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The Cass news archive: May 2014

All news from The Cass during May 2014.

Graphic Communication student Dovile Gabriele Mockute short film is a 'must see' for any aspiring creative student

The Beautiful World of Creative Industries

Student’s short film is a 'must see'

'The Beautiful World of Creative Industries' is a short documentary by graphic / motion designer D.Gabriele Mockute, made as Final Major Project piece for CASS.

RSA Awards Success

Interior Design student earns top honours

Julie Berdou, a third year Interior design student has won a prestigious national award for designing ‘WW – a mobile workplace that connects’.

Students in Detention

Cass Students exhibit at Clerkenwell Design Week

Furniture students from The Cass, Architecture and Design will present a range of work during Clerkenwell Design Week at the PLATFORM exhibition in the House Of Detention.

Nine Cass Textile Design Students win chance to show work at the Warner Textile Archive Gallery.

Camac Challenge Success

Students win chance to show work Warner Gallery

Nine students from across all three levels of BA Textile Design at The Cass have been selected from over 250 entries to show their work at the Warner Textile Archive Gallery.

Schoolchildren's Palace, Pyongyang - Dan Cates

The story behind the image

Student’s image on The Cass Summer Show

The beautiful and intriguing image of a singer dwarfed by an immense stage curtain selected for The Cass Summer Show Art and Design Invitation was chosen.

Hexagon necklace by Ann Byers. Photography by Andy Tyler

Handmade in Chelsea

Alumna selected to exhibit at the Handmade event

Anna Byers, who graduated from MA Jewellery Design at The Cass in 2012, will be one of 80 designer-makers exhibiting this weekend at Handmade in Britain, at Chelsea Town Hall.

Peter Märkli - City and Living Space

Guest Lecture by the Swiss Architect Peter Märkli

Peter Märkli designs houses and apartments that are actively responsive to ways we live in cities today.

Welded Bliss

Tottenham community create wedding arch

Tottenham residents and Cass students created a Wedding Arch from reclaimed scrap metal (aluminium) at a Bank Holiday weekend workshop led by Cass Free Unit Student Alexander Sarafian.

Image by Dan Cates Shot on 35mm film, Schoolchildren's Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea. September 2013 READ MORE

Schools of Art and Design Summer Show

Exhibition of Undergraduate Work from The Cass

The Summer Exhibition of Work by The Schools of Art and Design at The Cass will take place at Central House from Wednesday 11th to Saturday 21st June.

Image by Clelia Giannuoli, Foundation Year Art and Design

Foundation Year Summer Show

Exhibition of Work for Art, Media and Design

An exhibition of work from the Foundation Year (Extended Degree Art, Media and Design) will begin the season of Summer Shows at The Cass.

Peter Märkli

City and Living Space

Peter Märkli designs houses and apartments that are actively responsive to ways we live in cities today.

FLOCK ( Detail) Etched Floor Lino on Hosho Paper by Ruth Selig

Bainbridge Open

Cass Alumni selected for exhition at Tea Gallery

Cass BA Fine Art alumna and David Skingle Award winner Ruth Selig been selected to show at the Bainbridge Open 2014.

Speakers Corner: Shirly Bar Amotz
Jewellery and beasts

‘Happy Days’

Jeweller Shirly Bar-Amotz presents a body of work

Jeweller Shirly Bar-Amotz presents a body of work comprising mainly brooches and pendants created in the past year.

Mah Rana

Mah's work separates into distinct research areas

Speakers Corner: Mah Rana’s work separates into distinct strands of research to include public participation, performance, arts and health.

Success on the cards

Student selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Cass BA (Hons) Fine Art Student Adam Wallace has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries Exhibition

Ring the Bell

Join the Club!

Much debated & long awaited! Join us for our private staff-only meeting (or senior common room launch!) in CR512A Commercial Road.

cu•rate in Conversation:

James Thurgood and Dave Charlesworth

cu•rate are pleased to invite you to an evening with artists Dave Charlesworth and James Thurgood in conservation.

Telling Stories in the Sky: KPMG exhibit story telling kites

Telling Stories in the Sky was a one week project

Telling Stories in the Sky was a one week project to sum up and rationalise the students’ concepts for their project.

Kashmir: - Peace Making Across the Line of Control

Pakistan Calling!

Students from 'We Make Films' continue project

A Film made by Cass Film and Broadcast Production students have been included in the latest PAKISTAN CALLING campaign which launches today.

