These are a selection of illustrations by Will Haywood who recently visited Linney Design to show us his portfolio. He has a very unique style and some great work. What are your thoughts?

Design Week have just announced that they’re stopping the magazine from next week and continuing purely online. The statement on their website tries to put a positive spin on things; “We believe that by concentrating on just digital we can improve our information service to you, ensuring that we remain at the heart of the UK design industry”.

Like most of us, having grown up with Design Week is certainly feels like the end of an era, although one that should have probably ended years ago – when the reason most people buy it is to look at the ’sport’ pages (ie the job section) you know that the magazine itself is in trouble.

For me, it had become very much a collection of design agencies press releases rather than actually having much insight into the industry. For example they had an article about the rise of hand-cut lettering a few months ago, probably around a year after this trend actually started gaining momentum!

It will be interesting how the online presence is developed (or not) to stop people cancelling their subscriptions. Especially when their sister publication, Creative Review has such a good website and blog. Having said all this, do people really care?  Is it a further nail in the coffin of printed magazines? Will Creative Review and magazines like Eye (heaven forbid!) eventually follow suit? Thoughts…

Andy Neal has been in touch to let us know about a collaborative student project that has become this years UCF A0 promotional course poster. Check out the making of it here – I found the course to be a careful balance of theory and practise a with a massive emphasis on ideas generation and thinking. If you’re a student considering where to go to study graphic design, illustration etc. Falmouth should be right up there on your list.