4 November 2011 – 29 January 2012
Terrace Rooms, Somerset House
Work featured includes ground-breaking photography by Rankin, Nick Knight, and David Sims specially commissioned projects by artists Jake & Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Sam Taylor-Wood, fashion pages by stylists Katie Grand, Katy England, Alister Mackie and Nicola Formichetti, and specially selected designs by fashion giants Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Gareth Pugh.
V&A Museum, London
24 September 2011 – 15 January 2012
A major exhibition at the V&A exploring the subject of postmodernism in design, looking at fashion, graphic design, product design and fine art.
Find out more on the V&A website.
V&A Museum and other venues in London
17 – 25 September 2011
The London Design Festival is a city-wide celebration of design that takes place over nine days. There is a broad range of activities on offer, most of which are free to enter. Events taking place during the festival cover graphic design, furniture, interiors, fashion, and other design areas.
To find out more, please see the festival website.
UCA has just taken out a subscription to Youth Club - an image database, covering all kinds of music and youth subcultures. The site is based around a unique archive of over 80,000 photographs documenting the lifestyles, fashions, music and subcultures of young people from all around the world.
The Cultural Research section provides links to information on every subculture imaginable; from Hippies to Hipsters, Surfers to Skinheads and New Romantics to New Age Travellers. This includes a extensive rundown of the each decade’s news headlines, integral film and music releases and events as well as essays from respected commentators.
Design Museum, London SE1 2YD
24 August 2011 – 22 January 2012
This is Design is a celebration of the Design Museum’s Collection, examining the impact of design on the modern world, exploring the consequences of design and how it shapes our lives and contemporary culture.
Prototypes, drawings, couture samples, models, first editions and finished industrial objects will be on display, including highlights such as the original Mini and the Moulton bicycle, large scale architectural models like Norman Foster’s HSBC Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, UK road signs and an Anglepoise lamp.
Find out more on the Design Museum website.
18th – 31st August
“It’s Something Hell’s” is a celebration of Rockabilly, Rockers & Teds style past and present. PYMCA – Youth Club is a image database available through the University Library’s electronic resources containing images of youth culture through the ages. Access the images through yourAthens account here.
The exhibition is showing at the Youth Club, Kingly Court (Just off Carnaby St),LondonW1B 5PW
Roundhouse, London NW1 8EH
For Curtain Call, Ron Arad has created a curtain made of 5,600 silicon rods, suspended from an 18 metre diameter ring - a canvas for films, live performance and audience interaction. Artists taking part include Ori Gersht, (Professor / MA Supervisor at UCA Rochester), who will be showing his film Offering, which puts the audience in the middle of the bull ring to explore our feelings around bullfights. Other featured artists include Mat Collishaw, Christian Marclay and David Shrigley.
Find out more by visiting the Roundhouse website.
Urban Outfitters wants to provide an area for creative new graduates to display their work and highlight their talent. Every day from the end of June and throughout July they will be featuring one graduate on their website.
Applications are open to designers, artists, illustrators and photographers.
More information on how to submit your work is available on the Urban Outfitters website.
eStream is the University Library’s system for digitally recording television and radio broadcasts. You can view programmes via a web browser similar to the way you would watch YouTube.
Access eStream on and off campus at http://www.estream.ucreative.ac.uk
For off campus use, please use your standard UCA computer login.
On campus you should not need to log in unless you are using Firefox or Safari.
If you have any comments or questions about eStream, or would like to recommend any TV or radio programmes that you would like us to record, please contact the Visual Resources team at libraryvr@ucreative.ac.uk
