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LCF Professor to deliver TED talk

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Lucy + Jorge Orta Antarctic Village – No Borders, 2007

Lucy Orta, Professor of Art and the Environment at LCF, will be delivering a TED talk at the forthcoming TEDxWWF conference in Abu Dhabi.

The conference, joint hosted by WWF and TED, will be based around the theme of ‘One Planet Living’ and will foster the exchange of ideas between leading campaigners, thinkers and artists.

As an artist and member at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, Lucy Orta encourages and creates ideas that lead to a more resilient and sustainable way of life. Her talk on May 21 is testament to her role as a leading thinker on how to create a sustainable future for our planet.

Lucy will discuss her work, art, and the future of the environment alongside luminaries such as Andy Ridley, the CEO and co-founder of Earth Hour.

The talk will be live streamed on the TEDxWWF website.

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Calling all LCF students! Survey on attendance, motivation and participation

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Survey on attendance, motivation and participation

For the last eight months we have been talking to a number of you in focus groups across courses, to hear your views on three issues which we think are central to your progression and success. From these discussions we’ve picked out recurring themes and specific statements and now want to see how the rest of you feel about them.

Your opinions are essential to helping us support you in the future, whether through educational policy, course delivery, or learning and teaching methods. All it takes is ten minutes of your time to fill out a very simple, anonymous, ‘click box’ survey, though if you want to add any further comments of your own in the free text box you are welcome to do so.

This is your chance to tell us about what motivates you to learn, makes you want to turn up and get involved in all aspects of your course at LCF.

Complete the survey 

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Watch Johnny Vegas, Suzanne Moore, Jeremy Till and many others in What’s The Point Of Art School?

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If you weren’t able to attend the wonderful WTPOAS conference last week, here’s your chance to catch up!

The Highlights:

People Have Their Say:

The Whole Thing:

Visit:
- The WTPOAS? homepage to watch films of the other events
- View the conference by session
- Tell us what you think
- Or tweet using #WTPOAS

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New Estates Team uniforms designed by LCF talent

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Henrietta Adams: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development

Henrietta Adams: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development

In the autumn term of 2012, the UAL Estates team commissioned second year students from the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development course to re-design the UAL Facilities staff uniforms.

Henrietta Adams, BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, whose designs impressed the UAL Estates team in 2012 will now see her designs go into production.

Henrietta is currently working with several skilled LCF technicians to create spec sheets and patterns, before these are handed over to the manufacturers.

Her outfits, which are inspired by American Engineering uniforms, will become the new facilities work wear across UAL’s campuses.

Henrietta said: “I wanted the uniform to be fresh, smart and modern, but mostly something that people would feel proud to wear whilst still retaining all the practicalities of a uniform.”

Designs by runners up, Sian Lawrence and Laura Fisher, who are also studying BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, can be seen on a newly launched blog, alongside work from other students who took part.

UAL facilities managment staff will be wearing the new uniforms by the end of this year.

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Fashion in full bloom at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show

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Artwork by Katie Bowkett; BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles
As the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens today LCF BA (Hons) Fashion Textile student Katie Bowkett’s designs are likely to be the most seen floral design of the year; Bowkett’s floriferous collage was selected as the winning design in the RHS tee shirt design competition to celebrate the show’s centenary. £1 from every t-shirt sold will be donated to LCF to create an award for students on the BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles course. Look out for the cream shirts weaving their way amongst the garden on this year’s BBC coverage.  Find out more.

Katie Bowkett's RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 tee shirt design

Reserved for “the best and most innovative in garden style, arts and creation” and created by some of the UK’s leading designers and artists, LCF MA Fashion and the Environment student have created one of  just six exclusive artisan retreats at the show. LCF was selected to exhibit alongside Wayne Hemmingway, Cath Kidston and Rob Ryan. The LCF retreat features a dye garden installation, created using natural dyes grown at LCF’s dye plant garden in Mare Street, demonstrating the potential to unite beautiful design with sustainable creative practice. Read the full story.

LCF MA Fashion and the Environment students' Chelsea Flower Show Artisan Retreat

LCF student finalists answer the call for Diversity NOW!

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Brogan Toyn; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear

Brogan Toyn; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear

Six LCF students have made it to the final of All Walks Beyond the Catwalk Diversity NOW! competition run in association with i-D magazine.

All Walks, founded by Erin O Connor, Caryn Franklin and Debra Bourne, launched the Diversity NOW! campaign to give the next generation of fashion creators a chance to shape a future which celebrates a wider range of beauty and body ideals.

Beating students from across 33 different universities, students at LCF enthusiastically engaged with the DiversityNOW! campaign, seizing the chance to show the world how the next generation of fashion professionals will break through old stereotypes and limitations.

Two of the selected Clothing Design finalists, Brogan Toyn, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear, and Jessica Ng, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, have their work featured on i-D Online. Shabnam Eslambolchi, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, also makes it to the Clothing Design final.

