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Future Services online portfolio: 2 years of great design

Posted on: March 19th, 2012 by Tom No Comments

Over the last two years we’ve had over 20 cre­atives work at Future Arts as part of the Future Routes employ­ment scheme. All have worked to deliver dig­i­tal media ser­vices for both clients and the inter­nal needs of Future Arts, across a wide range of dis­ci­plines includ­ing Graphic design, brand­ing, print, web design/development, video and motion graph­ics. As a require­ment of the (now defunct) Future Jobs Fund our employ­ees had be, either, ‘not in edu­ca­tion, employ­ment or train­ing’ (NEET) or from dis­ad­van­taged backgrounds.

Our aim in cre­at­ing these 6 month term employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties was to give new and upcom­ing cre­atives a chance to bridge the gap between unem­ploy­ment and find­ing their first job role. It allowed them to train through var­i­ous coach­ing and tuto­r­ial work­shops, while at the same time gain­ing expe­ri­ence by work­ing on live client projects and ulti­mately increas­ing their portfolios.

One of the most reward­ing aspects of the pro­gram has been that most, if not all employ­ees, have gone onto big­ger and bet­ter things. Either find­ing that first-time job in the cre­ative indus­tries or fol­low­ing a new path into fur­ther edu­ca­tion.  But some of the most notable suc­cess sto­ries are where we have seen some of our past employ­ees go on and start up their own businesses.

We have now re-launched our new Future Ser­vices port­fo­lio, show­cas­ing two years of some truly amaz­ing work. This is a col­lec­tion of all the live client projects cre­ated by our graphic design­ers, web devel­op­ers and mul­ti­me­dia producers.

Please visit www.futurearts.co.uk/services and take the time to browse through this col­lec­tion of our work. It’s a great show­case and I’m really proud of all the staff that have con­tributed over the years. And on that note here’s a big thank you to the staff of Future Arts, past and present:

Future Jobs Fund — Wave 1
Laura McBride (Graphic Designer)
Laura Fir­bank (Graphic Designer)
Paul Chalis (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Cher­rie Chan (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Sam Pepen­dick (Web Devel­oper)
Jay Wether­ill (Web Developer)

Future Jobs Fund — Wave 2
Laura McBride (Graphic Design Coach/Graphic Designer)
Edward Neal (Graphic Designer)
Jen­nifer Apple­ton (Graphic Designer)
Rob­bie Richard­son (Web Devel­oper)
Stephen Gar­vani (Web Devel­oper)
Nathan Jen­nings (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Brahim Lkhar­rat (Mul­ti­me­dia Producer)

Future Jobs Fund — Wave 3
Laura McBride (Graphic Design Coach/Graphic Designer)
Emily Rose Clifton (Graphic Designer)
Hamish Cole (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Thomas Williamson (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Michael Hoskin (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Joe Pagan (Web Developer)

Cur­rent Future Ser­vices employ­ees
Sharon Leese (Graphic Designer)
Bethany Dalzell (Vol­un­teer Graphic Designer)
Hamish Cole (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Thomas Williamson (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Michael Hoskin (Mul­ti­me­dia Pro­ducer)
Mar­tin Toole (Web Developer)

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Tom Chap­man
Cre­ative Indus­tries Coach / Senior Cre­ative

Cartridge World Donation

Posted on: August 9th, 2011 by Shona No Comments

This month, Future Arts would like to say a big thank you to Car­tridge World for pro­vid­ing us with a brand new printer. This kind dona­tion means that our hard work­ing team are able to con­tinue pro­duc­ing fan­tas­tic work as part of our Future Ser­vices strand.
Dona­tions like this are an inte­gral part of keep­ing Future Arts going. With­out them we would be unable to con­tinue to run our ini­tia­tives or inspire young peo­ple through­out the com­mu­nity. If you’d like to lend a hand too, visit our offi­cial web­site to learn more.

Future Services team hard at work

Posted on: July 5th, 2011 by Daniel No Comments

There’s yet more work for our mul­ti­me­dia team com­ing up, with cos­metic pro­ce­dure and hair regen­er­a­tion com­pa­nies Laser­Slim and Laser­Restore hir­ing out the Future Arts team to pro­duce some pro­mo­tional videos for their organ­i­sa­tions.
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Leeds Met Grad Fair

Posted on: April 21st, 2011 by Shona No Comments

Future Arts made an appear­ance at the Leeds Met Grad Fair on Tues­day 12th April. It was held at Gandi Hall at the university’s Head­in­g­ley cam­pus. This was a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­nity for the soon-to-be grad­u­ates to chat to us and find out a bit more about what we are all about as an organ­i­sa­tion. Peo­ple from our PR, mul­ti­me­dia and out­reach teams were in atten­dance to answer any ques­tions and give any rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion. (more…)