Project Brief

This summer project is sent to students in July to complete before they join the Illustration course in early October. It forms the basis for discussion, feedback and getting to know one another exercises in the first days of term. Students put their work up in the studio and are asked to use post-its to comment on each others work. These can be positive remarks, suggestions for improvements (always couched positively) and questions about technique, style, creative process etc.

This is a mini induction project called ‘ Find and Seek’ which aims to get new stage 1 students talking to each other, finding their bearings by investigating inside and outside CSM and learning how to present creatively to a large audience of around 80 students. At the end of the project (which runs for 4 days) the team ‘finds’ are posted on blackboard to share, becoming a resource they can refer back to and use throughout the year.