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Zoe Harrison, a Photography graduate, has been featured in the September issue of the prestigious British Journal of Photography (BJP).
Zoe's work entitled This Bloodline of Mine has been selected for the Class of 2018 in Projects section, in which the best photography graduates from the UK and Ireland are picked and interviewed by renowned photographer Laia Abril.
Following the success of their debut single Apartment, recorded and engineered at Falmouth, new South-West quartet L I P S have gone from strength to strength within the music industry.
The band have released their second single Walls, travelled to London and Southampton for gigs and have featured at this year's Leopallooza festival, all within the last few months. We sat down with them to discuss their upcoming Boardmasters show, their style of music and how they got started.
The School of Writing & Journalism have provided students and staff with the opportunity to contribute to Fathom, a public-facing journal for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, following a successful publishing project with the National Trust.
Equipped with only his industry insight and entrepreneurial drive, just two years after graduation, Popular Music graduate Charlie Kirby has established Nottingham's leading acoustic recording studio.
Illustration graduate Ella Kasperowicz has written and illustrated her own book entitled #SquadGoals, published by Octopus Books and stocked by Waterstones and Amazon.
Ella's vibrant and unique gift book explores the world of female friendships, delving into friend archetypes, the group chat, shared hobbies and what holds a friendship together.
Senior Animation & Visual Effects Lecturer Katharine Nicholls has spent three weeks in Queensland, Australia to help run an international film-making workshop for film and animation students.
Katharine has been reinforcing links with Falmouth's international partners and forging new opportunities for students in the future, namely taking School of Film & Television students to take part in next year's programme.
This year's graduates and staff from the Institute of Photography have had their work shortlisted for the prestigious exhibition, Portrait of Britain 2018.
The Portrait of Britain, an annual competition hosted by The British Journal of Photography, was originally conceived in 2016 with the objective of celebrating the many faces of modern Britain. To mark the third year of the exhibition, Hoxton Mini Press will be publishing the first ever Portrait of Britain book, with all winning entries published within its pages.
A group of Sustainable Product Design students has scooped accolades at New Designers 2018.
Showcasing the very best that student designers have to offer, New Designers gathers more than 3,000 of the brightest creative minds for a two-week exhibition that unveils the leading new projects in UK design. This year, Falmouth students took home three awards from the prestigious event, including:
Third year Marine & Natural History Photography student Karl Davies has been shortlisted for the Wildscreen Panda Awards 2018, alongside nominees such as David Attenborough and Blue Planet II.
The Wildscreen Panda Awards have been a key function at the Wildscreen Festival since they were first presented in 1982. To this day, they remain the highest accolade in the wildlife film and television industry. Karl's nomination stands alongside prestigious names such as BBC Natural World, National Geographic and Al Jazeera.
It's time to celebrate as we honour our 2018 graduates this week (17 – 20 July).
Over the past few days undergraduates and postgraduates have been enjoying the celebration of their achievements alongside their peers, friends, families, academics and Chancellor Dawn French.
Each graduate was personally congratulated by Dawn, who presented each of them with a degree scroll and a unique chocolate coin known as a 'Dawn Doubloon'.
Four MA Creative Events Management students are helping children with ED to explore their environment through creativity, with a series of Structuristic Art webinars.
Structuristic Art is a practice established by Swiss communication analyst and artist Felix Stoffel, teaching his pupils a technique based on the development of systematically interwoven layers of colour.
Sustainable Product Design graduate and Creative Conscience Award winner Elliot Lunn joined us to discuss his recent success, his time at Falmouth and his upcoming Masters at the Royal College of Art.
Game Development graduates from the Games Academy have won the opportunity to take part in the Tranzfuser programme, securing a £5,000 grant to develop their first game RoBoats.
The UK Games Fund set up the Tranzfuser programme to develop the talent of university graduates seeking to make their mark on the games industry, by setting up their own companies and producing their own video games.
