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LCF wins at British Fashion Council Graduate Preview Day 2013

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LCF have won the WGSN Digital Portfolio Award for the fourth year running at the British Fashion Council’s Graduate Preview day.

The Graduate Preview day is an annual event which gives the fashion industry a first look at the work of newly graduated designers. It is attended each year by leading manufacturers, retailers, designers and members of the press.

Rob Phillips, Creative Director of the School of Design and Technology, said he was delighted that his students had claimed the prize for the fourth year running.

On the thinking behind the winning video he said:

“We believe that fashion film is an ephemeral, stimulating sensory experience that conveys the products in new exciting ways, reaching a much vaster audience, tapping in to today’s ‘time short’ culture.”

The WGSN Digital Presentation Award recognises the importance of the integration of fashion and technology.

Rob Phillips said, “We work excessively hard in developing digital media communications for the fashion designs of our students and film is one such dynamic example of our endeavours.”

The award winning short film was made in collaboration with OWH creative.

Elisabeth von Stackelberg BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Elisabeth von Stackelberg
BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Graduates from the following courses were involved:

Photography: James Rees Model: Louise Allcoat (LCF Street Cast)

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LCF student creates winning design for 100th Chelsea Flower Show

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Katie Bowkett; BA Fashion Textiles

Katie Bowkett; BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles student, Katie Bowkett, has created the winning design for a t-shirt to celebrate one hundred years of the Chelsea Flower Show.

The judges, gardener Laetitia Maklouf, and Chelsea based fashion designer, Maria Grachvogel, selected Katie’s colourful design to represent the heritage and future of the world famous flower show.

Two runners up were also selected, with 2nd place going to Edward Curtis (BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear), and 3rd place going to Davika Anita Rattu (BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles).

The cream t-shirts displaying a floral ‘100 years’ will be on sale at 2013’s Chelsea Flower Show and online, as well as in RHS’ Wisley shop. Katie’s design will be seen and worn by the crowds at the Flower Show which are expected to number some 161,000 people.

Katie wins membership of the RHS, tickets to the Flower Show and her designs will also be featured in the RHS Chelsea Catalogue and the RHS’ magazine, The Garden, which goes out globally.

Katie Bowkett; BA Fashion Textiles

Katie Bowkett; BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

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LCF Creative Director to speak at the V&A

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Illustration by Jason Brooks

Illustration by Jason Brooks

Tony Glenville, LCF’s Creative Director for the School of Media and Communication, will speak at the V&A on May 22 about the current renaissance in fashion illustration for a talk entitled Fashion Illustration: Portraits of Paris.

Taking the stage with renowned fashion illustrator, Jason Brooks, the pair will discuss Jason’s career, the illustrator’s love of Paris, and the exciting new changes taking place in the fashion illustration industry today.

Tony is the author of the new publication New Icons of Fashion Illustration, and the talk will prove inspiring for budding and accomplished fashion illustrators alike.

Jason designed the iconic visual identity for record label, Hed Kandi, and has drawn the couture shows in Paris and London Fashion Week, as well as working for a multitude of big-hitting names such as Vogue and Coca-Cola.

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Peter Blake: Four Decades exhibition at Chelsea Futurespace

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Tuesday night saw a fantastic private view at Chelsea Futurespace of Peter Blake’s prints across four decades.  It was a wonderful opportunity for us to honour a great artist and celebrate his contribution to British Art.  The show features a selection by Sir Peter of his prints, including his ‘Appropriated Alphabets’, ‘Homage to Schwitters’ series and the ‘London’ and ‘Love’ Suites.

The exhibition is open daily 11am – 6pm until 28th July, admission free.

Kindly supported by CCA Galleries, Paul Stolper Gallery and Berkley Group.

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One Photograph Readings

One Photograph Readings

6.30 – 8.30pm, 22 May 2013

One Photograph has been a featured section in Photography & Culture since 2011, and aims to encourage literary and biographical writing about photography. The Journal of Photography & Culture has invited writers, including Angus Carlyle, Marjolaine Ryley, Simon Watney and Andrew Cross, to reflect on the meanings inherent in a single image.

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PR and Disruption: Embracing and Managing Change | One-day conference

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Wednesday 10 July 2013
9am-4.30pm

How does PR respond to and use disruption – hear from academics and practitioners and embrace disruption by attending “face-off” debates and getting your hands dirty with practical sessions.

PR professionals and academics are invited to attend ‘PR and Disruption: Embracing and Managing Change’, a one-day, low-cost conference exploring the knowledge, strategies and skills needed to communicate successfully in contemporary society being held in central London on 10th July 2013.

The conference, curated by PR academics at the London College of Communication, will feature keynote presentations, case studies and a series of debates by leading international practitioners and scholars. In addition, delegates will have the chance to learn key disruptive PR skills through a range of practical workshops, including app development, creating infographics and film-making.

Confirmed speakers include:
•    Oyvind Ihlen – Professor of Media and Communications, University of Oslo and internationally renowned and prize winning academic
•    Nic Newman – Digital strategist and fellow at Oxford University’s Reuter’s Journalism Institute
•    Dom Burch – Head of Social Media, Walmart-UK
•    John Shewell – Founder and MD at Colab and ex-Head of Communications, Brighton and Hove Council
•    Drew Benvie – Founder and MD, Battenhall and ex-CEO, Hotwire
•    Paul Seaman – MD of West PR-Seaman and PR blogger
•    Tom Allan – International Campaigns Manager, ActionAid

Each speaker has been selected according to their expertise in one of following areas of PR and disruption and will explore one of the following areas:
•    Disruptive skills for effective PR: what is required by a PR practitioner in a world of business disruption? Should they be creative, be able to write well but think visually, be curious, challenging and radical but supportive, empathic and corporate?

