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Design Internship with Balloon Ventures

Another paid Design internship is now available through Goldsmiths: social enterprise Balloon Ventures are looking for a designer that will help them build a coherent visual strategy.

Requirements for candidates:

-Excellent visual communicator

–Excellent level of competency with InDesign, Photoshop and/or similar packages.

–Any video editing/production and photography skills would be a plus, but aren’t essential.

You can find a more detailed description of the job on the Goldsmiths website. The position will last for three months and it is available only to final year Goldsmiths students or graduates from the last two years. You can apply by sending your portfolio to Mark at Placements-Internships@gold.ac.uk by midnight Friday 20 November.

Design alumna worked on heartbeat-connecting device

Nowadays technology makes it easier for us to see and hear our loved ones even when they are far away from us, but a new product developed by the start-up Little Riot (which includes Goldsmiths Design alumna Marion Lean) may bring a different kind of intimacy to long-distance relationships: Pillow Talk is a device that allows wearers to share each other’s heartbeats. Comprised of a wristband, app and speaker, the system transmits one partner’s heartbeat directly to the other one’s pillow.

Little Riot, the all-women start-up which developed Pillow Talk, was founded by Joanna Montgomery and also includes Marion Lean, who graduated from an MA in Design: Critical Practice at Goldsmiths in 2012. Marion says: “Pillow Talk offers a way to completely rethink the way we interact using technology today. At Goldsmiths we’re taught to go out and disrup the status quo, and given by the numbers of requests we’ve already had it seems people are keen for disruption.” (You can read a detailed story on Pillow Talk on the Goldsmiths website).

If you want to help Pillow Talk become a real-life product, you can support it on Kickstarter until 10 December. It seems the idea is already quite popular, and it has been featured in many media outlets, including Wired and the Daily Mail.

Rose Sinclair to talk about Dorcas societies at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Goldsmiths Design lecturer Rose Sinclair will hold a talk at the V&A early in the new year, as part of the museum’s Art and Existence series of talks: “Welcome to the Culture Club – Dorcas Societies, crafting textiles in the front room”:

Dorcas, a woman who made garments for the poor (Bible: Acts chapter 9, versus 36-42), gave her name to countless Dorcas societies. These societies and clubs became embedded carriers of knowledge exchange and culture in textiles. For women migrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s and 60s they continued to provide a space to share ‘church’ and textile expertise and much more within the front room, a space where these particular textiles were produced. Rose Sinclair presents a curated talk about the hidden history of Dorcas clubs and the contribution of Caribbean women to a British textiles aesthetic through what they describe as the ‘gift’ of textiles.

The talk will take place on Thursday 14th January 2016, between 2-4 pm, and it will be free to attend.

Bookings are now open on the V&A website.

Junior Designer Internship at Firef.ly

Students or recent graduates looking for a paid internship in Design should have a look at this opportunity on the Goldsmiths website, offered in partnership with Santander. Firef.ly is a iOS mobile app looking for a full-time Junior Designer, for three months initially, with a view towards a permanent position depending on the candidate’s progress.

Those applying should have good knowledge of Sketch, and preferably Illustrator and Photoshop, too, with a bonus for Paint Code, illustration and photography skills. A detailed description of the position, the skills required and the activities it entails can be found on the Goldsmiths website.

If you’re interested, you need to hurry, as the deadline is tomorrow at 5 pm! Send a CV, cover letter and a link to samples of your work to Mark at placements-internships@gold.ac.uk.