BA Design Degree Show 2021: Elektra and Mathilda in conversation

In advance of this year’s BA Design degree show, which starts on 28 June under the title “My Friend, Oh! It’s Been So Long.”, hear Elektra Thomson and Mathilda Taylor interviewing each other about their graduation projects, inspiration and how they coped with life and studies during a pandemic:

Screenshots from Elektra’s work:

Images from Mathilda’s work:

BA Design Degree Show 2021: Lucy Gaston

This year’s graduating Design students will present their outcomes starting June 28th, under the title “My Friend, Oh! It’s Been So Long.” Until then, the blog gives you a peek at the work that will be showcased. Today, we find out more about the graduation project of Lucy Gaston:

“The catalyst of this project was an academic paper called Banana Time. Written in 1959 by Donald Roy and published in Human Organization, this essay details the informal interactions and pranks four workers used to fend off boredom. What marks these interactions as unusual is that they occur at the same times each day, in a ritualistic cycle. Without this cycle the workers cannot cope with the working day.

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BA Design Degree Show 2021: Colombia Everett, “Mycelium Is Growing In My Living”

This year’s graduating Design students will present their outcomes starting June 28th, under the title “My Friend, Oh! It’s Been So Long.” Until then, the blog gives you a peek at the work that will be showcased.

Colombia Everett’s graduation work is “a material first approach to design, in the field of material design.

My Design project aims to reconstruct our relationship to goods and the design process by looking at the start and end point of the design, materials and waste disposal.

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BA Design Degree Show 2021: Erin Button, “Pattern Language”

This year’s graduating Design students will present their outcomes starting June 28th, under the title “My Friend, Oh! It’s Been So Long.” Until then, the blog gives you a peek at the work that will be showcased.

Erin Button‘s graduation work “Pattern Language” explores neural diversity and its representation and communication. Erin has translated into textile patterns the timelines of her brother Joe’s tics during certain events:

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