CIC live brief

OUTLINE welcomed the Computing Department of Birmingham Metropolitan College to view students work for the re-branding of their department as CIC -Computer Innovation Centre- they were impressed with the results and chose 6 designs for development and use in the interior of their computer suites, entrance, and stairwell. Designs for the new logo for external advertising and marketing were also chosen. A great success and opportunity for our hard working students with some strong ideas and innovative designs!

The use of "live" briefs is a crucial part of the work at OUTLINE giving students experience of presenting ideas to external clients in formal presentations.

 

Experimental Drawing Workshop

Programme manager Ian Andrews delivered the regular experimental drawing workshop "Project in a night." This year it attracted a record number of participants with over 30 students volunteering for a two-hour evening session. As in previous workshops the emphasis was on the development of ideas under extreme time pressure.

OUTLINE encourages all students to participate and a wide range of different levels attended from first year subsidiary diploma, AS/A2 art to HND Fine art. These workshops create a space/arena in which students can operate outside the criteria of normal projects, where anything can happen and  experimental discoveries can be made.

OUTLINE presentation at the V&A in London.

In November OUTLINE took part in a series of presentations at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the launch of a publication called "15 methods 20 questions." The book was a series of interviews with people who are developing  innovative curriculum delivery models and Outline were invited to participate because of our  Experimental Drawing workshops and Community Drawing projects. 

Programme manager Ian Andrews gave a  presentation on the development of the experimental drawing workshops, their rationale and delivery methods and the City of 1000 Stories initiative run by the Department to engage community groups in the visual arts.

The presentation was an abridged version of the interview conducted with the Q-Art research team which forms part of the publication.

Theatre Design Workshop with Saranjit Birdi.

OUTLINE students on the Theatre Arts Course and BMAPA  drama students worked together with visiting artist and theatre designer Saranjit Birdi following his FEED night talk outlining his varied career in architecture, computer animation, community arts and recent performance pieces creating a fusion between drawing and dance.

The students worked in groups to develop ideas for the collaborative live project, BMAPA’s production of “The Little Match Girl” considering points raised in Saranjit’s  talk and solutions to staging problems, for example how to light a match without using a real flame!

2nd Year's Postcard designs for the Outline Induction show, based on the theme of Flight

 

Visual Diaries 2013

Some excellent Summer projects from the Extended Diploma Students

"Visual Diary"