Meet the four GSA students whose work graces this year’s

Group work

We hear from the GSA students whose work came together to create this year’s beautiful Degree Show poster and digital campaign

Sophie Ammann Ghost Signs “My main interests lie in analogue processes such as print, bookbinding and sign painting, with a focus on typography and lettering. Humour is an integral part of my work. Some of my recent work has been finding and digitally preserving letterings from ghost signs around Glasgow and re-introducing them into a new context. If I could be any letter of the alphabet, I would be an S.” Fleur Connor Untitled Diptych 1 “This diptych was produced by adapting during lockdown to what little space I had and the few physical resources I had to create. That’s why it follows a grid pattern, because the painting is made from lots of little tiny paintings. It’s really exciting for me to have the diptych now become a symbol of something positive. It’s really wonderful to be featured alongside the work of my fellow students and for that work to be celebrated.”

Leonie Hiller Errand's “I am a multidisciplinary designer and photographer, graduating this year in Communication Design. I am interested in themes of culture and society, which go further into nostalgia and heritage/ identity. This has influenced the typeface, created as part of a collaborative project that deals with the marketing language of domestication. As well as being used on the Degree Show poster, the typeface was originally created as a display font for the Errand's shop – created by myself and Abigail Allen – based on old supermarkets from the 1950s, and will also be presented as part of the Communication Design work at Degree Show 2022.” Billy Paterson Capsule “I am a Glasgow-based Graphic Designer and year 3 Communication Design student exploring concepts of hauntology, temporality and technology primarily through typography and print media. Capsule is a modular typeface inspired by Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo – a key building from the Metabolist architectural movement. This movement fused ideas of architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth in post-war Japan. Since designing the typeface, the building began its disassembly in March 2022, which has prompted the release of the typeface for free via billypatersonstudio.co.uk.”