to the public on Wednesday, 3rd June. Curator Matthew Jarron said, “We’ll be showing many of Jim’s classic Minnie the Minx artworks but also examples of his other comi...