Feature
Graduates 2009
1 May - 30 June 2009
Graduates 2009 is the first installment of our annual feature pinpointing the most exciting creative graduates from all over the world. Represent have been keen supporters of graduates over the last 6 years, and this year they kindly supported us in our search for the most talented creatives leaving university in the summer of 2009.
Running for the duration of June 2009, we searched for and posted one graduate portfolio every single day, coinciding with the busy final show calendar. In the posts we looked at the chosen graduates portfolio a little more fully, as well as asking them a few questions about what they do. We’re now left with 20 outstandingly talented individuals, for you to browse through. Here there is also a directory of all the degree shows that took place in the summer of 2009.
We will be running the feature again next year, so please do keep your eye on the blog for more information next summer.
Posts
Degree Show Listings
- Posted by Alex
- 1 May 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
To launch our ‘Graduates 2009’ feature, here is the initial listings for the Degree Shows taking place this year.
This list will be updated regularly, please email graduates@itsnicethat.com if you’d like to have your institutions details added. (read more)
Jack Featherstone
- Posted by Alex
- 1 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
It’s the first of June which means our Graduates 2009 feature is now live. Every day this month we’ll be posting an exciting young creative talent for you to feast your eyes on. First up is Jack Featherstone who’s been on our radar for a little while now and for good reason. He’s always managed to catch the eye and we took a little bit of time out to have a chat to him about his background and what he hopes to do now he’s graduated. (read more)
Lizzy Stewart
- Posted by Alex
- 2 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Lizzy’s work stood out to us for it’s wonderful composition and charm. Originally having studied Fine Art and transferred to illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, we think she made a good choice. Her works stems from her ‘need to tell stories’ and a strong narrative is there for all to see. (read more)
Daniel Britt
- Posted by Alex
- 3 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Daniel Britt is an animator, graduating from Kingston University on the Illustration and Animation BA. He’s currently finishing his graduation film, ‘The Lost Coin’ , which he’s spent the last 4 months working on with friend Joe Pelling. His work ticks both the ‘good idea’ and ‘execution’ box which is a bit of a rarity and why we’ve decided to let you know a little more about him… (read more)
Rob Matthews
- Posted by Alex
- 4 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Rob Matthews has ideas to spare. Enthusiastic, excited, bright, witty and a little bit exhausting. He’s just graduated from Brighton’s Graphic Design course and the world is his oyster. A chap who likes to question things and will always endeavor to make sure his work has a strong idea behind it. He’s now looking to save up to go gain some experience in the Big Apple and it seems as though when he has his sights set on something, he more often than not achieves it. Watch out New York. (read more)
Tim George
- Posted by Alex
- 5 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Snooker-obsessed Tim George comes from an artistic background – his mum and dad worked as a graphic designer and painter respectively. He’s managed to carry on the legacy by studying graphic design at Bath for the last three years, building up a nice folio of work as a result… (read more)
Joseph Mann
- Posted by Alex
- 8 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Joseph Mann is a graduate from the BA (Hons) Illustration course at the Glasgow School Of Art. His talents are pretty broad; some incredible model making, a real eye for stop-frame animation as well as a real gift for storytelling. We couldn’t be sure exactly what he’ll end up doing, but it’ll definitely be very, very good. Don’t forget to check out his Vimeo as well as his site for three fantastic little films. (read more)
Jas Bhachu
- Posted by Alex
- 9 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Jas was born in York, North Yorkshire and after completing an Art Foundation course at York College, was lured to Liverpool John Moores University for the strength of the course and the desire to be in a big city.
He’s a budding typographer who’s looking to break down the boundaries between the user and the typeface itself – as shown so well in his Font Generator project. He primarily works in print but with an eye like his you could see him branching out in to any medium he so wishes. (read more)
Sroop Sunar
- Posted by Alex
- 10 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
While scouring sites and shows for our Graduates feature, we sometimes come across someone’s work that absolutely has to be included. Sroop Sunar falls firmly into this category.
Genuinely stunning and refreshing screen printed illustrations with more personality than you can shake a stick at. I urge you to look through the lot. A really mature and astute use of colour as well as a visual wit that would make so many very jealous. (read more)
Gareth Horner
- Posted by Alex
- 11 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Gareth has a painfully bad fear of spiders and deep water, and rates Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ as the number 1 album in the world. What better grounding for a graphic designer entering the industry?
