Category: Interviews and features

Over the last two weeks the Graduate Design Diploma students have been having ‘Mini Charrettes’ to develop ideas for their major design projects.

Each student had 40 minutes with everyone contributing to the thinking for their project. The first 10 minutes was spent presenting the current state of the project and this was followed by 30 minutes of intensive collaborative work by the whole group. All thoughts, questions and ideas were recorded on a giant roll of paper and each student took away their section of the paper to kickstart the next phase of development. Continue reading “Design Charette with Graduate Design Diploma students”

On Tuesday, Dutch artist and researcher Joke Robaard, who is also a lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, was a guest at Goldsmiths Design and held a lecture and a workshop for MA Fashion and MA Design Futures students.

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The Textiles workshop at Goldsmiths Design has recently been renovated, and this week, our first class of MA Fashion students were introduced to some of the equipment in the workshop by Textiles lecturer Rose Sinclair. One of the tools that the students got to see at work was the embroidery machine, which transforms a digital design into stitches on fabric.

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