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Our state-of-the-art centre provides outstanding facilities for students to express their talents and explore their artistic flair. For those with their eye on the stage, the centre hosts a large, seated theatre, a dance studio and rehearsal room. For those with an eye for detail, the centre also incorporates a delightful fine art studio, photography dark rooms and purpose-built graphic design and media studies workshops. The centre is also home to an open-plan exhibition area where students are encouraged to showcase their artwork at various times throughout the year.
LATEST NEWS
Solihull College students shine at awards
Students from Solihull College outshone over one hundred entrants to scoop Silver and Bronze Stars at this year’s Student Starpack Awards.
Kat Bassitt and Braden May who are studying for a HND in Graphic Design impressed judges with their innovative packaging designs to finish in the top 20, out of 132 students who entered the national competition.
Solihull College Principal Brenda Sheils recently met up with the two students to congratulate them. She comments: “Kat and Braden have done tremendously well to win Silver and Bronze Stars and we are all very proud of them. This experience has proved extremely valuable in meeting an industry brief and I am sure it will be a huge advantage to them as they start their graphic design careers.”
Kat, Braden and their final year colleagues were tasked with meeting a brief to develop a supermarket retail-ready packaging product from start to finish, which included designing artwork, creating mock-up packages, and presenting final designs to a panel of judges.
Kat, who won a Silver Star and Sponsor Award for her innovative creation of a Morgan’s Spiced Rum dispenser, comments: “I am really pleased to have impressed the judges and won two awards for my packaging. It was a challenging brief but I have thoroughly enjoyed working on it and to receive recognition from the judging panel makes it all worthwhile.”
The students are now hoping to build on their success at a further competition held by DS Smith Packaging, the sponsors of the brief. They will be competing against two other colleges for the chance of winning a £1,000 bursary prize to put towards helping with their studies.
Braden, who developed a unique packaging product for Rolo chocolates, comments: “It is a fantastic feeling to know that my work stood out from the competition to impress the judges.”
