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1. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) a small demon or devil; mischievous sprite
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Careers Day NTU A&D

Working in the Creative Industries – Careers and Employability Day

Wednesday 25th April 2012

10.00-4.00 including networking lunch

Newton Lecture Theatre 1

 

A Careers and Employability Event with a focus on the Creative Industries has been organised by the Employer Events team to support Art and Design students in their career preparation.  

The sessions offered on the day are intended to complement the range of fantastic support that exists within Art and Design courses, (see the agenda for the day below). Even though the speakers may be from a specific discipline within art and design the sessions are designed to be applicable to a much broader range of students.

 

Please could you encourage your level 2 and 3 (final year) students to attend the whole day if possible or to attend some of the sessions that are offered. Students will be given instructions to sign up for the event via PNet.

Most of the speakers will be available for the lunch time networking event and will provide a great opportunity for students to pick the brains of a range of art and design professionals.

Staff are also invited to attend the day or individual sessions.

 

Students will be notified of the event by Careers via Email, and Facebook..

 

Agenda for the day

10.00 am – Introduction – Peter Smart and Pip Spoerry

 


10.05 am – Mind Shelf – Nottingham Based branding and creative agency-

‘Design in Today’s Commercial Environment’

 


11.05 am – David Baird – Freelance Photographer –

‘The importance of Networking’

 

12.00-1.00 pm – Networking Lunch – students and exhibitors

 


1.05- 2.05 pm – Arts Thread –

‘Digital Portfolios’

 


2.05 – 3.05 pm – Bantum Clothing – Designer Maker –

‘Setting up your own business and the importance of branding’

 

3.05-4.00pm –Media Industry Presentation tbc

 

Close

 

 

Thank you

 

kind regards

 

Pip Spoerry

 

Employability Coordinator

School of Art & Design

Arkwright A014

GLITCH

The Distorted Truth In Glitch

 

Source: http://roberturquhart.blogspot.co.uk/

Accessed: 13.04.2012

 The Distorted Truth In Glitch
Random, Chaotic, Unexpected and Unpredictable -  Not Just '®adical'

 

ANREALAGE 2011 A/W COLLECTION: LOW  

 

Glitch is honest. It's raw. It's the visual shorthand for the digital underground. Menacing, uncomfortable and oddly macho-geek, It's also beautifully inconsistent and a perfect foil for streamlined digital media culture.Fashion re-appropriates, design manipulates and art creates. This is all part of the constant remixing of culture, perfect for the feedback loop of glitch. Is glitch the last true art form or is it just a ghost in the machine? Perhaps our future depends on the kind of thinking being applied to the recycling of digital material and perhaps those working with the idea of disruption will balance an increasingly owned digital landscape. It's happening in reality...


'Forms of graphic 'distortion' are now common to the internet, perhaps complementary to the almost bathroom-like sterility of web standards, or to demonstrate the infinite shaping and reshaping of memes and visuals as part of an evolutionary process authored by everyone and no one.' Metahaven


The Dirty New Media

“There are those who would say that glitch art is a form of resistance, not just a representation,”  explains Jon Cates, New Media professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago is a centre of glitch momentum in the US, if not the world and Cates is at the vanguard of it's discovery. “Jason Scott, historian and archivist for Archive.org, has called our Chicago-based community the 'birthplace of dirty new media' and Rosa Menkmanhas written that we foreground glitch art in a way which has become a 'pivotal axis' of the international glitch scene” explains Cates.

 

YouGlitch Logo

 

One way on engaging a global audience has been the recent birth of Uglitch an upload site based on the YouTube model. Site founder Benjamin Gaulon aka Recyclism explains the site's reference to YouTube and its users by saying  “We are building a database of glitch GIFs that can then be used for new work by us and others, we are starting to see similar types of uploads [to YouTube] with  short edited film clips and the like to create glitches”.

 

YouGlitch Logo

 

'Having networks that facilitate the sharing and creation of images (Tumblr, dump.fm, and Google+) allow communities to form and build memetic value in a hyper-connected fashion. Information splicing with information.' Travis Stearns 

The GIF file format has been around since the birth of the internet and is a natural means for carrying visual glitches. Designer Travis Stearns explains the attraction: “their aesthetic is something digital natives are quite familiar with, but as an accessible art and communication medium they haven't been given much attention until this current point where democratisation of the tools for creating animations are universal and available to everyone. Having networks that facilitate the sharing and creation of images (Tumblr, dump.fm, and Google+) allow communities to form and build memetic value in a hyper-connected fashion. Information splicing with information.”

