Birmingham-Thailand Exchange Students Exhibition

The students from UK who visited Thailand last semester have been slowly constructing an exhibition based on their fantastic experiences there, and tonight they'll be saying "lao jer gun" to Bangkok with a special gathering here in Birmingham. For those of you who can't join us, we've uploaded photos of the show to the Visual Communication International Flickr Pool. Remember, this group is open to all of you, wherever you study, so please add your own work. The bonus is that you build your own Flickr portfolio at the same time, and we encourage staff and students to offer constructive critical feedback on the work in the group!

Visual Communication Uk Exhibition Blog

If you are interested in seeing how the UK students are developing the Identity and Branding for their summer shows, join in the discussions through their 2009 blog.

Some useful Links to support the Competition Briefs

Rewind: 40 years of Design and Advertising, Jeremy Myerson & Graham Vickers. Phiadon Press Ltd, 2002.

D&AD, website.

D&AD Getty Images Bloodbank, website.

Young Creative Network Competition Briefs

Ad Asia Online, website for Adasia Magazine.

Adforum online resource for all the major international design and advertising competitions.

The Guardian News Paper, Media Guardian, The Creative Lounge.


Computer Arts, Top 10 International Design Competitions.

Creative Review, Readers Blog.

Hong Kong IVE/SHAPE/BCU Major Project SIG's

Today we worked through a series of exercises aimed at focusing our rationale, filtering our interests, to define our Special Interest Groups on our individual area of practice. The SIG's were then set a short task to develop an Identity/Brand concept to represent their area of practice.

The SIG from class A have defined themselves as follows (Visual work to follow on Flickr):

Branding - "promise"

Nel, On, Po, Alvin

Advertising - "Ad-tive"

Angus, Toshi, Phoenix, Judith

Information - "INvite"

Mandy, Kathy, Fok, Jade, Dino

Typography - "Accurate"

Cherry, Wayne, Zoie, Die

Visual Communication - "SHIFT+"

Maggie, Max, Number (Lam), Pat, Ruby

Specialist Interest Group's B

Information x "ZiP"

Toto, Serena, Tad, Chloe, Alice (Ethical Design?)

Advertising and Branding x "ABout"
Miko, Shiny, Derek, Moe, Enos, Addy

Illustration x "ill"
Saku, Esther, Gigi

Editorial/Publishing/Typography x "In8"
Bee, Mizuki, Lok

Preparation For D Osbaldestin and R Gibb's Teaching Visit

Firstly, hello to everybody studying with BCU and Happy Chinese New Year!

We are very excited about our teaching visit and are looking forward to working with you and your tutors on your Major Negotiated Project module.

In preparation of our visit, we require all students to post a visual representation of your last Negotiated Study Project work online, for review and possible selection for a Portfolio based exhibition later in the week.

N.B. This request is mandatory for all students.

Please upload your work to Flickr, making sure that you label it and post it to the Viscominternational group.

The deadline to post your work to Flickr is Sunday the 8th of February.  We will be compiling a shortlist from these online submissions (by BCU and Shape staff) for a one day portfolio exhibition as part of the core teaching and learning methodologies for this teaching visit.

Best regards,

David Osbaldestin and Rob Gibb