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‘Flow’ an interactive installation by former FdA Graphic & Spatial Communication student Carlo Viscione, has caught the attention of design blog Collabcubed.

Designed for Heathrow’s Terminal 5, the installation is made up of 4,000 pixels measuring 10 sq cm each with a discarded boarding pass ticket stub protruding from the centre of each square (see above). The interactive wall reacts to the movement of passers-by creating a flowing motion by moving the ticket stubs in a synchronized movement across the wall.

Created at LCC as a response to the brief “make every journey better”, the project is inspired by the movement and sounds from the old-style departure boards. “We wanted to create an installation that surprised the newly arrived travellers and make a positive first reaction to London,” says Carlo.

The project was made in collaboration with Amy Harris, who designed a physical interface for collecting the discarded ticket stubs from the boarding passes and involves other points of intervention throughout the airport, all referencing to ‘Flow’.

Carlo, now on LCC’s BA Interior Design course has just completed ‘Vessels‘, an interactive light installation that’s part of a major development plan for Kings Cross Central due to be completed in 2012. Watch this space!

See more of Carlo’s work at www.carloviscione.com

First prize winner Marcella Chaston

Two BA Interior Design students recently won first and second prize at this year’s Satelliet-Browns Student Design Challenge.

Marcella Chaston won first prize for her design ‘Glykaniso Lounge’ and Robert Downes won second prize for his design ‘Sub-Zero’.

The competition which is open to all UK interior design students is a way of promoting new student design talent to the top names in the contemporary bar industry and is judged by 25 interior designers and industry professionals which included members of the Wagamama’s Design team.

Marcella Chaston's winning design ‘Glykaniso Lounge’

The competition asked students to design their own practical, modern and innovative bar or restaurant interior complete with furniture, bar fittings and lighting. The brief also highlighted that designs would take into consideration the best use of space, layout, colour, lighting effects, branding etc. as well as suggesting the best materials for visual effect and also strongly consider health and safety standards.

The winning designs received positive feedback from all the judges and MD of Satelliet-Browns, Harvey Ockrim said the work, “Had that little bit extra in terms of flair, imagination and above all commercial reality”.

First prize was an exclusive trip to Germany to visit the Vitra Design Museum which holds designs by some of the world’s leading Architects and Designers and is referred to as a ‘designer’s Mecca’.

Find out more about the Satelliet-Browns Design Challenge on Facebook.

Words by Dominique Major

Missed last Thursday’s Private View of ‘Upside Down’? Above are images from the opening night taken by second year BA Photography student Vicki King and recent graduates Christian Anderson and Ana Escobar.

We hope you like them!

Image: Work by Surface Designer Emma Van Diggele in the 3rd Floor Galleries

Undergraduate students from Surface Design, Interior Design, Floral Design & Events Management and Production for Live Events & Television as well as further education students from Photography, Graphic Design, Sound Design & Technology are about to unveil their work in their final year exhibition ‘Upside Down’ which opens tonight (16 June) with a private viewing from 6pm.

A diverse range of work from large format photography, printed garments, interactive wallpaper, sound installations and floral designs produced by over 400 students across the College will feature in the show, which is open to the public and free of charge from Friday 17 until Wednesday 22 June 2011.

If you’re planning on visiting the show, here’s a pictorial guide of what’s exhibiting and where you can find it.

In the Galleries on the Third Floor of the Workshop Block you can find work by our FdA and BA Surface Design students. On private view night there will be live repeat pattern screenprinting (pictured above) and at 7pm and 8pm there will be a performance titled, ‘Dancing Canvas’ courtesy of BA student Clara Shephard.  ”The idea behind the work is to create a moving painting,” says Clara. She has pained a seven metre by five metre canvas upon which 10 dancers will perform.

Approximately 80 ABC Photography students will exhibit in the Upper Street (pictured above) all the way through to the Well Galleries. Look out for work by Stuart Howat, Nicette Makkinga, Ross Paxton, David Sessions and Nicola Taylor.

Over 60 designers from the ABC Diploma Graphic Design (pictured above) are showcasing their design projects in the Lower Street Gallery.

Our Interior Designers – FdA, BA and ABC are exhibiting their work in The Gallery.

Students from Production for Live Events and Television (above) are exhibiting their work in a large teepee in the Atrium Gallery.

Make your way up to the fourth Floor of the Media Block and you’ll find an array of beautiful flower designs by our Floral Design students.

Downstairs our sound designers are exhibiting on the first floor of the Media Block and in Rooms M108, M112 and M113. Be sure to check out some of their interactive sound installations and don’t miss live performances throughout the evening in the canteen and the Student Union bar.

Finally, don’t forget to look out for the Shop (turn right as you enter LCC and keep walking past the multi-coloured chairs) where we’ll be selling student work and Round About Ts. Enjoy the Show!

If you can’t make it, we’ll be doing our best to keep you up to date on all the latest show news via the #lccra hastag on our Twitter account @LCCLondon. And If you can make it do tell us what you think.

See our full Summer Shows listings here.

FdA Interior Design exhibition

FdA Interior Design Olympic site model (produced by yr 1 and yr 2 students)

Joerg Goerttert,                                                  Graduate Diploma Professional
ABC Diploma Photography                             Photographic Practice

More images from our summer shows.  A brilliant exhibition of FdA Interior Design work is currently in situ in the Eckersley Gallery. Meanwhile an extensive show from BA Interior Design features in WG06A and some stirring images from ABC Diploma Photography and Graduate Diploma in Professional Photographic Practice are on display in the Well and Atrium Galleries. The FdA and BA Photojournalism private view takes place here tonight.