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Exciting furniture design coming out of our new 3D workshop from the Yr2 Art & Design students.  Still work in progress, we'll be sharing the finished furniture with you all after a well deserved half term.

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Kendal College students past and present have combined their super powers to be part of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Get yourself to Ruskins to see the amazing Batcave, a fantastic collection of digital and hand drawn artwork, sculpture, fashion, lighting and sound..

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Scott McCloud Comic Art Talk

Review by Precious Salazar

  The Comic Art Festival started today and Kendal College students were given the chance to attend a very awe-inspiring talk by the renowned cartoonist Scott McCloud from America.

He made books about constructing narrative structure for comics. The titles of his books are Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics.

The talk was very intimate, he was very open about his work. Talking about a variety of things from how he started his career, to making comics, to writing, drawing them and such.

We learnt how comics are visual literature which allows you to take staccato moments in your life and deliver and communicate them to an audience through art. That there is a biodiversity of comics and can take anything or do it anyway. It doesn't matter what type of medium you use, either verbally, written or drawn as long as you communicate your ideas effectively, that is what you should aim for. It doesn't matter if you draw stick figures or your writing is squiggly. It doesn’t matter!

As we live in a modern world, where children are taught to follow rules and not make mistakes. Scott said that it is alright to make mistakes because that is how you learn in life. You make mistakes and that’s what makes you grow.

We all enjoyed his openness to the way he answered the questions, giving his personal advice from his own experiences, telling us to “Be open, follow no one, follow pattern and work like hell.”

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Work found in the "One Year On" show. Excellent examples of craftsmanship, making use of traditional materials and production processes. Must experiment with casting, seems to be a lot of interest in the industrial look created by this process.

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Clever stool design that doubles as a shelf, to limit construction costs and broaden market.

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New Designers award winner. Designs for shelving and furniture range that involves no fixed joints or fixings, held together with tension! Nice!

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Experimentation with digital pattern, fabric and plywood. Using lazer cutter (the most used tool on show) to create flexible wooden fabric.

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Furniture you craft yourself, sold with instructions and pewter block. When you receive it follow the instructions to melt the pewter to create the joints. Aim to make people more aware of traditional crafts!

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Kendal College Music gig on Tuesday April 1st. 

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Foundation Photography and Art & Design students have spent the last week on tour, visiting a range of galleries and sites to gather information to use in their final projects.

The students visited Manchester Gallery, the Storey Gallery in Lancaster and Farfield Mill as well as expiring the landscape at sites like Tarn Hows and Hodge Close.

The work from the projects they have started will be exhibited in the Kendal College Summer Show due to open on Thursday 5th June.

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Huge congratulations to Sophie Bullock who secured a 2 week placement with a big PR company in London working on London Fashion week. She got to work on big shows like, Sibling, Nasir Hasar and Fashion East. See her blog below to read about the experience:

http://bullocks13.wordpress.com/category/unit-3/

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Band 7 at the recent Music Tech in Performance gig held at The Box. Great performance by the Kendal College Yr2 Extended Diploma students.

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Coming soon.. Sunshine on Leith the stage musical by Kendal College Performing and Production Arts.

Recently the Yr2 Performing Arts students dropped in to the music studio to record one of the tracks from the musical written by the Proclaimers.

If you enjoyed this, make sure you get tickets for the full show at the Brewery  Kendal.

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Congratulations to Georgia Rose Garside who has been offered a place at the University of Central Lancashire to study a BaHons in Fashion Promotion & Styling.

For the interview Georgia was asked to create an invite for a fashion show of her choice. She worked hard to develop the design above for Elie Saab, taking and editing her own image, creating an envelop with a lace print detail and using embossing inks to add the information to the invite.

The BaHons Fashion Promotion & Styling is Georgia's first choice and she is looking forward to starting university after completing the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art & design.

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Kendal College Music students Paige Marie & Ian from Year 2 Extended Diploma performing a version of Sweet Dreams by Beyonce & The Eurythmics. This was performed superbly at The Box Theatre recently.

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Exciting upcoming performance of Handel's Messiah by Staveley Choral Society. They have collaborated with Kendal College performing arts students who have choreographed a fantastic show.

Tickets available for the show on Saturday 5th April.