Class of 2000s

Yusuf Ali PG Diploma Print making and Professional Practice 2003
I started to work for UNICEF as a graphics designer and illustrator from 2004. Since then I worked on 14 projects with them and I have designed and illustrated a large number of books and posters. I am now working as a consultant with English in Action. It is a language education programme run by the UK and Bangladesh governments supported by UKaid.

Lucy Beveridge BA(Hons)  Visual Culture 2003
I chose Brighton because of its emphasis on interdisciplinary study of the arts and humanities, because of its historical location and its proximity to London theatres, art galleries, museums and the British Film Institute. My extra-curricular activities include production design/art direction for theatre and film, painting for exhibition and continuing, independent study of Shakespeare on film.

The university has helped my career by providing me with a solid foundation in art, design and architectural history as the basis for my current and ongoing professional activities and I remain in touch with the university as a 'thank you' for its contribution to my future.

Suzanne Hinchliffe BA(Hons)  Information and Media Studies 2005
I graduated in 2005 after completing a degree in Information and Media Studies BA (hons). I went on to travel the world and return to London to study for my NCTJ accredited magazine journalism diploma.

Since then my career  in publishing has gone from strength to strength - working at various consumer magazines on work experience, before landing my first paid position as editorial assistant of Design Week magazine. I was promoted a year later to features assistant and subsequently worked as their features writer.

In the summer of 2011 I started my new position as assistant editor of Professional Beauty magazine. I'm loving my new role and can't believe I get to review beauty treatments for a living!

Ronald Phillips MA Fine Art 2008

I qualified as an architect in 1955 and spent some 13 years practising in Hong Kong before returning to the UK to project manage the redevelopment of Gatwick Airport. During that period I was responsible for several major projects and very recently have been back to Hong Kong to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of them, an arts complex.

Whilst there, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects sponsored an exhibition of my artwork and I was invited to give a seminar on Art and Civic Architecture in Hong Kong during the period 1955–1969. I did a number of interviews with TV and the press and my final contribution to the community was to donate the entire collection of 22 paintings to HK Cancer Research Charity.

I am 85 now and alongside my architectural career I have always painted, but I did not achieve my postgraduate MA in Fine Arts from Brighton until I was 80!

Here are a few of my past projects and one painting.