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A vibrant world centre for art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts.

Our Colleges are Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

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Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 27/01/2025

Reimagining Feedback: celebrating Black creativity at UAL ⭐️

We are proud to introduce Colouring Critique, a research project and initiative designed to address the awarding gap of Black students in our Fashion programme.

By enhancing the tutorial and critique experience, we aim to create pathways where cultural differences are acknowledged, respected, and incorporated into feedback practices.

Informed by research, workshops, and student input, the publication offers a practical framework for educators while showcasing the creativity ,designs, and perspectives of our Black students and alumni.

Explore the publication and learn how we are transforming fashion education at UAL: https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/stories/the-colouring-critique-publication-addressing-the-challenges-of-Black-UAL-fashion-students

📸: Harielle Atana-Lindor | Kemi Ajose | Ceylon Wallace

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 26/01/2025

✨ Sunday Showcase ✨ – Ever seen an edible fashion collection?

graduate Mata Durikovic’s project was inspired by her grandmother’s recycling practices, which included saving starch water after cooking potatoes and watering her plants with it, the base for bioplastic material.

For this collection, Mata developed edible fabric or “bioplastic crystal leather’’: a leatherlike consistency, which can be easily cooked at home from ingredients such as water and jelly.

The project title “Pink Matrix” also serves as an ode to games they used to play together, turning old clothes into new garments to become different characters which would teleport and travel through the galaxy.

🔗 Find out more about her work and travel through Mata’s galaxies via the link in bio!

📸 PINK MATRIX, Mata Durikovic, 2024 BA Fashion: Fashion Design Womenswear, Central Saint Martins, UAL

Anything caught your eye on Showcase recently? Let us know what you’d like us to spotlight next 👇

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 23/01/2025

This week, The Herds project announced a number of new partners. As a proud Foundation partner, we're delighted to see more world-leading organisations from the fields of arts, science and education join the project as official partners.🎉
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Last year, students from Wimbledon College of Arts, teamed up with The Walk Productions and Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective (Ukwanda Productions) to develop and test the blueprints for the iconic puppets featured in the project. These giant puppets, designed to raise awareness of the climate crisis, will embark on a remarkable 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, travelling through various cities from April to August 2025. 🗺️📍
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In each stop along the route, local communities will be trained to replicate and animate these puppets, using the designs created at Wimbledon College of Arts. Participants will also be involved in large-scale performances, specially crafted for each location.
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Discover more about The Herds by visiting the website here 🔗 | https://www.theherds.org
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You can also watch our reel to discover the ✨creative process✨ behind creating, building, and manoeuvring these masterpieces! 👉 https://bit.ly/4giiZQI
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📸 | D Levene, Bolton and Quinn

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 23/01/2025

For many across the world, this month marks the beginning of a new year. The East and South East Asian diaspora creatives in our new collection 'Looking Forward, Looking Back', curated by esea contemporary, look at the past to explore how traditions can be merged with contemporary life today.

Find out how these graduates express cultural hybridity through garment and jewellery design, photography and fine art to challenge outmoded norms, while embracing aspects of stories that they want to bring with them, hinting at a creative circularity where past, present and future are interconnected ↓

https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/collection/esea-contemporary-looking-forward-looking-back

📸 Image credits:

1 – Me do Me, Xinmiao Yu, 2024 BA Fashion Jewellery, London College of Fashion, UAL

2 – The Deviant, Zhaotong Du, 2024 MA Fashion Photography, London College of Fashion, UAL

3 – Land is the only thing that lasts, Vanessa Ma, 2024 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, UAL

4 – Lightscape, Nanami Kurata, 2024 BA Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

5 – Scorch in Time, Zeyu (Alees) Yang, 2024 BA Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

6 – 18% Grey, Wenshu Kan, 2024 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, UAL

⭐️ Graduates selected for this collection not shown here:

Thea Si
Yue (Luna) Zhu
Meihe Chen
Yuanze Wu
Li Yizhou
Mizuki Nishiyama
Xiangyi Kong
Heesoo Kweon
Charmaine Wah
Olivia Natasha Jieftara
Kerui Li
Weijia Fan

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 23/01/2025

For many across the world, this month marks the beginning of a new year. The East and South East Asian diaspora creatives in our new collection ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back’, curated by , look at the past to explore how traditions can be merged with contemporary life today.

