Watch highlights from last week’s Summer Show Two Private View at London College of Communication. Graduating students from BA courses put on an amazing show turning LCC into a playground bursting with creativity. Click links below to read about how they did it.

Surface Design created a warren of patterns in the Workshop Block.

Creative Advertising played cops and robbers for the night.

Games Design played games all night.

Live Events & Television had a festival. 

Book Arts & Design popped up with a shop and reading room.

Interior Design suspended belief with natural architecture. 

And Graphic Product Design and Spatial Communication sustained the wonder. 

Take a look at some photographs from the show.

And you can see a load more photographs and lots of shiny faces here on LCC’s Flickr

Thanks to all of you who made it such a fantastic show. Best of luck in the future and stay in touch. Follow @LCCLondon & @LCC_Students on Twitter and why not join our LCC graduates 2013 Twitter List.

Our final Summer Show begins this Thursday. Over to you Graphic & Media Design, Animation, Design for Graphic Communication, Digital Media Design.

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At the private view of London College of communication’s Summer Show Two BA (Hons) Interior Design certainly pulled out all the stops with the curation of the space. With a number of the projects featuring natural materials such as wood and glass, and the designs often featuring linear patterns that resembled a web or a nest, the exhibition was held in the Upper Street gallery underneath a newly built wire structure that ran from the back wall over the heads of the guests. The striking addition set the tone for the strong, architectural projects the students were displaying.

Stella Harrison’s project was based on an educational space for developing designers. ‘The Sugarhouse Studios’ Her ‘Continuous Path’ model consisted of a never ending path of fine, delicate, wooden lines resembling s shattered pane of glass.

This theme was continued with Yana Nuss’ project ‘Inner Light’ Psychotherapy Centre for Teenagers. A clean but bold design for a space where young people could receive psychological help and support. The design was simple and welcoming, yet also featured a striking jagged line down the side of the building’s exterior that appeared to be a crack in the wall, with light glowing from it.

Another space designed for educational support was Manuela Velez Quijano’s “THE LINK”. The design was for a library and media centre and examined the use of rooftops as a continuation of the building and used books as the main material and inspiration. The piece appeared to be a shelf made of books, seemingly self supporting against the wall. The space also featured a plaque with the reminder that the “UK has lost more than 347 libraries in the last two years…” The project held a clear social statement as well as being a strong and unique design piece.

LCC Storyteller and BA (Hons) Journalism graduate Morgana Edwards reports on the LCC Summer Shows 2013. Follow her @EdwardsMorgana

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Filmmakers Gevi Dimitrakopoulou and Arturo Bandinelli use cinema to hold a mirror up to society.

With the debate about the NSA Prism surrvelance revelations raging this film written and directed by two BA (Hons) Film and Television students Gevi Dimitrakopoulou and Arturo Bandinelli could not have been better timed.

In ‘Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher’ nobody exists unless they are seen, or watched, by others. The central character ‘Otto Floss’ is therefore employed as a ‘Freelance Watcher’, a man paid to observe people so they can see themselves for who they really are. Because in Otto’s world being visible does not mean being seen.

In our world says Bandinelli, “we construct our identity by means of others, everybody instead of just being the person they are, create internet profiles in order for other people to identify and accept them for what they want to be.”

“we are always watched, everywhere, by cameras or by other people or someone checking our Facebook. The purpose of the film is to prompt the audience to reflect on their own lives and truly examine who they are in real life, rather than a life they have created on a social networking site”.

A reflection that is happening across society at this moment, with the whistle blown on the biggest public surveillance operation by a government in history. So who is watching you?

The film premiere’s tomorrow as part of LCC BA (Hons) Film & Televison graduation screening at the BFI Southbank. And if the slick trailer and successful crowdfunding campaign are a marker then we’re going to seeing a lot of this collaborative group of filmmakers – and Otto of course.

Watch the BA Film & Television trailer:

More about Otto  http://ottoflossthefilm.com/#reality

Follow Otto on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OttoFlossFreelanceWatcher

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The BA (Hons) & FdA Surface Design exhibition took over the entire thrid floor of the workshop block at London College of Communication’s Summer Show Two. The exhibition space was a warren of hugely varied patterns which manifested themselves in innumerable ways from ceramics to skateboards. The diverse nature of this course’s exhibition make it one not to be missed.

Geometric patterns were a recurrent theme throughout the exhibition. Leah Nelson employed the style by marrying classic a classic Art Deco design with a vibrant tribal print in her final collection ‘GEOWOOD’.

The impressive, large white installations by Joe Kelly, inspired by a use of space in urban environments that are “continuing to become subject to commodification” demonstrated how diverse the subject itself can be.

Joe Kelly

A touch of nineties psychedelia was injected by Oscar Whale’s collection of clothing and festival paraphanalia inspired by his military heritage, including swirling fluroscent camouflage print hats and baggy tracksuits – not the kind of get up to keep you hidden at a rave.

Perfect for hanging out or doing stat jumps in Elly Maddocks ‘Tunnel of Fun’ however which brigtened up the corridors with luminous patterns inspired by man hole covers.

There were some more earthy, organic projects in the exhibition including ‘Bush Tale’ by Emma Michelle, a delicately detailed collection of objects and prints inspired by a fairy tale displayed in a darkened room with wood chip coating the floor transported guests to a mystical forest, without them ever having to leave the Elephant and Castle.

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LCC Storyteller and BA (Hons) Journalism graduate Morgana Edwards reports on the LCC Summer Shows 2013. Follow her @EdwardsMorgana

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