SAPC has once again teamed up with local students on a project which will help raise money for a much-loved local charity.
The highly-anticipated St Austell Printing Company Calendar has been unveiled, featuring artwork by talented third-year Falmouth University Illustration students.
This year’s theme is “Progress and Innovation”, with the artwork reflecting Cornwall’s history and continuing innovation journey. The subjects include St Austell Brewery’s sustainability innovations, Goonhilly, Cornwall’s new Spaceport and Cornish inventors including steam pioneer Richard Trevithick.
Thousands of calendars have been printed and are being sent to SAPC’s clients across the UK. Copies are also available to buy in Cornwall Hospice Care Shops across the St Austell area and on the St Austell Printing Company website, with all money raised going to the charity.
Matt Bunt, SAPC Marketing and Communications Manager said: “There is always such anticipation around our calendars each year. We’ve had people asking us about this year’s theme since August, which we’ve managed to keep under wraps.
Once again, we were really pleased to be able to work with the students at Falmouth. Nearly 40 artists submitted illustrations based around the brief, which we had to whittle down to the final 13.”
This project is part of the third-year curriculum, and gives students the opportunity to work on a live project with regular feedback from Matt and SAPC designer Becky Dibb.
Becky said: “Each year we think the quality can’t get any better, but then we’re pleasantly surprised! Once again this year the students have come up with some original and exciting designs. Their interpretations of the brief have been excellent and we’re pleased that they’ve been able to help promote the innovation and progress Cornwall boasts. There are some very talented illustrators coming out of Falmouth University and we’re grateful for their involvement.”
This is the fourth consecutive year SAPC has collaborated with the Illustration Department at Falmouth. With a significant number of calendar recipients working in design and marketing agencies, this offers a unique opportunity for the students to promote themselves to people that might be able to offer work.
“We want the calendar to be used as a catalyst to promote the Students’ talent.” continued Matt. We have heard stories of students being awarded projects and jobs off the back of previous calendars.”
As a Cornish company ourselves, we’re proud of not only of what Cornwall has achieved in the past, but the potential of what it will achieve in the future. This calendar promotes our home and we look forward to seeing copies on desks across Cornwall and beyond soon.
2019's Theme - Progress and Innovation
Cover: Charlotte Grange
The illustration portrays progress and innovation in Cornwall in a sweeping narrative from past, to present and the future. The illustration highlights Trevithick’s steam engine which helped fuel the industrial revolution, companies such as St Austell Printing Company embracing renewable energy, and the famous Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station who are developing the capability to support the exploration of Lunar and Deep Space for institutions and private enterprise.
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January: Lucy Rogers
The illustration is inspired by a Cornish inventor called Robert Were Fox the Younger, who lived in Falmouth and developed an improved compass for a gentleman called Sir James Clark Ross. Ross then took the compass with him on an expedition to Antarctica, surviving difficult conditions and discovering the position of the South Magnetic Pole – with the help of the new compass.
February: Sophie Freestone
In The illustration is inspired by The Padstow Lobster Hatchery who launched the ‘Lobster Grower 2’ initiative. This enables European Juvenile lobsters to be grown in environmentally enriched sea-based containers that hang from ropes out to sea in St Austell Bay. This method of growing in containers greatly increases their chances of survival, as they are protected from the creatures they share their ocean with. In the long-term, the initiative will help develop a sustainable low carbon form of aquaculture. In 2019, thousands of ecologically conditioned lobsters will be ready for release into the waters around Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
March: Jem Venn
Sharing a sustainability ethos with SAPC, our neighbours St Austell Brewery make efforts to be as sustainable as possible, including by installing solar panels and rainwater harvesting resources to their head office, distribution centre and one of their larger pubs. They only use energy saving light bulbs across their estate of pubs, restaurants and hotels. St Austell Brewery are a shining example of how a company can make effective changes to support the environment.
April: Alina Everatt
In December 2017, Penzance was named the first town in the UK to hold the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Plastic Free Coastline status. Penzance has united against straws, bottles, takeaway boxes and disposable forks and 330 other towns have been inspired and aim to also achieve a “plastic free” status. Plastic waste and marine waste is a big problem affecting marine life and the environment today, so this first step by Penzance is a really positive one towards progression and change in the future.
May: Joannna Lillie
This Illustration is inspired by the progress and innovation of food sustainability in Cornwall. The image references food box schemes such as The Cornish Foodbox, providing the county with seasonal, organic, local produce: reducing packaging, air miles and generally being kinder to the earth. Additionally, it is a celebration of projects such as Rocket Gardens, set up in Cornwall to make growing your own produce accessible and enjoyable for a more sustainable existence.
June: April Halls
The Wave Project is a charity founded in 2010 in Newquay, the UK’s surfing capital. Their aim is to offer one-on-one surfing lessons for young people with mental health issues through encouraging them to exercise outside and gain confidence in themselves. Surfing is a very popular sport and this project has innovated to involve local surf enthusiasts who help participants improve their emotional health and reduce anxiety. The success of the projects means that the organisation now delivers new projects all over the UK, including Wales and Scotland.
July: Georgia Mason
This illustration celebrates The Cornish Seaweed Company, based at Gweek who have innovated to provide sustainably harvested, local, edible seaweeds. These have been introduced to promote seaweed as an alternative food source that is healthy, nutritional, tasty and good for the environment.
August: Luoana-Ruxandra Murariu
The illustration highlights sustainability and innovation through the use of locally sourced food, incorporating it in our daily use but also fine dining and traveling, thus encouraging less pollution and reducing the utilisation of single-use plastic packaging.
September: Oskar Hasiuk
This illustration is inspired by a Cornish harvest through the characterisation of a farmer, and his innovative initiative to create his own bespoke combine harvester. The vehicle is a metaphor for progress in Cornwall, complimented by the meaning and importance of the harvest season which in turn enables Cornish lives to flourish.
October: Jane Birbeck
The illustration is inspired by Goonhilly Earth Station who are part of an ambitious project to create a connected global radio astronomy network, powerful enough to explore truly fundamental questions about the nature and origins of the universe. The potential that Goonhilly represents, for future astrophysicists and for the sciences in Cornwall, is summed up by this quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson: ’We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out – and we have only just begun.’
November: Jake Hawkins
The inspiration for this illustration is Henry Trengrouse, a largely unsung Cornish hero and inventor who saved thousands of sailors’ lives with his rocket powered ‘Bosun’s Chair’ rescue system; perfecting it became a life long dedication.
December: Claire Holland
This illustration depicts an 18th century Cornish train with an eco-twist: instead of steam, leaves are flowing from the chimney. The people on board include Cornish inventors Humphry Davy, Richard Trevithick and Jonathon Hornblower. They are accompanied by innovators and campaigners for sustainable technology in Cornwall.