Category: Postgraduate

MA student Becca Rose displayed work at Now Play This festival

Last weekend, Somerset House hosted “Now Play This”, a three-day event dedicated to games and play, part of London Games Festival. Becca Rose, who is a student on our MA in Design Education, was one of the designers presenting their work; her project, “Phonebook”, was included in the “Strange Controllers” showcase on Sunday morning.

Phonebook is “a playful way of telling stories using a phone or tablet with intricately cut out pages of a book. The traditionally bound pop-up book connects paper pages to your phone to trigger magical animations that tell the story.”

Becca told us that she had an amazing time at the festival: “Such a great community and I feel so lucky to be part of it! I shared the latest iteration of my book design and then had an interview with The Guardian games editors on stage. The response to the book was really great -lots of testing, breaking, and ideas for development.”

(photos courtesy of Becca Rose)

‘Fashion Narratives’: MA Fashion work in progress exhibition

The Constance Howard Gallery and Goldsmiths MA Fashion are pleased to invite you to the opening of Fashion Narratives featuring current studio practices that explore the social and cultural contexts of fashion. Each project looks at the virtual, material and embodied modes of communication in fashion and the shifting relationships between these. The material and theoretical inquiries on display propose new narratives and methods for fashion practice that challenge the traditional boundaries and perceptions of fashion.

17 March – 14 April 2016
Opening: 16 March, 5 – 7pm
Postgraduate Open Evening: 6 April, 4 – 7pm – Q&A with current MA Fashion students

Constance Howard Gallery
Deptford Town Hall Building
New Cross Road, London SE14 6AF

Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11am-5pm

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Photos of the MA ID 02 private view

The opening night private view for this year’s MA Interaction Design graduation show took place on December 1st in the St James Church at Hatcham, New Cross. For those of you who were not there, there is still a way to experience the atmosphere of the event: going through this Facebook gallery of photos of the evening (taken by Ben Lansky).

And if you were there indeed, don’t hesitate to tag yourself in the images!

MA ID 02: Andrea Petrucci explores the use of personal data in contemporary times

This year’s MA Interaction Design show is now over, true, but we still have another interview for you! Andrea Petrucci talked to us about his project on personal information and the way it is being used in today’s society:

Andrea Petrucci

What was your background before the MA in Interaction Design course at Goldsmiths?

I did my BA in Media Art back in Italy. My focus had always been on analogue and multimedia installations. I started to experiment with Interaction Design for my graduation project, focusing on tangible interfaces. Basically, the concept was being able to do video editing using objects instead of a screen interface. That lighted up an interest in Interaction Design that brought me to Goldsmiths. Continue reading “MA ID 02: Andrea Petrucci explores the use of personal data in contemporary times”