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18.03.09 // 12IN12—A GroupHub Student Special

12 things you could/should learn in your first 12 months as a designer
Featuring: Craig Oldham
The Harrington Lecture Theatre,
The Harrington Building, UCLAN /
Adelphi Street, Preston, PR1 7BE /
Speakers From 6.30pm /
Networking from 8.30pm /
Directions here
Register by emailing here
Cliched, but true: the future of our industry will be built on the passion, skill and creativity of our graduates. [...]

Font Characters

Ffffound this and thought it would be cool to get a string going. Fonts are full of character as well as characters—anyone up for Art Directing their favourite font?
Something similar here: http://www.grouphub.org/2008/10/16/font-characters/

04.03.09 // Do we need photographers anymore?

The New Continental /
South Meadow Lane, Preston /
Speakers From 6.30pm /
Networking from 8.30pm /
Free entry, food and welcome drink /
Register here
Speakers:

Moy Williams
John Washington
Andy Walmsley
Steven Johnson
Originally planned for May 2008, we’ve decided to resurrect this event due to popular public demand for what promises to be our most heated discussion
to date.
We all know that the path of [...]

10 December 08 // GroupHub presents… GroupHub

The New Continental,
South Meadow Lane, Preston
From 6.30pm /
Free entry, food and welcome beer /
Register here
As well as being a vehicle for driving our work to ever-greater heights, GroupHub is a vibrant creative network: a gathering of like-minded people around a shared passion; a catalyst for new collaborations, partnerships and projects.
With this in mind we’ve [...]

GroupHub @ The New Continental

As we saw at our last gathering, the design and creative community in Lancashire has a significant role to play in defining the look and feel of the New Preston. With this in mind, we’ve decided to road test a new venue for our Bruno Maag event in November.

Font characters

Hilarious clip, interesting thought experiment and bang on for our next event:
Font characters

Preston’s Radio One Big Weekend Air Guitar Winner

Just thought we would show you the air guitaring video our new junior creative Mark starred in to win full weekend tickets to Preston’s Radio One Big Weekend last year. Enjoy. 

06 November 08 // Sorry love, you’re not my type. An evening with Bruno Maag

The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston
Speakers from 6.30pm /
Networking from 8.30pm /
Free entry, food and welcome beer /
Register here
A very special evening with international type guru, Bruno Maag. As always, places are free (how on earth do we do it!?), but are limited. We’re already receiving early registrations for this event so make sure you email [...]

School Trip – Liverpool Design Symposium

Matt Pyke and Bruno Maag are just a couple of reasons we should be putting 23rd October in the iCal. The Liverpool Design Symposium is a full day dedicated to design and creativity and promises lots of cool stuff to look at and listen to.
There’ll definitely be a Hub delegation being dispatched to check it [...]

17.09.08 // The Changing Face of Preston

The Forum, Winckley Street Preston /
Speakers from 6.30pm /
Networking from 8.30pm /
Free entry, food and welcome beer /
Register here
Speakers //
Ben Casey / The Chase
Bryn Jones / City Brand, UCLan
As Preston finally begins to live up to its city status, GroupHub’s September gathering will be looking at the vital role the design and creative community needs [...]