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Design For Life: ASSFAM
Young people from the Action for Children project ASSFAM (Salford Assisted Families Project) came to Manchester Art Gallery during the Christmas holidays for a one-day workshop with graphic designer Elizabeth Noble.
During this workshop the young people involved drew an ‘A to Z’ of works on display in the Gallery of Craft and Design, from which they created collagraphs. The young people scratched their designs into silver card. They learned how to ink up and clean the card, and each young person printed their own work using a rotating hand press. During the session the young people learned some graphic design and print making basics: using grids, the principle of mirror-images and how each print turns out slightly different when producing a number of prints from the same ‘block’.
Project partners: ASSFAM (part of Action for Children, the children's charity), Victoria and Albert Museum, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Museums Sheffield, Shipley Art Gallery: Gateshead
Funding: Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCFS) - Strategic Commissioning Programme
To find out more about this national project visit the V&A Design For Life website
Images © Lilli Brodner
