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Degree Shows 08: Central St Martins Graphic Design

Patrick 19/06/08, 12:08

Tis the degree show season and, now that we have sent our July issue happily off to print, CR’s editorial team is attempting to get out and about to as many of them as possible. First up, Central St Martins BA (hons) Graphic Design

Among the highlights was this portrait of Amy Winehouse by Katie Anne Harrison, part of a series looking at the self-destructive tendencies of certain female celebrities. katieannneharrison@gmail.com

Clara Brizard produced this set of die-cut posters featuring German type crumpetoria@yahoo.com

We also liked The Italic Poster by Eivind Søreng Molvaer

And this amazing letterpress installation on the history of the book by Diego Ulrich

And, in the Advertising section, this idea for an Orange campaign from Helga Stentzel caught our eye. Graphic posters on the platforms of the DLR are transformed into symbols of happiness and future brightness when viewed through orange-tinted glass in the train windows helga.stentzel@gmail.com

The show is at The Bargehouse (just behind the Oxo Tower), Barge House St, London SE1 9PH, but closes today at 6pm.

We will be posting from more degree shows over the next two weeks plus, in CR’s September issue, we will be devoting 12 pages to work from this year’s graduates.

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(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….

Posted by Alumni on 19/06/08, 5:07 pm

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.

Posted by Also an Alumni on 20/06/08, 11:52 am

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…

Posted by andy on 20/06/08, 4:27 pm

having not seen the work in person,
i’d have to respond to what’s shown here with a larry david style
‘EH!’

Posted by non alumni on 20/06/08, 4:31 pm

“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.

Posted by honest joe on 21/06/08, 5:10 pm

Please also check CSM work on University of the Arts’ Showtime area.

Posted by Colin on 23/06/08, 9:44 am

‘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?

Posted by Alumni on 23/06/08, 9:59 pm

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

…on a bed of inbreeding

Posted by honest joe on 24/06/08, 1:27 pm

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.

Posted by grr on 24/06/08, 7:38 pm

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
&

Posted by Stephen Chambers on 24/06/08, 11:40 pm

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.

Posted by The other alumni on 27/06/08, 9:02 pm

“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.

Posted by Chris Svensson on 08/07/08, 11:56 am

Conceptual art Beware!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmDwMTj7zY

Posted by Roberto on 17/08/08, 12:33 am