Thursday 20 June – Saturday 22 June 2019 This year’s Graphic & Media Design BA (Hons) final year Degree Show, Salon XIX launched with a very well-attended Industry Preview breakfast. The show is open until 4.00pm 22nd June (times below). Graduate work can also now be viewed on the website: https://gmdlcc.com – search there for students by…
Creative duo Anna Jobbins and Kate Lloyd met on the Graphic Media & Design course at LCC. They have since gone from strength to strength in the advertising industry and currently work for Havas London. Anna and Kate have recently been included in the prestigious ‘Future Leaders’ list of female creatives by Campaign and Creative Equals.…
Final Year BA GMD student Jasmine Engel-Malone defines herself as both designer and photographer. At her recent self-managed solo exhibition at the Bow Arts Raw Lab, East London, Jasmine showed that her skills transcend both of those narrow definitions, as the exhibition was a display of curation, art direction, branding, photography and applied editorial design.…
Students from GMD have been selected to design a hoarding for the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s new Summer Pavilion 2019. A cohort of designers currently studying for the Diploma of Professional Studies were asked to pitch ideas for a hoarding to announce the new Summer Pavilion while it is being built over 6 weeks. Proposals by…
GMD alumnus (and former associate lecturer) Patrick Fry set up his own publishing house, CentreCentre, in order to create limited edition books from unexpected collections, projects and archives. Patrick believes in taking inspiration from the mundane and the overlooked, bringing ideas to life by celebrating visual culture on the periphery. The latest publication from CentreCentre is Brick Index –…
Final year student Benedict Povey used his dissertation to look at design responsibility in the industry. As he approaches the end of his course, Benedict sets out his concerns here: In a World of Immediacy, has Debate Become Absent? Immediately satisfying visual content designed to collect followers and generate likes seems to have replaced design…
Getting Out There is a networking and skills program designed to help students prepare themselves for the outside world. The program was just completed with the Second Year Graphic and Media Design students at London College of Communication. Facilitator William Redgrove reflects on the experience: “I have come from the interesting position of being an…
First year Graphic & Media Design students recently met author and activist Nicholas Mirzoeff. As part of their Introduction To GMD unit, students have been reading and responding to How To See The World, written by Nicholas and published worldwide by Pelican in 2015. Working in groups of six, the students were asked to design…
The first ‘In Conversation with Alumni’ talk of the new year was with BA Graphic & Media Design alumnus and Winner of ‘Street Artist of the Year‘ at the Rise Art Awards, 2018, Naomi Edmondson. Naomi talked through her project Survival Techniques, and the distinctive typographic style that she has developed for putting positive messages…
Starting the New Year with a quick round-up of sample activities that GMD students are currently taking part in on their year out in industry (Diploma in Professional Studies). We will be looking at some of these projects in more detail in future posts… Ester Mejibovski and Marta Úrbez were selected by Wix Design Playground to…
First year Graphic & Media Design student, Dian Jin, won a University-wide competition to design the seasonal windows for not just a shop on High Holborn. Dian describes her design concept and process: “Every piece of the design has elements from Christmas and the cosmos. Just like a Christmas planet, this festival belongs to us and…
