LSA Festival Student Stories: Adam Bishop / Product Design
COVID-19: How Did it Affect my Design Studies?
This year has definitely been an interesting one, one that I won’t be forgetting anytime soon. I’m Adam, a Product Design Student basically finishing my last year, hopefully studying MA 3D Design when I next return to Leeds Beckett University.
Autism-Friendly Design: Learning about Real Life through the Virtual Environment
Students from BA(Hons) Interior Architecture & Design have been on a mission to spread the word about their autism-friendly design projects, with their tutor Joan Love. Additionally, the briefs provided an opportunity to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, integrating a series of design ideas relating to social distancing, hygiene and materials with natural anti-microbial properties. Students presented their projects, on Microsoft Teams, to seven professionals from varied, yet inter-related backgrounds, all wanting to make a difference.
LSA Festival Student Stories: Simon Feather / MArch Architecture
Re-Foresting – My Strategy for Timber Production within the Northern Forest in Response to the Climate Crisis
Simon Feather 
People and Place: First Year Landscape Architecture Students Re-envision South Bank Leeds
Students have recently proposed creative and responsive landscape designs to enhance existing urban spaces and provide a green space for people in the South Bank area of Leeds, as part of their People and Place project.
RSA Student Design Awards Shortlisted Students
Two Leeds School of Arts students have been shortlisted for this year’s RSA Student Design Awards (Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Design).
Product Design Futures Conference 2020
2020 conference attended by Leeds Beckett staff and students.
£25,000 in grants up for grabs in games design competition
Got a great idea for a game? Want support the support of our expert staff in developing it, a £5,000 grant and the chance to win a further £20,000 in development grants? You can with Leeds School of Arts, which has been selected as a West Yorkshire regional hub for Tranzfuser 2020.
Student talent model helps university gain regional reputation as top film and TV educator
Samantha Babrovskie, Senior Lecturer in Production Design, talks about Harrogate Film Festival.
Postgraduate Landscape Architecture: Model Making
MA Landscape Architecture students took part in a one day model making workshop in the Postgraduate studio.
Our Interior Architecture Students are Learning from Practising Architects and Interior Designers
First Year Interior Architecture & Design students are being taught by a series of design practitioners on their studio projects, alongside their studio tutors. This academic year, the following practitioners, all from diverse design practices, have shared their expertise.
Leeds School of Arts Academic Developing an Innovative Story Game App
Dr Anna Zaluczkowska, a reader from Leeds School of Arts, is supporting the development of a new prototype story gaming app through the SSN. Anna needs writers and colleagues working within media to play some stories as well as offer feedback through the SSN.
Interior Architecture Alumni
What sort of careers do our BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design alumni follow?
Autism-friendly design recommendations incorporated into ‘The National Autistic Societies’ knowledge base
Joan Love, a Senior lecturer on BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design, has had an article on ‘Autism-friendly architecture’ included on The National Autistic Societies ‘Network Autism’, Good Practice and Knowledge base. This highly regarded platform shares the most up to date expertise, practice and resources amongst professionals across the community.
Greatham Creek project wins at the 2019 Structural Steel Awards
Greatham Creek seal and bird hides, designed by students of the architecture Abstract Machine Studio, received an award for producing 'two truly unique hide structures'.
Work experience with Shoo Social Media
Recent graduate Nazia Hussain reflects on her current role as a graphic designer and how her degree in Fine Art set her up to take the next step.
Nazia Hussain 
International society success for graphic design students
Two Leeds Beckett students have received recognition from the prestigious International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) for their outstanding work.
Interior Architecture and Design Students Present Proposals to Crescent Arts
On Friday May 3rd 2019 second year Interior Architecture and Design students presented their proposals to convert Scarborough’s Sunbathing Building into a new home for Crescent Arts.
Product Design Futures Conference 2019
The fourth annual Product Design Futures Conference took place on 11 March 2019 at The Faversham, Leeds.
Fashion Marketing students explore the Marks and Spencer Company Archive
First year BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing students were recently given the opportunity to visit the Marks and Spencer Company Archive in Leeds as part of the Contextual Studies module.
Project in Partnership with Arts Council Collection
BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Graphic Arts and Design students are working with the Arts Council Collection in response to the forthcoming exhibition, Criminal Ornamentation, opening at Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on 5 April 2019.
Keepers of Lost Clothes
Keepers of Lost Clothes is an ongoing project exploring the relationship we have with found or discarded garments and considers the ways in which this clothing might be remade.
Katie Lenton 
Professional Practice Symposium
In January the Leeds School of Architecture hosted a whole school Professional Studies Symposium to reconsider the Inter-disciplinary Landscapes of Architectural Production.
Casey Orr's Saturday Girl wins top prize at Format International Photography Festival
A collection created by photographer and Senior Lecturer Dr Casey Orr has scooped top prize at this year's Format photography festival.
Wildlife hide collaboration with RSPB and Environment Agency
Students from our MArch Architecture course recently completed a collaborative project on the construction of new seal and bird hides on a North East nature reserve.
Audio Art
Lecturer and practising artist Dr Alan Dunn has been making some noise in the world where art and sound combine.
Technology Futures Symposium
Students from across Leeds Beckett University’s Leeds School of Arts were given the opportunity to engage with the concept of ‘Technology Futures’ through a Symposium on Wednesday 7 November 2018.
Categories
- Activism
- Alumni
- Architecture
- Art
- Awards
- Books
- Community
- Competition
- Dance
- Design
- Events
- Exhibitions
- Fashion
- Field Trips
- Film
- Fine Art
- Games
- Gaming
- Graphic Design
- Guest Lecture
- History
- Interior Architecture
- Landscape Architecture
- LARC
- LSA Festival
- Music
- Performance
- Performing Arts
- Photography
- Placements
- Postgraduate
- Product Design
- Professional Practice
- Publications
- Research
- Staff
- Student Stories
- Teaching
- Theatre
- Volunteering