Saved by graphic design

...if the Fine Art show was poor, the Graphic Design section (see photo) of the Staffordshire University Degree Show saved the blushes of the creative community at the Stoke campus. There really are some bright young students in that department, and the ideas fizzed about there in a way sadly lacking in the Fine Art show.

But what of the work of the other students - the ones in Photography, Ceramic Design, Textile Surface Design etc? All a bit desultory i thought. Each of those departments has so much of an eye on the commercial viability of what it does that the work sank without trace for me. (Though you'd think Graphic Design would have similar worries about 'viability'... but it didn't quash their ideas).

I didn't get to see the Film students' work as they decided they would go home early. Some things don't change...