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Yearbook: 2016/17

A person dancing next to lots of rows of glasses
A person dancing next to lots of rows of glasses
Act | Balance by Tuli Litvak, Degree Show 2017 - BA Fine Art

Here, we gather together the highlights of the academic year

Degree Show stories

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    Show Two Theme: Virtual Reality Check

    With Show Two: Design about to open, we connect the dots on students presenting their work to the public for the first time.  A glimpse into the unsettling near-future of […]

  • miobi

    Show Two Theme: Beyond Borders

    For Show Two: Design, we connect the dots on a few students presenting their work to the public for the first time.  In a current climate focused on borders and boundaries, […]

  • Frames, Ben Lansky
    Frames, Ben Lansky

    Show One Theme: Alternate Realities

    With Show One: Art about to open, we connect the dots on some of the students’ work as they prepare to share it with the public for the first time […]

  • Group-NOVA-shot

    MullenLowe NOVA Awards announcement

    From kabuki-inspired textiles to a menstruation co-op, the diverse winners of this year’s MullenLowe NOVA Awards have been announced. Paying tribute to all the shortlisted graduating students, Jose Miguel Sokoloff, President of MullenLowe […]

  • Helen Milne1

    Show Two Theme: From Trash to Treasure

    For Show Two: Design, we connect the dots on students presenting their work to the public for the first time.  Kevin Germanier’s BA Fashion collection looks as far from waste as it’s […]

Highlights

  • A number of Creative Unions posters laid out on the ground
    Credit: Image courtesy of UAL Image courtesy of UAL,
    Creative Unions

    We launched an initiative to demonstrate that creativity must operate across borders – geographical, social and disciplinary

  • Three cityscapes next to each other, 'Top 50 Global Fashion Schools 2016' is written at the top
    Fashion - Business of Fashion
    Business of Fashion

    Central Saint Martins named leading global fashion school by Business of Fashion for second year in a row

  • Central Saint Martins

    MBA

    We launched an innovative MBA in partnership with Birkbeck, University of London

  • makeright

    Makeright

    Design Against Crime worked on an award-winning project that took design thinking into Serco’s HMP Thameside prison

  • Handmade sign with 'Ikea school' written on it
    Image courtesy of UAL,
    Tate Exchange

    Fine Art took over a floor in Tate Modern's fifth floor to present an alternative art school for the public

  • Oura in motion
    Oura in motion
    Rethinking with Renault

    MA Industrial Design partnered with Renault to rethink the car interior for future self-driving vehicles

  • Three woman stood at the entrance of a Futuro House
    COMMUNE project
    Foundation

    A stellar year for Foundation which went spanned from Ofsted’s “Outstanding” to outer space

  • Photograph of man in white clothes and hat standing outside illuminated by a fire at night
    Celebrated the centenary of clay at Central Saint Martins.
    A centenary of clay

    We celebrated a century of clay and ceramic design at Central Saint Martins

  • Quantworm Mine Posters no text

    Winning Worms

    A cross-disciplinary student duo won the first international Biodesign Challenge

Hellos and goodbyes

  • Two rows of four specimen shown underneath a mircoscope, each one is a different colour and shape
    Rob Kessler
    Rob Kesseler

    After four decades at the College spanning life as a student, technician, tutor and UAL chair, Rob Kesseler talks to us about his career in ceramics

  • Willie Walters
    Willie Walters
    Willie Walters

    We said goodbye to the wonderful Willie Walters, following 24 years teaching at the College and 18 years as director of the Fashion programme

  • DAVID JACKSON

    David Jackson  

    We welcomed a new Course Leader to BA Acting, from Birmingham School of Acting

  • Alex Warnock-Smith and Andreas Lang
    Alex Warnock-Smith and Andreas Lang
    Alex Warnock-Smith and Andreas Lang

    Starting the year with new Course Leaders in both BA and M ARCH: Architecture, we took the opportunity to chat over the programme’s newly published manifesto

And, finally

  • Futuro House, The Terrace, Central Saint Martins, King’s Cross
    John Sturrock, Futuro House, The Terrace, Central Saint Martins, King’s Cross © John Sturrock

    Farewell to the Futuro House

    After two years, Central Saint Martins says farewell to the spaceship resident on the roof.  The Futuro House, designed by Matti Suuronen in the 60s, was brought to Central Saint Martins […]

  • Curve_#HackOnWheels_RSA-Student-Design-Awards-2017-13

    Student wins RSA Design Award with indoor wheelchair

    BA Product Design’s Nelson Noll has won an RSA Student Design Award for his innovative indoor wheelchair. Curve is designed as any other piece of furniture for the home, a resolutely domestic object. I […]

  • Postgraduate Art Auction 2017 (photo: Belinda Lawley)
    Postgraduate Art Auction 2017 (photo: Belinda Lawley)

    Postgraduate Art Auction breaks records

    Last night, friends, staff and students gathered together for the Postgraduate Art Auction in an extraordinary show of generosity and support of arts education.  This year’s auction raised a record-breaking […]

More yearbooks

  • A line of male models walking the catwalk
    Gerrit Jacob, MA Fashion (Photo: Matt Alexander/PA Wire)
  • Belinda Lawley, Normal to Dissent., Installation View, Lethaby Gallery, 2018. Photo: Belinda Lawley
  • Children in white boiler suits pushing large blue ball
    Image courtesy of UAL,