Category: Postgraduate

Goldsmiths student and alumnus on Design Council’s “Ones to Watch” list

"Essence in Space" by Chang Hee Lee at the Goldsmiths postgraduate show in 2013
“Essence in Space” by Chang Hee Lee at the Goldsmiths postgraduate show in 2013

The Design Council have announced their list of 70 young designers to watch, as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations, and we are happy to notice the names of Lukas Valiauga (a final year BA Design student) and Chang Hee Lee (alumnus of the MA in Design: Critical Practice) on the list.

The full list of Ones to Watch can be found here.  Alongside other ideas grouped under the headline ‘Living in the city’, Lukas Valiauga is present with City Live, an immersive campaign designed to change people’s perceptions of homelessness in Manchester.   Chang Hee Lee is featured in the Rethinking Reality section with his project “Essence in space”, which was exhibited at the Goldsmiths Postgraduate Design Show “TILT” in 2013.

Meet Andrew Denholm, MA in Design: Critical Practice student

Let’s start the new year with the last of our interviews with new MA students on their first term at Goldsmiths. Today, we meet Andrew Denholm, who is on the MA in Design: Critical Practice: 

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What is your background? What did you do before studying here?

I studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art for 4 years. After graduating i have worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. I worked on lots of different projects from magazine illustrations to packaging designs. If you are interested in my work check it out at https://www.facebook.com/andrewdenholmillustration.

Why did you choose Goldsmiths and why this particular course?

I wanted to go to Goldsmiths as i had visited the university and seen the fantastic facilities they have. I also had been to a graduation exhibition and seen the amazing work coming out of the school. The design department had some great courses but the Critical Practice course in particular was what gained my interest. It allows me to do lots of reading and learning while also getting to make new designs in the workshop. I found this to be a good balance for a designer.

How are you feeling about your choice now? What are your expectations for what’s to come?

I am really enjoying the course so far. It has been a huge learning curve but i feel that it is all very relevant and interesting. I hope to learn more computer software and start to get more hands on with making. The models we have chosen for next year will be really good.

What’s the story of your photo from the day of the MA Intro?

The photo shows my group holding up the laser cut masks i made. I put them up around town as street art so i thought they would be a good object to represent what i was doing at the moment as a designer.

MA Interaction Design show: Anuradha Reddy- “Algo News”

The last of our interviews from the MA in Interaction Design show features Anuradha Reddy, who was previously featured on the blog with her work for the “NOT THIS” MA show in September. At the MA Interaction Design graduation show, Anuradha exhibited the project “Algo News”:

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My project is about how machines can process and understand data in various ways and develop multiple interpretations of it. It explores one particular type of data: news media. The news content is mistranslated by an algorithm, and each news item is converted into about 10 different news stories based on the original story.
For example, if the original news story says: “I’m extremely sorry”, the tenth mistranslation may be “I’m extremely happy”. It seems like the machines may have some sort of thought- it makes you think about what they actually understand from your data, and it starts opening conversations about machine learning. Continue reading “MA Interaction Design show: Anuradha Reddy- “Algo News””

MA Interaction Design show: Eric Schneider- “Sustainable practices and 3D printing”

Today we feature another project from the MA Interaction Design show: “Sustainable Practices and 3D Printing”, by Eric Schneider, who proposes turning plastic waste into filament for 3D printers:

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My project is about supporting sustainability in a homeless community in Austin, Texas, and re-establishing the realities around 3D printing- seeing it not as replication, but as creating connections and allowing scavenging and recycling. The community I engage with is very much into sustainability, they mow the lawn with rabbits, which fertilise the lawn with their droppings, and when they are done with the rabbits, they kill them and eat them. They have a garden where they grow luffa plants which they open up, dry and use as a sponge to bathe. So I took this idea of sustainability within the community, and then I created a process where plastic waste has been ground down, melted and extruded, using workout machines to grind down the plastics. It creates a full circle sustainable system where plastic is consumed and then re-used within the community. I envisioned two products that they could potentially make in this way: one was a water collection system, where the connections between the pipes are 3D printed, so pipes that wouldn’t normally fit, do fit now. The other one was the base of a shoe. Continue reading “MA Interaction Design show: Eric Schneider- “Sustainable practices and 3D printing””