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A look back at BA Graphic Design class of 2022

3 small bowls are interlinked with small creviced links. The image is a birds-eye view and sees them partially illuminated by slanting daylight.

Written bySamin Shirazi-Kia
Published date 28 September 2022

The Camberwell College of Arts Show 2022 took place from 18-25 June 2022 and celebrated the creative talents of our students, including those graduating from BA Graphic Design. Here we focus on 3 graduates whose tactile pieces were made with great skill and craft.

Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Le: “A predominant aspect of Vietnamese culture is the sharing of food, which these ceramic bowls aim to encourage. They are designed around the national noodle soup dish 'Phở’ and are reflective of Vietnamese beliefs and the natural landscape.”

The image is a birds-eye view of 3 bowls, arranged in a line vertically, connected by creviced links. A deep indigo fluid flow between them. They stand on a canvas matching the fluid’s colour. — **Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Le: "ăn đi" "just eat"**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Le

"The bowls are placed on stools to resemble peaks in the land, and indicate the pedestal that food is placed on in the culture. The soup broth then flows through the bowls in channels, like the Mekong River, bringing everyone together. The set acts as an archive of the proposed shared dinner, only leaving imprints of the food behind."

A document, greatly horizontal in length, depicts a scene reminiscent of Oriental art. The material of the art is folded into 9ths, left partially open to allow observation of the work, and stood on the folds, creating a series of panels. The first panel features some text, and the depicted scene begins on the 2nd fold. — **Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Le: "ăn đi" "just eat"**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Thuc Uyen Nguyen-Le

"The publication is centred around the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday 'Tết' and the customs and superstitions that surround it. It has been made to accompany the bowl and cloth as a navigational map for the remnants of the dining scene. The illustrations, inspired by folk art styles, celebrate these traditional beliefs, foods, objects and the gathering of family at the dining table, who are all characterised through their zodiac signs to imagine a fantasy restaurant.”

Honor Grace Richardson: “My work 'Repair' is an informational guide/activity workbook on the benefits of prioritising repair and reuse. After hosting a series of creative workshops focused on repair and reuse in design, I wanted to make them accessible for people who couldn’t attend. This guide takes the reader through information on the benefits of repair, an interview with repair-maker Bridget Harvey, an interactive activity workshop to stitch directly into, and resources to fix your things.”

2 open notepads with a binder. They both contain the same image, a mascot-like character one may find in a children’s book, but one is in pencil, and the other made of sewing. The text at the top reads “Join the dots”. — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

A detail of the guide. It shows it closed with the title “Repair” on the front, and then the guide opened at a page with a series of instructions made up of text and diagrams. — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

The artist’s hand holds the guide. On the page a body of text and on the opposite page an image of a cheese grater fills the space. — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

A page is open of the guide. It reads, “Not everything can be fixed, and not all repairs are beautiful. Repair is about valuing the imperfection of fixes.” — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

The artist holds the guide, demonstrating pages filled with sewing coloured in orange, yellow, green and pink. — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

The artist demonstrates how the guide works, her hands holding a sewing pin at the terminating section of the drawn in guiding lines, implying where the user must place the threads. — **Honor Grace Richardson: Repair**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Honor Grace Richardson

Dina Shirley: “My graduation show project is in many ways an extension of my last unit, which focused on the political and social context that helped to shape British youth cultures, many of these subcultures were male dominated and there was a lack of representation of women in the forefront of these movements.”

The publication is presented, a small pink book in hardcover. The title is printed upon a separate piece of paper in a faux-gothic typography and placed lengthways across the book. — **Dina Shirley: Lambs to Slaughter, Women in Music**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Dina Shirley

“My publication presents a range of female identifying artists from male-dominated music spaces such as punk, rock, new wave, indie, grunge and metal as an effort to dismantle the traditional masculine imagery within these subcultures.”

The book is partially opened to provide a preview of the contents. — **Dina Shirley: Lambs to Slaughter, Women in Music**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Dina Shirley

“Some of the women featured within the publication can be, and rightly so, seen as problematic and are not exempt from criticism, but their importance in musical subcultures cannot be overlooked. These women simply challenge the typically male-dominated music spaces by existing within them.”

A preview of a page from the book, depicts one of the musicians featured. — **Dina Shirley: Lambs to Slaughter, Women in Music**
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Dina Shirley

“The publication is a 9x14cm open spine book that I printed in the riso workshop space at Camberwell. I then handstitched the open spine and made the covers before I was able to get the pages trimmed in the letter press space in Camberwell.”

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