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MA graduate Yang Song wins A’ Design Award 2015

Yang Song, a 2014 graduate of our MA in Design: Critical Practice, has won the A’ Design Award for “Familiar and Unfamiliar”, a project developed at Goldsmiths and exhibited at last year’s Postgraduate Design Show. “Familiar and Unfamiliar” is comprised of moving furniture with clockwork mechanisms, handmade in the Goldsmiths workshops.

Yang explained for the A’ Design Awards website the idea behind the project: “The inspiration mainly comes from the memories of daily objects during my childhood. We cherish old objects as our close friends, because sometimes they could recall us the old times of ourselves. […] We are surrounded by thousands of fast-food products, our values as well as perceptions become “fast-food”. Consequently, the modern society is a familiar but unfamiliar world to us. Through this design oriented programme “Familiar and Unfamiliar”, I intend to explore the true meanings of daily objects in our everyday lives and the true meaning of life itself”.

You can read a more detailed description of the project on the website of the A’ Design Awards, where you can also find an interview with Yang Song.

 

MA student assembling biography of the word “slag”

If you’re looking for an entertaining read today, we may have an adequate suggestion: MA in Design Education student Lili Golmohammadi is exploring the origins of the word “slag” (mostly known today as a very British insult), as part of her research into the materiality of language. Lili’s website “Slagipedia” includes definitions, uses of the word in advertising and pop culture and even an opera song about it!

(And if you want to know more about Lili, you can re-read our interview with her).

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Postgraduate Open Evening in the Design Department

Thursday, March 19th was an Open Postgraduate Evening here at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Design department had plenty to offer to visitors.

“Thinking Threads”, an exhibition of MA Fashion student work, opened in the Constance Howard Gallery.  (You can see more photos from the event here). The exhibition will still be on until 17 April.

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Goldsmiths Design graduate program: Candyce Dryburgh

Our last interview concerning the Goldsmiths Design graduate program is with 2013 BA Design graduate Candyce Dryburgh. 

What kind of designer are you?

Most of my work is centred around speculative and critical design which enables the public to discuss and question our current lifestyles as well as how it could be in the future. I am also interested in how future materials, craft and digital technology are important in our advancement.

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What kind of work have you designed during this program period?

I am currently working on a material research and exploration around bone china and how materials can inform the use of particular objects. Continue reading “Goldsmiths Design graduate program: Candyce Dryburgh”