BA & MA GMD alumnus, Jaya Modi, has had her final year book project accepted by Torchlight Journal for their 11th issue – Libraries in Film and Literature. Jaya describes her approach to the project: It was so exciting for me to be able to talk about one of my favourite projects from university –…
On the launch of his second album and forthcoming residency in Southbank Centre’s Purcell Rooms, alumnus, graphic designer and musician Hector Plimmer talks to Senior Lecturer Craig Burston – a rumination on studying on GMD at LCC, exploring the pre-modded Elephant & Castle and the importance of bringing your passions into your studies. GMD: Your…
Marion Bisserier, a final year BA Graphic and Media Design student (2019), was invited to present her thesis research at the 4T Design and Design History Society Association 2019 symposium on ‘Design and Authority’ in İzmir, Turkey. Her paper Decoding Type posed the question: ‘To what extent has the invention of Unicode in 1990 served multiculturalism in type design?’…
London Design Festival; ‘Emergence’ at LCC: Sept/Oct 2019 #5 Mindworks is an online collection of design around the theme of mental health and well-being, produced by students and staff across UAL, including work from the GMD course: https://www.mindworksual.com/ This new archive resource provides reflection and analysis, promotes positive understanding and counteracts stigma. It is intended…
London Design Festival; ‘Emergence’ at LCC: Sept/Oct 2019 #4 What Does Green Really Mean? was initially developed by GMD First Year Coordinator, Craig Burston, for London Design Festival 2014. Four inter-related physical outputs; book, music compilation tape, a collection of objects and sculpted artefacts that remind one of the first time we have an awakening regarding the fragility of…
Alba Urquía, who graduated from GMD in 2019, has won a training grant to take part in a course at Joan Miró’s printmaking studios in 2020. The Fundació Miró Mallorca offers just two scholarships annually to artists interested in printmaking techniques and printed editions to enable them to attend one of the courses each summer. Alba describes…
London Design Festival; ‘Emergence’ at LCC: Sept/Oct 2019 #3 GMD Senior Lecturer Monica Biagioli describes the process of working on a Special Issue for the Journal of Organizational Aesthetics which was launched at the London Design Festival at LCC: I co-edited a Special Issue for the Journal of Organisational Aesthetics dedicated to the Design School’s…
