There was a flurry of interest in Covent Garden as a delivery of brand new notebooks arrived at the London Graphic Centre. CSM BA Graphic Design was relocating its annual ‘pop-up shop’ to the London Graphic Centre’s flagship store on Earlham Street, WC2.
The collaboration between CSM BA Graphics and the London Graphic Centre is an ongoing partnership, bringing out the best in CSM’s Graphic Design students and the London Graphic Centre.
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We’re very pleased to announce that the design and curation of the pavilion will be undertaken by CSM students and staff. There will be two animations by students from MA Character Animation and two films by MA Communication Design students.
Each will be 129 seconds long, the average time a visitor spends in a Biennale pavilion. The theme of the films will be based on the proposal submitted by Jeremy Till, Head of College:
We live, Zygmunt Bauman tells us, in an age of liquid modernity. Labour, capital, time and commodities have achieved an unheard-of sense of fluidity as global flows of people, money, the virtual and goods dissolve previously stable conditions. And yet against this socio-temporal liquidity, space has apparently hardened, throwing up ever more rigid boundaries as the production of space is increasingly codified and commodified. The proposal for the UK pavilion at the Shenzhen Biennale investigates how a new generation of British architects, spatial agents and activists are challenging the fixity of boundaries and the regulation of space.
Last month, the Polish Association Community headquarters opened its doors for young, talented designers from Poland and Great Britain.
Founded in London, the Fashion Culture Project is an exchange of experiences and and a chance to create links between Great Britain and Poland, supported by Polish Association Community. This year the colleges involved were Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design and London College of Fashion from the UK and ASP from Lodz, SAPU from Cracow and MSKPU from Warsaw, Poland.
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This show took place between 7 and 11 May 2013. Find out more about the course by visiting the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design course page.
Show One displayed work by students graduating from the following courses:
The Material Futures publication from the Textile Futures Research Centre has won the Editorial Design top spot at the Design Week Awards.
Celebrating and showcasing the work of the TFRC, Material Futures aims to communicate the expertise and wider application of the academic research activity within the centre. The publication is edited and designed by FranklinTill, the design & research consultancy run by MA Textile Futures Course Leader Caroline Till.
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Cascade, Noemie Goudal. Lightjet Print, 168 x 210 cm, 2009
Noemie graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins in 2007 and has been awarded the coveted Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2013, writes CSM BA Graphic Design graduate Susanne Bresges.
In just a few years Noemie has forged a very successful career as a photographer, exhibiting widely in Europe, the Americas and Asia and her work is being held in various collections, among them the Saatchi Gallery. Her evocative, dream – like images have been featured in many publications in the UK and abroad, among them The Sunday Times, Elle, The Creative Review, The World of Interiors, The Independent, Time Out. Noemie has also done shoots for Artworld, the Sunday Telegraph and Wallpaper.
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Inspired by the art of Japanese textile dyeing and the aesthetic of wabi-sabi – imperfect beauty – design collective Story Storey created one of only six Artisan Retreats at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
Showcasing garments created by graduates of the MA Fashion and Environment Course at London College of Fashion, Story Storey’s design spoke to the place of plant dyed sustainable fashion in the wider social and cultural context, and made tangible the intimate relationship between the fashion designer and the natural world.
Using narrative to derive the design, the concept told the story of the natural dye process while alluding to the tension between high fashion and eco fashion, which, by embracing imperfection and a process that devotes time and care to each garment, is in fact the ultimate in luxury.
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A dress from Rebecca Lefevre’s Oasis collection. Image courtesy Oasis.
Rebecca graduated from the Weave pathway of BA Textile Design in 2012 and was spotted by high-street fashion chain Oasis at New Designers exhibition.
Oasis have developed Rebecca’s fluorescent jaquards into a capsule collection, now available in stores and online. Oasis have interviewed Rebecca about her collection in a feature on the Oasis website.
Find out more:
- BA Textile Design course page
On 19 April 2013, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM) MRes Art: Exhibition Studies organised a symposium titled ‘Artist as Curator: Collaborative Practices’ at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Video documentation of the whole symposium is now available to watch online on the Afterall website.
Find out more:
- MRes Art: Exhibition Studies course page
Third year BA Textile Design Knit students Celestine Vinci, Danni Fairchild and Kate Anis have won the Wool School competition and will have their designs developed and manufactured by Lyle & Scott.
Wool School is an initiative from the Campaign for Wool, supported by the Prince of Wales. More than 100 students submitted designs for woollen sweaters to be manufactured and sold in stores to celebrate Wool Week, which runs from October 14-20. The competition is in it’s second year, with this year’s theme being “knitwear traditions of the British Isles”.
For this year’s competition, Christopher Raeburn, Margaret Howell, Barbour, Brora, Albam, Folk and Topman joined Marks & Spencer, Pringle of Scotland, Lyle & Scott, Topshop, Hobbs and Jigsaw as the labels who will work with the winning students to produce the sweaters.
Congratulations to Celestine, Danni and Kate!
Find out more:
- Wool School on Women’s Wear Daily
- Wool School on Vogue.co.uk
- BA Textile Design course page
Lara Morrell’s winning work. Photograph by John Sturrock
BA Fine Art student Lindsay McMillan and MA Photography student Lara Morrell have been announced as the winners of this year’s Cass Art Prize.
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