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July 2010        

Innovation on show

It’s been a busy early summer. Closing down our Chislehurst campus in preparation for our relocation and as a result, the academic year coming to an end slightly earlier than normal. Degree shows have been our focus - the class of 2010 has produced another bumper crop of innovative and award-winning work. Here are the highlights.


Crisp wins menswear award at Graduate Fashion Week

Thomas Crisp, BA (Hons) Fashion secured the top prize for menswear at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week at London’s Earls Court 2. It's the second year in a row that a Ravensbourne student has won this coveted Menswear Award, which last year went to Mehmet Ali. More...

Graphics students judged Best New Blood

BA (Hons) Graphic Design students Chelsea Palmer and Natalie Rooke were presented with the coveted ‘Best New Blood’ award at this year’s graduate exhibition D&AD New Blood. More...

D&AD New Blood Winners

Rave Live 2010 breaks new ground

Our Communication Media Faculty students held their annual end of year show for the last time at our Chislehurst campus on 19 May. Rave Live celebrated the 40th birthday of the format, the UK’s largest student-led broadcasting event. Every year, it attracts the biggest names in industry looking for the next generation of student talent. More...

Rave Live 2010

For dates of our remaining summer shows click here.

 

Media round-up

Ravensbourne included in a Cisco and BT-sponsored Telegraph supplement on organisations engaging with digital technology and 2012 ...

Ravensbourne's 'brave new world' - a featured article in The Independent ...

Ravensbourne graduate and music director Tania Pedre name-checked in The Independent ...

Greenwich Time centre-spread on Woolwich pupils' architecture project ...

The Telegraph online shows video of Graduate Fashion Week winner Thomas Crisp ...

Handbag.com, Dazed, Drapers and The Guardian also praise Graduate Fashion Week entrants and award winners ...

D&AD New Blood winners name-checked in Creative Review ...


And look out for upcoming features in Blueprint and Building Magazine.

Building Handover

Well, it’s now officially ours! On 18 June, we were handed the keys of the new Ravensbourne building at Penrose Way, and have started the intensive fit-out programme that will finish at the end of September. It’s exciting progress for us and we can’t wait to move in.

For the latest photographs of our new building, click here.

EIC Update

Final year fashion students Kiley Evans and Faye Bentley made it through to the finals of a major business plan competition, hosted by Dragon's Den star Richard Farleigh. More...

And finally ...

We have introduced a new name for our newsletter, The Point, and redesigned the format in line with our new branding. We hope you like the changes. If you have any comments on The Point, click here to get in touch.

We have reduced the frequency of The Point during our relocation period, and monthly distribution will return from September.


Other News
 
FASHION ICON SHOOT

Fashion icon Vivienne Westwood is producing a show to put her ideas across about culture, climate change and the environment. To do this she worked with a group of our broadcasting students during May, culminating in a final shoot at our studios. More...


WOOLWICH SCHOOLS DESIGN CITY SPACES

Budding architects in primary schools across Woolwich have been working to develop ideas and 3D models of a new urban space at Greenwich Peninsula, in education project, conceived by Ravensbourne, Greenwich Education Business Partnership (GEBP) and Lend Lease. More...

Timbercroft Model


SEEING IS BELIEVING

Senior business leaders from across London attended Seeing is Believing on 1 July. The study tour, organised by Business in the Community and sponsored by Ravensbourne, Greenwich Council and Bovis Lend Lease, examined the progress of regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula.More...

Seeing is Believing Group


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