Welcome to Outline!

Last Wednesday our new generation of Creative Careers in Art and Design students came into college for their induction day. Over the summer months, in preparation for induction day, the students were set the task to build and design two three-dimensional letters based on their initials and their interests and hobbies. The students introduced themselves to the rest of the group through the letters they had designed. This activity was followed by a new task, which challenged each group to come up with a sentence incorporating all the letters that individual members of the group had brought with them.

Some students building additional letters to fill in gaps within the group's sentences.

The whole group of over 80 students was split up into three smaller groups. Each group had to come up with their own response using all letters available.

After lunch all students built their own hand-made concertina sketchbook in preparation for projects, which will be launched next week.

As a conclusion to the day Colin Young the Associate Director of Outline awarded prizes to students who had designed the most interesting and ambitious letters.

Two of the three prize winners Moses and Effiena, well done!

Our Creative Careers in Art and Design group for the year 2012/13. Welcome to Birmingham Metropolitan College!

University level HND fine art course

The final exhibition of University level HND fine art students at the Minerva works in Birmingham where students presented their work prior to progression to Birmingham city University. Exhibiting again this year were several students from Brunei ,continuing an established link with Birmingham Metropolitan College.

Welcome to Outline!

Today Outline welcomed the next generation of artists and designers for a taster day ahead of the start of their level 3 Subsidiary Diploma, which will start in September. The objective of the day was to give the students the opportunity to 'tell' their stories and introduce themselves to the group using the medium of drawing. At the same time the taster day was designed to give our next generation of students the opportunity to meet fellow learners and to familiarise themselves with their new college environment. The group of over 40 students took part in a series of workshops, as a group they produce a final piece of fine art drawing.

At the beginning there were individual drawings....which later were joined through further sketches and drawings of personal items that the students brought with them.

 A students mapping her journey from home into college...

Students expressing themselves through 'silhouette-drawings'.

Keywords such as 'Heritage', 'Education' and 'Magic' prompted a mind-map.

The students regularly rotated and changed their positions, which led to the creation of a final communal piece of work. 

 "Jazz-hands!"

Outline would like to thank all students that attended today's taster session for their effort and for the fantastic outcomes they produced during the session, it would have not been the same without you! Welcome to Outline!

Level 1 & 2 Art and Design Taster Day

For the Level 1 & 2 Art and Design  taster day students photographed each other in the photography studio then used a range of Photoshop techniques to create their own magazine covers.

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design End of Year Show