The Northern School of Art - Interior, Architecture and Product Design - 3D

Having visited the Summer Show 2024 I am pleased to say that the course is in good hands! I saw a post that a 'proud mum' posted of Lauren Bourne's display (showing a confident use of 3D Software and modelmaking) and was reminded of final major projects produced by some students for previous shows which Lauren would not be aware of. I wish Lauren and the cohort of 2024 good luck in their future endeavours.

I will still visit this page from time to time. If any ex-students would like to contribute - please put images of your work up here whether current or old. It would be great to keep this page running. I was contacted recently by an ex-student who I taught from 2018 - 2020. I also got to teach him for a short period on the Foundation course 2020 - 2021. I may have retired but I am still interested in what my ex-students are doing now. Charlie Jefferson is studying car design at Coventry - he sent me these images this week of a car design and a more recent project he is currently working on for an electric car charging gun. Thanks Charlie!

After 20 years, the course has been re-branded again! It is no longer Interior, Architecture & Product Design. It is now called Interior, Architecture & Productions. I do not know whether this page will continue! I may have to wait until September to contact the relevant person to find out if it will continue as a 'historic archival' page. I was hoping to upload all the course photo archive onto here in the future!

In September the course will celebrate 40 years since it started in September 1982. I came back out of retirement to help out during the final throws of the final major project with second year students and the final minor project with first year students. I designed a slimmed down show - no large high boards or paint everywhere. I put together a simple template for the second year students to use for final presentation and had to do a few edits but this work wasn't being assessed! So, this is my last show before I finally return to retirement. I can now claim that I have taught every second year student who has completed the course since it started - 650 students.

Since I retired in August last year I have not posted much information on this page. I promised to upload student work but I have been rather busy. I have been given a really great opportunity to teach on the course again temporarily to cover the hours of Neil who left the school at Easter. I wanted to retire with a final summer show but Covid prevented that and now I have been given the chance to do so. So, this is an invitation to all my ex-students to come and see me and the new school on Wednesday 8 June 5-8pm and Saturday 11 June 10am-1pm. The course celebrates 40 years of 3D Design this year and I would love to hear what you are up to now and then I can return to my retirement a much happier OAP!!!

I contacted John Young during lockdown in 2020 for the first time in 36 years. I wasn't sure whether it was him and contacted him via Linkedin. John has stayed in the exhibition and events industry and runs his own design company. https://worldexhibitionstandawards.com/interview-with-john-young/

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A few months ago I found over 3500 negatives in a folder at home. I have digitised them all and uploaded them here. June 1984. They are a mix af 3D and GAD student work.

As well as second year 3D students I taught second year GAD students who were specialising in 3D Design. I think there were only 4 or 5 of them. Three of them though decided to study exhibition design so I was immensely proud that they were following in my footsteps, June 1984.

The 3D second year students were based on the top floor mezzanine. I watched them mount there own work and make a right mess of things - wasting mount board after cocking up cutting frames in the card. After that I ended up mounting nearly all of the students work until about 2009. I am still in touch with Stephen Spenceley (who, incidentally won an Oscar for Technical Achievement in 2002). There aren't many images of the second year work - these were photographs I took at the time. June 1984