IF NOT NOW will broadcast live from the RCA degree show, 24hrs a day we’re told.
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Can you remember if you graduated this year? Then you might be interested in this call for submissions.
To those of you studying at (or former students of) GSA, it’ll be self-evident that degree show opens this week, and runs for the next week, till Sat. Opening times here. For any external audience, please feel free to come and have a look round this final degree show in the Foulis building.
Looking forward to Friday’s opening, the forecast looks bleak, but viewers may be relieved to know that the relative humidity is down to 61%, from today’s 92%, and visibility will be very good.
The vis com degree show site is here.
Image top: Newbery building.
It’s Nice That have been in touch about 2 themes they’re running on their website; Student of the Month and Graduates of 2011. If you’re interested in having your work profiled on the site please get in touch with Bryony at ‘It’s Nice That’ [bryony -at- itsnicethat.com] with a folio of your work or link to your website.
Design Interactions Show 2010, online. RCA Show 2 on till next weekend.
Definitely head over to the Glue Factory for MFA degree show, some great work in an unusual venue (which I gather wasn’t their original choice but there is some comments about that on their blog.) I haven’t been to the CCA yet for the other part but I’m interested to see the difference in the work between venues. I particularly liked Emily Donnini’s sound installation which had me walking round in circles to the amusement of the invigilator.
Anyway, second and hopefully less shallow post to follow…
There’s a new Degree Shows 2010 group on central station, which you can join up to, and could be a good way to make links with other groups of graduating students, and circulate news and information about the degree show, (he said, stating the bleedin’ obvious). If you’re about to leave us don’t forget to join up to the painful sounding GSAhub too.
Why the Art School needs (or should want) a formulaic approach to its visual identity is a puzzle to me, but this image above by (i think) Martin Boyce for a pre-brand-guidelines pre-’segment’ degree show invitation made me think that maybe he saw what was coming. This image is from GSA Flickr Archive.
Martin Boyce is very interesting as one of many contemporary artists using and referencing text and typography. More on that here. A separate, more detailed blog post on this topic to follow, sometime in the next 7 years.
Using the latest advanced next-gen photo technology I have created this ‘in-world’ immersive 3D picture of degree show night. To experience this ‘immersive environment’ simply tip the monitor on its side and scroll up and down. (optional extra: turn up the bass on your speakers to distortion point and play a ska track, getting your friends and flatmates to shout in your ear, whilst simultaneously trying to text your other friends who are ‘somewhere on the street’).
Rapidly loosing track of the number of ‘parts’ to these posts, but Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design Degree Show ’09 are organising a very interesting looking conference on interdisciplinary collaboration with a diverse line-up of speakers, all funds going in to the degree show pot. Their show homepage is here.
This article about a Farnham fundraiser provokes some tetchy responses from Lincoln;
“Yeah, not an original idea, has been done before by Lincoln … it’s just a shame they haven’t done anything original, instead they’ve nicked another idea.”
Count to ten … and relax …
University of the Arts London ran this series of workshops (resources from those workshops available via that link) about preparing for degree show. Heard that illustration might be doing something similar? Damien from ISO also kindly offered to come back in and do a more detailed discussion about copyright, pitching, pricing and the nuts and bolts end of being a designer. If you’re interested in something like this email me at n.mcguire (at) gsa.ac.uk and we can try to set it up.
This will be the new home of the (rather neglected) Degree Show blog.
I will try to keep the site updated with news and any decisions we make at meetings. All relevant posts will be placed under the category, Degree Show.
If anyone else would like to help then click here to find out how to contribute to this site.
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