In an article about the state of branding design Simon Manchipp talks about the radical and progressive solutions he has seen from CSM Graphic Design students to the quest for new brands to connect with customers.

Simon is co-founder of Someone, Executive Committee Member of D&AD and external assessor on the BA Graphic Design Degree Course. On the D&AD website he is quoted:

“As a visiting external assessor of the Advertising & Design sides of Central St Martins I’m seeing some amazing students creating radical and progressive solutions for brands. They are fearlessly developing new ways for old brands to re-connect and re-invent with customers. In a single presentation I saw copywriting, strategy, animation, graphic design, typography and sound design. The new breed are not designers. They are commercial artists.”

The full article, can be found on the D&AD website

Simon’s colleague at Someone, David Law recently took time to advise students about the transition from final year to getting hired. David appeared at a portfolio event, organisied by the students. CSM Graphics are proud to have external partners like Someone engaging wuth undergraduates and providing a real source of support and encouragement.

Find out more:
- Someone website
- BA Graphic Design alumni event on the CSM blog
- BA Graphic Design course page

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The Digital Present blog has just published a couple of fascinating new stories, written by CSM MA Innovation Management student Rita Fernandez.

The Digital Present blog follows CSM staff and students who are exploring digital technologies themselves and social media to enhance their learning and teaching in all sorts of new ways. 

First up is an interview with BA Fashion student Olya Kuryshchuk, the founder of CSM student-run website, blog and magazine 1 Granary. Since it’s launch in 2011, 1 Granary has become a must-read for keeping up to date with the eclectic goings on at CSM. Olya talks about how 1 Granary become a valuable tool for her studies, practice and collaboration and finding out that there is no way around digital technology for today’s graduates. Read the rest of this article on the Digital Present blog.

Another recent story follows Rita Fernandez and her classmates from the MA Innovation Management as they participate in a research assignment as part of My Digital Life, a UAL initiative aimed at interrogating student engagement with digital technologies. Rita shares her experience and some of the research insights, which culminated in an event at Central Saint Martins, in which groups presented to an audience comprised of staff and students from across the University’s colleges. Read the rest of this article on the Digital Present blog.

Find out more:
- Digital Present blog
- MA Innovation Management course page

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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

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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

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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

The judges will be looking for innovation, in either content, form or use of material technique and for critical engagement relevance in a contemporary art context.

One Undergraduate and one Postgraduate student will each receive a prize to the value of £1,000.

Cass Art is London’s leading independent art stores, and has supported degree shows at CSM for a number of years.

Find out more:
- Cass Art website
- 2013 Degree shows on the CSM website

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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.

Following on from the success of sensingsite 1 in Spring 2012, the hosting of the event by Parasol unit allowed for performance presentations in the gallery alongside more conventional papers. This gave a dynamic atmosphere of genuine dialogue concerning research practice alongside conventional research paper based delivery.

‘The use of space, nomadic audience participation and intimacy of the whole thing [...] allowed some wonderful terrain to be covered during all Q+A’s. Personally it was very inspiring for me to be around such eclectic approaches to ‘site’ and [...] the three of you chaired and facilitated all discussions with such a fantastic breadth of understanding and critical thinking.’

Mark Peter Wright (participant)

Katrina Brown: Material as Site

Sensingsite is a research forum investigating materialities of landscape and place. Research presentations, events and performances explore the transformative potential of media such as moving image, photography, interactive technologies and sound. The events aim to provide an open and constructive environment within which participants and audience can interact to provide feedback and peer review.

2013 contributors:

• Bram Thomas Arnold (Falmouth University)
• Katrina Brown (Falmouth University)
• Samuel Burford (Chelsea College of Art and Design)
• Magz Hall (LCC/UAL)
• John Hillman (Falmouth University)
• Jane Madsen (Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL)
• Idit Nathan (CSM/UAL)
• Corinne Silva (LCC/UAL)
• Tansy Spinks (LCC/UAL)
• Mark Peter Wright (LCC/UAL)

Tansy Spinks: Full Stops and Sonic Lines

Samuel Burford presenting: Pleats of Matter

See http://www.studycollection.org.uk/sensingsite2013abstracts for further information.

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