MA Sequential Design and Illustration/MA Design by Independent Project 'followUs'

This exhibition showcases the work of postgraduate students from two Brighton University courses: the MA in Sequential Design and Illustration, and the MA in Design by Independent Project. It is not only the exhibition that is shared – from the beginning, these two courses have been run side by side in Brighton University’s design department (with shared tutors, lectures, seminars, workshop space, and so on). This has created a rich, multi-disciplinary working environment – the students have learnt as much from each other as from the two courses.

Thirty-four students exhibit in this year’s show. Nearly half are illustrators (generally illustrating their own original stories). The rest – the Design by Independent Project students – present work from a variety of disciplines: photography, moving image, graphic design, 3D design, textiles and even performance. Of course, there is also a great deal of crossover between disciplines. There should be something of interest in this exhibition for everyone.

Students have come from all over the world (the UK and mainland Europe, Russia and the Far East, the Americas). Obviously, this has also contributed to the ‘melting pot’ of styles and practices on display in the exhibition.
All in all, visitors to this exhibition can expect a broad spectrum of contemporary design. The work on display is by turns innovative and informed, playful and provocative, analytic and creative. Naturally, all works have been produced according to the highest professional standards. This is certainly design worth following…