Grant Gilbert is another ex Stockport College student. He came in to us to do a lecture on his life since leaving Stockport College and what he is currently doing. From leaving Stockport he then went on to Birmingham to complete a BA Graphic Design Degree. Once graduated from Birmingham he went to work for a company called Planet 24. He stayed here for 3 years and said he deeply enjoyed his time working there and it was a valuable expreience.
He then got a job working for Chanel 4. He stayed her for a further three years and he explained that is was a great change and the standard of work expected from you, but he also admitted he enjoyed it more there. He then went on to work with a company called Spin, they created the logo for the tv channel More 4. He was given no brief and was left alone to do anything he wanted, this was mainly because they had seen his idents he had done for channel 4 and were confident anything he did would be good. He said it was hard getting everyone to agree on the board as 'someone always had an opinion'.
After this he was then asked to do create an Ident for BBC1. He had to basically re-brand the whole channel. He also worked with the company Red Beat in London,to help created this re-branding. He looked at the old BBC logo and decided to keep an aspect of it and change it around that, also keeping red and white as the colour scheme. He also went that extra mile and created the whole typeface that is used.
I really liked this talk as he showed us the ay he works and it is a lot like how we work here at college.
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