BA Graphic Design Degree Show
Central Saint Martins
Short Video: ‘Everything you want to know about our show’ http://vimeo.com/5120208
Central Saint Martins is twenty years old this year. The college prides itself on being one of the most influential producers of international design talent. Each year students from the course win more D&AD awards than any other college worldwide. This year, students from the Graphic Design course are redefining the traditional template of a Degree Show. The show is taking place at the OXO Tower Bargehouse from 20 – 25 June, with the private view on Monday 22nd June. They will exhibit a diverse range of work from design, illustration, moving image and advertising. Only this year, there are a few twists.
There is no printed catalogue. Instead, there is a dynamic, expandible, infinitely more accessible and greener alternative: a very powerful website. Apart from allowing students to showcase several projects with multiple images, work from disciplines like moving image and interactive design can now share the same opportunity to impress as all the other disciplines in BA Graphic Design.
Integrated into the website and Degree Show is a text messaging system called CSMS, which will help foster a dialogue between students and visitors. Each student has a unique code that allows visitors and other students to contact each other directly. The messages will be projected real-time on columns on each floor, which will flow up through the exhibition space as well as appearing on the website and delivered to students phones.
What makes the Degree Show particularly special is that the students have set out to show how a variety of leading industries connect with Graphic Design. They’ve achieved this through setting up a week of events called ‘Little Tasks‘.
Little Tasks comprises of two parts. In the background will be student-led participatory work, where members of the public will be able to get involved and engage with the students of the course. Whilst in the foreground, there will be a team of students responding to tasks set for them by people from a very diverse range of Industries. So far, students have received tasks from British Petroleum, Why Not Associates, Design Museum, ABAKE, a Primary School in Paris and more are still coming in. Each will have a tangible outcome to be displayed in the studio as they are created. The ground floor will be a dynamic, organic, growing exhibition within the main show.
If you have not received a invitation the Industry Private View on Monday 22nd June, please send a request to Hannah Attwood-Foulds h.attwood-foulds@csm.arts.ac.uk
Please visit our website to view dates and times of the Degree Show, and to view students work:
http://2009.csmgraphicdesign.com
