Annual Fashion Show
Last night the Division of Art and Design at the University of Bedfordshire celebrated the work of the first and second year BA (Hons) Fashion Design students in the annual Fashion Show.
‘Reality Is an Illusion’ Student Exhibition
‘Reality Is An Illusion’ A student art exhibition depicting the changing realities in which we live.
MA Art and Design Interim Show
We invite you to the Interim Show at the Campus Center, which marks the mid point of our MA Art and Design Students. The exhibition is organized by our staff: Rebecca Ford, Hannah Birkett and Colin Davis and presents the work of eleven of our current MA students. The private view will be on the [...]
Outdoor Cinema On The New Post Graduate Centre
As part of the M1 animation network we projected students work directly onto the brand new post graduate centre. It became quite a talking point and numerous passers by were blown away by the quality of the content and the novelty of a screen that size.
Fragmentations & Cohesions Exhibition
Departure Lounge is delighted to present its second exhibition in its new Luton Base. Fragmentations and Cohesions brings together four emergent contemporary artists Ben Hodson, Karolina Lebek, Michael Radford and Andrew Rickett.
New Beginnings For Spatial Design
A new group of Spatial Design first year students have been developing their creative skills in the induction studio sessions, here we see them presenting random/abstract images, chosen by themselves to their peers.
Alumini Student’s First Solo Exhibition At The Milton Keynes Gallery
Recent graduate of University of Bedfordshire, Karolina Lebek presents a mixture of photography, video and sound works which explore ideas of memory, distance and emotional loss.
>IMPORT EXPORT> MA Exhibition Opens
>IMPORT/EXPORT> the title of this year’s graduation exhibition to reflect the fluid nature of art and design practice and education. A toing and froing of ideas between disciplines/tutors/students and, most importantly, cultures. The exhibition title captures the ethos of the course.
Graphic design students working on live projects
Graphic design students form the University of Bedfordshire are working on a number of real projects for clients ranging from commercial business’ to the local authority.
Students loving the new HD video equipment.
Full cinematography DSLR kits are being put through their paces by Photography & Video Art students. Ben Hodson the demonstrator for the course said “there is a definite convergence of technology and students who can use both still and moving image equipment really set themselves up with the neccessary skills to perform in the creative [...]
Luton Science Fair designed by MA Art & Design Students
The premier Luton Science Fair was branded, designed, documented and marketed by MA Art & Design students from the University of Bedfordshire. Photos, videos and further information can be found on the website they created as well: www.lutonsciencefair.co.uk
Creating A Great Moment
Graphic Design and Illustration students from Design for Communication course here at the University entered the Design Museum’s annual ‘Design Factory’ Higher Education project for BA design students, spanning product, fashion/textiles, graphics/illustration and architecture/spatial design.
Break Out At The Rebel Zoo
Recently graduated MA student Anna Skopinska has turned her masters project into a real publication Grafik Rebel which was just launched in August in Warsaw. For the launch Anna, as part of her new studio, Rebel Zoo Studio put on an exhibition featuring Design For Communication’s Course Leader, Noel Douglas and typographer and designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Luton Textile Archeology
The Artist Sew n Sew invites you to a private view of an exhibition ” Luton Textile Archaeology ” in The Hat Factory, Gateway Gallery, Bute St , Luton. An installation of textiles, soft sculpture, relational art and photography on the theme of haptic, memory and association, made of vintage and contemporary, obsolescent and discarded textiles.
Liva Cabule scoops 2nd Prize in the Puffin Design Award!
Final year Illustration student Liva Cabule has scooped the 2nd prize in the Penguin/Puffin Student Awards announced last night at an awards ceremony at Penguin’s head office in London. Every year Penguin books ask students to design a cover for a famous book of theirs, this year their childrens division asked students to rethink Roald [...]
Photos from the 2011 Art & Design degree show
Congratulations to all the students for a great degree show. There are a few images in this post, to view and download the rest of images from the 2011 degree show go here: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102062 Preparation: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102050 The Fashion Show: http://gallery.me.com/ben.hodson#102037
New Campus Centre welcomes Spatial Design
The University of Bedfordshire’s New Campus Centre in Luton, is home to the BA(Hons) Interior Design and BA(Hons) Interior Architecture Degree Show 2011 until 16th June 2011. The Final Major Projects on display are developments of the Interior/Architectural design project ‘Spatial Dichotomies‘. Students were asked to design for two contrasting user groups, accommodated within one [...]
2011 University of Bedfordshire Fashion show.
Tomorrow evening (6th June 2011) the 2011 Degree show will be showcasing the next generation of creatives. At 9:00pm at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts the Fashion Design students will be showing you their final collections. The event is free, but make sure you get there early to get yourself a seat. Refreshments are [...]
You are invited to the 2011 Degree Show
You are invited to the 2011 University of Bedfordshire Art and Design Show. Luton Campus, Park Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU. Private View: Wednesday 8th June 6 till 10pm. Including the Fashion Show and Dance Display starting at 9PM in the adjacent UK Centre for Carnival Arts. The Art & Design students and staff [...]
Unusual Suspects by Photography & Video Art Students
Unusual suspects is an exhibition opening at the Hat Factory, created by five students who met on photography course at University of Bedfordshire. They have come together to bring you their own interpretations of the medium in variety of forms. Ksenija Kucerova’s works varies between drawings combined with found images, stop motion animation, and [...]
Spatial Design takes to the stage, again…
Year II Spatial Designers have just completed a collaborative project working alongside students from the Polhill Campus in Bedford. Following on from last year’s successful ‘Making Performance’ project, Year II Spatial Designers once again teamed up with Year II Contemporary Theatre Practice students/directors ) and Year I Theatre and Professional Practice students/actors. This ‘creative team’ [...]
Spatial Design Paradigm
Spatial Design first year students are currently working on a the ‘Paradigm’ project, which explores the architectural philosophies, principles and contexts of a number of iconic houses from around the world. The houses include The Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, Tugendhat House by Mies van der Rohe, Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames, Schminke [...]
Spatial Design Snapshot
Spatial Design Students across all three year groups are constantly producing amazing – creative – expressive – challenging – surprising – beautiful – inspiring pieces of work, here is a random selection of some of that work for you! This page is regularly updated, so do please come back for another look! Tutor: Dawn Hesketh-Joslin
Branding Environments
Third Year Spatial Design Students begin their academic year with a project aimed to get them ready for their Final Major Project. This ‘taster’ project is ‘Retail Branded Environments’. The students are given a real life site to visit, survey, analyse and draw-up. The resulting site drawings produced by the students, are then used as [...]
