We’re excited about York’s first ever Giving Day which is taking place in November. Our videographer Joe Burn worked with the Office of Philanthropic Partnerships and Alumni (OPPA) to help spread the word.
Continue reading New video for York Unlimited Giving Day
Have you ever wondered how a designer comes up with an illustration? Phil and Sean from our graphic design team discuss their process for creating an illustration, and how the new prospectus covers and departmental brochures came to be.
Continue reading How Phil and Sean produce illustrations
Our web content should be easy for everyone to access, but we need to be specifically mindful that we don’t exclude people with accessibility needs.
While we’ve always tried to make the website work as well as possible for everyone, we’re conscious that it’s not as accessible as it should be, and new legislation has prompted us to make improving it a priority.
Continue reading Improving the accessibility of our website
As you might have seen, our About the University landing page has a fresh new look. The regular information is still there, only now it’s wrapped up nicely in our responsive page layout.
Continue reading Perked up: About the University landing page
For the past few years, we’ve been working with colleagues across the University to create a student-facing wellbeing campaign. The 2018/19 campaign was bigger and better than ever, so we wanted to tell you about the thinking behind it and the all-important results.
Continue reading Student wellbeing campaign
My experience working with the Marketing team at York as a Social Media Intern has been an exciting insight into the world of marketing and social media content creation. I was given real responsibilities from day one and had an enlightening, and encouraging experience.
Continue reading My summer interning with the Marketing team
It’s old news but good news: between August 2018 and January 2019 we did a major overhaul of the front section of our undergraduate prospectus 2020 (PDF).
Continue reading Undergraduate prospectus 2020 revampThe latest postgraduate prospectus is out now. It features this striking cover artwork by Phil Roberts from our Design team, a refreshed front section and a new structure for the subject pages.
There’s a blog post on the way about some of the changes we’ve made. In the meantime, you can read the new prospectus here.
One of our biggest projects during the past year has been the introduction of a new undergraduate brochure for each academic department.
Continue reading Introducing the new department brochuresThe concept of zones was introduced to campus last year, when new signage was put up that divided campus up into ten coloured areas. This was done as part of the University’s Wayfinding and Signage project.
Last month we launched an updated version of our online map, which now uses the same zone system and brings the two types of map closer together. We’ve hopefully made it much easier for staff, students and visitors to use the physical and digital maps together as they navigate around campus.
Continue reading Getting in the zone: aligning our online map with the campus signage
