Liverpool Art & Design Academy (ADA)

Staff and students from the LJMU Master of Architecture (M.Arch) programme recently visited Lisbon and Porto as part of their urban design studies. See photos of the trip on Flicker – http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmu-march-2011-yr5/sets/72157627910006486/show/

On Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th September, LJMU Fashion and Communications Undergraduates commenced the start of term with a WOW LIVE project for SEEN magazine.

This involved producing an outfit for The Death by Glitter Vogue Ball.

The selected outfit was then revealed on the cat walk at the Saturday night ball ,1st October 2011 and worn by local model Amy Faith.

The students designed and crafted 3 outfits altogether –working in groups (8-10 students per group) – producing the costume and accessories entirely out of back-copies of the magazine.

SEEN Magazine and LJMU Brokerage co-ordinated the project over the Summer with LJMU Fashion.

The students created three stunning pieces of bespoke couture and transformed the ADA Fashion Workshop into a Catwalk complete with mock audience and booming bass.

Representatives from SEEN Magazine, Director Tony Burns, and Editor Rebecca Keegan were on hand with LJMU staff, Lesley Peacock, Anne Liddell, Elaine Mcneill (ADA) and John Maguire ( Brokerage) to view the outfits.

A comprehensive explanation of the choices made and the evolution of the idea for each dress was given by one of the team members.

Rebecca Keegan from SEEN magazine stated,

We were totally overwhelmed by the sheer talent that we have come across at LJMU. The students have surpassed our very high expectation with the work creating the dresses. We can’t wait for the Vogue Ball and also the Seen Awards where all three dresses will be presented on stage for a packed audience to see.

Thank you so much to all the tutors and LJMU Brokerage who have been so supportive in this project.

The LJMU fashion students have shown us just how gifted they are – we at Seen Magazine look forward to working with them again in the near future.

An exhibition exploring the future of Liverpool’s built environment

Twitter updates from Prof. Juan Cruz, Acting Director of Liverpool School of Art and Design
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The Art Lids Live Art Studio Outdoor event

Saturday 24th September 2011-Part of THE BOLD STREET FESTIVAL

Ropewalks Square, off Bold Street, Liverpool 12pm-4pm

Contact: Antonia Jones, Tel: 077155 96819, Email: a.jones3@2009.ljmu.ac.uk

‘The Art Lids’ are a group of emerging artists from the Liverpool Universities. Our mission is to develop our art practices through actively engaging with our City, its vibrant arts community and beyond!

Join us for a spectacular Art overload where you will get to see the cities emerging Artists practicing their everyday Art studies – bringing their work right to you! ‘The Art Lids’ Live Art Studio is run in partnership with the Bold Street Festival on Saturday 24th September.

Why not have a go yourself at some of the techniques they can show you! Check out how real art is produced! See artists show off their mad skills in the heart of Liverpool. Find out what this rather peculiar gaggle of students are doing with the community in Liverpool and how they are getting involved with your city.

Come along on Saturday to see a real wild artist trapped in a playpen while piecing together a strange sort of Jigsaw! Get involved in some fantastic printing methods and make your own! See how beautiful Origami flowers are made. Watch artists working on real commissions for local bands. Join three artists who are painting a mural based on the event, and maybe get your self painted onto it! But watch out for the sneaky artist who will be leaving surprises all over the place!

We are lifting the lids of Art. We are opening your lids to Art. We are ‘The Art Lids’!

As Artists, our own working styles are enhanced by the involvement we have with Liverpool’s’ Community, and through generating exciting ideas, events and partnerships. We are student friends with a lot of artistic talent, sharing common goals.

This is one event you should not miss…check out our event on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=245982802110392

A warm welcome to all new and returning students at the Art & Design Academy. We hope you enjoy your next year here. This is the ADA Blog where we’ll post news about the ADA, LJMU, Liverpool and the Art and Design world in general. Please visit to see what’s happening and feel free to comment or request your own post.

MA ARTIST TEACHER DEGREE SHOW

Gemma Warner * David Graham * Kate Roberts * Marie Sinnott
Ruth Thompson * Peter Ward * Emma Hodgson * Paul White

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FRIDAY 26 – SUNDAY 28 AUGUST
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE PRIVATE VIEW ON THURSDAY 25 AUGUST 5PM – 7PM
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LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, DUCKINFIELD STREET, OFF BROWNLOW HILL, LIVERPOOL L3 5RD

On 30^th and 31^st July an ambitious and extraordinary performance about Climate Change, is coming to Liverpool.

