FdA Web Design Course

CD Packaging · A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours by The Humble Bee

Design by Delton Taylor

The ‘Design a CD Package’ assignment is a staple of many creative courses. However, executing the work to strict commercial specifications, and for unfamiliar music, adds a different dimension.

Website · Unión Deportiva Lanzarote

Design and build by Team FdA

A reworking of the Mercancia Lanzarote website [an English speaking site for the Spanish Tercera División football club, Unión Deportiva Lanzarote], undertaken as part of our commercial projects.

Article · Web Design Education from a Student’s Perspective

FdA Web Design student Emily Young became so frustrated with the misrepresentation of web design education in industry blogs that she decided to respond in kind … by writing her own article for internationally renowned web strategist Paul Boag.

CD Packaging & Branding · 3395 by International Peoples Gang

Design by Mark Torrington

CD packaging projects can spin off into other print disciplines such as corporate identity work. Here, a logo and other brand collateral has been created to support the relaunch of a record label.

Website · Athlete Development Programme

Design and build by Team FdA

Client-based projects can extend to helping out with the odd thing for the Wakefield College website. Here’s a proposal for the Sports Department’s ‘Athlete Development Programme’.

Branding · Cottage Road Cinema

Design by Alan Longley

Cottage Road Cinema is the oldest cinema in Leeds; one of the oldest in the UK; and has been showing films since 1912. We were invited to redesign their branding as part of their centenary celebrations.

Website & Branding · Premier Patios

Design and build by Team FdA

Web design projects can also be augmented by corporate identity work, as was the case for this Catterick based landscape gardener, who required logo development and advertiser materials.

Surface Design / Logo Design · Kidrobot Dunny

Designs by Sam Crawshaw, Chris Grayston, Alan Longley & Delton Taylor

A Dunny is an urban vinyl figurine, vaguely based on a bunny rabbit with tubular ears, and is manufactured by Kidrobot. It is a near limitless blank canvas for characterisation, patterning or abstraction.

Typographic Playing Card Design · Type Trumps

Designs by Rob Charlish, Ruby Glover & Oliver Farrell

Type Trumps [by Face37] are an adaptation of the traditional Top Trumps game from Dubreq. They’re also an effective way to introduce typographic principles and develop research skills.