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“Censorship is the enemy of creativity” Allan Jenkins, poet
You know how it sucks when a band can’t follow up on their awesome filbum? We didn’t want that, so we listened hard to every bit of feedback given about the first issue. Changes have been made and we think it’s even better. You’ll find a lot more intelligent stuff in here. We focussed on something most of you will encounter at some point unpaid internships (p8). Read first-hand experiences of students at UCA and get tips from industry professionals about how to make it. Hell, we even give you the legalties of working for free, along with some tips so you don’t get mugg There’s also an interview with ex-World of Warcraft addict Anthony Rosner following the recent rise to fame of his film ‘In Real Life’ (p4). You’ll find a lot more intelligent stuff in here. We focussed on something most of you will encounter at some point unpaid internships (p8). Read first-hand experiences of students at UCA and get tips from industry professionals about how to ma ke Maintaining the theme of web sensations, we take a look at the rise of viral calls to action like Kony 2012, Anonymous, the Arab Spring and... Cat Bin Lady (p34). And for that reason, we’re completely against censorship of any kind. Read our feature about it starting on page 8.
Canterbury Editor: Lewis Barton Epsom Editor: Mikaela Nguyen Farnham Editor: Gemma Noble Maidstone Editor: Brenda Alexis Rochester Editor: Samantha Wilkins Features Editor: Faye Gentile Chief Sub-Editor: Lauri Stark Art (Subs) Editor: Lizy Bending Online Editor: Jayne Horswill Use the format firstname@gluehere.com to email a member of the team. Glue is printed on recycled paper. Please dispose of your copy responsibly. Glue is a UCA Students’ Union publication. Although reasonable care has been taken to ensure details are correct, neither the Glue editorial team or UCASU can accept liability for inaccuracies, damages or loss. All images are copyright of the creator and should not be used, sold or exploited in any way without prior written permission. Students submitting to Glue accept that their content may be used in any aspect of Glue presence and a credit will be given. If you feel your copyright has been infringed, please email Andy Squire, UCA Students’ Union Communications & Media Coordinator via asquire.su@ucreative.ac.uk or call 01252 892629. To write to UCA Students’ Union, use the address UCA Students’ Union, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7DS. Editor-in-Chief: Andy Squire.
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How to use this magazine If you picked up Glue last time, you’ll probably be familiar with how it works (you’re allowed to skip this bit). But if you missed it (where have you been?) we explain it here. Here’s the low-down: Our colour wheel isn’t just pretty, it’s also a navigation tool for the magazine. The wheel is split into 20 segments; each representing an area of creative interest. Pick a subject on the wheel that you are interested in. We predict you’re also interested in the three shades each side of it, too. As you flick through Glue, look for the colours on the page corners. This tells you if the work on the page matches your interests. Or just look at absolutely everything. To see more of someone’s work, just visit gluehere.com and search for the submission number shown above their name. Graphic Design Advertising
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Maidstone: History in the making
UCA Maidstone: History in the making
As we reach the end of the 2011/12 academic year, the Maidstone campus begins a period of transformation. The final group of degree-level students have finished their first year, and from September only Foundation students will be found at enrolment. Degree students will be beginning their studies at other campuses. 05
Maidstone: History in the making
In 2011, UCA announced that MidKent College had made an offer to purchase the Maidstone campus. This was accepted, and 2014 will be the final year of degree-level students graduating from Maidstone.
Maidstone: History in the making
The campus started as The Maidstone College of Art in 1867, changing its name numerous times over the decades until finally being upgraded to university status when Surrey Institute of Art & Design joined with Kent Institute of Art & Design to form the University College for the Creative Arts in 2005.
Emin, ‘Where’s Wally’ creator Martin Handford, TV presenters Tony Hart and Bob Holness, and Edd Gould, who made the famous Eddsworld YouTube series.
