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UAL Meets: Tom Hulme

UAL students and staff are invited to quiz innovation and design whizz Tom Hulme, at UAL Meets.

As Design Director at global design firm IDEO, Tom is passionate about building successful new enterprises using the design process. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was listed in Wired UK’s top 100 “digital power brokers” in 2011 and 2012.

The informal Q&A will take place on Wednesday 13 February at 5pm at London College of Communication’s Podium Lecture Theatre.

A bar will be open from 4.30pm and after the talk in the Eckersley Space.

To join us, book your free tickets here.

The Art of Punk Book Launch and Exhibition

The Art of Punk Book Launch & Exhibition
London College of Communication

Launch: Wednesday 17 October, 5.00 – 9.00pm
Exhibition: 17 – 26 October

London College of Communication (LCC) hosts an Exhibition and book launch for The Art of Punk - the first ever comprehensive review of punk art and design ever published – co-written and complied by LCC Head of Postgraduate Graphic Design course leader Russell Bestley and Alex Ogg.

The Art of Punk highlights the evolution of the punk movement within graphic design and print, and its impact on fashion and popular culture. Famous graphics for legendary bands like the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Damned, Misfits and the Clash are included, alongside less celebrated examples from South America, behind the old “Iron Curtain” and as far afield as the Himalayas and Kazakhstan.

Just as importantly, the book assesses the impact punk has made on the modern art world; from Jennifer Egan’s recent Pulitzer Prize-winning literary work to the graphics of Shepard Fairey (behind the Obama ‘Hope’ poster), Turner Prize nominated Dexter Dalwood, Marjane Satrapi (the Oscar-nominated Persepolis) and Banksy.

The Art of Punk Book Launch
Wednesday 17 October, 5.00-9.00pm

Following the overwhelming response to our parallel launch event at the Tate Modern, scheduled 4 October, join us for an evening of film and discussions around the Punk movement. Including one of the first screenings in Europe of the award winning documentary Beijing Punk, which follows the underground punk scene in China.

5pm onwards: a screening of the documentary Beijing Punk, just released in Europe, which follows the underground punk scene in China at the time of the Beijing Olympics.
6pm onwards: guest speakers and presentations on music graphics and punk graphics including designers Malcolm Garrett (Buzzcocks, Duran Duran), Bill Smith (The Jam, The Cure, UB40), Peter Gravelle (photographer for the Sex Pistols, Damned) and Rob O’Connor (of Stylorouge – Squeeze, Killing Joke, Blur).
8pm onwards: discussion on punk in academia, led by Phil Kiszely of Leeds University, the lead editor of the academic journal Punk + Post Punk.

To RSVP email Luke – l.whitehead@lcc.arts.ac.uk or join the Facebook group and write your name on our wall

For further information on the book email Helen – hdonlon@well.com

From a Distance: an exhibition of photography by Paul Reas

Date: 12 – 25 October 2012
Venue: LCC Gallery
Exhibition open Mon – Fri 10.00 – 17.00

London College of Communication (LCC) presents an extraordinary exhibition of photographs of the Elephant and Castle. From a Distance is the result of an invitation to the acclaimed British documentary photographer Paul Reas to respond to the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle in South London. Paul was chosen for his extensive track record of personal, socially committed documentary work.

This powerful exhibition consists of very large-scale photographic prints dramatically lit within the large gallery at LCC. The images combine fraught and tense street photographs with calmer portraits, all taken within the Elephant. These contrast with two series of still life details: one of incense cans bought in the open air market and one of abandoned furniture collected by the photographer from the surrounding streets. The result is a quirky, personal, highly original and deeply involving body of work.

The exhibition forms part of The Elephant Vanishes project, a long-term documentation of the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle, directed by Patrick Sutherland, Reader in Photojournalism at LCC. The project has involved several years of MA student projects, has produced three books, has seen films broadcast by Channel Four and the Guardian and photographic works exhibited at venues including the now vanished subways of the south roundabout at the Elephant, the Cuming Museum in Southwark, The Photographers Gallery and Tate Britain.

Accelerators | LCC Summer Shows 2012

Private View Thursday 14 June, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition continues from Friday 15 June – Thursday 21 June 2012
10am – 5pm
(closed Sundays and bank holidays)
Throughout College

London College of Communication (LCC) invites you to view the work of students graduating from FdA & BA (Hons) Surface Design, FdA & BA (Hons) Interior Design, BA (Hons) Production for Live Events & Television, ABC Diploma in Photography, ABC Diploma in Graphic Design and ABC Diploma in Spatial Design (Interior Design).

