The Daily Doodle

Every day is an opportunity to show off your talents, but sometimes it can be hard to find out where to do it. Fortunately for illustrators a window has opened to help them do just that.

Mark Chambers, illustrator and University of Lincoln alumni, has set up the Daily Doodle, a Twitter account with the intention to get people drawing. The account will post a different topic every day and ask people to submit their responses so it can show them off to the wider public, including a number of top publishers and nationally known illustrators.

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Mark says, “It’ll be great fun to get people drawing, inspired and interacting. A lot of publishers and art directors will get to see this and that kind of exposure will be great for the illustrators and designers of the future. I hope as many people get involved with this as possible and that they have a lot of fun with it.”

It’s always great to see opportunities like this spring up, so we’d urge you all to get following on Twitter and have a go!

Product Design student highly commended

Product Design level 2 student Jonathan Hutchinson has been “Highly Commended” in the recent Alexander RoseOutdoor Furniture Design competition.

To celebrate his success, Jonathan has been invited down to the company’s headquarters to talk about his ideas and the possibility of them being put into production as part of the Alexander Rose range.

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His work has been inspired by the control of contours and the creation of precision objects free from hard edges. Taking ideas from the likes of Henry Moore, the sculptor and artist, and Ron Arad, an Israeli industrial designer, he created a ‘Mobius strip’ piece which is constructed from a tubular alloy frame covered in rattan weave. These concepts attracted the attention of the Alexander Rose Managing Director who invited Jonathan down to discuss them in more detail.

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We love to see student success and this is just another example of the great range of work our creative minds produce. Top stuff, Jonathan.