Interior Design studio, The Shoreditch Vibe were asked to exhibit work within the KPMG offices Canary Wharf. The work shown has been developed through the studio looking at Co worker work space and collaborative practices and have taken the brief to another level.

Bee Habitats and their synergy with collaborative working practices.

Interior Design studio exhibit work within KPMG

Interior Design studio, The Shoreditch Vibe were asked to exhibit work within the KPMG offices Canary Wharf.

The Ivor Leigh Memorial Primary School built in Freetown with the help of our staff and students

Sierra Leone's First School of Architecture

Agreement with the University of Sierra Leone

Agreement with the University of Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone Institute of Architects to help found Sierra Leone’s first School of Architecture.

Alexander Sarafian - With Mobile Foundry

Marital Meltdown

Community will create their own Wedding Arch

Alexander Sarafian, a Cass Free Unit student is leading a weekend casting workshop during which a Wedding Arch will be created from reclaimed scrap metal (aluminium).

Butchoff Competition - Students at Titian Restorers

Old for New

Butchoff Antiques organise design competition

Butchoff Antiques has launched a contemporary design competition in collaboration with two top London design universities, The Cass and Kingston University.

Q-ART

Cass hosts Q-Art crit Event Number 51

The Cass is delighted to host a Q-Art crit on 19 May. Q-Art crits bring together students and graduates from across London's art schools.

Art Cube

Cass student selected for Hanbury Street Pop Up

Dicle Erver who studies MA Jewellery at The Cass has been shortlisted in the Art Cube student competition from 200 submissions.

Kevin Brennan CEO Brinkworth tells a story of adaptive spaces turning a redundant concrete vessel into an 800sqm residence, studio & gallery.

Dinos Chapman’s water tank home

Brinkworth's CEO tells a story of adaptive spaces

Kevin Brennan CEO Brinkworth tells a story of adaptive spaces turning a redundant concrete vessel into an 800sqm residence, studio & gallery.

Cass Fundraising Fine Art Auction returns by popular demand

CASS Under the Hammer

Cass Fundraising Auction returns by popular demand

Join us in our Bank Gallery for this years BA Fine Art final show fundraising auction. Proceeds go towards the show catalogue.

Dr. Javier A. Garavaglia acousmatic performances in the USA / April - June 2014

Overture (in memoriam T.A.T.) in San Francisco

Dr. Javier A. Garavaglia, Associate Professor at the CASS (from August 2014) and course leader of the BSc Music Technology presents old and brand new acousmatic pieces.

The Red Monochrome Oil on Birch Ply 31cm x 26 cm by Iren Godfrey

Diamond Bullet

Cass Alumna exhibits at James Freeman Gallery

Irene Godfrey who studied BA Fine Art at The Cass is one of three artists exhibiting in Diamond Bullet, a new exhibition at James Freeman Gallery in Islington.

Handuken

Alumnus Film wins London Independent Film Festival

Handuken, directed by Chris Chung, an alumnus of BA (Hons) Film and Broadcast Production has recently won the best short film award at the London Independent Film Festival.

Ciara Phelan Illustrator & Paper Craft Artist

Ciara Phelan freelance illustrator from London

Ciara Phelan is a freelance illustrator and paper craft artist from London. Ciara’s work shows a well-considered approach to visual language and image making skills.

Drawing the Line 2

Exhibition of drawing project by Mark Lewis

This exhibition, which follows a first Drawing the Line, represents the current output of an ongoing drawing and mark-making project by Mark Lewis.

Image: Soft Time: Heliotrope III by David Wood (2010)

IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites, and other attempts at ReInhabiting the Earth

A talk by Professor David Wood

David Wood is an English philosopher. Introduced to phenomenology by Wolfe Mays at Manchester, he undertook doctoral research in philosophy at New College, Oxford.

The Acoustics of The Guitar

A talk by Dr Bernard Richardson

Bernard Richardson of the University of Cardiff is internationally recognised as a leading authority on the acoustics of the guitar.

Film Studies Graduate Tours With Renowned Critic

Ehsan tours with Mark Cousins

MA Film Studies Graduate Ehsan Khoshbakht, is currently touring the UK with renowned filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins promoting the ‘Cinema of Childhood’ film season.

or creating a new one. How can we achieve equality?

"Fighting the art establishment..."

Fans of Feminism Panel Discussion

Despite encouraging statistics showing a gradual rise in the number of women artists showing in galleries, we are by no means near achieving equality.

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