•    PR and disruptive media: in a digital media age PR must evolve to deal with multi-media communication across multiple platforms. What does this new ‘media ecosystem’ look like and how can we deal with it?

•    Disruptive PR and society: how does PR best support management by helping the senior team to disrupt and rethink organisational conventions in order to survive the rapidly changing societal and cultural landscape

The event will conclude with networking and drinks among delegates and a wider group of London College of Communication PR alumni. A full itinerary for the day can be downloaded here.

Costs have been kept low to help drive engagement with what the organisers believe to be a range of key challenges and opportunities for the future of PR.

Fees: Full-day tickets: £125 (inc VAT). Half-day tickets (morning or afternoon only): £75 (inc VAT)
Location: London College of Communication, central London
Booking: http://bit.ly/PRdisrupt
Hashtag: #PRdisrupt
Contact: For more information email Simon Collister

 

Chelsea Alumnus Haroon Mirza shows at Lisson Gallery, London

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© Haroon Mirza

© Haroon Mirza

© Haroon Mirza

Chelsea Alumnus Haroon Mirza is exhibiting an exciting new show at Lisson Gallery from May 17 to June 29 2013, 52-52 Bell Street, London. His second exhition at Lisson will include a reverberation chamber, a turntable piece, some light works, an LED surround sound sequencer, o-o-o-o.co.uk and collaborations with Dave from Django Django (aka Jellyman) and Factory Floor. Remixes by Factory Floor and Jellyman pressed on vinyl and released on The Vinyl Factory as limited editions of 300 copies each: release date 16 May 2013. 

Haroon lives and works in London. He graduated from Chelsea MA Fine Art in 2007 and has exhibited all over the world from Times Square, New York to the Venice Biennale. Maroon has produced multiple publications and held residencies in Kenya, New York and Pakistan.

Haroon will also soon present an exhibition of new work at the Hepworth Wakefield from 26 May – 29 September 2013, including a site-specific installation.

London College of Exhibitionists | Show 1

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The first of three fantastic exhibitions showcasing the work of LCC’s graduating students.

Show 1
Private View, Monday 3 June 2013, 6-9pm
Opens from Saturday 1 June – Wednesday 5 June 2013
Monday – Wednesday 10am-5pm
Saturday 11am -4pm (closed Sundays)

BA (Hons) Photography // BA (Hons) Photojournalism // BA (Hons) Sound Arts and Design // BA (Hons) Film and Television // Access to HE Diploma (Design) // Access to HE Diploma (Media Communication)

@LCCLondon #lccexhibitionists

Find out more about show’s 2 & 3.

Learn coding and remix the web at LCC Tech Jam

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Get people hooked on your own Facebook app. Photograph by Stanley Leung, LCC Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Graphic Design Pathway.

On Thursday 16 May London College of Communication welcomes the code crusaders from tech social enterprise Freeformers into The Digital Space for our first ever Tech Jam – a digital immersion workshop where you can learn about coding and have your own Facebook app registered by tea time.

If you’re a graduating student this a fantastic opportunity to add another big string to your creative bow as you take your next step in the creative industries.  All you need are two core LCC traits – desire and curiosity – and by the end of the day you’ll be ready to remix the web and make new ideas come to life.

  • you’ll have your own website up and running in 15 minutes
  • an hour later you’ll have created a social video using YouTube and Facebook plugins.
  • halfway through the day you’ll be a registered Facebook app developer
  • by the end of the day you’ll have created your own Facebook app

So if you fancy learning some of the skills that made 19-year-old Nick D’Aloisio a multi-millionaire – he sold his app Summly to Yahoo for a modest $19 Million -  sign up for Tech Jam on the Freeformers website right here  and make your way to @DigitalSpaceLCC on Thursday.

Freeformers is a social enterprise which focuses on breaking down the barriers to technology and giving young people a way to get involved in the digital economy. They believe diversity is vital in creating a talent pool of people who help businesses innovate or become entrepreneurs themselves. They believe young people are important for businesses because they live and breathe the internet and social platforms.

Sign up for Tech Jam with LCC and Freeformers http://events.freeformers.com/UAL01

 

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‘Antipodes’ by MA Fine Art Alumna Layla Curtis

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‘Antipodes’ by Layla Curtis is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, in association with Spacex. Technical support by Cuttlefish. Supported by Arts Council England.

‘Antipodes’ by Layla Curtis is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, in association with Spacex. Technical support by Cuttlefish. Supported by Arts Council England.

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18 May – 13 July @ Spacex, Exeter

‘Antipodes’ is an ongoing online and photographic project that pairs webcam images from places at the opposite ends of the globe. Although Australia, despite our colloquial name for it, is not directly ‘down under’ from Britain, and the other side of the world from us, like much of the planet, is actually sea, the 4 per cent of the earth’s surface in which land is antipodal to land offers rich terrain for interesting parallels and correspondences.

As far away from each other as it is possible to be, their day-for-night, summer/winter contrasts palpable, often extreme, these distant ‘twins’ (Bali/Tobago, Montevideo/Seoul, the Kalahari Desert/Hawaii) frequently possess surprising affinities. Having researched multiple webcam sources from myriad international locations, Curtis revels in drawing out these points of connection: finding topographical echoes in the landscape, as well as architectural and cultural similarities.

The volcanic peak of Tungurahua in Ecuador is shadowed by the majestic summit of Sinabung half a world away in Indonesia while the port of Melbourne is complemented, in miniature, by its geographical equivalent – a dockside scene in one of the islands of the Azores. Like mirror images, the key elements of the picture may be the other way round but their inherent similarities are undeniable.

A number of photographic diptychs, distilled from the stream of webcam footage, press the point home. Highlighting both the distance and the difference between us, they also remind us how technology is bringing us closer together.