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MapBook

Our Second Year Students have been flexing their bookmaking muscles recently for our three week long MapBook project. The task was to produce a map book, with the theme and format being completely up to the individual.

Students produced a stunning range of books, including star charts, maps of the underworld, maps of Edinburgh, Ireland, South Africa, or Taipei or even more faraway places. Their books took the shape of folios, concertinas, float books and some for which a name has yet to be invented.

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Map of the Greek Underworld – Peony Gent
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Map of Irish Myths – Mhairi Braden

 

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Map of a walk through Edinburgh – Victoria Ball

 

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Beasts of Burden – Felix Miall
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Taipei Travel Guide – Liv Wan
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Map of Lithuania – Gabriele Lisauskaite

And to finish off, all maps were combined into one big big map by the students – look at them go!

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photo by Gabriele Lisauskaite

Eleanor Crow to speak at Friday Lectures

This week’s visiting speaker will be Eleanor Crow, as part of our ongoing Professional Practice Lecture Series. Eleanor is a book cover designer and illustrator, and has recently produced a series of portraits of East London cafes. This Friday, 24th January, at 2.30pm in room 2.13. Come and be enlightened!

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Cafes by Eleanor Crow – image via http://www.eleanorcrow.com/

Come and listen to Nobrow’s Sam Arthur

Nobrow’s Sam Arthur will be speaking about his life and work this Friday as part of our ongoing Professional Practice Lecture Series. Nobrow is an independent publisher of many beautiful things, including zines, books and prints of the highest quality.

Nobrow – Illustration by Luke Pearson via http://www.nobrow.net/?pagename=nbhq

Come and listen to his wise words at 2.30pm, Friday the 17th of January, in room 2.13. See you there!

Oban exhibition

Last week we celebrated the end of our Oban project with an exhibition of students’ work in the art college’s Andrew Grant Gallery.

Each student had been given a board to pin up their work after resolving and ordering what they had taken away from the trip to Oban. They did so rather excellently, using a wide range of approaches including drawing, painting, writing, photography and installation to suit each student’s field of study and working methods.

 

Here are some impressions from the exhibition opening:

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