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Renhui Zhao, a graduate from LCC’s MA Photography course, is exhibiting in Future Map 11 in the Zabludowicz Collection from 12 January – 5 February 2012. He was chosen from nearly 10,000 graduating students from the University’s six Colleges.

Future Map is an annual show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year 2011 at University of the Arts London. Reviewing all the graduate and postgraduate courses in art, design, fashion and communications, an illustrious panel of industry experts chose 23 works they feel best represent the next generation of creativity.

More information on Renhui Zhao can be found on his website.

This year’s four summer shows have been and gone but if you head over to our YouTube channel you can watch videos from each of the shows and relive all the action.

All films were made by BA (Hons) Film and Television students Joseph Eckworth, William Powers and Andrea Fischer.

If you missed out on our last summer show, ‘Round About’, feel like you were there by taking a look at some of our images from the private view on Flickr.

If you did attend, check out the images to relive the experience and if you manage to spot you or your work don’t forget to tag yourself in any of the pictures taken by our photographers, second year BA Photography student Vicki King and recent graduates Christian Anderson and Ana Escobar.

'Environment (Urban Sprawl)' by Aleks Marshall and 'The Fox King' by Noor Mula

'Shadow Pattern 2' by Clara Shephard

Graduating students have been busy uploading new work to Showtime. Highlights so far include Aleks Marshall’s ‘Urban Sprawl’ (Foundation Diploma in Art and Design) – a striking comment on modern living, Clara Shepherd’s evokative art work and photography (BA Surface Design) and Noor Mula’s colourful illustrations (BA Animation).

We have also spotted some interesting examples of moving image. Tamisha Harris (MA Graphic Moving Image) has produced a short work interpreting the poem ‘We Real Cool’ by Gwendolyn Brooks and Alexandra Chervotkina (BA Creative Strategy) has created a playful film encouraging young women to exercise.

Students who are graduating this summer are invited to create their profiles online now. The site allows you to add images, embed film from Vimeo and YouTube and also add publications and an online CV via Issuu. It’s a really quick and free opportunity to promote yourself online to the thousands of visitors we receive to our website and to the millions beyond via google. Furthermore, you can keep your profile on the site for as long as you choose after graduating and you can continue to update it when you leave LCC.

There are also plans afoot to give the site a sleek new look for Summer 2011. Clean, fresh designs are being created to maximise impact, with the use of larger, prominent images to give each student a real chance to shine. You can preview the new layout on Flickr.

Mark Amura, BA Surface Design – visit Mark’s Showtime profile

Ruth Binfor, BA Surface Design – visit Ruth’s Showtime profile

Alice Lelliott, BA Surface Design – visit Alice’s Showtime profile.

Patricia Westrop, BA Surface Design,      Louise Sheeran, BA Surface Design,
visit Patricia’s profile                                    visit Louise’s profile

Seema A Patel, BA Surface Design – visit Seema’s Showtime profile

Kritika Kumar, BA Surface Design – visit Kritika’s Showtime profile

Here is just a small selection of the work which has so far been added to Showtime by our BA Surface Designers. If you are a graduating LCC student, you can upload a profile now by visiting the Showtime website.

Oliver Bothwell, BA Graphic and Media Design – visit Oliver’s Showtime profile

Kathryn Lewis – BA Graphic and Media Design – visit Kathryn’s Showtime profile

Robert Francis, FdA Design for Graphic Communication – visit Robert’s Showtime profile

Showtime, the University’s online gallery space is now up and ready for graduating students to use. If you are graduating from LCC this year, visit Showtime and build yourself a profile. Here is a selection of some of the excellent graphic design work which has been uploaded already. Tomorrow, we’ll post up some work added by our surface designers.

Angela Enyori has just graduated with distinction from our Foundation Studies Art and Design course. Here are a few images of her work. Angela chats a little about her work:

“I used a dartboard to advertise a Shakespeare play ‘The Tempest’ in a pub setting. I like the idea of using a prop from a pub to advertise the play. The fax images are about a short romance which is running it’s course and finally ending. I used a fax machine as the concept to show how it is the safest way of receiving a message. The punk images (Reg Perfect and the Squeeges) are 3D and I used an overhead projector.”

You can see Angela’s profile on Showtime now.

Work from FdA Surface Design

Work from FdA Production for Live Events and Television

Chiara J. Davies,                                               Shevone Bliss,
BA Book Arts and Craft                                    BA Book Arts and Craft

Photos from the Summer Shows on 11 June 2009. Courses exhibiting included FdA Production for Live Events and Television, FdA Surface Design and BA Book Arts and Craft.

Shevone Bliss, who is currently exhibiting on Showtime, discusses her BA Book Arts project in this ‘Summer Show Short’ film. Meanwhile Richard Brown talks about working on his FdA Production for Live Events and Television in this film.