As the gradual wind-down of UCA presence on the campus progresses, Students’ Union attention moves to ensuring students aren’t negatively Full university status was granted in 2008, impacted by the change. allowing the institution to drop ‘College’ from its name. The Maidstone campus boasts a rich and notable history, which will be a sorry loss The campus has been home to scores of to UCA. Whether the sale of Maidstone students who have made an impact in the will benefit the university remains to be world, including controversial artist Tracey seen. 06
Luke Frost Maidstone Campus Officer
I remember hearing the campus I’d applied to was closing after I’d already accepted my offer. That was in 2008. Current students aren’t the first to have received that news, but they’re the first to have to deal with the consequences.
Above: Inside Tracey Emin’s famous ‘Everyone I Have Ever Slept With’ tent. She described the work as “seminal, fantastic, and amazing.”
Maidstone: History in the making
There didn’t seem much we could do after the MidKent deal was announced. Some considered going into occupation, but the will just wasn’t there. All we can do is stick together. Even if we don’t manage to build up extracurricular stuff we’re all still in the same boat, we can make it good. 07
How are they trying to censor us?
How are they trying to censor us?
By Jayne Horswill
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How are they trying to censor us? nternet censorship has been causing a lot of controversy lately. With online tech developing quickly, it’s becoming easier to download and share images, video and data at incredible speeds.
How are they trying to censor us?
With that in mind, the internet has also been proven vital in the progression of creative artists, giving them an easy way to share their work. Copyright law is becoming a crucial way to protect this content, but are the governments really doing it in the interest of independent This Bill suggested search engines be projects? prevented from linking to illegal torrenting sites, and that court orders should be One of the most popular forms of pirated brought in to make Internet Service content is from the film and television Providers ban the sites altogether. It industry. Major movie companies in would also allow the FBI to raid your home America have condemned the online looking for stolen content, and if they sharing of their content, copyright claiming found it, the maximum prison sentence the majority of videos on YouTube, and would be for 5 years. re-uploading their own copies covered in adverts. The music industry is also Yet more stuff I’m writing for no better known for viciously protecting their reason than to black out in the name of artists, creating heavily sponsored online censorship. You’d think it was fun, but it channels. really isn’t. No, not at all. Honestly! As each of these industries is making an average of $300,000,000 (Paramount Pictures, 2011), they can afford to take the most extreme measures possible to protect their income and industry.
SOPA had a lot of opposition when it came out; it was argued to be absolute censorship of the internet, where the government would be controlling what you could and couldn’t look at. Most major online sites protested against it, In October 2011, US Representative Lamar with an organized blackout of Reddit and Smith introduced a Bill to censor the Wikipedia on 18 January 2012. internet on a very large scale – The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short. For the whole day, if you visited either website you were redirected to the This bill is basically a massive pile of shit, Wikipedia entry for SOPA. Google, but we’ll get on to that in a minute. Right YouTube, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, eBay now, I’m writing bollocks. and more all refused to accept the Bill too, making statements on their sites or their CEOs coming out publically to refute it.
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I’m writing a big title here to make it look li Even the Human Rights Watch got something important is involved, as they considered it a violation of freedom of information, and being said. But no. censorship of free speech. Petitions were
However, there was one major impacting result: the shutdown of MegaVideo and MegaUpload. These sites were used in most part for streaming film and television, and for sharing files. Most of this was illegal content, but the Senate did not consider an important thing: many people were using the site for the original intention, to store and share their own original work. It was announced that they were closing down, and users were given less than a week to collect their data, and the traffic on the site was so hectic during those last days that many people lost their personal data and files. For the first Bill to counteract piracy, it was widely agreed that SOPA had some very extreme measures written into it, giving the law a lot of power very quickly over American citizens’ internet use. The amount of resistance towards the bill clearly shows that it was a very risky move to make, and not entirely unexpected.
