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8 Mar 2010 09:11:51
There was a sobering end as Graphic Design and Illustration students and staff from the University of Bedfordshire enjoyed a field trip to Poland.
They were taking part in a conference in Katowice called ‘Social Responsibility and Graphic Design’ in which course leader Noel Douglas was a key speaker.
The conference was preceded by a workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts with a famous Polish poster designer who teaches at the school.
Noel said: “The conference was an inspiring mix of small and large scale responses to the theme of social responsibility. It also included a large show of student work from the school.”
And the trip ended with an extremely moving and emotional visit to the nearby Auschwitz concentration camps.
Noel added: “This visit reinforced the importance of taking social responsibility seriously so that we can make the world a better place where things like the camps never happen again.”
* Graphic designer and former student Helen Ingham returned to give Art and Design students a treat.
It was the chance to do a workshop on letterpress - the old way of printing using wooden block type.
This method has become more fashionable again because designers want more authentic graphic aesthetics than can be made with computers.
Helen has collected and developed her own workshop in the subject.
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