Show offs
Thursday evening saw the private view to the last of LCC’s final shows, featuring my BA (hons) GMD Information Design course among others. Cue embarrassing picture of me standing in front of my work with super flowers and an awkward-looking face:
We’ve been working hard for the past couple of weeks to get it all done in time, curating, branding, cleaning, painting, measuring and hanging our space and I have to say it’s paid off.
The Information Design work ranges from the classic posters and books through to sculpture and animation, so we were careful to design spaces appropriate to each format. Our regular studio has been transformed into a ‘hanging room’, using wires across the ceiling and walls to suspend posters and other artefacts that need space. Our small third year room has been blacked out with boards and kitted out with benches and a projector to become a quiet space for screening moving image work. Across the corridor in the Illustration studio, we’ve taken over to create a ‘reading room’ featuring two open square arrangements of bar-height tables at a perfect height for perusing the books made by this year’s graduates. In here we also displayed currency designs in perspex-topped cabinets and larger sculptural or standing print work on glass shelves in the naturally-lit windowsills.
As per usual it was a complete bunfight, brimming with the chatter of fellow students, tutors, friends, colleagues and professional contacts. But unfortunately for me, one attendee saw an opportunity to thieve some of my work. I’m really quite pissed off. Especially as my business cards were right next to it, and we had been welcoming people photographing our work. I’m sad because it was the last of that particular paper stock, and I will never be able to make a matching replacement. It tuns out I wasn’t the only one – two other students had a book and a flickbook pilfered. The lack of respect this shows to the amount of time, care and energy that we’ve put into our work this year is disgusting, especially as the aforementioned thieves were probably students at LCC themselves. I hope they get caught. But they probably won’t. What an upsetting end to an enjoyable evening and a brilliant year.
