2nd Year 3D Design students will be taking part in the event called Super Christmas Market at Somerset House from 18 – 22 December. It is a specially curated selling show for London-based designer-makers. The students will be selling work made especially for the event alongside some of the UK’s best and most innovative designers including Michael Marriott, Sebastian Bergne, Carl Clerkin, William Warren, Tim Parsons and students from the Royal College of Art.

The brief was to design and make new products for the show that will sell for roughly £10 or less. They had to produce interesting and durable items and as much stock as they could reasonably afford.  The images above show some of the products they have designed.

Get down there and grab yourself a last minute Christmas gift!

www.somersethouse.org.uk/super_christmas_market

Images top to bottom: Arlan Harris – ‘Jigsaw Candlestick’, Roland Beavan – ‘Butterfly Hook’, Moe Asari – ‘Pencil Brush’.

Fancy getting hold of a last minute Christmas gift? Well here’s your chance! BA Illustration have organised a Camberwell Christmas Fair where they will be selling everything from cards to zines.

When is it? Thursday 10 December / 11.30 – 16.00.

Where is it? Camberwell Bar, Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Road.

Earlier this month the Art Area hosted a lecture entitled ‘Flesh Jubilation: Eros in the Art of the Sixties’. The lecture was given by the pre-eminent academic and queer theorist Dr Jonathan Katz as part of the Second Year Key Ideas lecture series.

“Jonathan Katz works at the intersection of art history and queer history, one of the busiest intersections in American culture, and yet one of the least studied. A specialist in the arts of the Cold War era, he is centrally concerned with the question of why the American avant-garde came to be dominated and defined by queer artists during what was perhaps the single most homophobic decade in this nation’s history.”

Jonathan Katz is in the UK as the visiting Terra Foundation Scholar at the Courtauld.

Image: Carolee Schneemann – ‘Meat Joy’, 1964.

Tim Parsons – Senior Lecturer on the BA 3D Design course has recently had a book published by AVA Academia. The book ‘Thinking: Objects – Contemporary Approaches to Product Design’ looks at the many approaches designers take to their work and discusses their motivation. It also explores what the design process feels like in the mind and shows how drawing and model making aid decision-making.

To celebrate the launch there will be an exhibition at the Aram Gallery in London. The exhibition will illustrate a selection of the ideas explored in the book and will include products designed by Konstantin Grcic, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Naoto Fukasawa and Daniel Weil among others.

The show runs from 11 December 2009 – 9 January 2010.

www.timparsons.info

www.thearamgallery.org

This Is Why We Meet is an investigation, showcase and celebration of collaborative working practice within the arts. Independent curators Pat and Trevor have selected 4 students from each college within the University of the Arts London. Students will become part of a collaborative team and work together intensively for a one-week period prior to installation. Work produced will be exhibited within the Wieden+Kennedy window on Hanbury Street in East London.

The Camberwell team is; Joel Stephens (BA Graphic Design), Chris King (BA Drawing), Carl Guilhon (BA Graphic Design) and Philip Li (BA Ceramics).

Take a look at the Camberwell This Is Why We Meet blog.

Jump the Shark was an event organised by BA Illustration year one students. The event took place at Camberwell Leisure Centre and was part of this year’s Camberwell Arts Festival.

Students produced site-specific work which developed throughout the week and reflected individual interpretations of the art of sport, competition and movement, and reactions to/interventions on the beautiful Victorian building. Work created by the public in art workshops run by the students was also displayed and responded to. The idea was to inspire people with a variety of activities and pieces to spark interest in flexing the body and mind!

Image above by Natalie Kay Thatcher.

Jump the Shark blog

Jump the Shark Flickr page

Illustration Year 1 blog

Last night Sam Winston gave a tour of the Summer Show. The tour was part of a series of specially commissioned guided tours of the show entitled ‘Let Us Be Your Guide’. Sam Winston is an artist and a tutor on the BA Graphic Design course at Camberwell.

The tour focussed mainly on Graphic Design, but also visited Drawing, Illustration and Painting. Using the student’s work as a starting point Sam gave short introductions about the pieces, which then led on to group discussions. Here are some of the topics that were covered; what is graphic design? personal work verses commercial work, self authorship, the role of the art college, the ethos behind the BA Graphic Design course at Camberwell and how it sits in relation to other graphic design courses, what is drawing? the use of statements to support work, the role of art in society, the role of the art gallery, time and craft. Phew!

www.samwinston.com

BA Graphic Design 2009