Nick is available for guest lectures, talks and workshops on magazine and newspaper design and has taught graphic design students and journalism students at various UK universities including the Design for Publishing course at NUA (Norwich University of the Arts), DMU in Leicester, Sheffield Hallam, Southampton Solent and the University of Bedfordshire. The pictures below will give you an idea of some of the topics that Nick covers in his lectures and workshops.
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- Learning about the power of an image
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- Looking at different magazine formats
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- Workshop at DMU: mag cover design by Luke Flynn
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- Jon Hill’s Telegraph app: designing for a digital audience
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- ‘White space’: learning from the past
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- Understanding your reader and establishing a design ‘tone of voice’
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- Nick at a one-day workshop at the Uni of Bedfordshire
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- Less is more from the New York Times mag
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- Using illustration to help tell a story
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- Making pictures work harder
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- Getting to grips with grids and type
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- Teamwork: getting the best out of photographers and illustrators
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- Breaking the rules: when to, when not to
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- Oldies but goodies: inspirational design from Pearce Marchbank
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- Working with colour: bold 1960s design from Banks and Miles
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- Uni of Beds journalism student Sarah Davies designed and wrote her own mag
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- Great teamwork: editors and designers working in unison
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- Design for gin magazine by journalism student Francis Shott
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- News design for print and digital at the NUA
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- All in the detail: page furniture and typography
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- Taking the reader on a journey: flatplanning
Email Nick at gilburtandpaul@gmail.com for more information or call on 01953 688304 or 0779 638 0779
A knowledge of layout and InDesign is part of the essential toolkit for a print journalist… You can read more about editorial design for journalists here
Wrestling with a broadsheet will give you an insight into the work that Nick does with graphic design students at Norwich University of the Arts