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London College of…shapes and patterns // Surface Design at Summer Show 2

Posted on June 13, 2013 by lwhitehead

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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Jewellery students exhibit at Darkroom

Posted on June 12, 2013 by mcorcoran

Alexandra Druzhinin: BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery.

On the 6th of June, a selection of BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery students exhibited their work at renowned fashion and interior store, Darkroom.

Darkroom made a national call for competition entries of works to be featured in its London store as part of an exhibition entitled Rough Cuts, out of which the seven talented students were chosen.

Showing a diverse range of bold and beautiful styles, the students exhibiting were:

One of the most influential and unique concept stores in London, Darkroom works with designers and artists. Rob Phillips, Creative Director for School of Design and Technology, spoke of his pride at having LCF students included in the show:

“Darkroom is a multi-faceted store that really understands materials, form, shape, graphism and elegant function. To have our student works sitting amongst theirs is a wonderful honour, and echoes the mix of traditional, contemporary and technological craft qualities, and conceptual thinking that lies behind the BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery course.”

Rough Cuts will be on display throughout National Jewellery Week, which is taking place until June 12.

BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery

Photo credit: James Rees

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The One Club Advertising Boot Camp Returns to LCC

Posted on June 11, 2013 by lwhitehead

The One Club Creative Boot Camp returns to LCC this week offering students hands-on experience working on a real advertising brief. BA (Hons) Advertising students will be taking part along with students from other universities across the UK.

Sponsored by Mother UK Advertising Agency, this four-day workshop will introduce students to the art of creating advertising for a client from initial conception through to final pitch.

The boot camp takes place from Thursday 13 June – Sunday 16 June 2013. Interested students can register via the One Club Website http://www.oneclub.org/londonbootcamp

Previously LCC students have enjoyed success at The One Club’s, Young One’s Awards and you can see some of that award-winning work in final year advertising students’ degree show, part of LCC Summer Show 2 starting tonight and until Friday 14 June.

Recruits at the last One Club Boot Camp at LCC in November 2012

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London College of Exhibitionists… Summer Show 2 with Games Design, Interior Design, Spacial Design, Advertising, Book Arts, Live Events…

Posted on June 11, 2013 by lwhitehead

Tonight it’s the turn of our Games Designers, Product Designers, Interior Designers, and advertising students to make fun in the second of LCC’s Summer Shows.

jasmine green, BA (Hons) Graphic and Spatial Communication

Until Friday 14 June, graduating students from Creative Advertising, Interior Design, Games Design, Book Arts, Production for Live Events & Television, Surface Design, Graphic Product Innovation and Media Practice will turn the galleries of LCC into an experiential playground including games, installations, sculptures and screenings.

A wire web looms over the Upper Street gallery, where BA (Hons)/FdA Interior Design student’s work is suspended over a mini city of their of thier intrcately detailed models. Despite the scale of the project and several students painting frantically late into yesterday evening the space has been transformed on schedule and it promises to be an exciting display of up and coming talent in innovative interior design.

Organising scaled models for a feature wall @lcclondon @lcc_students #interiordesign #lcc #ual #degreeshow twitter.com/LCCID1/status/…

— LCC-ID (@LCCID1) June 3, 2013

In the Atrium BA (Hons) Creative Advertising Strategy have a ‘cops and robbers’ themed space – we hope supplied with a hoard of black hooped tops, comedy masks and bags marked ‘SWAG’ – where they’ll be showcasing projects which have focused around the promotion of a number of amazing charities.

BA (Hons)/FdA Games Design’s space in the Nursery Gallery is sure to become a hive of activity. Guests will be invited to play the games students have designed on computers around the room and on tablets in the lounge area of the gallery. For those who are not digital natives one group has designed a card game for people to play, so there will be entertainment for everyone to enjoy.

The Book of Light, Sam Barker, BA (Hons) Games Design

Moving around the college and the fun continues, navigating your way through the veritable forest of plinths some peace and tranquility can be found in the shape of the BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design exhibit. The library space gives guests the opportunity to look through the students’ work and then retreat to their ‘reading room’, should the excitement of the night become too much.