In the POD we are really looking forward to our forthcoming ‘Be a Designer’ workshops for 11 years +. This week,we have been busy preparing for the sessions, which are led by the cream of local design talent such as local agency, Mercy, who are running the branding and illustration workshops that start on the 25th July. The group have worked with some really big brands such as local indie band, ‘The Wombats, ‘The Arctic Monkeys’ and clothing giant. ‘Diesel’.

The ‘Be a Fashion designer’ workshops kick of the week after with successful label, Nook & Willow and shrewd handmade jewellery and accessories business pioneer, Landbaby

I wish I was 11 so I could take part (seriously!). For now, it’s been fun laser cutting badges for the workshop participants (above)

What the classes offer is some real first hand experience of the business of design, and how you can make a living from it. Each session teaches unique techniques and skills as well as imparting some well earned advice about choosing a career in design.

There are still places available so if you know any budding designers who are interested:

For more info, click here

M.Res. Art and Design is a year-long research programme in which researchers explore and critically appraise individually negotiated research projects in Art and Design. MRes Art and Design can be conducted in thesis only or thesis/practice mode.

Free bursaries are available within the following themed areas:

• Histories, Curatorial Practice and Popular Culture
• Autonomous Practices and Collaboration
• Urbanism, Class and Gender

Bursaries are for the amount of £4170 to cover fees over 1 year full time study

Click here for information on how to apply or contact Admissions apsadmissions@ljmu.ac.uk or on 0151 2315175

The Liverpool School of Art and Design is currently hosting four artists from China, who are prizewinners from the last John Moores Painting Prize which, for the first time, was also run in China. The artists’ work was exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in 2010 but this is the first time they have visited the UK.

The residency is co-hosted between the Liverpool School of Art and Design, The University of Shanghai and the John Moores Exhibition Trust, with participation by all Liverpool’s most significant arts organisations. The School of Art and Design has been developing a programme of staff exchange with the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Shanghai that was initiated following an introduction from the Liverpool Biennial. So far Peter Appleton, Reader in Creative Technology and Patricia Mackinnon Day, Reader in Environmental Art have been to Shanghai and there have been return visits from the Shanghai Faculty. We are also developing research projects with the university and devising further exchange possibilities. This is a really good example of the work the school is doing to engage with local creative industries such as the Biennial and the John Moores Exhibition Trust in order to develop projects of International quality and global reach. Read the rest of this entry »

The Art and Design Pod and Carole Potter from Graphic Arts have just finished a 2 day workshop a group of teenagers working with The Aim Higher programme. The organisation aims to

make more people aware of what higher education is all about by providing workshops that schoolchildren can access, making them aware of career pathways they might never have known existed.

The ADA held two different  workshops for aspiring participants over the two days, giving them the chance to have a taste of techniques they would not usually use. Graphic Arts lecturer Carole Potter and a team of students and graduates led an animation session, while the POD led a practical session that aimed to show the benefits of laser cutting and branding.to sample a

The animation group had the chance to sample a whole array of different stop motion techniques,  developing their own ideas with the help of Graphic Arts graduates.

The second group had the task of creating their own model airplane which would be fabricated using the ADA’s laser cutting facilities. Each team were asked to brand their plane in the style of a famous celebrity The choices ranged from a  Mr.T branded plane for terrorists to a ‘plane of rock’ branded using the figurehead of comedian Jack Black.

Great fun was had by both groups, who came together to show their work on the final day. We hope to work with Aim Higher again during the coming year on a variety of projects.

The ADA has been featured this week  in a magazine supplement in a national newspaper in Paraguay!

BA Popular Music Studies lecturer and author, Simone Kruger, who specialises in ethnomusicology and  popular world music has been based in Paraguay for the last few weeks, continuing her research on the music of the country. This is Simones first fieldwork trip to Paraguay to explore the role of the guitar in the construction of identity in Paraguay’s new democracy. It is the first study of its kind, making it a significant scholarly contribution to knowledge about musical activity in a country that, until 2008, remained closed and unknown to the wider world. This work will provide the basis for new scholarly interest in this topic, and contribute new, unexplored insights into the uses, meanings and significance of the guitar in contemporary Paraguayan music.

