Six CSM students are exhibiting in UAL Platform’s touring show, Xhibit 2012, whose last venue is the Menier Gallery in London Bridge from 1-5 May.

Xhibit has been running for 15 years, aiming to find the crème de la crème of current student work from all over the University of the Arts London.

This year a record breaking 1,200 works were submitted, which were narrowed down to just 21 by an expert judging panel consisting of our Student Union President Ben Westhead, Vickie Hayward (Creative Director of JaguarShoesCollective) and Sarah Williams (Gallery Manager and Curator at Jerwood Visual Arts).

UAL Platform, part of SUARTS, has been touring the show around London, starting off at Central Saint Martin’s in mid-march, then to Kingsgate Workshop Trust in North London, and now to the Menier Gallery in South London.

Here are the six works from CSM students in the exhibition.

(Top row, l-r)
Szu-Ying Chen (BA Fine Art, year 2) Slaughtered Ewok, Illustration (ink)
Ghazelle Avarzamani (MA Fine Art) Mr and Mrs Andrews, Textile (needlepoint)
Jakob Powell (BA Fine Art, year 1) EX NIHILO, Photography

(Bottom row, l-r)
Sarah Fortais (MA Fine Art) Anglomophone, Sound sculpture
Stephanie Cristofaro (BA Fashion Print) Full Bloom, Textile
Lucy Read (BA Fine Art, year 3) An Opening Up, Illustration (charcoal)

Xhibit is proud to be collaborating with Made in Arts London, a new online enterprise from the University of the Arts London that sells student and recent graduate art and design. All works on sale in Xhibit 2012 are available to purchase at www.madeinartslondon.com and we will be staging a pop up shop at the Menier Gallery during the Private View on Tuesday 1st, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th.

Please join us for the private view of Xhibit 2012, Tuesday 01 May 2012, 6:00 – 8:30pm, The Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU

Sarah Fortais will also be staging a free sound art workshop from 2-4pm on Saturday 5th – all materials provided, just pop in!

The exhibition is open 01 – 05 May 2012
Tues – Thurs 11:00 – 18:00
Fri 11:00 – 20:00
Sat 11:00 – 16:00

Find out more:
-BA Fine Art course page
-BA Fashion course page
-MA Fine Art course page

Illustration by Tim Bradford

Central Saint Martins launches its first online business course.

Business Start-Up for Creatives – Online

This new online course, conducted by Alison Branagan MA AIC FRSA, is for artists, designers, photographers and image makers who wish to gain insight into everything that setting up a business entails.

In eight live sessions you will discover where to find support, how to write a business plan, develop extensive networks, and identify a market for your artwork, creative products and skills. Other topics include: key legal issues, money management, taxation, and invoicing.

Though the detail of this course is for creatives who wish to set up a business in the UK, the general content of the course is essential for any artist and designer based anywhere in the world, especially for those who desire to trade with UK businesses or other countries within the European Union.

Students will access extensive information packages, including money management and bookkeeping spreadsheets specifically designed for creative practitioners and businesses. Coursework is optional, however weekly online feedback will be available to all who complete the assignments.

Dean Shepherd from ‘Tax by Design’ will also be offering any participant of the class a free one hour tax and accounting consultation.

January 25 to March 14 2012
Wednesday 18.30 – 20.00 8 Weeks, Cost £495, Available Online – Book Now!

Visit:
- Business Start-Up for Creatives course page

D&AD exists to inform, educate and inspire those who work in and around the creative industries. The D&AD Student Awards have been helping students break into the industry since 1978.

Entry to the Student Awards is open to anyone in full or part-time education. And to make sure that all new talent gets a chance to shine, they’ve added a new brief this year: Make Your Mark. As well as all full-time students, it’s open to anyone under the age of 26 or to all recent graduates who finished their course within the last two years.

Everything you need to succeed at this year’s Student Awards can now be found online in the Student Awards website: tutor packs, sponsor films, digital brief-in, and more.

Still to come…

This year’s judges will be revealed by the end of the month. To coincide with this they’re running a livestreamed event at D&AD HQ featuring a panel of industry experts to provide you with top tips on how to make sure your entries get noticed by the judges. Everyone will be able to send in their questions and have them answered live by the panel. Further details to be announced soon.

The site will accept entries from late January 2012.
The deadline for completing your entries online is Friday 9 March 2012.

If you have any questions on the briefs or the entry process please contact studentawards@dandad.org.

Visit:
- D&AD Student Awards

On March 28, 2012, TEDxCentralSaintMartins 2012 will take place at Central Saint Martins King’s Cross campus.

The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “Emergence,” and will feature speakers, including Michael Wolff (Michael Wolff & Company), Tom Hulme (IDEO, OpenIDEO), Barry Buzan (LSE), Prof Peter Kruse (nextpertise), Dr Nadia Berthouze (UCL), Julie Jensen Bennett (Precipice), and The Honey Club (Global Generation).

It’s going to be interesting…

Visit:
- TEDxCentralSaintMartins 2012
- Apply for tickets

Mirin Barr in One Beautiful Day

Congratulations to Drama Centre MA Screen Acting student Mirin Barr, for winning Best Actress at this year’s Campus Movie Fest – the world’s largest student film festival.

