Real Job: Couldn’t end the year without at least ONE of our undergrads designing a typeface. Connie Worthington unpacks her excellent work in this report. She’s keen for feedback from our Typeface Design tutors or MAs! #typedesign @FredSmeijers @typefacedesign @CAFOD

Real Job: The task of designing degree show invitations is a hallowed tradition in many design schools, and our students have been doing it for almost 50 years. COVID-19 put paid to printed invites this time, but Arianne Cantwell didn’t let that stop her. https://greater-than-a-to-z.co.uk @Mailchimp

Real Job: Editors Marianne and Aanand are putting the finishing touches on Issue 3 of @UniofReading’s arts diversity zine. Publication this summer! 🤞🏿🤞🏾🤞🏼🤞🤞🏻 @UniRdg_Diverse

Real Job: Arianne is working with @RFT_Cinema on an exciting exhibition showcasing their archive of Student-designed film posters dating back nearly 50 years. The archive is housed @UniRdgTypoColls. Although delayed by COVID-19, there is still hope that the exhibition will arrive late this year, @readingmuseum. #supportlocalcinemas

Real Job: Angie Bacallan explains how our graduates designed and managed the promotion of their degree show this year: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthanatoz/ https://greater-than-a-to-z.co.uk

Real Jobs: Angie, Eden and Ruth built the branding, literature and website for this year’s Art Degree Show at @UniRdg_Art https://asbestosstreams.com

Real Job: Our students asked if they could build and manage an Instagram account for the Department. https://www.instagram.com/uortypography/ @_timwatkins @UniofReading

Real Job: Amrita and Chia-yi created the site at https://greater-than-a-to-z.co.uk . Their report makes clear the value of learning how to communicate effectively with IT professionals in order to bring a design vision to life. Special thanks to @UniRdg_IT for supporting this project throughout.

James Lloyd, our Part 1 tutor, outlines the key things to know about assessment and feedback on our course.

On 11 June we are launching an online showcase of our students’ work.
To stay updated, please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/aHAr1iQwZEdbrEpr5 . You can also follow us at https://www.instagram.com/greaterthanatoz/ for a preview.

Carl Middleton, award-winning designer, graphic artist and print-maker, talked to us about his professional design practice and his letterpress work.

This week’s Baseline Shift welcomed Edward Liu, an MA graduate now working as a UX Designer, to talk to us about his unexpected start in UX Design, and how to succeed on the course and in the industry.