Lasha Demetrashvili, FdA Fashion Design Technology: Designer Pattern Cutter, is a finalist in the Illustration category with his designs juxtaposing the clothing of the Qajar period in Iran and contemporary woman, whilst Natalia Lipchanskaya, MA Fashion Photography, was awarded a place in the Photography final.

Roxanne Farahmand, BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery, received a special mention.

All of the LCF finalists were deemed to have made innovative and powerful statements on diversity and individuality. Rob Philips, Creative Director for the School of Design and Technology said:

“My students enthusiasm for this project is reflected in their brilliant work and I’m proud that we at London College of Fashion have this platform to express our passion for identity.”

All six LCF finalists will now face the judging panel which includes designer and LCF alumnus William Tempest,  who will decide if the students have what it takes to be declared winners. Category winners and the overall winner will be revealed at Graduate Fashion Week in June.

Jessiac Ng; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Jessiac Ng; BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

  • Photography credit: Anthony John Sayer

Graduates from the following courses made it to the finals:

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LCF students showcase dye garden at the Chelsea Flower Show

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MA Fashion and the Environment students, in collaboration with designers Story Storey, are to design and host one of the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Retreats.

The summer house will feature a Dye Garden installation and is one of only six retreats in the Flower Show. The retreats are reserved to exhibit the best and most innovative in garden style, arts and creation.

The Dye Garden Retreat will be manned by MA Fashion and the Environment students past and present, and will sit alongside retreats decorated by top UK designers and artists including Wayne Hemmingway, Cath Kidston and Rob Ryan.

Seeking to marry innovative fashion design with ethics and pleasure, the MA Fashion and the Environment students have been using plant dyes to create a range of subtle and beautiful colours and patterns on cloth. The collections exhibited in the Retreat have each been created with natural dyes grown by the students in their dye garden at Mare Street in Hackney, or harvested from within a 15 mile radius.

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Their beautiful and sustainable designs will be on show for the Flower Show’s 161,000 thousand visitors as well as 1,300 journalists, photographers and BBC TV.

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David Redfern mesmerises a packed out house at CHELSEA space

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World renowned British Photographer David Redfern packed the house out at CHELSEA space last night with a presentation of some of his life’s work documenting many of the world’s greatest musicians, accompanied by many a wonderful story. From The Beatles to Frank Sinatra, London to New York, we were treated to a photo essay that left the crowd mesmerised. The images were a selection from David’s book The Unclosed Eye and other material from his career. David has also kindly lent his collection of vintage photographs of the Newport Jazz Festival as part of the Dobells exhibition.

This legendary Jazz, Blues and Folk record shop was on Charing Cross Road for many seminal decades for music in the 20th century. Dobells became an iconic venue, importing records from around the world and was a creative influence for icons in the making such as regular customer young David Bowie. This melting pot of culture created rich history in Dobells and made many more alike.

UAL Meets Jon Snow at LCC

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On Wednesday 15 May, students and staff were invited to put their questions to journalist, presenter and keen cyclist Jon Snow at the fourth UAL Meets event at London College of Communication.

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As the presenter of Channel 4 News, Jon is noted for his incisive, challenging journalism, as well as for his collection of colourful ties and socks (magenta on this occasion!). He has won both praise and disapproval for his stance on media independence, declining to wear a Remembrance Day poppy on air and criticising British editors for agreeing to keep Prince Harry’s active service in Afghanistan a secret.

During the event, chaired by Programme Director of Journalism and Publishing at LCC, Simon Hinde, Jon covered a range of subjects including the role Twitter plays in reporting news, the importance of retaining accuracy in a world of 27/7 news coverage, and his view that we’re currently living in a ‘golden age’ of journalism.

He also had some fantastic advice for aspiring journalists, including:

“A degree is valuable for you, not what it says about you. It’s a very useful and amazing social experience. University gives you the space to rebel, be yourself and find out who you are.

Training is fantastic but what you also need to be a good journalist is to be inquisitive, passionate, driven and willing to work extremely hard.”

After a lively, informative and often amusing discussion, Jon then cycled straight off to read the news on Channel 4.

If you would like to read more of Jon’s quotes from the event, we have pulled together all the #UALMeets tweets in Storify.

UAL Meets events give UAL students and staff the chance to grill influential people in the creative industries – see more about previous Q&As will Grayson Perry,  Michael Wolff and Tom Hulme.

Art Licks Weekend call out

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Launching this year, the Art Licks Weekend will run from 4-6 October and is a festival for young galleries, not-for-profits, artist-run spaces and independent curatorial projects. These spaces will programme and commission special events and exhibitions of work by emerging artists, specifically for the Art Licks Weekend. Art Licks will coordinate and promote the festival, creating a larger impact as a whole on the London art scene. The Art Licks Weekend will be led by artistic talent and innovative ideas, celebrating the creative energy of the young London art scene. If you are running such a space or project then they’d love to hear from you. Application deadline: 31 May 2013

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