Find out how these graduates express cultural hybridity through garment and jewellery design, photography and fine art to challenge outmoded norms, while embracing aspects of stories that they want to bring with them.

This hybrid collection hints at a sense of time that is non-linear, a creative circularity where past, present and future are interconnected.

🔗 Check out the full collection ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back’ on UALshowcase.arts.ac.uk

📸 Image credits:

1 – Me do Me, Xinmiao Yu, 2024 BA Fashion Jewellery, London College of Fashion, UAL

2 – The Deviant, Zhaotong Du, 2024 MA Fashion Photography, London College of Fashion, UAL

3 – Land is the only thing that lasts, Vanessa Ma, 2024 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, UAL

4 – Lightscape, Nanami Kurata, 2024 BA Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

5 – Scorch in Time, Zeyu (Alees) Yang, 2024 BA Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL

6 – 18% Grey, Wenshu Kan, 2024 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, UAL

⭐️ Graduates selected for this collection not shown here:

Thea Si,
Yue (Luna) Zhu, .yue.stl
Meihe Chen,
Yuanze Wu,
Li Yizhou,
Mizuki Nishiyama,
Xiangyi Kong
Heesoo Kweon,
Charmaine Wah,
Olivia Natasha Jieftara,
Kerui Li,
Weijia Fan

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 19/01/2025

✨ Sunday Showcase ✨ – To be photographed is to construct a persona, argues graduate Ellis Duckworth . In his project, he explores performative characterisations and nudity, using ideas of classical paintings and ancient myths as a backdrop for modern-day problems.

“Through creating these characters, I explore my tampered childhood personality and how I came to express myself fully, from a whisper to a triumphant shout. This journey is one of revelation to the camera, a comfortability in being perceived for who we are.””

🔗 Connect with Ellis and find out more about his project by looking him up via the link in bio or via UALshowcase.arts.ac.uk

📸 You Make Me Want to Shout, Ellis Duckworth, 2024 BA Fashion Photography, London College of Fashion, UAL

Anything caught your eye on Showcase recently? Let us know what you’d like us to spotlight next 👇

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 17/01/2025

Discover the transformative power of art 🖼️

Explore the eight permanent acquisitions, comprising commissioned works by the first cohort of artists to join the 20/20 project, which have now been confirmed in galleries and collections across the UK. ✨

Starting in September 2022, the inaugural cohort spent 15 months collaborating with host collections across the UK, exploring archives and overlooked objects and narratives to inform their creative practice. 

The artists’ final works reflect their experimentation and findings through a broad range of approaches and themes – using sculpture, film, drawing, textiles and ceramics, to examine archaeological finds, sites and shrines, colonial ‘trophies’, the figure of the collector, ‘crip time’, sculptural sounds, and monuments.  

20/20 is led by UAL , with funding from and

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Aqsa Arif, The Trophy Cupboard, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 2023 

Gayle Chong Kwan, The Taotie, courtesy Compton Verney. Photos by Jamie Woodley, 2023 

Habib Hajallie, The Large Collectors. 2023. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 

Hannah Sabapathy, Counterparts Series 1. Courtesy The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library. Photos by Donald Milne 2024 

Jamila Prowse, Crip Quilt, 2023, National Disability Arts Collection & Archive (NDACA),Photos by Katarzyna Perlak 

Madi Acharya-Baskerville, The palace’s toy horse with fishing net debris,  The Lightbox 2024 

Yuen Fong Ling, Monumentalise Film Still, No.1-6 (2023), featuring Nathan Geering, Emma Paragreen at Kelham Island Museum, part of Sheffield Museums Trust. Production LUMO FILM 

Shenece Oretha, TOLLED, The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo by Anya Raczka

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 17/01/2025

Explore the eight permanent acquisitions, comprising commissioned works by the first cohort of artists to join the 20/20 project, which have now been confirmed in galleries and collections across the UK ✨

Starting in September 2022, the inaugural cohort spent 15 months collaborating with host collections across the UK, exploring archives and overlooked objects and narratives to inform their creative practice.

The artists’ final works reflect their experimentation and findings through a broad range of approaches and themes – using sculpture, film, drawing, textiles and ceramics, to examine archaeological finds, sites and shrines, colonial ‘trophies’, the figure of the collector, ‘crip time’, sculptural sounds, and monuments.

20/20 is led by UAL , with funding from Arts Council England and Freelands Foundation.