Style V Substance
'Many artists do see glitch as a tool for critiquing popular culture, but many see it simply as a nostalgic--8bit generation--aesthetic, others as digital psychedelia, others as a lens through which to dissect language + linguistics, and others yet, as a purely structuralist/materialist practice.' Nick Briz

“Over the past couple of years the visual glitch has become commodified. It's now just another filter in the designer's arsenal, at least as far as the gliche (glitch cliche) is concerned.” notes Ant Scott one of the first glitch VJ's now staunch artist under the name Beflix. The Glitch community is as fractured and distorted as the work it produces. GLI.TC/Hthe annual global new media festival that brings everything together. Nick Briz co-founder and co-organiser of the festival explains the diversity of the scene and the balance between commercial and 'punk ethos as“[It's] evident from all the debates that glitch.errz partake in glitch art for very different reasons. We had plenty of 'punks' present but we also had designers who work at ad agencies.”

 

Beflix GL:QU

 



So what of the commercialisation of the genre? According to Briz this can be split up into two different concepts. One is the commodification of genre, the other is it's commercialisation. 


"Many glitch artists believe that glitch art can not become a genre, it defies codification in it's form" explains Briz, "That to combine the two words (glitch + art) and to imply that it's a genre or category is to undermine glitch's potential. They believe glitch is at it's best when it is random, chaotic, unexpected and unpredictable. While I appreciate this position and support the sentiment I do think it's a bit problematic and ultimately not true... of course glitch art is a genre, still it's important to address that such a debate is being had. 

' I got pretty upset when Kanye West released his video "Welcome To Heartbreak" almost exactly three years ago. I thought it was the end of glitch art' Nick Briz

Next is it's commercialisation. I'm not a big fan of this word, it simplifies a complicated process with inescapably negative connotations.  Rather, I think popularisation is a better term, it's a slightly more complex perspective. I got pretty upset when Kanye West released his video "Welcome To Heartbreak" almost exactly three years ago. I thought it was the end of glitch art. I had been making this kind of work for a few years, it was a complicated process and one I felt could only be executed with careful consideration of the material. I thought his video would be the end of such a process and the beginning of a commercialized gimmick. And in some ways it was, datamoshing (the technique he "popularized" but by no means invented) got really "hot", and hundreds of shit videos got uploaded to youtube in its wake. At the same time it transformed a community of maybe a few dozen artists (that I knew of at least) into a few hundred artists."

It's not just Kayne West that's tipping the scale, more recently CK One wanted to shock and sniffed out glitch to add some credibility to their campaign...


Music and entertainment need not be pimped and perfumed. Andrew Benson teaches at the Design and Technology department at San Francisco Art Institute and works for a number of musicians including the masterfully awkward Aphex Twin.
  
Following a more mainstream alternative, a well travelled field of light artists working with musicians, Benson explains the glitch scene in San Francisco as “The bay area has a really rich history of experimental non-narrative cinema. I  hate to say it but I also think the popularity of dubstep has been really good for introducing kids to weird sounds, glitchy artefacts and getting them engaged.”  Benson is at the top of his field, innovating live performance whilst handling engagement with a wider audience, manipulating and creating aesthetic.

 

Melvin Galapon

 



The graphic design community manipulates the aesthetics of glitch, harking back to halcyon days Melvin Galapon is a UK-based designer who works on both commercial and artistic projects using glitch and dot matrix as an aesthetic basis for his work. He suggests “there is a kind of movement where using glitches and dot matrix is retro-cool as the generation of people currently creating work come from an era where this was part and parcel of the technology we are all a part of"


We're comfortable looking at screens and connecting to networks that show nothing but beauty and an obsession with perfectionism. To this end, distortion is closer to the reality of our fractured, temporal information society.' Travis Stearns

 

Travis Stearn

 

Explaining the relationship that designers have with glitch Travis Stearns explains "I relate distortion in the current context of the internet to punk communication art, particularly xerox flyers and zines. HD screens are hanging everywhere now. The new objects of desire, our smart phones and iPads, favor minimalism and vast white space. We're comfortable looking at screens and connecting to networks that show nothing but beauty and an obsession with perfectionism. To this end, distortion is closer to the reality of our fractured, temporal information society."

The Accidental Anarchists
The design team at Bloomberg Businessweek have shown a passion for observing the glitch, error and disruption of graphics by recently publishing their printer errors, entitled Printer Tragedies as a batch of artwork on Flickr. This light hearted look at digital errors reveals a deeper attraction for 'wrong' graphics.

