No Pressure

The No Pressure 2017 exhibition is a presentation of work by the graduating students of The University for the Creative Arts Epsom. The show is a culmination of BA (Hons) Graphic design work and reflects the final word from students before finishing their degree. The Exhibition ran for 4 days out of Shop 8, at Brick Lane, as part of the Free Range Design week. The space provided a platform for the work of emerging creatives to be showcased and connect with a London based audience.

This is the broadsheet publication that was produced to accompany the exhibition. The finished size is 300x195mm, which folds out to 780x600mm. It is printed offset litho, CMYK, one side and one colour, black on the reverse.

The first spread opens like this....

...and this is the inside spread

Click on images to enlarge

It is printed on our Redeem 100% Recycled 80gsm. For those readers not familiar with this paper, it is an uncoated with a neutral white (slightly grey) shade giving the publication a feel which really works with the images and most importantly, the pages which are purely type.

You can see from the image below, the way that it folds in on itself. This format is usually called a 16pp parallel fold.

On the inside, it is printed in just black. There are four images used in the inside:

As you can see from the detail image below, the images have also printed spectacularly well and the solid blacks are good too. Printing is by Gavin Martin Colournet and they have made an excellent job of it. Dave Miller liaised with the students, taking care and attention that they understood the process as they are not used to buying print.

The design of the literature is by Charlie Smith, on of the students at UCA.

The rest of the graduating students are as follows:
Jennifer Abbott Stephanie Andrew Charlie Anker-Smith Rachel Brandon Anna Brooks Harry Brown Paige Burton Cady Carolissen Sadia Choudhury Zemeka Clarke Beth Dadson Folayemi Davis Emma Farquharson Devanté Ferguson Mark Ferreira Natalie Francis Chris Frewin Emily Harlow Rachael Hayes Maria Jacob Alexandre Ciarán Jones Fatima Khawam Nick Kwong Rebecca Lennon Sandy Matta Daniel Merrett Claire Moisset Kee-Anna Morgan Chuka Okechukwu Deji Olabisi Dianne Pereyra-Aylas Amy Phu Jadon Sanders Jamie Sawyer Roselinda Sowole Penelope Speer Emma Sprules Santhyah Suthagar Rose Tierney Kieran Viney Dale Watson Danielle West Sarah Willmott

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http://nopressure-ex.com/
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Posted by Justin Hobson 30.01.2018

Munich `72

In the same month that the Olympic flame is passing through Kent, the University of the Creative Arts (UCA) Canterbury campus presents a symposium and exhibition on the design heritage of the Munich Olympics in 1972. The project draws upon Ian McLaren’s collection of relevant material having been a senior member of the design team. The exhibition provides a first hand account of the evolution of the designs and subsequent commercialisation of aspects of the work produced for Munich’72. An accompanying symposium will combine contributions from figures who worked with Aicher alongside respected practicing designers.

The 1972 Munich Olympics is often remembered more for the terrible events when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Needless to say, these murders greatly overshadowed the games.

However, the design work led by Otl Aicher was groundbreaking and provided a real legacy which endures and we still see around us today, in particular the pictorial symbols. Here's an extract from the Munich72.org website:

"The colour palette was one of the most significant aspects of the identity. It was based upon the heraldic colours of Bavaria, light blue and white (as used by BMW and the Hofbräuhaus brewery). Aicher chose these, together with the light green of the Bavarian alpine landscape, as the principal elements to provide a light palette (which required bespoke ink formulations). The lightness of colour was reflected in the adoption of a light typeface (Univers 55). The colours in the German national flag were expressly excluded"

The symposium will feature contributions from figures who worked with Aicher, alongside contemporary designers (such as Mason Wells, Lucienne Roberts and Tony Brook, who have a particular interest in the work produced for the '72 Games

The Symposium is next Friday on 29th June at the university's Cragg Lecture Theatre. Seats for this 'free entry' symposium require booking and are limited to 120. Please make your booking asap to ensure your place. Ticket information: Elizabeth Baxter ebaxter@ucreative.ac.uk.

The Exhibition runs from 29 June to 31 July 2012 at UCA Canterbury campus, Herbert Read Gallery. For latest updates: www.facebook.com/M72DesignLegacy

Visual  concept for exhibition and symposium by Baseline Magazine: Hans Dieter Reichert and Johnathon Hunt.

...and thanks to Hans Dieter Reichert, editor at Baseline magazine and one of the organisers, for inviting me the event.

http://www.munich72.org/

www.facebook.com/M72DesignLegacy

http://www.baselinemagazine.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 19.06.2012