With the class of 2014’s degree show season just around the corner, The Drum takes a look at some of the upcoming shows from across the UK, exploring what’s in store for the next generation.
This article was brought to you in association with Leeds College of Art, Edinburgh College and the University of Central Lancashire.It’s that time of year again: emerging designers, photographers, artists and illustrators up and down the country are perfecting their portfolios as they prepare for the degree shows that signify the end of the creative academic year. It is their chance to shine in front of lecturers, peers and, most importantly, the industry, with shows offering them the opportunity to get a foot firmly in the door as they craft the beginnings of a career in the creative industries. Here The Drum presents a few of the upcoming degree shows from around the country – showcasing some of the creative talent emerging from Leeds College of Art, Edinburgh College, and UCLan.
Leeds College of Art
Hannah Stacey BA (Hons) Printed Texiles & Surface Pattern Design, Leeds College of ArtKnock Knock, our End of Year Show Exhibition showcases an inspiring array of work from our final year hard-working, boundary-pushing art and design students. We have student work showing from textiles, design, fashion, communication, advertising, art, interiors, photography, furniture and graphics. Don’t miss the opportunity to see the most exciting student work of summer 2014. Leeds College of Art is one of the few remaining independent art and design education institutions in the UK and has been delivering high quality art and design provision for over 160 years. We provide 10 higher education programmes, four further education courses and a growing number of short courses. Our students experience an intense and exciting atmosphere, where tutors feel passionately that each one should discover their individual creative potential and where hard work pays off. With numerous award winning students each year and tutors who are often practising artists in the subjects that they teach, there can’t be a better environment to nurture creativity. Leeds College of Art has recently won the What Uni Student Choice Award for the UK University with the Best Facilities and was the highest ranked independent art college in the Guardian University league tables.
If you are interested in attending our show we are open during the following times: Saturday 14 June – 10am-4pm Monday 16 June – 8am-8pm Tuesday 17 June – 8am-8pm Wednesday 18 June – 8am-8pm Thursday 19 June – 8am-5pm For further details about our programmes and the End of Year Show please visit our website – www.leeds-art.ac.uk Edinburgh College
Team Multiply, led by student Mark Phillips, Mentored by Charlie Boyle, Edinburgh College The award-winning HND Visual Communication Graphic Design course at Edinburgh College will be hosting its Industry Night & Show later this month at Creative Exchange. The course recently celebrated the success of a groundbreaking employer engagement project, where graphic design students worked on a team based live brief for a major client, in an industry environment for one week, collaborating with art directors and designers from six Edinburgh-based agencies. The project was part of the course’s mentoring scheme, which has been phenomenally successful in preparing design students for industry since its inception in 2009. In 2013/4, the programme won awards at the SQA Star Awards and the College Development Network for employer-engagement and learning and teaching, respectively. The ‘One Week’ project took place in March at four different studio locations across Edinburgh and involved six creative teams, working with Family, Lewis, Multiply, Neish, Rapp and Whitespace. The client was the Edrington Group’s Cutty Sark whisky, whose global brand controller, Jason Craig, was also actively involved in the project. At the end of the week the students pitched to Cutty Sark at their offices in Perth, and the winning team were offered invites to the 2014 Marketing Society Star Awards, and will become the first recipients of the Society’s new one-year graduate membership. To promote the project, the design team produced a short documentary featuring an interview with designer Charlie Boyle from Multiply UK, which you can view on
Vimeo.
This year the HND Graphic Design Industry Night & Show, sponsored by Cutty Sark and GF Smith, will be held on 29 May at Creative Exchange, in Leith, Edinburgh. For more information, visit: www.etcshow.net/ www.welovedesignetc.info/ UCLan
Gina Chamerlain, UCLanCreative students from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will showcase the very best of their final year work in architecture, design, fashion, fine art, media and performance at a free annual exhibition. UCLan Degree Show 2014 opens on Friday 13 June with its private view, which is also open to the general public, and then runs from Monday 16 June until Saturday 21 June at the University’s Preston campus. Visitors to the exhibition can expect to see innovative, eye-catching and thought-provoking work from final year students from a range of disciplines. UCLan senior fashion lecturer and Degree Show organiser Paresh Parmar said this year’s show promises to be as exciting as the last. “The annual UCLan Degree Show has developed a reputation as a platform to showcase the very best of creative talent flowing from our University. “We want to celebrate this impressive collection of work and share it with the local community. I would encourage as many people as possible to come along and enjoy the exhibition.” The display of work, from students studying in the Schools of Art, Design and Performance, Journalism and Media, and the Grenfell-Baines School of Architecture, Construction and Environment, will be spread out across five UCLan buildings.
Admission is free to all the exhibitions and all are welcome. For more information about UCLan Degree Show 2014, visitors can call 01772 894106 or visit www.uclan.ac.uk/cf.This feature is kindly supported by Leeds College of Art, Edinburgh College and UCLan and originally appeared in the 28 May issue of The Drum which can be purchased from The Drum Store.
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