The BA (Hons) Graphic Product Innovation and FdA Graphic and Spatial Communication room is filled with a range of installations. The Lower Street gallery is filled with visionary designs including projections, a huge multi-faceted geometric sculpture and three mannaequin heads mounted on a wall thatl will give guests an insight into the future of practical graphic design.

Strange things going on @lcclondon ahead of Summer Show Two (pun absolutely intended) #lccexhibitionists twitter.com/Edwardsmorgana…

— Morgana Edwards (@Edwardsmorgana) June 10, 2013

If the return to cloudy weather is bringing you down then BA (Hons)/FdA Production for Live Events and Television in the Well gallery is the place to go. The students have bought the outdoors in with a ‘music festival’ theme. A picnic table on astro turf and flowers winding their way around exhibits will transport guests to a sunny field, and quell your yearning for Summer, even if just for the evening.

Julie Fry, BA (Hons) Graphic Product Innovation

LCC’s 2013 Summer Show Season sees three graduation shows around the central theme of London College of Exhibitionists. Usually responsible for planning campaigns, designing spaces and building games LCC graduates aren’t ones to flaunt themselves. But this summer we’re inviting you to take a closer look at the next generation of LCC graduates who’ll be modestly driving the creative industries in the UK and around the world for years to come.

So, before you play the game, watch the TV show or marvel at your surroundings note the names of these gifted young creatives – because you’re certain to experience their work in years to come.

The show opens Tuesday 11 June, 6-9pm, at London College of Communication. screening in podium 6-9

Showing // BA (Hons)/FdA Games Design // BA (Hons)/FdA Media Practice // BA (Hons)/FdA Production for Live Events and Television // BA (Hons)/FdA Interior Design // BA (Hons)/FdA Surface Design // BA (Hons) Graphic Product Innovation // FdA Graphic and Spatial Communication // BA (Hons) Creative Advertising Strategy // BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design.

Open // Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 June 2013, 10am-5pm

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Material and Immaterial masculinities: A theory practice panel

Date: Wednesday 26th June 2013

Time: 6pm

Venue: High Holborn room G05 (off the café/bar)

This session brings together a panel of industry specialists and academics to discuss how theory and practice relate in the construction of contemporary, fashionable, masculinities and streetwear style.

This session is part of a UAL Community of Practice between the School of Media and Communications and The Cultural and Historical Studies Department at London College of Fashion that seeks to interrogate the relationship between theory and practice in the production of fashion.

Participants:

Sarah Bunter – Freelance casting director
Jim Phillips – co-founder of online retailer ‘The Great Divide’
Kara Messina – founder of streetwear label Y’OH
Rachel Lifter – Lecturer, Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion

This session is open to all students and staff from UAL and its constituent colleges. Please RSVP to: r.lifter@fashion.arts.ac.uk

Ligatus Summer School

Posted on June 10, 2013 by kdifranco

We are happy to announce that the 8th Ligatus Summer School, following the success of the courses in Volos, Patmos, Thessaloniki, Wolfenbüttel, Venice, and Paris is to be held this year at Uppsala University in Sweden, where we have access to its magnificent library. The university was founded in 1477, and it is the oldest university in Sweden, and still dominates the old centre of the city, itself historically an important archiepiscopal see and trading centre. The University Library’s collections of early printed books are made up of donations, ‘war booty’ (from the conquests of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years’ War and including the greater part of Copernicus’ own library), purchases and a large collection of Swedish editions, which is particularly comprehensive because of the system of legal deposits that was introduced at the end of the seventeenth century.

The dates for the school are as follows:

The History of European Bookbinding, 1450-1830. Taught by Professor N. Pickwoad: 26 – 30 August

Identifying and recording bookbinding structures of the Eastern Mediterranean. Taught by Dr. G. Boudalis and Dr. A. Velios: 2 – 7 September 2013

For more details about the course and to register, please click here

What about the heart? Photographer Luisa Whitton explores human robotics.

Posted on June 10, 2013 by lwhitehead

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

Luisa Whitton, a BA (Hons) Photography graduate, who exhibited at this year’s Summer Show One, is certainly no stranger to her work gaining attention. Winning a number of awards, including being shortlisted for the Deutsche Bank Award this year, she is already well on her way to being an established photographer.

