J.Crew, the iconic American retailer, have announced a special design project and scholarship program with Central Saint Martins MA Fashion students. This program will underscore the brand’s commitment to nurture up and coming design talent.

For just two days, 24th-25th May, J.Crew has opened a concept store in the Western Transit Shed, located at King’s Cross Central, next door to CSM. The temporary space will provide Londoners with special access to the Summer ’13 women’s, men’s and children’s (crewcuts) collections as well as a preview of the Fall ’13 J.Crew women’s, men’s and crewcuts collections. The collections will be presented alongside a selection of Italian cashmere pieces that the public will be able to purchase on the day.

‘I am thrilled that we are working in partnership with Central Saint Martins College on this exciting project. Design students are the lifeblood of our industry. Their creativity and enthusiasm is a constant inspiration for all of us at J.Crew’ President and Executive Creative Director of J.Crew Group, Jenna Lyons

J.Crew Concept Store Information

• The store will be open to the public for a limited time (24th May – 25th May)
• AW/13 keys looks will be displayed including men’s, women’s and crewcuts, 32 looks in total
• Address: Western Transit Shed, 4 Stable Street (off Goods Way), King’s Cross,
• Opening Times: Friday 24th May 10am – 8pm, Saturday 25th May 10am – 7pm

Find out more:

- CSM Sponsored Student Projects

- CSM MA Fashion

- J Crew

Still from “Prince”, as seen on 1 Granary

The BA Graphic Design team is bursting with pride this year at the news that student Lucas Gloppe’s film will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Look out for Lucas’s film “Prince” on the Moving Image showreel at this years BA Graphic Design degree show, beginning 18 June 2013 at King’s Cross. There is a lot of talent in the Moving Image pathway, a rich area of design, which has been quietly gaining prescence since Esteban Gitton took over in 2011. Find film and video work alongside the other student work from the Design & Interaction, Illustration and Advertising pathways at this year’s degree show.

View stills from Lucas’s film, and read an in-depth interview with Lucas on CSM student-created website 1Granary.

Congratulations Lucas!

Find out more:
- Lucas Gloppe’s website
- “Prince” on the Cannes website
- CSM Degree shows 2013

Portal installation Trafalger Square, September 2012

A sound portal designed by Arup will be installed in April in the middle of Chelsea College of Art and Design’s Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, becoming the focus of an inter-college project within University of the Arts London, from April to June 2013. The portal was initially unveiled in Trafalger Square as part of the 2012 London Design Festival.

Chelsea will work alongside Central Saint Martins and London College of Communication, exploring its unique ambisonic sound space, in three different ways. The colleges will begin their individual programmes with a lecture and master-class series, leading to a culminative symposium – Sounding Space, at the start of June.

Launching within the framework of BE OPEN: Inside the Academy, which is the educational platform set up by the think tank, the project is part of a broader aim to explore the five traditional senses with the goal of discovering how to trigger the elusive sixth sense, or intuition. The foundation is committed to developing this concept through innovative projects that create the ultimate synthesis of the sensory and technology.

Find out more information:
- BE OPEN website
- Article on BE OPEN on the Sys-Con Media website
- Arup website

This article previously appeared on the Chelsea blog.

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

Image courtesy London Transport Museum Flickr

Second Year students from MA Character Animation launched their latest films at the London Transport Museum with a screening as part of the Friday Late on Friday 17 May, with an introduction by Course Director Birgitta Hosea.

Created in response to classic, vintage posters in the London Transport Museum Collection, the students worked in teams to create short animated films on the theme of ‘London Characters’. The Museum have included the films in their ‘Poster Parade’ exhibition. View images from the exhibition on the London Transport Museum’s Flickr.

Find out more:
- Friday Lates at London Transport Museum
- MA Character Animation course page

The Comedian is the debut feature of Tom Shkolnik who graduated from BA Directing at Drama Centre London.

Developed through improvisation with the actors, the film tells the story of Ed, a struggling stand up comedian living in London, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with artist Nathan and his flatmate Elisa.

The Comedian will be released in UK cinemas on 31 May 2013, and has already been shown in the London International Film Festival.

Find out more:
- BA Directing course page
- The Comedian website

The Cass Art Prize is awarded to one undergraduate and one postgraduate student selected from the Central Saint Martins Degree Show 1 – featuring courses from the Art programme.

The winners will be selected by a judging panel during the Private View day composed of:

• James Bidwell, CEO of Cass Art,
• Mark Titchner, Turner Prize- nominated artist and Central Saint Martins alumnus.
• Alex Schady: Art Programme Director, Central Saint Martins

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Bram Thomas Arnold presenting: Walking Literature Through the Self and the Landscape

The second sensingsite symposium event, organised by Susan Trangmar, Duncan White and Steven Ball for Fine Art Research at Central Saint Martins, was held at Parasol unit on 16-17 April 2013.
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Image courtesy of Dan Weill

Not-for-profit Bermondsey gallery The Drawing Room is hosting it’s sixth Drawing Biennial, an exhibition and auction of over 200 specially made drawings by an international line-up of artists.

Drawing Room directors invite artists to make and donate an original drawing in any medium on an A4 sheet of paper. This year Drawing Room received 225 works spanning a huge range of internationally renowned and emerging artists, including CSM alumni Mona Hatoum and Anthony Gormley.
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In a competition curated by Futurecity, ten recent BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduates from CSM were selected to develop artwork proposals that would celebrate the character of both Central Saint Martins and Foyles, exploring the status of the two institutions as cultural icons and bringing their heritage to life for this large-scale temporary artwork.

Rebcca Hendin’s playful illustration was selected by a panel of judges from Futurecity, Foyles and Saint Martins Lofts and unveiled earlier this month.
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Image: Robert Sinfield

Free one-day symposium, 1 June 2013
CSM, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA

We are interested in dissent and protest, collaborations between artists and activists, the spectacle of organised protests, the improvised ‘uniforms’ of protesters,  design activism, but also the everyday refusals to conform often expressed through a range of bodily gestures, dress and subversion of spaces and objects.

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