GMD Final year student Ieva MisiuKonyte has recently worked with Pentagram partner and LCC alumnus Domenic Lippa on a typographic installation for The London Design Festival 2016. Ieva, who has recently studied abroad for a semester at the Royal Danish Academy has been working at Pentagram as part of her Diploma in Professional Studies year. ‘Words by Voices’ is a typographic…
Shaz Madani, who graduated from GMD in 2008, is art director and co-founder of Riposte, ‘a smart magazine for women’. She is interviewed along with editor Danielle Pender in the summer issue of Eye magazine (no.92). They discuss how Riposte’s innovative format, diverse contents and clean design challenge the formulaic mainstream. http://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/tune-out-dive-deep-read-on Since launching Riposte…
Katie Baggs’ MAKEME project was Highly Commended at the recent Creative Conscience Awards, https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/katheryn-platts-baggs/ The MAKEME Toolkit is a proposal to teach all subjects through making and is aimed at teachers in British secondary schools. The idea is to put making at the centre of all education and to engage both teachers and children in…
It’s Nice That feature GMD graduate Ben Leonard on their website: goo.gl/vDQEb3 “His work has a clean, fresh aesthetic and his in-depth approach to each project really impressed us.” See more of Ben’s work at: http://www.benleonard.co.uk
This year’s Degree Show, Salon XVI, was a great success – thanks to everyone that participated and attended. The exhibition may be over, but the GMD graduates’ work is available for viewing at: http://gmdlcc.com/#index The social media story of the show is also online: https://storify.com/GMDLCC/salon-xvi-gmd-degree-show-2016
LCC & DPS alumni Illustrator/designer and Resort member Lizzy Tweedale has teamed up with Clare Freeman, a freelance writer and entrepreneur, to launch a new free independent magazine for Margate, The Margate Mercury. The 16-page magazine will come out quarterly and showcase modern-day life in this up-and-coming seaside town with features and articles on art and culture, business and…
GMD alumni Vanessa Ban has her own studio in Singapore and has just published an experimental book which plays with space and typography. Based in Singapore, designer Vanessa Ban approaches briefs methodically. “I study its contents before mapping out any possible constraints,” she says. “Design briefs in the arts and cultural fields can be more…
GMD and DPS alumni was recently selected as Director of Photography for Coldplay’s ‘A Sky Full of Stars’ promotional video. After graduating in 2005 from the London College of Printing, James worked at United Visual Artists until 2010 as a designer, film maker and photographer . Since then James works as a visual artist using lens-based…
On 23rd & 24th April at the London Transport Museum, Acton depot open weekend LCC illustration & DPS students Shana Paganolohry and Layla Amarchih took part in The Big Steam Print with a huge lino print of the Big blue sea which they had cut at LCC the previous week. The magic of printing is…
GMD and DPS alumni Becky Lyddon has been nominated for the Entrepreneur of Excellence award in the 2016 National Diversity Awards (Celebrating Unity in Society). Born and raised in Devon, Becky Lyddon founded Sensory Spectacle in 2014. Originally from the field of Graphic Design, she is captivated by the autistic sensory world whilst working in…
Currently out on her Diploma in professional Studies year, Ieva Misiukonyte has recently been selected to attend the prestigious Copenhagen Fashion Summit http://www.copenhagenfashionsummit.com – probably the world’s largest event on sustainability in fashion. The list of speakers is pretty awesome. Ieva has been asked to be part of the linked Youth Fashion Summit which will be part…
Being a designer, what can you do to improve the reception and integration of refugees in urban areas? This is the basic question of the global What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge, a design competition organized by design platform What Design Can Do, UNHCR and IKEA Foundation. Designers, artists and imaginative trouble-shooters from all countries and disciplines are all invited to…
