David Hiddleston’s Blog

In a first for the mentoring project, one of our HND Year 2 students presented work from their current mentor brief to a select panel of Telford’s Senior Management.

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D&AD’s Yellow Pencils are recognised the world over as a symbol of true creative achievement.

D&AD has celebrated and nurtured outstanding work in design and advertising since 1962. Each year, the D&AD Annual Showcase provides an unrivalled source of creative inspiration and is a great guideline as to current trends, skills and style in contemporary visual communication. Its also agood indicator of the sort of designers that Further and Higher Education is producing.

So this year, with Telford College now fully joined up to the University Network programme, we’ll be looking to encourage our HND students to submit work based on the 2010 briefs.

The D&AD University Network Programme has been running now for more than twenty years,a nd being a member helps an institution to establish relationships with leading creative practitioners and agencies, provides teaching packs and resources incorporating the best examples of creative practice and execution and adds live industry focused elements to the curriculum.

Membership is aimed at all Higher Education courses teaching creativity including Advertising, Graphic Design, Digital Media, Film & Animation, Photography, Illustration.

One thing I am excited about this year is that D&AD are revamping their web presence to include an online showcase of each institution’s entries, which should give our submissions a great deal of exposure to the right sort of audience.

More:
Preparing Your Entries Guide
D&AD Sponsors and Supporters 2010

HNC Creative Industries: Radio invite you to ETCFM night out.

17 December, The Hive, Niddry Street, Tickets £4.00

Contact: Conor.Wright @ ed-coll.ac.uk (Course Tutor)

As previously posted ….Edinburgh’s Telford College won the SQA International Star Award.

More information has now been posted on the SQA website -

http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/38203.html

The Get On information unit is coming to the College on Wednesday 4^th November and Thursday 5^th November  10am till 3.00pm and will be located in the motorcycle parking area for the two days offering free advice to students, staff and the local community. Jen Kelly is co-ordinating the event and it will be run by a mixture of ETC, ‘Get On’ and community organisation staff.  We will be focussing on two main broad themes  - Finance and Health and Wellbeing.

get-on-poster-09.pdf

At the SQA annual award ceremony last night Edinburgh’s Telford College were awarded winnner of the 2009 SQA International Star Award.

Well done to the International Development Team 

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Adobe News

Broadcast have published my submitted article on the Mentoring Project managed and delivered by Graphic Design team and Industry mentors

Broadcast is the voice of colleges in Scotland.  It is read and respected by stakeholders and key decision makers in the college sector.  The widely distributed free publication is constantly evolving to ensure that it remains a publication that keeps pace with the needs of the sector. 

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The HMIe aspect visit that took place at Edinburgh’s Telford College and other colleges throughout Scotland is now complete and the report is now published on the HMIe Website.

This report evaluates programmes in the creative digital industries delivered within Design and Media departments in Scotland’s colleges. For the purposes of the report, this covers programmes in graphic design, illustration, photography and digital-imaging, and, in a small number of instances, creative and design aspects of animation and interactive media. These are programmes which use digital technology as a primary tool to realise creative concepts. They are offered at levels from Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) level 4 to level 9, though the report only evaluates non-degree programmes at level 9. The programmes provide education and training for a rapidly developing industry sector which makes a significant contribution to Scotland’s economy and provides employment for a large number of people.

The Introduction to Film and Photography - pathways course are working on making a short video about Edinburg’s Telford College.

The course outline includes using Digital still and video cameras, I-Movie and I-Photo.

Photo: Lesley, Liam, Craig, David, Richard, Ian, David H, Angela, Harry and Damien