Category Archives: Forthcoming events

Variety Show: Blackpool and Flyde Graduate Exhibition 2009

The BA (hons) Graphic Design programme is a current and innovative vocational course, structured to respond to the continuously changing demands of the creative industries. It is considered to be one of the most distinguished and striking in the North West by both students and professionals nationwide.
Director of the show and final year Graphic Design student, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Font characters

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

28.11.07 : Tom Shaughnessy : Glorious

The Forum : Winckley Street : Preston
Speakers from 6.30pm : Networking from 8.30pm
Entry Free : Register here
Former creative director at The Chase and now a founding partner at Glorious Creative, Tom’s named cropped up again and again when we asked for suggestions on speakers.His mantle piece is flooded with glass/silverware and, starting his career as [...]