Falmouth has hosted a Debate Create event for local schoolchildren, offering them the opportunity to learn about the creative industries and take part in a discussion on 'future working'.
Zoe Wenban, a third year Textile Design student, scooped the Batsford Prize for Applied Arts and the Cass Art Award at an awards ceremony hosted by Pavilion Books.
Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, the Batsford Prize offers five categories to enter, promising a £500 cash prize and £50 worth of Batsford books to the winner of each. The Cass Art Award, a bonus accolade presented alongside the primary Batsford Prize, also offers a £500 prize to the winner.
Students from the School of Film & Television have shot a documentary about The Wave Project, a Newquay based mental health charity, who fully recognise the potential of surfing to restore confidence and happiness in young people.
When Pokémon Go first hit the app market in 2016, it was common to find people, young and relatively old alike, wandering around obscure locations and seemingly transfixed by their mobile device.
Two such individuals, Animation student Matt Brown and Zoology student Danielle Connor, were walking around Wimbledon Common on the lookout for Pokémon, but found that they were discovering more of the local wildlife than the much-loved digital creatures.
If anyone has their finger on the pulse when it comes to UK festivals then it's Rob da Bank. The DJ and co-founder of Bestival and Camp Bestival, recently visited Falmouth to deliver 'Bestival on Campus' sessions for Creative Events Management students. He's been going to festivals for the past 25 years, we caught up with him to find out more about what drew him in.
The Fashion Design course has won the accolade of Outstanding Portfolio at the British Fashion Council's Graduate Preview Day in London.
The prestigious Outstanding Portfolio Award honours the best student portfolios presented by the top fashion institutions from across the country. Previous winners include the University of Westminster and the Royal College of Arts.
Artistic talent can be found in a myriad of places and people, and the ability to sense these creative skills can lead to some fantastic opportunities.
Photography student Georgia Hunt visited Abbeyfield Residential Home with the aim of setting up a photography workshop, but soon refreshed her plans in order to create a space for the residents to hone their drawing skills. The catalyst for such a change was when Georgia discovered that some beautiful artwork was being created in the privacy of the residents' bedrooms.
A film featuring an A-list actress, funded by Falmouth University and crewed by Film and Television students, has been nominated for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Songbird, a romantic comedy about the lead singer of a once popular indie band heading to university, was funded by and shot in the facilities of the School of Film & Television, with twenty-five students working on its production alongside the screenwriter and director Jamie Adams.
After graduating from the Journalism course last year, Aiden Nulty secured a position as a Television Sports Producer at Reuters Sport. With their new headquarters located in the Polish city of Gdynia, Aiden packed his bags and headed to his first graduate role in a new country.
We caught up with him recently to discuss his position, how he's settling in and what he misses most about Falmouth.
As the world's media flocks to Russia for the FIFA World Cup, one of Falmouth's own will be lining up alongside them.
Multimedia Journalism lecturer, Kevin Bishop, will be combining his love of football and journalism when he teams up with the BBC for football's biggest spectacle. Kevin will be looking after the BBC's pitch side live positions, being their eyes and ears on the ground, and helping them find the best stories to tell the audience back home.
Animation & Visual Effects students have been looking at the future of lunar exploration to produce films that will be screened at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.
Over the last year, in small teams, students have been working on a film brief set by engineer David Evans and Course Coordinator Derek Hayes to explore the possibility of returning to and colonising the moon. A big challenge has been to make the films scientifically accurate as well as inspiring and easily understandable for non-specialists.
Creative Advertising students have been named amongst the winners of the D&AD New Blood 2018 competition.
Students from the BA and MA courses took part in the high-profile advertising challenge, alongside universities from all over the world including New York, Hong Kong, Denmark and Japan. The competition is judged by industry leaders from top agencies and major clients from around the world.
Winners include:
Graphic Design student Jen Marsden is off to Australia after being announced as the proud winner of this year's Tim Coventon Award.
Jen was presented with the £1000 award at the Summer Show opening night on Friday 25 May.