The SOPA Bill presents itself as a way of protecting copyrighted work on the internet. Rep. Lamar Smith named it a ‘protection of intellectual copyright’ – although he didn’t specifically write the Bill himself. It’s clear from who was backing SOPA who actually wrote it. internet. Rep. Lamar Smith named it a ‘protection of intellectual copyright’ – although he didn’t specifically write the Bill himself. It’s clear from who was backing SOPA who actually wrote it. On 22 September 2011, a letter was set to Congress signed by 350 businesses supporting the Bill. This included NBCUniversal (who had an income of $2.26 billion in 2010), the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of the US, and the Entertainment Software Association, as well as big brands like L’Oreal and Nike. It came from companies that earn huge sums of money a year through copyright, and fight constantly to prevent free sharing. SOPA is specific about the form of media that is prevented. It states that ‘illegal
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signed around the world to try to prevent this becoming law, and on 20 January 2012 it went to Senate but the vote was unbalanced, with more negative than positive. It was agreed to be shelved until a more suitable solution came along.
streaming’ in particular would be heavily punishable by law, along with torrented streaming. It is perfectly catered to protect the major money-earning companies that are in control of the market already. SOPA is a censorship bill to protect the rich. ‘Intellectual property’ is supposed to be copyrighted work on any scale; from the biggest movie companies to the independent short film makers and bands that publicise themselves locally. It was claimed in the introductory speech to the Senate that SOPA would be used to help everyone, but it never turned out that way. ‘Intellectual property’ is supposed to be copyrighted work on any scale; from the biggest movie c lllllllllllllllllllllllllllompanies to the independent short film makers and bands thacise themselves locally. It
Even Rep. Lamar Smith, the politician who introduced the Bill actually had an illegal picture on his own website. It was being used as the background display on the site, but was actually stolen from photographer DJ Schulte, and was not credited back to him. Even the Senator bringing the bill to US Congress doesn’t even understand how it works, as he was in violation of it himself. American media bosses have a great deal of influence in the industry and a lot of money to defend their huge incomes. There has been a lot of speculation of corruption in the US Government following this, and if money isn’t changing hands among the Senators, then the laws really are being written in the capitalist interest.
What has been happening in the UK? On 30 April this year, the UK High Court ruled that all internet providers should ban access to the website The Pirate Bay.
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The Pirate Bay is famous for hosting torrent files, which allow users to download anything from movies and software to games and music. It is not by any means the only torrent site online, but it is the most popular and well-known in the media. All Internet Service Providers except for BT accepted the ruling. BT took ‘time to think about it’, but on May 2, Virgin Media was the first to block the site. The issues with this are that a creative artist, independent from the motion picture industries is not remotely protected by the court’s ruling. It is a blanket ban on a site that only damages the profits of major companies, and doesn’t help those who are put out of business by theft of copyrighted work. 12
It’s also a very general ban: technology these days allows IP addresses to be easily traceable, and most illegal downloaders don’t make any extra effort to hide their tracks when they torrent. The government has the resources to stop illegal sharing and copyright violation very efficiently, but has instead targeted the most popular site first, as it is the one most harmful to the industry. Having followed in the footsteps of the US, British law has now been written that actively censors the internet for UK citizens. The fact that the ban is easy to get round isn’t the issue; it’s that the state has chosen to control what you can access, rather than actually enforcing copyright law. This could only be the tip of the iceberg for the UK – with MegaVideo and MegaUpload gone, as well as popular torrenting site MiniNova that was targeted in 2009 and The Pirate Bay blocked, it’s worth keeping an eye on the law to see what comes next.
Hear it from an internet pioneer
The laws have been put together to allow an industry body to ask the government to turn off a web site and the government can make people turn off the site without trial. There are times when that could be very powerful and damaging, like before an election, and it is crossing a line and we have to protect the internet as an open space, we have to respect it. Folks in the UK should not be complacent. There are plenty of laws they should look out for already that also have issues. These acts have not been put together to respect human rights as is right for a democratic country.
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Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the Internet
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Business reaction to SOPA
The biggest names in the media industry came forward to show either their support or protests against SOPA and what it represented for piracy law. Some companies switched sides when they saw the public’s reaction, but it’s clear to see which type of industry favoured it.
KICK STARTER FOR SOPA
AGAINST SOPA
FOR SOPA... UNTIL SEEING PUBLIC ANGER AND DECIDING TO CHANGE.
COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
Paramount P a aramount American Bankers Association
Industry heavyweights All of the companies below supported SOPA, except Pixar. They had a dispute with their owners, Disney, as they didn’t want to support the Bill at all. In the end they came to a shaky deal whereby they were not allowed to comment.
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With profits like these, it’s not a surprise they wanted to keep the money rolling in…
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XXX PORN
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“The Pirate Bay is like sugar – it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it" Peter Sunde - Co-Founder of The Pirate Bay
Protect your work online The British intellectual Property Office have issued some good advice on how to protect your work from theft. It doesn’t look like the laws either in the US or the UK have any real interest in the independent artist, rather for the big businesses who own the market. Here are some steps everyone should take to make sure they don’t become victims of those with no respect for the work. Mark your work: This could be a watermark, a copyrighted message at the bottom with the © and your name, or even the date and your signature at the bottom of the piece.
Hold on to supporting evidence: The idea process, first attempts, notes, anything that could back up your case. Make it official: If you co-authored the work with someone else, make sure to come to an agreement about who owns the copyright – or even if it’s shared and try and sign on it, if you can. Control your website: When you run the site, you know the terms. If you host it somewhere else, check their copyright system. Some sites have it in the terms of use that once you upload to them, they own the media. Disable right-click: Protecting your own website can stop people in their tracks from copying your work, or saving it to their hard drives.
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Keep the original copy if you can: Photos and videos on the computer will should have a timestamp of when they were last edited and when they were taken. Keep this raw footage on a memory card or stick somewhere to preserve the original dates.
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A social life Getting your name out to the public make important work contacts or even get couldn’t be any easier. jobs. It takes one click to connect with someone over the internet, be it on social networking giants Facebook or Twitter. You can even make professional contacts through them.
That’s why Glue has taken a look at the your social networking options and rated them to show the most effective as we mould our futures.
As young creatives, we appreciate how Now you can sit on Facebook or Twitter difficult it can be to get noticed and to with a valid excuse!
Aspiring bloggers are spoilt for choice when it comes to picking a website. There are numerous platforms to start blogging with, that put you in a position where you can share your creativity while networking and socialising. Tumblr has developed high traffic in a short time. In February, Tumblr had over 46.2 million blogs and more than 18 billion total posts. That’s a major online showcase. It’s easy to use: all the features are based in the ‘Dashboard’ and everything is at a mouse click. Like Twitter, you can share things you love by re-blogging. Tumblr maintains a great social networking aspect. First year Photography student Matt Fox is in favour: “I opened my Tumblr account a few months ago. I already had Flickr but wanted to blog videos and gifs. I chose Tumblr because I knew it had a good reputation and put my work on it.” Matt says that it is easy to use, being able to reblog has promoted his work on the web. A social life
Visit Matt’s Tumblr here: http://matt-fox-photography.tumblr.com/ Score: Creative
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Micro-blogging platform Twitter allows you to connect with anyone in 140 characters or less. The one-click ‘follow’ button means you will see other people’s tweets on your feed and from that you have the option to retweet and reply. Content development and production graduate Niall Highgate (Ravensbourne University) is an active Twitter user. He said: “A lot of people in the industry use Twitter, so it’s a good way of scouting people and it’s easy to contact people. “I’ve secured interest in work via Twitter, and I’ve even had some well-known actors ask to be in my films through it.” Niall uses Twitter to talk to industry professionals by tweeting questions and asking advice. He said: “It’s not what you know it’s who you know.” The main downside to Twitter is trying to pitch yourself accurately and professionally in 140 characters (and using the correct spelling and punctuation!). Niall’s advice to budding Twitter users is: “Try and sell yourself as best you can in your biography. Make it humorous and make it attractive. And try not to swear too much.”
