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LCF student creates winning design for 100th Chelsea Flower Show

Posted on May 16, 2013 by sjairath

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 (Hons) Fashion Textiles

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LCF Creative Director to speak at the V&A

Posted on May 16, 2013 by sjairath

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.

Tickets for the talk on the V&A’s site

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Peter Blake: Four Decades exhibition at Chelsea Futurespace

Posted on May 16, 2013 by gfreeborn

Sir-Peter-signing-books

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 28^th July, admission free.

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

Sir-Peter-with-Kate-Ross-and-Daisy-McMullan

Sir-Peter-with-Brad-Faine

Chelsea Alumnus Haroon Mirza shows at Lisson Gallery, London

Posted on May 15, 2013 by gfreeborn

: © 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.

Symposium: Looking at L’Herbier

Film Still from ‘Le Vertige’ (1928) by Marcel L’Herbier

Looking at L’Herbier: French Modernism between the Wars
Friday 17 May 2013, 2:30 – 5:30pm, Free entry (rsvp)
LVMH Lecture Theatre, CSM, 1 Granary Square, London

Organised in conjunction with the film festival Marcel L’Herbier: Fabricating Dreams, this half-day symposium looks at fashion, cinema and inter-war Paris.

Bringing together a number of scholars working across fashion, film, art and design history, and featuring rare film clips, Looking at L’Herbier offers a critical reassessment of a prolific and important film director in the context of modernism. Part of the artistic milieu of Paris in the inter-war years, L’Herbier collaborated with many major cultural figures including the painters Fernand Léger, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, the composers Darius Milhaud and Arthur Honegger, the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, designers Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara, and couturiers Paul Poiret, Lucien Lelong and Louise Boulanger.

The symposium will investigate L’Herbier’s role in modernist aesthetics and cultural production, spanning not only art and design but also the shifting gender formations of the 1920s and 30s against the backdrop of both the Parisian avant-garde and the worlds of style, interiors and fashion.

Programme

2.30 – 2.45

Introduction from festival co-curator Caroline Evans (Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins)

2.45 – 3.45

Keynote lecture by Mireille Beaulieu (Paris-based independent film curator and L’Herbier specialist) entitled ‘Marcel L’Herbier: moving human decor’ on Marcel L’Herbier’s work with costume and fashion designers, within his concept of “cinéma total”.

3.45 – 4.15

Break

4.15 – 4.45

Dr Tag Gronberg (Reader in History of Art and Design, Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk entitled ‘Femininity, Modernity and Motion Pictures’, on art, design and images of women, focussing on issues raised by L’Herbier’s collaboration with the artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay.

4.45 – 5.15

Dr Joan Tumblety (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Southampton) will give a talk entitled ’Jaque Catelain and the cultural negotiation of manhood in 1920s France’. This talk sets the ‘ephebic’ masculinity of one of Marcel L’Herbier’s favourite lead actors in relation to emerging post-war cultures of celebrity, and to the shifting gender ideals of the period.

5.15 – 5.45

Esther Leslie (Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk on ’Film and Flimsy’ that evokes the materiality of film itself by examining the fabrics (some filmy) that best suit filming, emphasizing reflections, play of light, and luxurious textures. Her talk also investigates the language we use to describe both film and fabric.

Please rsvp on the event page.

Learn coding and remix the web at LCC Tech Jam

Posted on May 14, 2013 by lwhitehead

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.

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‘Antipodes’ by MA Fine Art Alumna Layla Curtis

Posted on May 14, 2013 by gfreeborn

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

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.

Wimbledon Costume Parade at Buckingham Palace

Posted on May 13, 2013 by efrench

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Saturday, 18 May 2013

13.30 – 14.30

60 minutes

Join students and models from Wimbledon College of Art as they animate the In Fine Style:The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion exhibition with parades of costumes inspired by portraits and by the theatre of the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Costumes featured in the Parades have been created by second and third year students of the Costume Design and Costume Interpretation Courses.

Parades will take place at 13:30, 15:30, 17:30 & 19:30.

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LCF Graduate Bootcamp

Calling all final year LCF fashion students

Are you currently considering your first step into the world work as you approach graduation? Are you unsure about what recruiters are seeking when identifying new talent?

If you are confused about the options open to you and don’t know where to start with your job search, then this is the bootcamp for you.

LCF Careers will be hosting 8 interactive summer employability and enterprise sessions, over weeks beginning 28^th May and 3^rd June, supporting you with approaching your next move into the fashion and lifestyle industries.

Joining us will be key speakers from a wide range of creative design and business backgrounds, eager to share their expertise and experience and help you get a head start with this important transition.

Take a look at our full list of events and book in for as many as you like here

All you need to bring is enthusiasm and a willingness to take on board new ideas and opportunities.

Sounding Space Symposium

Posted on May 13, 2013 by gfreeborn

©SusanSmart

Save the date
Sounding Space
Private view: 5 June 2013

This summer, University of the Arts London (UAL) will host the BE OPEN Sound Portal on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The private view offers attendees the chance to experience ambisonic sound pieces created by UAL students for the Sounding Space symposium.

The BE OPEN Sound Portal is the result of a collaboration between BE OPEN, a foundation that supports innovation and creativity, and The London Design Festival. The portal, designed by ARUP, forms part of BE OPEN’s research into sensory design and its potential impact on the environment.

UAL will use the portal as part of an inter-college project, where students from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design will work with its ambisonic technology to create sound compositions. The project will begin with a series of lectures, masterclasses and workshops, and culminate in the Sounding Space symposium. Students’ work will be unveiled at the private view on 5 June 2013.

Each college has adopted its own thematic. Chelsea’s Sound as Measure looks at sound as an integral element of interior and spatial design work. London College of Communication is focusing on the thematic of Sound, place and memory, and Nomad Lab, led by Central Saint Martins, explores the creative potential of working across different artistic disciplines; to be nomadic.

For further information and updates please visit the BE OPEN website.

University of the Arts London