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Barr undergraduate Communication Design The Glasgow School of Art is a Registered Charity. No SC012490 students for a project with our third year Writers Singapore students based on the city of Claire Biddles Glasgow. By using the Layar app on these Kate Hooper pages you’ll be transported to a series Theresa Moerman lb of moving images and soundscapes based Vivienne Vine on those locations by Donald Barr Stewart Smith (MDes Sound for the Moving Image, 2016). Images and other words with kind If you use the app on the front cover permission of staff, students and alumni you will be able to view the entire film. of GSA Alternatively you can view the film at Photography vimeo.com/185945226 Gordon Burniston Alan McAteer Reflections: From Print to Digital (unless otherwise stated) The Cover of Reflections and pages throughout the book have a design Letterpress to imply digital ‘glitching’. This represents Hothouse typeface cut by Roy Mohan the connection between the printed Shearer and printed by Edwin Pickstone book and the host of digital content in the GSA Caseroom on page 52 available through the GSA website – film, social media, galleries and audio. www.gsa.ac.uk www.gsa.ac.uk/the-hub COntents Reflections on an art school 4 Due north 76 The city of Glasgow 9 Making the grade 82 21st century campus 14 Sound and vision 90 Stealing the show 32 Talent 96 All in the making 52 Travels with my art 102 From the home front to the whisky bond 56 Asian tigers, Glasgow souls 106 The GSA hub 62 The ‘Art School’ / history of a music city 112 Laboratorio Espresso West Nile Street. Architect’s Journal Widening participation 64 Directory – (programme directory, how to Small Projects 2014 shortlisted interior by GSA tutor Adrian Stewart apply, fees, key dates) 120 of DO Architecture. The interior uses Architecture, literature & the city 66 the reclaimed shuttering from the GSA’s Reid Building. @LabEspr 25 years of PDE 72 Contents vimeo.com/185945595 4 Vimeo The Glasgow School of Art is an international Studying at GSA Video and film available free to view community with a shared visual language. Open and The GSA offers undergraduate and graduate level from a range of GSA activities. outward looking, our role as one of the UK’s leading programmes across architecture, design, fine art Subscribe here higher education institutions for the visual creative and simulation and visualisation. This book is not www.vimeo.com/ disciplines is to, through studio-based learning and however a traditional prospectus. 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Registry European-style creative training to Scottish artists In recent years the graduate community has +44 (0)141 353 4512 at the height of the Enlightenment, it was followed grown considerably, reflecting our success in research [email protected] in 1845 by the opening of the Glasgow Government across our research themes: Architecture, www.facebook.com/gsaregistry School of Design at a time when Glasgow was Urbanism + the Public Sphere; Design Innovation; an international industrial power-house. Digital Visualisation; Education in Art and Design; Open Day Fine Art + Curating; Health + Wellbeing; Material Thursday 26 October 2017 Today we are The Glasgow School of Art. Culture; and Sustainability. (Undergraduate) Saturday 25 November 2017 Today, the city of Glasgow is recognised as a On the RADAR (Graduate Study) European cultural capital and one of the UK’s most Visit RADAR the GSA research repository, to discover successful city-economies. Central to this success a digital archive of research and enterprise output Register now at is the role of The Glasgow School of Art, with over produced by GSA staff and postgraduate students. www.gsa.ac.uk/openday 61% of its staff engaged in research of international radar.gsa.ac.uk and national significance (source: REF 2014), and its graduates, many of whom choose to stay in the city Watch: Professor Tom Inns introduces that has become home over the course of their The Glasgow School of Art studies. Together, through collaboration, innovation vimeo.com/185972568 and their international networks, they contribute to Glasgow’s cultural, creative and economic vibrancy and opportunity. Within these pages you will find a glimpse of our community. Join us for a moment for a series of Reflections on the learning, teaching, spirit, and ethos of The Glasgow School of Art. Professor Tom Inns Director The Glasgow School of Art Reflections on an art school Reflections 6 Opposite: Reid Building Founded in A retention rate of The School of Fine Art has produced interior, the Glasgow School of Art turner 1845 Prize as the government school of design.