Category: Cross-Year Studios

In this UX workshop led by TFL Product Design Lead Daniela Barbeira, we focused on developing a solution for an imaginary student at CSM. We were split into groups and given a student’s description and problems. We then started to create an experience map using sticky notes, noting key things such as emotions and problems…

for this workshop led by Abbie, we planned a visit to BT archives in Holborn, where we were given a tour of BT’s history through images, leaflets, advertisements, letters, and objects. This was an interesting tour as we got to see original copies of designs for the telephone boxes and telecommunication poles, as well as…

In this cross-year workshop, we explored needle and thread to express an idea or feeling and how it can be used as a form of design. We were separated into small groups and given the brief to create a blanket for our younger selves depicting our fears when applying for university at CSM. The aim…

In our studio facilitated by Matthew, we worked in groups to discuss a series of prompts from the brief drawing from the required reading: Neil Cummings, ‘Common’, in Distributed, David Blamey and Brad Haylock, eds., Open Editions, 2014. We agreed that a ‘common’ is a resource that is freely available to everyone, while a ‘vector’…

Part I In a 6-hour workshop hosted by editorial illustrator Sunnu Rebecca Choi, we set out to make our own illustration based off of an article. Firstly, we started with a series of exercises based on idioms, the first being to create a mindmap of words and objects we associated with the text. Mine was:…

In our first societies workshop hosted by Abbie, we explored the types of societies connected to a piece of writing and images we were given. Our given article was about “dazzle boats” used during the war. As a group, we brainstormed and devised several communities the article could be written for, written by, or appeal…

This studio session focused on the alphabet as an infrastructure. Led by Rebecca and Cai, we discussed a series of questions in small groups of 6: Here, we discussed how language and text evolve over time through generations modernising the language and text. One good example we came up with was how technology has caused…