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03.06.09
Kingston 2009
I’ve just finished two days external examining at Kingston University’s Graphics course, and as with last year I thought it would be interesting to post some of the highlights.
So, and in no particular order (and apologies, very image-heavy post, but worth it)... 
Helena Peristiani and Katie Peake wanted to point out just how much animal products are in the everyday foods we take for granted.
Amie Herriott set about doing photographic self-portraits, like this. But if you’re wondering how she got that odd effect...
..it’s because the image above is actually the negative. She had actually painted herself in reverse but positive, if that makes any sense (see below for what was actually photographed). Extraordinary.
James Reynolds decided he wanted to document the last suppers requested by inmates on death row.
Whilst Matthew Murphy quite rightly suspected there might be some great imagery to be found at the casusalties union, which provides made-up actors to help train medical professionals.
Keeping on the grotesque theme, Elishea Nicholson and Alex Elnaugh decided the way to deter bike thieves was to make bikes more unattractive, hence their ‘fat bike’. 
Poppy Hennig has been looking at clubs and clans (so housewives and bookgroups, very subtly branded).
James Reynolds (below and at the top of this post) felt that his local closed-down pub left a bit to be desired, visually, so set about providing some temporary solutions for those boarded up doors and windows. 
Unsurprisingly, several students attacked green issues. Hannah Rödde discovered that The Independent wates tonnes of ink just printing the colour bars on the edges of the paper, and produced these CMYK publications in protest.
Amie Herriott wants us to encourage us to leave the ‘leaf litter’ in our gardens, which will increase the number of wild birds visiting. This bird is constructed from various leaf skeletons. 
Tess Savina has been wondering if some more radical ligatures could save on printing ink.
Meanwhile a group of students (Laura Bowman, Ashley Maine, Jamie Breach, Lewis Woolner and Elliott Mariess) constructed this amazing skeleton out of disposable cutlery.
Owen Evans wants us to take care of the temperature of children. He’s designed this heat-sensitive baby-gro...
...that gives you a subtle tip if junior is overheating.
Meanwhile another group (Nick Robinson, Sam Mohabeer, Renée Callebaut and Tom Carey) have been making shoes from, er, laces. Can’t remember why, but they look great.
Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson have done various interesting projects. This first one simply plots how much actual ink it takes up to draw typographic samples of varying weight.
And this is a lovely animation for HP that doesn’t make that much sense as stills, but I’ll post a link when Tom gets it up on Vimeo.
I really liked Ella Collinge’s response to the question, ‘what’s around the corner?’.
And Sean Chilvers produced a neat riff on vanity culture with these window-based frames for Grazia.
It’s not all high-falutin’ concept stuff. I liked Charlie Crook’s ready made type sampling and printing operation.
And a team led by Jo Bell, Elishea Nicolson and Charlie Crook produced these interesting posters that re-interpret the traditional type specification (for Architype Renner and Futura Black).
I also had a quick look at the first and second year stuff too - here’s some stand-out work by James Titterton, who offered his body up as light sensitive material for a suntan pattern, then exhibited himself. As you do.
I liked this too - of one a series of portraits where the normal shutter trigger was replaced with a new one that only worked when subjected to extremely loud noise. OK, shouting. 
All images chosen entirely objectively and on a ‘what will work on a blog’ basis. Apologies for typos and missing favourites, all images of course copyright of all the people credited.
The Kingston show itself opens on this Saturday and the highlights will be on show at D&AD’s New Blood from the 29th June to 1st July. By Michael Johnson
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