Distractions
Distractions follows students from participating universities in Australia and at LCC through the Re:act road safety behaviour change program which GMD participated in for 2019-20.
Blog On
Final year Graphic & Media Design student Daniel Ioannou reflects here on his adoption of blogging as a way of thinking about his practice.
Gateway/GMD
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…
Re:act: Distraction
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…
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?’…
Graduate Winner of Miró Grant
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…
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
Jasmine Engel-Malone: Naked Analogue
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.…
Think Piece: Benedict Povey
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…