 

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Printer Tragedies from the  Bloomberg Businessweek printer

 

Jennifer Daniel, designer for BBW explains “I guess what I'm attracted to is how these visual interruptions create spatial correlations that have always existed but no one else saw. Being able to find something that no one else has articulated is what so many creative consciously try to do. And it turns out you don't even need to have a conscious to do it.”

Transparency
Eco and media conscious advertising campaigns have also adapted the 'warts and all' transparency of glitch.AnitaFontaine, digital artist and Art Director of Champagne Valentine explains her work for fashion brand Edun: “We were inspired by the raw textures from the collection and we wanted to make a digital experience that felt more organic than digital. We love the effect of being able to scratch away the truth behind the lies, or vice versa, and literally being able to do that as means of moving through the experience.”


Speaking of the relevance to glitch and branding, Fontaine suggests “glitch and disturbance makes a work or experience seem imperfect and therefore more real. It's important that we mix the real and the virtual, blurring the boundaries - it's what people are used to now in these new hybrid realities we immerse ourselves in everyday.”

 

WikiLeaks scarf
Design by Metahaven; Photo by Meinke Klein
WikiLeaks scarf
Design by Metahaven; Photo by Meinke Klein 

 

Transparency also has a political connotation and the self appointed bastion for this is the notorious Wikileaks organisation. Dutch design companyMetahaven took on the job of fund raising for the organisation and produced a number of products including a scarf, complete with distorted Louis Vuitton graphics as well as mugs and T-Shirts. The work was recently featured in an exhibition at the Museum of The Image (formerly The Graphic Design Museum) in Breda, Netherlands.

Metahaven explain the link between graphic distortion and the Internet are linked by saying “forms of graphic 'distortion' are now common to the Internet, perhaps complementary to the almost bathroom-like sterility of web standards. or to simply demonstrate the infinite shaping and reshaping of memes and visuals as part of an evolutionary process authored by everyone and no one.”
'...A whole new approach that combines today’s possibilities in technology, (neo)craft, social media and advertising to create a new world image' Dennis Elbers.
Dennis Elbers, curator at the Museum Of The Image explains the relevance of this “Designers have the ability to make this world transparent. This is what we need opposed to hierarchy. And I'm not just talking about 'green annual reports' but a whole new approach that combines today’s possibilities in technology, (neo)craft, social media and advertising to create a new world image."

As for far reaching impact of glitch beyond graphics, Benjamin Gaulon aka Recyclism, has this to say: “current technological design strategies, based on the notion of disposable devices and planned obsolescence, need to be challenged in order to find more sustainable models. By exploring other routes such as hardware hacking and recycling strategies of obsolete technology I believe we can to develop new sustainable models.” 


Glitch is not disposable, it is the error of our digital ways if we think it is. 

 

New Adventures in Web Design Paper

http://2012.newadventuresconf.com/paper/

 

Just like the main event, the second issue of our paper packs plenty of opinion. Within the pages you'll find in-depth interviews, unique contributions, and much more besides.

Of course, it contains some conference-specific info (which we think you'll find useful when you watch the forthcoming free videos), but with the interviews and contributions we think it's too good to be enjoyed by only 650 people.

New Adventures newspapers

CONTRIBUTORS AND CONTENTS

  • Introduction from Simon Collison
  • Interview with Frank Chimero, Denise Jacobs, and Trent Walton
  • Interview with Dan Mall, Cameron Koczon, and Travis Schmeisser
  • Interview with Naomi Atkinson, Ben Bodien, and Robbie Manson
  • Commissioned illustration by Christoph Rauscher
  • Commissioned typography centrefold by Alex Fowkes
  • Messages from sponsors, including a couple of special offers
  • Conference schedule, speaker profiles, topics and more
New Adventures newspaper 2012 edition preview

COLOPHON

New Adventures newspapers

WHY ARE WE SELLING THESE?

This small charge helps us cover the design and production of the paper, plus digital storage and distribution, and the sheer expense of organising the event. Plus, it's nice to share.

CREDIT AND THANKS

Thank you to all of the contributors for allowing us to distribute their work, and to Relly for the eagle eyes. Our gratitude also goes out to the wonderful sponsors. Last but not least, enormous thanks to Oliver for his commitment to this project and his skills in newspaper layout and production.

Skeleton boilerplate

http://www.getskeleton.com/

 

What Is It?

Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone. Skeleton is built on three core principles:

responsive
Responsive Grid Down To Mobile

Skeleton has a familiar, lightweight 960 grid as its base, but elegantly scales down to downsized browser windows, tablets, mobile phones (in landscape and portrait). Go ahead, resize this page!

responsive
Fast to Start

Skeleton is a tool for rapid development. Get started fast with CSS best practices, a well-structured grid that makes mobile consideration easy, an organized file structure and super basic UI elements like lightly styled forms, buttons, tabs and more.

responsive
Style Agnostic

Skeleton is not a UI framework. It's a development kit that provides the most basic styles as a foundation, but is ready to adopt whatever your design or style is.

Internship London

Creative Internship

brief ref: FD/CAT/EN119558/JN14943017
Company
Candi
Location
Central London
Contract
temp
Rate
£50 /day
Duration
4-6 weeks+
Source: http://creativepool.co.uk/employee/FD/CAT/EN119558/JN14943017/Creative-Intern...?



Start date
ASAP
Posted on
10/04/2012
Closing date
08/05/2012

About us...  

Candi opened its doors in 2006 as the first UK digital agency dedicated to retailers and consumer brands.

We specialise in creating innovative multi-channel digital solutions for household brands and are market leaders in retail & FMCG marketing and ecommerce.

We are retained for our digital services and trusted by some great UK brands including Morrisons, Disaronno and John Lewis.

Over the last five years, we have grown a talented team who offer big agency expertise with a small agency culture. We are now busier than ever and growing fast!

Please see here for more info on us and examples of our work: www.candi.co.uk

The role...

We want to hear from digital and multimedia design graduates who would like a helping hand in moulding the start of their creative and digital careers.

You will work alongside our internal creative team on anything from concepts, design development, design amends, research and prepping for presentations.

You must have working knowledge of Adobe CS and Microsoft Office software. The placement will last for 4 – 6 weeks +.

Design Festival newsletter

DesignFestival

 

This week, DesignFestival offers typography prepared two ways: add attitude using grunge fonts, or achieve a unique style using custom Photoshop lettering techniques. We also have featured reader portfolios, as well as a recipe for making a stellar portfolio of your own from scratch.
– Peter North / Managing Editor

 

30 Best Grunge Fonts from Around the Web
 
 
 
 

"Grunge" is a broad category that reveals a surprising degree of variation. Ranging from messy to creepy, from elegant to downright destroyed, you’ll find a little of everything here.
 
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The 30 best grunge fonts from around the web
 
Create Custom Type Using the Puppet Warp Tool
 
 
 
 

Creating your own personal set of Photoshop brushes is easier than you might think. In this article, you'll build a brush and tailor it to your needs with settings like Jitter, Scattering, and Textures.
 
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Use the puppet warp tool to create custom lettering
 
eBook: Cross Browser CSS3 Solutions and Considerations
 
 
 
 

SitePoint author Louis Lazaris brings you a compact eBook that will help you deal with browser inconsistencies in CSS3-based designs. This eBook provides long-term principles that should guide web development, and gives numerous sources (including CSS3-based JavaScript libraries and plugins) to help developers make informed decisions on what's available. On sale now for only $9 (regular $17).
 
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Featured Reader: Sreeraman Mohan Girija
 
 
 
 

Sreeraman has been a visual designer for over eight years. He began as a hobbyist, but now works full time on a variety of design projects, including print design, branding, corporate identity, T-​​shirt design, and front-​​end development.
 
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Feature Your Work on DesignFestival
 
 
 
 

We know it’s the readers who keep our sites going — and on DesignFestival, we want to offer you the opportunity to have your work shown. We’ll be publishing regular features that include some insight from our reader-​​designers, as well as a showcase of their design work. Get in touch for your opportunity to be a part of it!
 
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get featured
 

ANTENNA SHOW OFFS

Antenna members SHOW OFF! 

 

On Monday 12th March Antenna wants to open its doors to you to meet enterprising creative businesses and professionals. Called SHOW OFF!, the event is a great opportunity for you to meet with 30 exhibitors from the creative industries, including designers and web developers, video producers, marketing specialists and digital experts. They’ll be running free workshops designed to help you connect with the creative business community in Nottingham. You’ll also be invited to attend the launch of Antenna’s Amplify Award for new creative business start-ups from 5-7pm.

 

Since it opened in 2009, Antenna has played a vital role in developing and nurturing creativity across Nottingham and beyond. The members’ only centre is opening its doors for the special SHOW OFF! event on 12th March between 10am and 7pm. There’s no need to book – just drop in any time on the day. For a full programme of SHOW OFF! activities, log on to www.antenna.uk.com

 

We hope you can make it along to this event, please bring your colleagues and please also pass this invitation onto any other businesses you feel would be interested.

 

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