Graphic Design BA(Hons): Student achievements

D&AD awards 2010

Kingston University graphic design students came away from the 2010 D&AD awards, frequently referred to as the 'design Oscars', with four Yellow Pencil awards.

"I'm particularly proud of the students and teaching team who have been so justly rewarded for their hard work," said Rebecca Wright, course director for the Graphic Design BA(Hons) and the Graphic Design and Photography BA(Hons). "As one of the D&AD Education team said to me afterwards – it was a Kingston clean-up!"

The highest honour – Student of the Year Award – went to Graphic Design students Jessica Reynolds and Serena Wise. They designed an eye-catching colour wheel in response to a brief set by IKEA to "inspire a wave of boundless change in people's homes by promoting the new IKEA catalogue".

Other Kingston Yellow Pencil winners include:

• Graphic Design students Bhavik Samani and Silje Løkken Rødvik are talking to the BBC about their idea for an extension to the BBC's iPlayer after their Yellow Pencil win. 'BBC Lounge' combines on-demand services like iPlayer with social networking sites so that viewers can watch streamed television programmes and talk to, or text, their friends at the same time.
• Graphic Design and Photography students Anna Brooks and Samantha Harvey have already attracted the attention of several bloggers for their 'Class Portraits'. The project is a comment on the paranoia surrounding pictures of children – a series of traditional class photographs in which every single child is facing away from the camera, so only the teacher's smiling face can be seen. The project also won a New Blood award.
• Tim Sanders won a Yellow Pencil in the 'What Else Do You Do?' category with his project 'Microscopic Vinyl Record Grooves'.

MOBO awards 2010

The 2010 MOBO awards saw a fantastic triumph for Graphic Design BA(Hons) graduate Tim Brown. Tim, who graduated from the course in 2007, was the director of Tinie Tempah's Frisky video, which won the best video award. Joining Tim as design directors were graduates Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor who also teach on the course.

Other 2010 successes

Graphic Design students Luke Ngakane and Rebecca Reynolds won a commendation for their advertising campaign for Metro newspaper. Luke has also gained considerable press for his 'Non Words' project. The non-word dictionary, created to showcase those words turned down from the Oxford English dictionary, landed Luke on the BBC Breakfast sofa and on the drive time show of Radio Five Live.

Along with the D&AD awards, two Graphic Design BA teams also won RSA Design Direction Awards.