What students are doing

Control Your Exit

“My work is about life. I’m a typography-based designer and I specialise in print-making and hands-on techniques for things like editorials and branding.

On our course do a variety of things and a lot of experimental work. I’ve done a lot of different things; from dementia way-finding, to branding for charities. I’m quite multi-disciplinary, I would say.

I’ve loved my last three years. AUB was the only university that I wanted to get into and I’m so glad I did. It’s changed my whole perspective on graphic design.

Now I’m going to do an internship and explore different avenues in any field in the creative industry.

I want to get out there and learn more. You can learn so much at university, but at the end of the day you’ve got to get real world experience too.

I got quite a few portfolio viewings through the course, with brands like Adobe, Nude and D&AD and I also secured my internship at Bond and Coyne in London.”

Branding and Identity

“My work over the last year has focused on branding and identity, which is something I want to explore more in depth.

My final piece is an app that is designed to help people detect fake news and misleading content on social media.

My three years at AUB were an amazing experience. I really learned a lot especially about the areas of graphic design that I want to pursue in the future.

There’s always opportunities to collaborate, whether that’s through personal connections with students on other courses or even through groups.”

Glyph

“My final major project was all about finding something that can go in-between, so I created a glyph.

It’s a design piece and the way it’s formed is as the logogram of a knot. It’s joining two things together: it’s a conjunction where the two clauses come together.

As it’s a conjunction, I wanted it to look similar to an ampersand so that it fitted into the conjuncture family. The smaller loop at the top and larger loop at the bottom symbolise that context.

I wanted it to have a beautiful flowing nature to it. In the middle, you can see an equals sign because it’s the cause of something and I wanted it to have this subliminal message in it.

My time at AUB has been good. This last year has been hard work but it has still been fun and it’s worth it.

You know everyone on campus at AUB and you have so many mutual friends across the courses. You kind of know everyone by the end of the three years.

Now I’m going to do some internships and try a few different things.”

An App for the BBC

“I did a BBC brief which was to connect people to the Edinburgh Festivals, which was nominated for a pencil in the D&AD Awards.

I designed an app-based platform that works across TV and online, connecting people through live video streaming.

Basically people can bump stream if they like what they see – the more bumps a stream gets it goes up the pecking order.”