Guest Speaker from Elsie Magazine

Just before we broke up for Easter, our lecturers invited Les Jones from Elsie Magazine in to talk to us. He told us of his origin story and how producing his magazine has taken him all around the world.

'Sneak Peek' from Elsie Magazine's Website

Les is a designer and photographer who takes inspiration from deliberate randomness and found objects and typefaces. He'll photograph menu boards and handwriting in order to create typefaces to use in the magazine, producing the wackiest and most creative looking fonts created by non-designers!

Not only did Les give us an inspiring talk, he also walked us through his process of creating a random illustration. Using found images from catalogues, cereal boxes, everything, Les gave us all word cues to create collages.

Lots of paper, scissors and glue later, the entirety of the graphics and illustration departments had created their own random illustrations and the results were wonderful!

Seeing the variety of collages was amazing, and the sheer volume of work produced in around 45 minutes was astounding!

If you have the opportunity to check out Elsie Magazine's website then definitely do, the link is here: https://www.elsiemagazine.com/

See you next time!

Mort