CSM BA Jewellery Design

A very big thank you to everyone who took part in our Autumn Lecture series. It was very much appreciated from all our students and staff.

Colour Hive, creators of MIX Magazine have selected graduates from the Jewellery, Textiles and Materials programme at Central Saint Martins to showcase and discuss their final projects. The selected projects, connected through a shared interest in community, identity and participatory design will be used as a starting point to consider how the concept of ‘Community’ informs current design responses.

Congratulations to Jo Harrison-Hall she’s been shortlisted for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2020! 

Jo’s collection tackles our relationship to hygiene and its cultural connotations. She addresses our complex fears of contamination by exploring the reactions provoked by this natural human emotion. Her pieces explore the practices we use to protect ourselves from the invisible enemy we call germs. Using materials we associate with cleanliness and bathrooms, she creates pieces that imply that our cyclical pursuit of hygiene can teeter into obsessive habits. Her amuletic designs link handwashing to symbolic rituals of protection, suggesting the faith we place in scientific theories to protect us.  

We are thoroughly delighted to present to you the work of our 2020 BA Jewellery Design graduates. This has been a very difficult time for everyone – almost unbearably so for many – and yet out student have risen to the challenge and crated unique, insightful and accomplished work. The themes of these collections have a very broad and exciting  scope, ranging from issues of identity to manipulating form and material; from addressing the climate emergency to challenging surveillance; and from exploring the intrinsic value of things to questioning stereotypes and idealisation. 

You can see all of our students work here 

Congratulations to our final year BA jewellery students for producing such creative and wide ranging work for our special collaboration with Cartier. Our final year students were asked to create a model of a piece of fine jewellery which take into consideration the DNA of Cartier but also exude their own creative flair. 10 students were shortlisted with the final winner announced at Cartier’s Bond Street flagship in London, to celebrate the fruit of this special live project.

In conjunction with LOVE Magazine, filmmakers Reece and Dean followed our students to Paris as they embarked on a special collaboration with luxury jeweller, Cartier. These exclusive behind-the-scenes videos showcase all the work that has gone in and it even features our very own course leader Giles Last! 

Many Congratulations to Lin Cheung our Year 3 tutor, Lin was presented with The Françoise van den Bosch Award for contemporary jewellery on the 10 November 2019. The Françoise van den Bosch Award is presented bi-annually to an internationally renowned jewelry designer with an influential body of work and voice, on the recommendation of an independent jury.

We took our students and staffs for an immersion trip to the Cartier Paris Workshops last week. It was a great start to the live Cartier x CSM BA Jewellery Design Project 2020, celebrating 20 years of collaboration between Manson and our BAJD course. Thank you to Cartier!