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Facebook has over 901 million monthly active users as of March 2012. The set up allows you to quickly make a profile, which can include photos and interests. You can update your activities to let your friends know exactly what you’re up to. It is the ultimate social tool. Second year 3DD Metalwork student Anthony Doble uses a Facebook page to publicise his work. He said: “The great thing about having Facebook is having an instant link for friends to keep updated and is also available to the public. So hopefully, friends of friends will see my work and commission me.” “The more successful pages I have seen tend to use Facebook as a means of blogging, posting about latest experiments and promoting other craftspeople. Facebook isn’t the best tool for the business side of any artist practice as in some ways it is more of a social site for transferring interesting information; not business deals,” he said. The downside to using a site like Facebook for professional use is the implications from your personal account. Anthony is becoming increasingly careful about his posting in case it damages his professional reputation. Anthony said: “It is useful, but I suggest setting up a professional website. Facebook is good for promoting yourself as it gives you a better chance of gaining job opportunities.”
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Kickstarter is a funding website for creative projects. It was only launched in 2008 but has already helped struggling artists and inventors alike realise their ideas. Working on a crowd-funded system, Kickstarter gives you the opportunity to present your idea to the internet, almost like a pitch in Dragon’s Den. From there, anyone interested in helping you get going can make a donation – anywhere from $1 upwards. There have been several success stories over the years, but the biggest was “Save Like Blue Jazz”. It was a film adaptation of a book that ran out of money midproduction, unable to make it to the big screen. It was proposed by Steve Taylor, who had the dream of creating the film for a while. They raised over $345,000 for the film, and it was successfully screened in 2012. Taylor was astonished at the response: “I really didn’t think it would work. I knew we had some dedicated fans of the book that were keen to see it cinematically but the response was overwhelming.” Kickstarter allows you to use incentives to get more donations. In the case of Save Like Blue Jazz, a donation would get you goodies like posters, script pages and photo prints of the productions. Other projects have branched out to shares in the company, or even a copy of the finished product. Steve Taylor in fact made the effort to call each and every donator personally to thank them. “You can’t message them directly on the site,” he said. “It’s not really a place for social networking aside from your basic profile. But it’s worth going through them all as if it weren’t for them, Like Blue Jazz would never have happened. Social A social life
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Formed in 2005 by three former PayPal employees, YouTube became the fastest-growing website ever and is now ranked fifth most popular by Alexa Internet. YouTube is easy to access, and with an account you can upload videos and share it with the world. The word “viral” was practically invented by YouTube. Third year Film Production student Matt Vahey has never been a fan of YouTube. Unlike Vimeo, where you can only upload user made content, anyone can upload anything to YouTube. “In my first year we were told about YouTube and their rights when uploading content, I don’t use it because I don’t think it’s very professional. It doesn’t benefit my work; showcasing is difficult. “Videos often get lost among other content, as it is competitive platform. Although quick and easy to upload, it isn’t industry standard. To get recognised, uploading to YouTube isn’t a good move. The benefit you can gain from YouTube is the volume of views, but be wary that it doesn’t get lost amongst videos of cats playing the keyboard.” Score: Creative
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Vimeo offers a video solution that protects your rights and is much more respected in industry. A social life
Matt Vahey’s trailer for Pantheon is here: vimeo.com/m/41887972 Score: Creative
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RedBubble allows artists to create an online portfolio and sell work in the form of standard prints and cards or even as t-shirts and stickers. Second year Fasion Illustration student at UAL Maisie Noble uses RedBubble to promote her illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs. She sells them through the website to those ordering prints and cards. Maisie has been approached for commissions and requests for publication. She said: “It’s a very clear and easy website to use, and a brilliant way to chat with other artists. It really increased my confidence as other users tend to be complimentary and supportive.” There is a clear layer over Maisie’s work advertised on the site, so it cannot be right-clicked and saved or reproduced without her permission. “The website is a little bit socially outdated,” Maisie said. “It’s not seen as cool or trendy by the younger generation.” I would say that young professionals and students should also use other platforms such as Tumblr, Flickr and Twitter,” she concluded. View Maisie’s work at redbubble.com/people/ maisienoble or at maisienoble.tumblr.com. Social
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D&AD glory By Faye Gentile Features Editor
even UCA students have been recognised by the esteemed Design and Art Direction (D&AD) Student Awards. Six of the projects received ‘Best of Year’ Accolades. The industry-respected award has been given to creators of celebrated work since 1962. The award status is regarded as a benchmark for creatives around the world. Adam Alexander and Scott Wooden, Graphic Design: New Media at UCA Epsom have been nominated for the prestigious Yellow Pencil Award. “Receiving a nomination for a D&AD award has been a dream come true. It has given me so much more confidence in my work and motivation to aim towards higher things in the future to come,” said Adam.