Her final project looked into the mad world of human robotics. In collaboration with a number of scientists in Japan she examines the complex relationship between identity and technology. Challenging the way the viewer interacts with a photographic portrait and our natural urge to find humanness and “the soul behind the eyes”.

Her engaging portraits dominated the Upper Street gallery and fascinated guests dissected them with their eyes, trying to determine where the line between human identity and technology lay.

Luisa’s reflection of her time at LCC was resoundingly positive, surmised perfectly when asked for her last words, “It’s been great!”

Further reading http://cargocollective.com/luisawhitton

Void Open 2013

Posted on June 7, 2013 by gfreeborn

by Joey Phinn, 1st year BA Fine Art – Guest Blogger

When I first heard about the Void Open 2013 competition I thought: fantastic! I’d send in a couple of sculptural works and say to myself, at least you tried. It came as a complete surprise and honour to be selected as one of the fifty or so artists to exhibit in the show from late May to June.

Stalking through the competitors’ various professional looking websites proved a tad intimidating, so I set about making a tall, structural plinth for the next couple of weeks in overcompensation for my tiny polymer clay head “Nezha”.

What I also found out later was that John, our fantastic technician in the foundry, is one of the judges of the competition, and Barbara, our talented Fellow (if you’ve worked in the foundry, you’ve seen her around), is one of the founders of the competition. I have to say I’m entirely surprised my work made it through, if only because both John and Barbara have seen the clay head replicated in red wax copies for only about a hundred times… thanks for appreciating it through fresh eyes!

The exhibition’s private view was Tuesday 28^th of May. I arrived at around seven in the evening with a sense of trepidation: what if no one came? What if my work looked dismally amateurish next to the other competitors’ sculptures? After all, most of the artists have a professional practice, although there are also a few other Chelsea students exhibiting work in the show.

Thankfully, my fears were (mostly) unfounded. There were plenty of people at what is a thoughtful and well-curated private view. The space has an arched brick ceiling that really lends the show an impressive presence. I wandered around, dutifully taking photos with one hand while sipping red wine with another. I also took it upon myself to loiter creepily next to my work, wrangling a conversation and an exchange of business cards with any unfortunate passerby person whose gaze lingered for a second too long. Which is just how you forge social connections… right?

Learn more about the competition and see the list of exhibiting artists. Feel free to book a place for the Void artist’s talk today Friday 7^th of June by emailing info@voidgallery.org, where a few of the artists will be talking about their work and the final winner of the competition will be announced.

Feedback at The Con(.)course Gallery

Still taken from performance by Connie Gallagher & Ben Walker

The Con(.)course Gallery is proud to present works from six artists who have previously studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins and have supported themselves through leafleting for the arts marketing specialists Artshead.

This collection of digital photography, sculpture, video, watercolour and writing marks a return to the school that influence many of the processes that inform their work today, and questions:Where do you locate yourself as an artist?

Exhibiting Artists:
James Beatham
Connie Gallagher & Ben Walker
Ben Hart
Chloe Hough
Lauren Miller
Cherelle Sappleton

Dates: 6 June – 13 June
Times: 10am – 8pm
Location: The Con(.)course Gallery, Byam Shaw Building, Central Saint Martins, 2 Elthorne Road, Archway, N19 4AG
Private View: 6 June, 5pm – 10pm

Fashion and Technology Panel Discussion

Date: 6th of June 2013

Time: 6.30pm

Location: Room G05, London College of Fashion, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

This Thursday the 6th of June the Retail & Luxury club will host a panel discussion to explore the role of technology in the present and future of fashion.

Guest speakers:

Moritz Waldemeyer, designer and engineer, is founder and director of his own company. Moritz develops projects combining technology, art, fashion and design. His work experience includes collaborations with top architects and fashion designers such as Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan, as well as artist such as U2, OK GO, Rihanna and Kylie Minogue.

Elena Corchero, expert on wearable technology and smart materials, works to explore the role of new technologies and materials in the sustainable design arena. Also founder of her own company, Lost Values, Elena has vast experience of research, consultancy and design and developed lighting animation design for the Rio handover in last year’s Olympics closing ceremony.

Third guest to be confirmed.

University of the Arts London