This year’s Graphic & Media Design Graduate Degree Show has had to take a very different form to previous exhibitions. Instead of hanging posters and installing screens in a physical space, this year’s graduates and staff have been reflecting on our current working and leisure practices, in order to produce a suitable online environment to…
The annual Re:act program challenges university students to create a behaviour change campaign that raises awareness among 18-25 year old road users of a critical road safety issue where they are over-represented. The Re:act 2020 topic was ‘distraction’. An initiative of creative behaviour change agency Hard Edge, Re:act, now in its fifth year, expanded internationally…
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?’…
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…
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…
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
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.…
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…
The lecture series, In Conversation with Alumni, began with Tony Pritchard (Course Leader, Postgraduate Design for Visual Communication) talking to Graphic & Media Design staff members, Alex Cooper and Tim Hutchinson about their joint practice. For final year student Benedict Povey, this was an opportunity to get more familiar with their approach and reflect on how…
Launched 20th June 2018. This year’s graduating students are showing their work across all media in the Upper Gallery at LCC and online at: http://gmdlcc.com Exhibition opening hours: http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2018/6/21/LCC-Degree-Shows-2018-Show-2/ Students have also been responsible for publicising the show across social media. Follow @GMDLCC on both Instagram and Twitter for coverage. https://www.instagram.com/gmdlcc/ Tweets by GMDLCC