(ABC Diploma in Sound & Music Technology will now be showing in Show 4, 28 June 2012)

Get all the latest Accelerators Summer Show news at #accelerators via @LCCLondon

Full list of summer show dates.

The Castle: An Elephant Exhibition

25 – 29 May 2012, 12am – 6pm
Private View: Thursday 24 May from 6pm
Unit 237, 1st Floor Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, SE1 6SB

A group of artists and designers from the BA Graphic & Media Design course at London College of Communication (LCC) exhibit a collection of works inspired by the Elephant & Castle shopping centre and its surroundings. Through their projects they look to explore some of the unique qualities of the shopping centre to inspire new works that highlight and reflect the vibrant nature of the centre.

Students displaying pieces include:

Austin Williams
Sanaz Movahedi
Eloise Harris
Andres Ayerbe
Camille Leproust
Juliana Flutter
Dilesh Patel
Emily Wood
Andrew Khosravani
Jamie Temple
Maja Larsson
Charlie Noon

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London College of Communication photographers win a clutch of awards

Posted on May 14, 2012 by lccadmin

London College of Communication (LCC) is proud to announce that 11 photography alumni are winners of two prestigious photography awards: the international Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers programme and the IdeasTap Photographic Award in association with photography agency, Magnum Photos.

'Borders of Russia' by Maria Gruzdeva

MA Photography alumna Maria Gruzdeva is celebrating a double success after her work, The Borders of Russia, received recognition in both competitions.

Gruzdeva and ten graduates from across LCC’s photography programme – covering BA (Hons) Photography, MA Photography and MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography – join Flash Forward’s exclusive list of 120 emerging photographers in the US, UK and Canada and will see their work showcased in a book published by Magenta, available from October 2012.

Selected work will feature in the Fast Forward touring exhibition in November 2012, starting at the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre in Toronto before moving to the Photofusion gallery in London. Based in Canada, the annual competition is recognised as a critically important vanguard for introducing young photography talent to a global audience.

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MA Photography Interim Exhibition

Image by Sonja Trabandt, MA Photography, LCC

15 – 17 March 2012
Private view: Thursday 15 March, 6 – 8pm
New Gallery, London College of Communication, London, SE1 6SB

Open Thursday & Friday: 10am – 6pm; Saturday 10am – 4pm

Students from the full-time MA Photography course at London College of Communication showcase their work so far.

MA Design Writing Criticism in conversation with Jake Tilson

Date: Wednesday 6 July 2011
Time: 5.30 – 6.30pm
Venue: London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB

As part of LCC’s Postgraduate Opportunities Event, students from MA Design Writing Criticism invite you to join them for an open conversation on food and design with some of their favourite foodies: Jake Tilson, designer, photographer, typographer and author of In At The Deep End and professional popcorn enthusiasts, Christian, Martin and Tom of Love Da Pop.

The students would love it if you could make it to their chat at LCC. But if you’re busy, they’re extending the conversation to you via live via Twitter. Just follow them at @MA_DWC to join the discussion in the Twitter dining room!

For more information on the course, please visit www.designwritingcriticism.co.uk

Research Seminars: History, Theory and Practice of Photography

Spring Term 2011

Media Block, 4th Floor m 401A, LCC, Elephant and Castle at 4.30pm
Wednesday 19 January
Dr Steve Edwards
(Senior Lecturer, Open University)
The Poetry of the Future: Martha Rosler’s The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974-75)

Wednesday 16 February
Professor Joseph Heathcott
(Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of the Arts, London/ The New School, New York)
Art of the State: Photography and Governmentality in America in the 1930s and 1970s

Wednesday 16 March
Dr. Jenny Pollard
(LCC, Senior Lecturer, Photojournalism)
‘The spectacle of social reform: Tracing the history of the photographic slideshow’

No need to book – just turn up
Any queries, please contact the convener: Elizabeth Edwards: e.edwards@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Live Screenprinting

Photo: Ana Escobar

Date: 18 May – 1 July (Monday – Friday)
Time: 10am – 4pm
Venue: Eckersley Gallery, LCC, Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB

Print your own poster, t-shirt, record cover, flyer, wallpaper, cushion, table cloth. Just about anything that can be screen printed onto paper card or fabric at our unique screen printing workshop.

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