Ryan Thompson

One of the first few blog posts I featured was of a designer with a post-it note stuck to his head bringing up the question of how we label ourselves as creatives and is there any definitive way now that the boundaries are blurring. 


Having revisited Ryan's work it is something well worth showing. Based in Glasgow, his main emphasis of work follows branding and editorial design. The attention to detail within each piece is fantastic and each mark, each designed logo is almost bordering on a work of art. For example the logo for New Media Scotland.

One of the most impressive achievements is his membership of ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers). This is not easily achieved! 


Explore his website and I hope it inspires you as much as it has for me.

A space for the DS in the degree show exhibition

We were lucky enough to be given a space to exhibit at the University of Plymouth's Degree show and managed to secure pride of place in the foyer of the main building.

We decided not only to show off some of the range of events we have held to advertise the society to future members and designers; but also the creative talent of our members. We displayed a range of entries from our award winning competition and exhibition held in January based on the members thoughts of 'Plymouth'.

If you get chance to visit, the degree show runs until 24th June 2010 in the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth.


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UPDATE 5/08/10:


This university liked the informative side to this exhibition, encouraging students from different creative backgrounds to work together, that it is has ben put back on show until the start of September!

The final event of our first year

On Monday 14th June local designer Nathan Davis from Tee Design in Tavistock ran a series of portfolio reviews with final year creative students. Nathan also founded and organises the Creative Brkfst networking sessions in Plymouth. These sessions were a huge success for those taking part and it is great to see such passion within the industry.

This was followed by Patrick Baglee running a similar session on Tuesday 15th. Patrick, who works at Navyblue in London, was one of the key influential factors behind forming the society and also our first guest lecturer. It was great that he had the opportunity of both starting and finishing the societies first year. Having seen students work in October he said how surprising it was to see just how far students had progressed, even to the degree of passing on details to fellow creatives in London.


Thus ends the Designers Societies first year of events. Any suggestions for future events or guest speakers welcome!

Jigsaw project under way!

The space is finally being built on. More images and info will come in due course...