Yonder / Eddie Opara: Online Forums
GMD students had two interesting online encounters with industry professionals recently. Second year student, Mary Adekoya, sums up for us what she took away from both events.
Decoding Type
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?’…
Creative Conscience Award Winner
Congratulations to Graphic & Media Design graduate Ellie Gilbert-Ryan who won a Silver Creative Conscience Award during her final year at LCC. Creative Conscience is a global movement that improves the communities we live and work in, helping to transform the wider world. They promote socially valuable, human centred design that enables and inspires people…
Salon XIX in Pictures
The 2019 Graphic & Media Design degree show, Salon XIX was a huge success and very well-attended. Below are some of our favourite photographs of the exhibition, taken by graduating GMD student, Julia Fontes Lessa. Work by the graduating students is available to view at: http://www.gmdlcc.com
Dulwich Picture Gallery Hoardings
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…
Cosmic Christmas
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…
Critical: Politics, Design & 2017
GMD alumnus, Michael Oswell’s Ibiza Mykonos project was recently part of the Beazley Designs of the Year Exhibition at the Design Museum, it was selected by Ben Terrett and one of 100 featured designs. Michael created a series of political posters for the social media age. He pokes fun at the huge gap between political rhetoric and…
Data Deckchairs at the Elephant
Graphic and Media Design graduate, Lauren Vaughan, has designed a set of ‘Data Deckchairs’, uniquely produced to celebrate the opening of the Elephant Park here at Elephant Castle. This resulted from a challenge that Mark-London set students and graduates from LCC to invent activations for the largest green space developed in South London for 70 years. The five…
Hands-on Approach to Typography
GMD graduate Tom Baber and his typographic work was featured on the It’s Nice That website this summer. “…It was also Tom’s mum who introduced him to his future university, London College of Communication. ‘My mum made me look round LCC. I’d never heard of it but I got really excited looking round all the…
Print Futures Design Success
The Print Futures Awards is an annual initiative by The Printing Charity and this year they approached LCC to find designers who could refresh their printed materials. Students across courses from the Design School at both undergraduate and postgraduate level took up the extra-curricular challenge. Costanza De Luca (BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design), was…
