Social media is dominating our everyday lives acting as a catalyst around the stigma of bodies and fat phobia. This is a constant issue with social platforms taking down diverse images and the algorithms only promoting the ‘conventional’ bodies. Diet culture is essentially societies acceptance for eating disorders, they encourage starvation, restrictive nutrition and many other unhealthy habits. Magazines promote this behaviour and idolise it through celebrity statuses. You Can’t Have Your Cake & Eat It is a series of art directed photography that exposes the toxic traits within the diet culture through a satirical narrative

Emilia Pavely

Website: www.emiliastudiodesigns.cargo.site

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user93457882

Following in the footsteps of Richard Buckminster, I held a remote class and created this video to teach and educate about geodesic domes to celebrate the importance of triangles. I also designed a step by step publication that offers support along with the video.

Samuel Boik

Website: samuelboik.co.uk

Holy Design Union is a collection of ideas, experiments, speculations and designs on the subject of unionising workforces. The power of a union lies within the real action and physical stuctures and communities they are both able to produce and protect. Holy Design Union searches for a such a community amongst designers.

The union specifically looks at the polarity in modern society today between education and professionalism, in which design as a craft, practice and theory is reduced to a paid service in a society in which markets dictate our relevance. Within this shift there remains a space for authentic and truly sustaining forms of activity.

All content found on Holy Design Union is free to use, disseminate and appropriate for non-profit purposes.

Holy Design Union website: holydesignunion.co.uk

Emilia Ford

Website: https://emiliabermejoford.co.uk/

This collaborative project with Josh Jefferson looks into the future by speculating how technology
could impact the connection & interactions we have as humans.

Video Link:
https://vimeo.com/415139509

Website Link:
https://jack-smith-design.webflow.io/

Shapes is a typeface that I created inspired by a typeface called Baley and styles like the designer Wim Crouwel. I used repeated shapes to create two alternate versions – one made use of sharp angular lines, whilst the other employed more rounded off corners. This came out of a project that explored the place of simple shapes within design and the emotions that they could carry with them. The two typefaces were put to use in my slightly abstract publication “Shapes & Old Paintings” that worked with the same idea of playing with shapes and their possible uses.

Link to Typeface Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T4kdPSDirCrhExfHU7hdqOEJ7IIcmLpu

Ruairi Madine

Website: www.ruairimadine.co.uk

https://vimeo.com/415061686https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T4kdPSDirCrhExfHU7hdqOEJ7IIcmLpuhttps://ruairimadine.co.uk/

“In relation to the Coronavirus, people are vilifying the Asian community based on their skin colour. This has to stop. Members of the Asian community have wrongfully had to endure multiple counts of abuse, from shouting, to spitting and to hitting. No-one should have to live in fear of being a victim of racism. I felt I had to combat this in anyway I could and so created this campaign, with the purpose of reminding society that skin colour is not a symptom of Coronavirus.”

Millie Bowie

Website: www.milliebowie.com

F(un) Detected

I created a series of online workshops, in which we explored the use of make-up & face paint as a tool to mitigate detection by facial recognition technology. This workshop is part of a series of workshops looking at creative responses to solving issues around conflict.

Robert Bandy

Website: www.bandesign.co.uk