Welcome
to the BA (Hons) Visual Communication 2015 Yearbook
This has been a very exciting, but also very different year as we have moved into our new purpose built studios. Staff and students have patiently worked around the disruptions and we have found that the new space is practical, light and airy and that we are now perfectly positioned to access workshop resources within the College. Our flexible seminar room and teaching space also creates a beautiful central exhibition area that has inspired a series of exhibitions this year. This has included the practical work produced for the Context of Practice 3 Module, which is now truly placing critical thinking at the centre of the programme of study. The newly created tele-communication suite is finally starting to deliver opportunities for successfully working online with different groups and enabling conversations for students with alumni and we look forward to future opportunities to develop this resource. The Year Three students have been instrumental in creating a dynamic and proactive atmosphere within our new studios. This is also evidenced in this yearbook, which celebrates the usual diversity of practice but with the focus on their creativity, work and aspirations. We have included a snapshot of Year One and Year Two work, which has risen to the challenge of the issues, thoughts and ideas that have surrounded them in our new studio space. This year’s large inclusive project, WITH Communities of South Leeds, continues on from the successful Tetley Feast project of last year. After being selected and
delivered as a case study at the Design with the 90% Conference in Johannesburg, our documentation and academic publication of the Tetley Feast event is due to go to print. Looking further ahead, we are already planning for the hosting of our seven European Group for International Design Education partners in Leeds in 2016. We are in the process of developing a ‘Viscom’ project for the staff and students from the institutions to enjoy for the week that they are with us. I’d like to thank the teaching team, workshop technicians, resource staff, student support and administrative support for all their hard work, commitment, enthusiasm, patience and good will that have enabled our student successes to take place. You can read about, and we can proudly watch, another group of our students take the step out into their chosen professional world with confidence, ambition and purpose. Graham Tansley Programme Leader