Find out more: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/press-office/stories/2020-the-first-eight-acquisitions

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Aqsa Arif, The Trophy Cupboard, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 2023

Gayle Chong Kwan, The Taotie, courtesy Compton Verney. Photos by Jamie Woodley, 2023

Habib Hajallie, The Large Collectors. 2023. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Hannah Sabapathy, Counterparts Series 1. Courtesy The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library. Photos by Donald Milne 2024

Jamila Prowse, Crip Quilt, 2023, National Disability Arts Collection & Archive (NDACA),Photos by Katarzyna Perlak

Madi Acharya-Baskerville, The palace's toy horse with fishing net debris, The Lightbox 2024

Yuen Fong Ling, Monumentalise Film Still, No.1-6 (2023), featuring Nathan Geering, Emma Paragreen at Kelham Island Museum, part of Sheffield Museums Trust. Production LUMO FILM

Shenece Oretha, TOLLED, The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo by Anya Raczka

We finally know what the Sun sounds like - and it's surprisingly retro 17/01/2025

🌞🎧 What Does the Sun Sound Like? 🎧🌞

In a fascinating new development, Dr. Adam Stanović, Programme Director of Sound at London College of Communication , shares his expert insights into the sounds of our sun. As part of a groundbreaking research project, scientists have been able to capture audio data from the sun's activity, offering a whole new way to experience our star. 🌌✨

In an interview with Metro, Dr. Stanović explains the significance of these findings, revealing how these solar vibrations offer a deeper understanding of our solar system’s most powerful force. “It’s not just about hearing, it’s about feeling the sun’s presence in a whole new way,” he says.

Find out more here 🔗

We finally know what the Sun sounds like - and it's surprisingly retro Can only be described as alien lofi.

16/01/2025

📸 What does it look like when a building creates its own self-portrait?

To preserve her university building, London College of Communication graduate Bianka Horvath decided to let the building generate its own self-portraits by allowing the various machines found within LCC to distort them.

The project culminated in a publication of photographs taken by Bianka from inside and outside the current LCC building and construction engineers working on the building site of LCC's future location.

Blending digital and traditional printing techniques, including a digital automated image treatment, a photopolymer platemaker, a printing press, a thermography machine and screen printing, each intricate process imbues the photographs with distinct characteristics, leaving every image with a personal fingerprint of LCC.

🔗 Find out more about Bianka's Showcase project on UALshowcase.arts.ac.uk and watch the full video on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ib77CEc411w?si=B7p7057KyiG-q68H

🎥: Videography and editing by Orlando Callegaro

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 13/01/2025

🌟 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Future Denim Lab, a cutting-edge research initiative by Central Saint Martins and Miss Sixty, supported by a £1.5 million investment from Trendy Group!

This initiative will:
✅ Build a team of researchers, including a fully-funded PhD studentship
✅ Provide opportunities for hands-on student involvement in sustainable design
✅ Recognise student excellence with two prestigious denim awards

📍 Officially unveiled at Trendy International Group’s Guangzhou HQ, the Future Denim Lab builds on a longstanding partnership to tackle global challenges through creativity and sustainable designs.

Find out how we’re paving the future of circular denim: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/press-office/stories/central-saint-martins-partners-with-miss-sixty-to-pave-the-future-for-circular-denim

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 12/01/2025

✨ Sunday Showcase ✨ – graduate Palak Garg’s project records people and places from everyday life as ‘drawn snapshots’, using various methods including sketching with different materials and illustrating with underglazes on earthenware tiles to make new discoveries and connections through “illustrated walks”.

🔗 Connect with Palak and find out more about this project via the link in or directly on UALshowcase.arts.ac.uk

📸 Snapshots, Palak Garg, 2024 BA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL

Anything caught your eye on Showcase recently? Let us know what you’d like us to spotlight next 👇

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 10/01/2025

In the latest episode of Times Higher Education Campus podcast, Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Professor Helen Storey discusses her pioneering work in fashion and the donation of her 30-year creative archive to UAL.

The conversation covers what fashion and science bring to each other and how art can be a conduit for people to connect with overwhelming issues such as climate change, plastics pollution and global displacement ↓

🎧 Tune in to the podcast now: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podcast-social-artist-helen-storey-working-boundary-fashion-and-science

09/01/2025

🌟 Celebrating Excellence.

