CCW PhD student Deepan Sivaraman is currently showing his final research project at the National School of Drama in Delhi. The theatre performance, based on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi premiered on 14th of May followed eight consecutive shows open to the public.

Deepan was also recently nominated and received an award for Best Theatre Direction by the Keralan Government for his contribution to the field, the award ceremony took place on 8^th May.

Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Graphic Design Communication alumni Jack Featherstone and Will Samuel have recently collaborated on this moving image piece for Simian Mobile Disco.

www.jackfeatherstone.co.uk /  www.willsamuel.tv

Back in April two Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Graphic Design Communication alumni; Jack Featherstone and Max Parsons worked on a collaborative exhibition entitled “Template” at the Front Room Gallery in Cambridge.

The exhibition centred around a “space specific, hand painted, wall drawing which was digitally designed to the exact proportions of the room. This drawing was accompanied by three individual risograph print compositions, which played with the same scale and grid forms that were used to create the wall drawing.”

If you are interested in buying one of the limited edition prints head over to the Front Room Esty shop.

www.jackfeatherstone.co.uk /   www.maxedmundparsons.co.uk

Images: Template exhibition. Photos by Max Parsons.

Award winning design and communications agency SAS (part of MSLGROUP) are launching a £10,000 scholarship programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design, to recognise creative excellence and nurture emerging talent.

The company has created three scholarships totalling £10,000 for students on Chelsea’s BA Graphic Design Communication course. The scholarships will be open to all second year BA Graphic Design Communication students.

Students that wish to apply will be asked to complete a live project in their second year with three winning students being chosen to receive a Scholarship for the final year of their undergraduate degree.

Geoff Thomas Shaw, Chelsea’s Undergraduate Programme Director, hopes that this collaboration with SAS “ensures our new, young designers are more financially confident and feel valued as the next generation of professional practitioners”.

David Stocks, Executive Creative Director at SAS said: “It’s tough for students with the cost of study rising all the time. We believe there is a responsibility on agencies to support and nurture young talent and not just use new graduates as lowly paid interns. The great reputation for creativity that we have in this country will only continue with the support of our industry”.

Find out more about – BA Graphic Design Communication

BA Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea College of Art and Design are currently involved in a collaborative project with the Sky Arts network. Six of our stage three students were outright  winners of a national competition: ’15 minutes of fame can start with 20 seconds on Sky Arts’. Students responded to a brief that required the realisation of their perception of ‘the Arts’ as a professional broadcast moving image sting.

You can read more on the following blog entry.

The entries from Chelsea went far beyond Sky’s expectations and as a consequence the students each worked, as graduates at Sky Studios, directing film crews and editors up to the point where their work was broadcast live on 20 February 2012 and stings are now regularly streaming throughout the Arts channel.

Please see – www.skyarts.sky.com/sky-arts-stings

The following is a mini-documentary on the making of the movie: What goes into making a sting?

Stills from the documentary at Sky.

The students and their pieces are listed below:

Michael Clarke – Freestyle
Christina  Donellan’s – Sharpen
Jack Sharples  – Ferro Fluidity
Sarah Bradley -Toy Theatre
Jed Cullen – Spoken
Vanessa Mckeowan –Spoken