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Copywriter and Creative Director at The Hub

16.07.08 // Can design save the world?

The Forum / Winckley Street / Preston
Speakers from 6.30pm / Networking from 8.30pm
Entry Free / Register here
Speakers//
Prof Stuart Walker / ImaginationLancaster
Prof Rachel Cooper / ImaginationLancaster
Mark Beever / thomas.matthews
Chair: Steven Johnson / The Hub
Further speakers TBC
Never short on ambition, GroupHub’s July event will be asking, “Can design save the world?” If design is about solving [...]

Think: Blackpool School of Art & Design degree show

Private View: Friday 23 May 6-9pm
24-29 May 2008 open 12-5pm
(closed Sunday, Bank Holiday Monday)
CUBE: 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester M1 6DW
www.cube.org.uk/exhibitions/blackpool
The BA(Hons) Graphic Design programme is one of the most vibrant in the North West. It’s a relevant and thriving vocational course and is structured to respond to the ever-changing demands of the creative industries.

Deskribe: Dave Laurie

Dave Laurie : DeeTV Studio

Deskribe: Amy Young

Deskribe: Jake Smith

Jake Smith: Creative Director at JP74, Padiham
I’m definitely one of life’s untidy desk people.

Deskribe: Michael Heald

Michael Heald: Head Creative at Lightmaker.com, Manchester
Well, my desk. As I see way more of it than my wife, my home…or anything else for that matter, I like to fill it (to the brim) with everything that inspires me. Its full of characters, vinyl monsters, toy planes, flyers, robots and all other manner [...]

Deskribe: Mark Schofield

Mark Schofield: Senior Designer at The Hub, Preston

Coffee, Music, and a nice beefy brief to read, other than that, everything has to be in its place. My resource material will be in the libray, my pens in the pen draw marked “Pens”, my coat on the coat hanger… i think you get the idea. A [...]

Deskribe – what does your desk say about you?

Your desk – the place where you work – is a highly personal space – the stage on which the triumphs and traumas of your creative endeavours are played out on a daily basis. Other than perhaps your bed, you spend more time at your desk than anywhere else. Work it out – 7,8,9 hours [...]

MPA Roses Student Awards 2008 Networking Evening

Info from the people who brought us Chip Shop, The Roses and The Drum:
This year’s MPA Roses Student Creativity Awards judging is taking place on Wednesday 12th March. Following this year’s judging session we are holding a networking evening for Tutors, Students and Industry Creatives starting at 7pm at The Cube, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester, [...]

DBA breakfast briefing in Preston

Deborah Dawton, CEO of the Design Business Association, will be running a breakfast workshop as a run on from the GroupHub Awards event. The session will focus on pulling together a design effectiveness case-studies for use in new business development – and, if it is good enough, for entry into the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards.
The [...]