We’re proud to share that 7 UAL alumni have been recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours List for their outstanding contributions to the arts and creative industries.

From visual artists to designers and beyond, these honorees continue to inspire us with their creativity and innovation.

Discover their stories and achievements: https://ow.ly/HV1R50UCoW3

📸: l-r: Sandy Powell CBE, Amanda Berry CBE and Shantell Martin MBE

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 08/01/2025

✨ Redefining Joyful Design for the Elderly ✨
As part of our weekly series, we feature projects from the world of art and design making meaningful change. 🌎
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Design is about more than just aesthetics—it’s about improving our daily lives. That’s exactly what Brooklyn-based homeware brand Remsen is doing with their latest collection of luxury home goods made for the elderly. Co-founded by architectural designers Spencer Fried and Sam Zeif, Remsen is on a mission to “bring back joy” to everyday objects that have long been overlooked by traditional design. Their latest releases—a stunning aluminium pill container and a sleek, polished nickel grab bar—are just the beginning of a new approach to ageing, proving that beauty and functionality can coexist at any stage of life.
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The Remsen team was inspired to rethink products designed for older generations after seeing loved ones struggle with poorly designed, often unattractive “geriatric” objects during the pandemic. As Zeif puts it, “It was clear that the things our loved ones needed, they really didn’t want." From pill containers that feel more like art pieces to grab bars that look at home in any modern living room, Remsen is challenging the status quo, creating products that are not only functional but bring a sense of pride and joy to those who use them. Their vision is simple: design shouldn’t stop at age. 💊
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The duo’s commitment to luxury, quality, and usability is evident in every detail, from the frosted acrylic pill container with its magnetic closure, key turns designed to lessen the force needed to lock and unlock doors, chic bathroom furniture, to an ergonomic stainless steel cane. As they continue to expand their range, they’re proving that good design is for everyone—and that getting older should be something to celebrate, not endure. 👵🧑‍🦳💫
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📸 | Remsen

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 05/01/2025

✨ Sunday Showcase ✨ – ‘568ml A Pint Please’ showcases the visual language of beer mats and their graphical value.

The collection spans from 1977 to 2024 and belongs to Paul Tomlinson and graduate Ruth Tomlinson, who printed the book using offset litho, riso and digital.

🔗 Connect with Ruth and find out more about her work on UALshowcase.arts.ac.uk

📸 568ml A Pint Please, Ruth Tomlinson, 2024 BA Graphic And Media Design, London College of Communication, UAL

Anything caught your eye on Showcase recently?
Let us know in the comments what you’d like us to spotlight next 👇

Photos from UAL: University of the Arts London's post 30/12/2024

Every week, we spotlight visionary projects in our series—work that reimagines the world for the better and offers tangible or speculative solutions for mankind 🌍. This , we explore accessible and inclusive design for disability, ageing, and health.
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This week…
How can we design more compassionately? 💗
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Steelcase in collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, has unveiled two stunning furniture collections—Rockford and Galesburg—that highlight accessibility, compassionate design, and architectural ingenuity. 🪑✨ Rooted in ‘s later residential projects, these pieces were inspired by his work for clients with specific needs, such as the Laurent House for a mobility-impaired veteran. Wright’s emphasis on functionality over disability shines through in the Rockford collection, where low-slung armchairs with solid short arms make it easier for users to lift themselves, offering both comfort and independence.
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Wright’s visionary use of materials also continues to inspire these new designs. While the originals were crafted from hardwoods, Steelcase has incorporated Wright’s fascination with industrial plywood, adapting it for contemporary consumer use. The Galesburg collection expands on Wright’s iconic built-in banquet seating, incorporating sleek geometric forms and updated upholstery details that reflect the architectural purity of his work. These pieces, like the armchairs and sofa with cantilevered wooden bases, are designed not just to look beautiful, but to improve the user experience with their careful attention to comfort and accessibility.
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Do you have any inspiring projects or designs you'd love for us to feature this ? Comment below! ⤵️🗯️

25/12/2024

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from all of us at UAL! ✨🎄
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As we reflect on a year filled with creativity and collaboration, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for being a part of our vibrant community. Here's to new beginnings and endless possibilities in the year ahead! 🎆
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📸: At Home, Roxy Owen, 2024 MA Commercial Photography, London College of Communication, UAL
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See the project on UAL Showcase here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4g3JqdB

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