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This year the Cardiff Design Festival is spreading its wings eastwards with a celebration of Newport based designers and creatives. For one night only, the Cardiff Design Festival will shine a light on the Newport design community with events showcasing the talents of all sorts of creative people.
This is great opportunity to meet up with Newport based designers whether you are a designer yourself or just interested in something fun happening in Newport.
Key note speaker: Angharad Thomas
The University of Wales Newport, City Campus
Sustainable textiles researcher and designer talks through her very interesting research. For further details jenny.hann@newport.ac.uk
The Sustainable Fashion Project Documentary
The University of Wales Newport, City Campus
Viewing of a documentary film following the journey over two weeks of the fresher fashion students as they tackle a sustainable fashion brief
Newport Does the Cardiff Design Festival Party
Pen and Wig (bottom of Stow Hill, Newport) the main events will be here
25 images of Newport following a brief set by Rhys Webber of rhys@webber-design.com . To get a copy of the brief visit http://www.webber-design.com/index.php?page=nptscavengers
Participants can either take the photos on the night or in advance. Either way bring them along on the night and they will be projected in the venue.
A team based design challenge. The brief will be around developing artwork for a fictional band – you won’t get full details until the night. Outputs can be made on laptops or boards (Design Wales Forum will supplythe boards you bring your markers). Teams can have any number of people in them. if you want to field a team get in touch vjones@designwales.org so we know how many board to buy
A team/ individual event being devised by Valentino and Gareth at studio@integra-creative.co.uk... not quite sure what to expect other than Twister with a twist...
I think self explanatory... and devised by Russ at Russell Britton.com... there will be prizes!
Quiz devised Russell Britton and Rhys Webber... Geeky designy types this is for you... I am assured that there are some easy questions for the design bewildered!
The beats will be supplied by DJ Dom W aided and abetted by DJ Eddie Chave