Clean, crisp, sharp work from a guy who’s ultimate goal is to stand on the moon. Read on for one interview that definitely isn’t just copied and pasted for the standard responses, but delivered with an honesty that can only make Gareth an even more attractive option for future employers. (read more)
Frode Skaren
- Posted by Alex
- 12 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Diverse doesn’t go far enough when trying to describe Norwegian Frode Skaren’s work. A portfolio packed with as much hand drawn illustration as clean cut graphic design. His dream of setting up on his own in a studio (complete with basketball hoop) is quickly becoming a reality, and long may it continue. (read more)
Alan Clarke
- Posted by Alex
- 15 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
To ease us into our penultimate week of our graduate feature we welcome Falmouth’s Alan Clarke. A big fan of the outdoors, and with a really brilliant set of Olympic posters, he’s given himself a fantastic springboard to taking his first steps in the industry. (read more)
Liz Plahn
- Posted by Will
- 16 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Liz Plahn is a graphic designer living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She’s also our graduate of the day and studied at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where she received a BFA in graphic design. (read more)
Chris Pell
- Posted by Will
- 17 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Today’s graduate is Chris Pell who has just graduated from The University of Brighton with a degree in illustration. His work really strikes a chord if you get the opportunity to see it in the flesh, with large scale worlds and narratives unfolding before your eyes. (read more)
Joel Stillman
- Posted by Will
- 18 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
California College of the Arts graduate Joel Stillman is a hugely talented designer interested in using ‘the modes of sign-relay to question and to encourage questioning of how signs reflect and effect thought’. (read more)
Rose Blake
- Posted by Will
- 19 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Rose is a 21 year old illustration graduate from Kingston University in London. Their show is on at the moment, and when we popped down to it we’d already seen her work, but was blow away with it when we saw the textures and prints close-up.
She helped set up the collective ‘This is It’ in her second year at Kingston and is really passionate about printmaking, so much so she’s started up her own little T-shirt company. Her work is based around “stuff that she loves”, and embraces it’s self indulgence, and we hope you will too. (read more)
Christopher Smith
- Posted by Will
- 22 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Having just graduated illustration at the University of Brighton, 22 year old Christopher Smith is our graduate of the day. An avid collector, hoarder and observer he loves puns and quick, clever ideas. (read more)
William Davis
- Posted by Will
- 23 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Originally from Manchester, William Davis has just spent the last 3 years studying graphic design in Bristol and Rotterdam as well as spending time in Berlin, London and Paris on various design and photography related jobs. (read more)
Louise Naunton Morgan
- Posted by Will
- 24 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Today’s graduate is Louise, a 23 year old designer/illustrator who has just graduated from Central St. Martins. Louise believes we are losing the essence of human production and craft to the machine, resulting in a soulless utilitarianism, the answer it seems is the quite incredible thehumanprinter. (read more)
Simon Memel
- Posted by Will
- 25 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Simon Memel spent the first term of his third year painting shop signs all over South London with collaborator Clark Keatley under the name ‘Aplomb Signpainters’. Now that he’s graduated from Camberwell College of Arts he plans to return to this, hoping to see their handy work spread further across Camberwell, New Cross, Stockwell and especially Peckham. (read more)
Annett Höland
- Posted by Will
- 26 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Annett was born in Germany, grew up in Liechtenstein, studied an art foundation in Switzerland before moving to London to studying graphic design at Central Saint Martins. She rightfully refers to herself as something of a rolling stone and that journey could potentially lead her to the Netherlands next. (read more)
Jamie Thompson
- Posted by Will
- 29 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
Jamie Thompson has just graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a degree in graphic design. His journey to this stage though is not your regular design story. Having started a degree in medicine Jamie fell in love with photography during his first year and soon after quit. Having re-applied to study photography he transferred again while at Camberwell to the graphic design course. (read more)
Ben Tousley
- Posted by Will
- 30 June 2009
- Part of Graduates 2009
We’ve cheated a little with our final student of the Graduates 2009 feature. Ben Tousley technically hasn’t graduated yet but with a portfolio this good we could hardly say no, and he does graduate in December so we’re well within the 2009 deadline. (read more)