The  national paper featured Simone as part of an article about the subject of her study; one most important rock guitarists in Paraguay, Rolando Chaparro.  who is about to release his rock/jazz version of Mangore Barrios’ music

Simone has thoroughly enjoyed the experience so far:

It’s going amazingly well, with a lot of research both with people and library-based already accomplished.

It’s great to see the ADA get a mention so far afield, and that Simone is getting on so well with her research. We look forward to seeing the results on her return!

Free monthly get together, JellyLiverpool is celebrating its First Anniversary on Thursday 7th July in Leaf Tea Shop on Bold St, Liverpool (2nd Floor) from 9am to 5pm. You are welcome to come & join the celebrations and have the chance to win prizes.

So what is JellyLiverpool?

If you haven’t yet experienced Jelly, perhaps it’s time to check it out. Fed up with the isolation and clutter of the spare room? Fed up with being distracted by the TV or the washing up, or even the kids?… then JellyLiverpool is for you.

Jelly is a FREE monthly work-together held in a city centre location and if you work alone, at home or elsewhere and crave some company and want to connect with like-minded individuals, pop along!

No matter what you do or what you create, you’re welcome to come to Jelly. Mingle with like-minded creative people. It’s a great way to put faces to those you follow on Twitter and more importantly it’s Free …… Free wifi, Free deskspace, Free coffee.

Bring your own laptop and a friendly disposition. Pop in for an hour or 2 or come work for the full day. New faces made very welcome.

Still unsure? Well, let’s see, do you ..…

• work from home & get “cabin fever”?
• wish that “working for yourself” didn’t mean “working by yourself”?
• search out coffee shops with wifi & power?
• are desperate for a change of scene?
• want to expand your network & contacts?
• want to seek out some inspiration & motivation?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES; then JellyLiverpool is what you need!

Who attends JellyLiverpool?

Typically we have some developers and internet types, but we also have entrepreneurs and freelancers as well as writers, some tinkerers, artists and designers. Generally a mixed bunch.

Want to know the history of ‘Jelly’ ?

Well Amit Gupta was the guy who spearheaded Jelly events. To see the movement he started which is now all over the world … check out this video which should give you an idea of what it’s all about….

Open to all creatives in the area. Meetings occur every second Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Just turn up.

AutoDesk has extended its free educational licencing agreements for students and faculty staff. There is now over 30 AutoDesk software packages available to download and use, 35 to be exact.

Software from Alias to 3ds Max, Inventor, Revit and Sketchbook are all available for download including a version of Autodesk for Mac

Details can be found at the Autodesk Student Center

We (the POD) are working on a construction project for the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival (starting in July) and have had to source some second hand bits and bobs.
Along the way we (re)discovered the treasure trove that is IBS office furniture reclaim. There’s no website but to be honest you have to go there and have a delve yourself to believe it. It has 4-5 floors of a warehouse stocked with furniture, bric-a-brac and general oddities that could play a part in many a project or just act as inspiration.
We highly recommend a visit -72 Waterloo Rd L3 7BE.

Photos’ taken via the iPhone Hipstamatic App.

Everyone is putting the final touches to their work in preparation for tomorrow nights ADA 2011 degree show!

The Catwalk shows, previewing the best of this years fashion department collections kick off at 5pm and 8pm in the Johnson Foundation Auditorium and are sponsored by Liverpool One Lifestyled and Andrew Collinge Graduates who are kindly providing hair and make up for the evening.

Architecture, on the ground floor, promises to be unmissable this year, with some great projects on display from the 2011 graduating year.

We are looking forward to seeing the fruits of Graphic Design’s Graft Show on the 1st floor as well as catching the best of Product Design and Interior Design on the 2nd floor.

This years Fine Art show, curated by the infamous Lorenzo Fusi, who worked on the Liverpool Biennial,  is sure to draw a crowd throughout the evening..

And if you fancy doing a bit more mingling and shaking after the show,come down to the Degree Show after party at Revolution on St Peters Square from 8pm.

If you can’t make tomorrow night, don’t fret, the show continues until the 3rd June and is open every day (excluding Weekends and Bank Holiday Monday) from 10-4pm