Students' designs on kerbside

NEW LOGO: From left, Clare Limbrey, Stephen Almond, head of art, pupils Chrystopher Hurford, Kevin Shea. Aaron Abbott, David Holder, Beau Hayden. head teacher Neil Slater and Melanie Powell, council waste resources officer. PICTURE: VIC SEYMOUR

    DESIGNS on the environment by students at Dover Boys' Grammar School will help to drive home the district council's recycling message this summer.
    The school's artists were asked last year to come up with a brand image for the kerbside recycled rubbish collection scheme to be launched in  July.
    It was a challenge that produced a range of outstanding entries, a number of which were short-listed.
    Stephen Almond, head of art at the school, explained: "We were approached exclusively by the council because we've already won a number of major art awards."
    "Last year, the school designed three posters for the litter campaign.
    "I had about two dozen students doing GCSE art and design working on the recycling project and we handed over the artwork to the council's design department in January,"

    Aaron Abbott, 16, who hopes to make a career in graphic design, had two designs selected and spent five days working with DDC designer Clare Limbrey's department.
    One is of a cyclical recycling image, the other of recycling boxes at the kerbside.
    A range of materials was used by the students and many uses are planned for the images.
    These include designs on the boxes themselves, as well as letter-headings and posters.
    Aaron's fellow artists Beau Hayden and Chrystopher Hurford won acrylic sets and Kevin Shea and David Holder received £10 vouchers to spend on Cross's artist materials.
    Specific boxes for glass, paper and cans will be given to 4,500 households in the first wave, with a further 4,500 homes joining in October

    The council wants some 80 per cent of the district to be served by the scheme within the next four years.