Alumna wins Design Council Spark

Avril O’Neil (BA Design, 2010) and John Nussey of ONN Studio won the first round of Design Council Spark for Ding, a doorbell connected to your phone informing you when visitors are waiting at the door. Design Council Spark is a product innovation fund dedicated to uncovering the UK’s next great inventions. Design Council hosted a Spark showcase… Read more Alumna wins Design Council Spark

Guest Post: Ignore Gravity

Behind ‘Ignore Gravity’ Ignoring Gravity is a novel about thinking you know yourself, then finding out that what you know is wrong. Yes, Ignoring Gravity is my first novel, says author Sandra Danby (BA English, 1982). It is about a journalist, Rose Haldane. Yes, I was a journalist. Therefore I must be Rose? Wrong! Yes,… Read more Guest Post: Ignore Gravity

Guest Post: Supercharged

Behind ‘Supercharged’ I am Sebastian Kalwij and I did my MA in Photography and Urban Cultures in 2004.  This was 10 years after I graduated in medicine at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I came to London in 1994 to do an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene… Read more Guest Post: Supercharged

Alumni named Emerging Talent in Wallpaper*

Very Kind Invention, co-founded by Petchpisut Assarasakorn (MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2011), Thiyaporn Panikbutr (MA Cross Sectoral and Community Arts, 2011), Attanon Wongluang (MA Design: Critical Practice, 2011) and Lisa Nantatermare, have been named Wallpaper* Design of the Year 2015 Emerging Talent. While pursuing their higher education in London, the four friends worked with… Read more Alumni named Emerging Talent in Wallpaper*

Alumna wins 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award

A Syrian Love Story produced by alumna Elhum Shakerifar (MA Visual Anthropology, 2006) and directed by Sean McAllister won the Grand Jury Award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest. Sheffield Doc/Fest brings the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making. Filmed over five years, the film charts an incredible odyssey… Read more Alumna wins 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award

Guest Post: Silent Auction

Silent auction for EduHaitian features work from Design Department I’ve always really enjoyed seeing my course mates’ work. Also, I have an unlimited amount of admiration for the work of EduHaitian, the small charity supporting children’s education in Haiti that my dear friend and Goldsmiths alumna Olivia Owen (BA International Studies, 2015) set up and runs. That will… Read more Guest Post: Silent Auction