Degree Show 2009!
Private View: Friday 19th June, 6-10pm
Open to Public: Saturday 20th - 25th June, 12-6pm
Come along and see this year's graduating work in the surroundings of the historic Lethaby building.
We often use mapping techniques on the course to define and navigate complex issues within projects. In an attempt to bring some of these ideas together, and to continue the quest for a coherent answer to the question What is Industrial Design?, we created the map that features on this poster. An homage to The Great Bear by Simon Paterson and the many other versions that have gone before – Harry Beck’s London tube map nevertheless provides one of the best templates from which to explore this nest of intertwined ideas, movements, people, things and events. Station names were suggested by both MA Industrial Design and BA Product Design staff, as well as students and other friends of the course. We hope that it will be a source of inspiration, insight and debate for you. When we decided not to produce a catalogue this year, we thought a poster might be a more straightforward proposition. Not so. Coming up with a system that made any sense at all has taken many people many hours over many days. By all means scrutinize and challenge our decisions. We know it’s not perfect. The starting point was, naturally, that Central Saint Martins should remain in Holborn. Everything else was up for grabs. The eagle-eyed should be able to spot some fortuitous and meaningful connections amongst the chaos (Victor Papanek, for instance, who resides at Turnham Green), but otherwise the difficulty in extracting a clear picture mirrors the diversity and complexity of the discipline. Each of the graduating students’ projects represented on this page are a response to this complexity. Some offer practical solutions to real issues, others are more expressive or experimental. All of them fit somewhere on the map. Or a short walk from one of the stations. Hold on tight and Mind the Gap.
Many thanks to everyone who has made this year such a success:
Michael Anastassiades, Ralph Ball, Tom Ballhatchet, Tom Barker, Jonathan Barratt, Mat Bengtsson, Peter Bessey, Peter Booth, Peter Bosson, Alison Branagan, Jamie Brassett, Ricky Brawn, Amanda Bright, Rob Brown, Simon Bryant, Ian Buckle, Margaret Campbell, Mickael Charbonnel, Carole Collet, Helen Danks, Martin Darbyshire, Gary Davis, Vincenozo Di Maria, Rory Dodd, Stuart Evans, Jesus Felipe, Tom Forsayeth, Roberto Fraquelli, Simon Fraser, Melvyn Friend, Rock Galpin, Lorraine Gamman, Ruari Glen, Nik Green, Jane Graves, Rory Hamilton, Kathryn Hearn, Crispin Jones, Parminder Kaboh, Steve Kelsey, Tobie Kerridge, Perry King, Ben Knezevic, Suzanne Lee, Sean Mackaoui, Michael Manton, Will Maskell, Ana Mir, Stefano Mirti, Lauren Moriarty, Amrita Nag-Chowdhury, Maxine Naylor, Sarah deNordwall, Liz Orna, Emili Padros, Tim Parsons, Guy Paterson, Frederique Peroy, Philip Phelan, Sean Pillot de Chenecey, Graham Powell, Margaret Pope, Graham Pullin, Tony Quinn, Graham Rawle, Richard Rees, Henry Reeve, Nick Rhodes, Piers Roberts, Matt Round, Dale Russell, Steve Russell, Paul Sayers, Tobi Schneidler, Pervez Sethna, Ali Siahvoshi, Steve Sparshott, Jasper Startup, David Steele, Calum Storrie, Bruno Taylor, Adam Thorpe, Jenny Tillotson, David Tonge, Nicola Townsend, Lisa Tse, Chris Vanstone, Chris Vernall, Brendan Walker, Izzy Wells, Harry White, John Wilkinson, John Wischhusen, Mike Woods.
*Poster tubes £1