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so we took this literally and brought our video to life with puppets which gave it an important element of humour and made it original.” Five other Graphic Design: New Media students Chris Brown, John St. Leger, Jamie Hoy, Seth De Silva and Povilas Uogintas received Best of Year nods, just a step down from a Yellow Pencil nomination. “D&AD Student Award truly marks you out as one of the best,” says course leader Ben Stopher. UCA Farnham also received their share of recognition from D&AD; five students won the Best of Year award. Graphic Communication students Ash Jordan (Packaging Design), David Davies and Oliver Williams (Typography) were the lucky three alongside Advertising & Brand Communication students Charlotte Hugh and Danny Pallett (Make Your Mark).
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UCA’s Chi Mun Wong to carry Olympic torch By Samantha Wilkins Rochester Campus Editor
Chi Mun Wong, 19, studies Fashion Promotion in Rochester. She has been selected as a torchbearer: she will run 300 metres with the Olympic torch through Rochester on the 20th of July this year. Chi was nominated by her mother for the help she gave her terminally ill grandmother when she was 13, and for the way she dealt with her own cancer when she was 16. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, I’ll never get the chance to run with the torch again. It feels great to be picked, it means my story has been recognised. I like the idea that other people going through bad illnesses can read my story and relate. Getting cancer made me appreciate that you never know what’s going to happen, and you should go through life doing what you want instead of hesitating.
UCA student to carry Olympic torch
I didn’t expect to get ill; I found a lump, and the next thing I knew I had cancer. It’s clichéd when people say you only live once, but it’s true: you can’t go through life passive, if you want to do something then go for it. Think positively and always have your family and friends around you. I’ve always had an eye for fashion, but I never thought I could do it as a career until my GCSE’s, that was when I realised what I wanted. I am a bit nervous about representing UCA; it’s a big responsibility but I’m looking forward to it.” 44
Alternative Fashion Week By Samantha Wilkins, Rochester Campus Editor & Annabel Girauld-Telme
Students from the Foundation, Access and BTEC courses at UCA Rochester were lucky enough to showcase their work this year. Annabel Giraud-Telme is one of the talented students that showcased her work; she is a fashion enthusiast who devotes a vast amount of time to her creations, and is progressing on to study Fashion Atelier at UCA Rochester in September. “The theme that was given for the AFW project was ‘Multiples in Nature’. The idea was to explore the themes of identity, multiples, connections and personal narratives with an emphasis placed on a choice of surface, structure or silhouette. We all had to work very hard. It was a great experience though as the class really pulled together. Knowing that we were going to watch our work walk down a runway inspired us to keep going.
“My design is named ‘La Fleur Chinoise’ which I based a Chinese lantern fruit. I focused on the leaves due to their beautiful delicacy and gorgeous colours. The top of my garment is yellow gold satin and has a double cowl neck with the front being a smaller drop and the back being a lot more ornate and dramatic. The cummerbund pulls the top and skirt together and has five ‘leaves’ coming out of it from both sides of the body. “To create the leaves I experimented and manipulated samples to see how they sit away from the body in order to create the structure I desired. I designed the leaves uniquely; they have been boned in two different ways to mirror the twists of a leaf and to also enable the garment to be more wearable. The most time-consuming part of my design was hand-sewing more than 100 glass beads on each leaf. “Alternative Fashion Week was an amazing experience, I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to showcase my work!” For more information on Alternate Fashion Week visit alternativefashionweek.co.uk
Alternative Fashion Week
Alternative Fashion week is an annual platform that allows emerging designers to showcase their work to the public and members of the fashion industry. The event took place between 16th-21st April, showcasing over eighty designers’ work alongside ten colleges.
