Author: goldsmithsdesign

Goldsmiths has the happiest Design students in London

The National Student Survey results are in, and we are delighted to hear that students from the Design department have the highest satisfaction rating in London! The overall satisfaction rating achieved by Goldsmiths Design was 96%, an 8% increase from last year’s survey. UK-wide, the Design department at Goldsmiths was ranked third in terms of student satisfaction. The Sociology and Anthropology departments also achieved very good ratings.

You can read a more detailed news piece on the National Student Survey results on the Goldsmiths website.

Podcast: ‘In Conversation: Textiles and Fashion’

You can now listen to a full recording of ‘In conversation: Textiles and Fashion’, an event organised by Goldsmiths Design and the Goldsmiths Fashion Research Unit, which took place on 30 June 2015.

This event marked the recent publication of ‘Textiles and Fashion: Materials, Design and Technology’, a volume in the Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles, edited by Rose Sinclair, a Lecturer in Textiles in the Design Department at Goldsmiths. The book gathers 31 chapters by authors from around the world who are both academics and practitioners, including chapters by Rose Sinclair, Mo Tomaney, Philip Richards, and Dr Julia Gaimster. The event was held in the Special Library collections archive at Goldsmiths, University of London. Continue reading “Podcast: ‘In Conversation: Textiles and Fashion’”

Open call for Silent Auction from alumna Clara Nissim

Recent BA Design graduate Clara Nissim has a message for Goldsmiths Design people:

“I’m organising a SILENT AUCTION on the 2nd of September in Goldsmiths (310 NX road space) to raise some funds for a small charity supporting children’s education in Haiti.
If your work gest sold you get 40%, and 60% goes to the charity.
It has to be 2D.
Anyone from the design department is welcome to submit some work. It can be old work or new work, bits of your process, personal project, side practice, experiments, anything you want. Just something that you think someone would want in their living room.
A few former coursemates and I will make a coherent selection.
Send your stuff in low resolution at claranissim[@]gmail.com.
DEADLINE : 10th of August
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Looking forward,
Clara”