14 Comments

We all know a certain man named Phil who will be very happy to see all the nice typography. Nice to see they are still teaching them the roots of design...absolutely priceless....
Alumni
2008-06-19 17:07:07

I agree with the above comment. Mr Baines has stod me in good stead. I don't like that st martins sometimes gets tarred with a pretentious brush, when if you actually take the time to look around the show, there is lots of great extremely creative work, and the craft is definitely not been lost.
Also an Alumni
2008-06-20 11:52:04

be sure to check out Duncan of jordanstone college of art graduates from scotland at new blood, some fantastic work this year!! as an ex graduate its great to see the cource getting stronger and stronger!

i also feel london schools get far to much paise where scottish ones are over looked...
andy
2008-06-20 16:27:39

having not seen the work in person,
i'd have to respond to what's shown here with a larry david style
'EH!'
non alumni
2008-06-20 16:31:32

"I don’t like that st martins sometimes gets tarred with a pretentious brush, when if you actually take the time to look around the show, there is lots of great extremely creative work"

Without doubt there is promising work produced but some of the Larndarn crowd can't look past their snotty noses let alone the orbital. A lot of people tell you they went to St Martin's -- pause, expecting an impressed furrowed brow -- if you are they're superiorly contemptible, if not, they're... superiorly contemptible. Blame Jarvis. Alumni says it all:

"We all know a certain man named Phil who will be very happy to see all the nice typography."


The 'We' he points out are the cognascenti. If you don't know Phil, the exit's the first door on the right.
honest joe
2008-06-21 17:10:20

Please also check CSM work on University of the Arts' Showtime area.
Colin
2008-06-23 09:44:22

'The ‘We’ he points out are the cognascenti. If you don’t know Phil, the exit’s the first door on the right.'

Here we go again...Chips anyone?
Alumni
2008-06-23 21:59:20

The fact that there's a 'Tutor's Contributions' section in the Graphic Design catalogue, says a lot about the environment and the people it churns out.

I'll have a side order of narcissism.
Turd
2008-06-24 12:40:54

...on a bed of inbreeding
honest joe
2008-06-24 13:27:23

wow, there's a lot of bitterness on this page...

how about we discuss the work and save the bitterness for the therapist.
anybody up for that?

Great show, by the way.
grr
2008-06-24 19:38:40

What can i say, an excellent show of fresh, new exciting ideas !
Well done to all, brought back memories of my final year “Lair School of Art” 1900 and something

Not that i show any bias, but did u see the Lillian Chambers stand, say no more!

D AD
&
Stephen Chambers
2008-06-24 23:40:55

Of course it's all true what honest Joe and Turd are writing. It's really impossible to look past our snotty noses, because we are blinded by the staccato of flashes of all our groupies, trying desperately to catch a frame of our godlike presence.

The show was actually set up by truckloads of volunteers from other graphic design courses, who salivated at the chance to temporarily bathe in our über-bright halos.

Minutes before the opening, we lazily zapped the work out of thin air, and when the first feverish screams of mind boggled visitors echoed through the packed space, we were long gone, drifting into the land of a million ideas, on our clouds of gold.

Oh, and this is also where Phil lives.
The other alumni
2008-06-27 21:02:43

"The fact that there’s a ‘Tutor’s Contributions’ section in the Graphic Design catalogue, says a lot about the environment and the people it churns out.

I’ll have a side order of narcissism.

Posted by Turd on 24/06/08, 12:40 pm"

Seeing as the entire book was curated and executed by the students, would you care to explain this logic?

Also, we included more than one tutor in there, so you might wanna check your apostrophes.
Chris Svensson
2008-07-08 11:56:50

Conceptual art Beware!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmDwMTj7zY
Roberto
2008-08-17 00:33:05

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