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Thank you... Lisa Adams-May Chloe Aisnley Brenda Alexis Sara Almeida Fleur Alston Esther Anyakwo Neil Arnold Binita Bantawa Chris Baranowicz Hana Barten Lewis Barton Lisa Bathke-Williams Trish Batley Anthony Bearpark Lizy Bending Andrea Bergqvist Daniela Bertolone Rosie Bertuelo Emma Bowden Samuel Bradley Kerrie Braithwaite Craig Burston Rosa Burton Luke Butcher Natalie Byrne Jed Camara Pam Capone Tess Castillo-Beesley Jane Carter-Lilley Patrick Casey Angela Chadwick Charlie Cooley Johanna Coulson Ben Cowan Scott Crook Katherine Clarke Sean Crotty Mark Cullum Jessica Davies Amanda Davis Claire Davis Jake Davis Susie De Lacy Robert Niet J.D. Dean Giorgo Del Buono Alison Douglas Jasmine du Rocher Tariq Emam Adrian Everett Ali Farmer Jasmine Farram Anja Fenske
Sophie Filar Matt Fleming Jonny Flint Sam Francis Luke Frost Martin Gardner Carl Gent Faye Gentile Charlie George Annabel Girauld-Telme Chris Gloag Darren Gould Sandra Grabowska Robbi Gray Kayleigh Greenland Ed Hewison Rob Harling Sally Harris Melissa Hasan Hannah Hathaway-Kells Rob Hayes Mary Henning Emily Hodgkin Sam EH Hooper Jayne Horswill Matthew Horton Ben Hunt Ollie Jarman Aaron Jarred Jolanta Jasiulionyte Madeline Jenkins Rosie Jenner Angela Johnston Katie Jones Eliel Jones Rando Sak Victor Kahn Joe Kennedy Anum Khan Georgina King Tereza Kleovoulou Michelle Kleyr Iliana Kliani Darrel Lambert Eloise Lambert Amy Laraman Charlotte Levy Jack Lewis Alex Liew Ben Lock Hannah Looker Jade Lyon Stephanie Ma Tom Mac
Calum Mackenzie Lannah Marshall Mikey Martin Steve Martin Carma Masson Amie McAllister Troy McNamara Emily McDonald Ricky Mehta Ross Messenger Steve Miller Ben Mobbs Ashley Moore Markus Motum Rachael Murray Evrim Narin Alan Nash Sophie Naylor Holly Negus Katy Negus Laura Neville Gemma Noble Mikaela Nguyen Charlotte Neuwels Grace Nikobari Ricky Oh Rafiu Onalja Rebeeca Onyett Louise Ormerod Will Ovenden Emily Parker Lucy Parnell Dan Parratt Louise Patley Jonna Pennanen James Perea Pat Plested Harry Poole Polly Rayns Kenny Record David Reilly Jo Rich Chris Rochards-White Robert Roach Alex Causton-Ronaldson Anthony Rosner Seymour Roworth-Stokes Helen Rowsell Rebekah Roy Sofia Rufin Sam Sammut Leanne Saunders Tim Savage
Jane Sellman Adam Shaw Jamie Shoard Mike Silver Eden Silver-Mya Sarah Simms Carly Slingo Brad Smart Lee Smart Becky Smith Dan Smith Dean Smith Laura Smith Roxy Spatari Lauri Stark Ana Stefaniak James Stewart Zoe Sudds Grace Suarez Annabelle Swift Loren Sunderland Glen Thompsett Lucy Tibbitts James Townsend Glen Travis Joe Traynor Mike Trusler Si Tuong Natalie Turner Siobhan Tuner Marlene Utuk Mario Varas Sanchez Talya Varga Laurence Vincent Bryony Voller Ainsley Walker Clare Walker Harvey Walton Richard Want Zoe Washer Hayley Webber Roxanne Werter Bill West Pamela Wheeler Gavin Withey Samantha Wilkins Louise White Tara Whitney Mafina Elliot Williams Joanna Williamson Grant Woolley Jake Yarwood Jennifer Yoong
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