New Talent

Another year, another plethora of talented graduates primed to shake up the creative scene.

As ever, Computer Arts has canvassed up and down the UK to select who we think are the very best of the best. Over the following 16 pages we speak to the graduates who have excelled in design, illustration and motion, including highlights from this year’s D&AD New Blood competition. With strong ideas backing up beautiful aesthetics, the future of the industry is in safe hands!

DAISY WOLLARD

BA Graphic and Media design University of the Arts, London www.gmdlcc.com/daisy-woollard

As a designer, Daisy Woollard’s interests lie in branding, editorial and digital illustration, as well as UX and user-interface design. “What I really love about the creative industry is its expansive nature and the endless opportunities and pathways it can open,” she enthuses. “Last year, I worked on placement for a number of companies, including creating large-scale event graphics at We Are Family, identifying brand language and UI consistency, and online content writing for METAL Magazine in Barcelona.”

Woollard now plans to do some travelling before moving to Bristol and starting to look for a design job at the end of the year.

DAVID FANNER AND CHIARA GERICKE

Falmouth University http://bit.ly/dandad_durex

For this D&AD brief, Fanner and Gericke used the #MeToo movement as a background to focus on the subject of consent. “We realised women feel more in control when they carry a condom. Sex becomes an active choice. Something they do. Not something that happens to them,” they explain.

The condom, “is a mechanism to communicate consent,” they say. “If she hands you one, it’s a yes. If she doesn’t, it’s a no.”

The pair also looked at the, “build up to sex as we might a user journey, finding potential media opportunities to reach people in a timely moment.”