Mirin was given this award for her performance in One Beautiful Day. The film was written, directed and edited by another MA Screen Acting student, Rudina Hatipi, and has been selected for the Campus Movie Fest Wildcard Challenge. Other featured actors are Paddy Loughman (Drama centre MA Screen Acting) and Christopher Wickenden (Drama Centre MA Acting).

Visit:
- Campus Movie Fest
- Wildcard Challenge
- Drama Centre MA Screen Acting

Keynote/Introductory Speaker Professor Paul Springer specialises in how digital media is best used by Advertising in the 20th Century

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED: Short Courses at Chelsea College is offering places on its evening advertising lecture series to all current University of the Arts London students!

The lectures are set in the climate of both an uncertain international economic global future and in a fast changing communications world in which advertising is engaging with new social media systems and markets.

Please open the attachment [PDF, 0.5mb] to find out more about the 12-week programme and how to apply.

An outstanding fashion jury commends the sustainable collections that Central Saint Martins students have developed in collaboration with Orsola de Castro, Creative Director of Reclaim To Wear.

London, December 2011 – A prestigious judging panel, whose members include Anna Orsini of British Fashion Council, Vogue.com’s Jessica Bumpus, Jessica Brinton of The Sunday Times Style, model Cecilia Chancellor, Course Director Willie Walters and Reclaim To Wear’s Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci, gathered at Central Saint Martins to evaluate the upcycled capsule collections made by students (second year BA in Fashion with Marketing, Fashion Print, Knitwear Design and Communication and Promotion).

The ten teams were briefed to create a catwalk piece and two “commercial” pieces, made adopting Reclaim To Wear’s method of using fashion industry surplus – such as stock, remnants and off-cuts.  In addition, each team had to create a lookbook and a short film to present the collection.  A selection of the students’ works will be showcased at Estethica, the British Fashion Council hub of London’s ethical fashion industry, during London Fashion Week in February 2012.

The jury’s favorite team was AND/OR, who created a collection inspired by Virginia Woolf‘s Orlando.  Another success is the film of team Third Collective, as the fashion panel was positively impressed by the team’s ability to translate the collection’s aesthetic into visual material.  

Anna Orsini of the British Fashion Council together with Reclaim To Wear’s Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci will showcase at Estethica a range of the students’ work that will include AND/OR and Pilgrimage’s collections, the iconic cape of Mrs C. team, dedicated to the ultimate consumer and the logo “re-work” of 8=10 team.  Other groups who presented their works are Scout, Checked, Margin of Error, Tinker Tailor and Angstrom.

A selection of the students’ collections and films can be seen online on the Reclaim To Wear website, Facebook, and Twitter.

Visit:
- Reclaim To Wear
- And/Or
- Third Collective video

Following on from the pioneering ‘cash-point art’ project carried out by CSM’s award-winning Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) we’re thrilled to be able to offer a fully funded PhD studentship starting in October 2012. Research activity will be based around ‘Innovation Against ATM Crime’ with academic support from DACRC, funded by the UK cash machine network LINK.

The purpose of the PhD is to develop a practice-based and design led approach to enhancing customer experience and improving safety in the fight against cash-point crime.

The PhD Studentship totals £20,200 per year for three years, with the potential to extend it to 4 years. This covers full tuition fee support (currently at £4,200 per year for Home/EU students) and an annual tax-free stipend of £16,000, with some additional budget available to encourage and maximize the dissemination of key outputs.

We’re looking for a student with strong skills in design practice/strategy, a postgraduate qualification and first degree of 2:1 or above in a design related discipline. Prospective students should definitely take a look at the Designs Against ATM Crime publication, downloadable free of charge from the DACRC website.

To apply for this exciting opportunity download the RF1 application form and briefing document from the University of the Arts London applications page. You can email Research Management and Administration for more information: researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk, or call 0207 514 2120.

Completed forms must be emailed to researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk by the closing date March 1st 2012.

A Sara Emilie Terp Hansen design

Congratulations to Central Saint Martins final year Fashion Design with Marketing student Sara Emilie Terp Hansen, for winning the Balance Award at the Fashioning the Future Awards!

The awards, organised by the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, is the leading international cross-disciplinary platform for celebrating innovative initiatives towards fashion design for sustainability, its development and communication.

Visit:
- Fashion the Future Awards
- Fashion Design and Marketing course page

Georgina McNamara

Two of our MA Fine Art graduates are in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011. Their work is currently being shown in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA – go see it!

Georgina McNamara (2011 MA Fine Art graduate), and Kim Kielhofner (2011 MA Fine Art graduate) are featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence. The exhibition opens a window onto the future of contemporary art, bringing together some of the best work currently emerging from the UK’s art schools by 40 recent graduates. Exhibiting in the ICA until January 15, 2012.

Georgina McNamara also won first prize in the Bar-Tur award, and will be featured in a future University Arts London touring exhibition in 2011/12.

Visit:
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries
- Bar-Tur Award
- Georgina McNamara
- Kim Kielhofner
- CSM MA Fine Art course page