Ubyu is a completely new self-publishing book company, using bespoke software that has been developed as a result of thousands of conversations with professional photographers, artists and designers.

This newly launched service has been tailored specifically to meet the needs and demands of the creative industry. Created by a team with significant expertise and knowledge in paper and print, ubyu offers extensive design choices and book formats, and sets out to be the only truly bespoke print-on-demand company in the marketplace.

With a host of design choices, there is the ability to create something unique and of professional quality. ubyu offers many production techniques usually reserved for high-end books, such as endpapers, cloth covers, headbands and satin marker ribbons – all available in a choice of colours. Covers can be debossed or foiled – finishing touches that make a ubyu book one of a kind through the offering of an unrivaled level of customisation.

Quality extends through to the paper options. Starting at a weight of 160gsm, papers come in three different finishes; gloss, matt and uncoated, each bringing their own particular benefits to individual publications. While most competitors publish to a maximum of 160 pages, ubyu are able to create books of up to 460 pages, even on their highest weight stock. Printing is carried out using the latest HP Indigo digital technology, resulting in sharp images and vivid colour.

Book content can be imported via the custom-made ‘uDesign’ software, available to download free from the website. Alternatively, for those who want even more control over the self-publishing process, PDF files can be created from a variety of InDesign templates provided by ubyu and uploaded straight to the website via the preflight server. There is no restriction on order quantities – print runs of one to the thousands are welcome. Orders will be printed and bound within 15 working days and depending on the selected shipping details, can be delivered within the UK the next working day after production.

Self publishing prices vary depending on individual customisation choices but prices start at £11.90 plus p&p for a single book with the minimum of 28 pages. Discounts apply for multiple copy runs. See www.ubyubooks.com/specifics/pricing for the full pricing chart and discount structure. 

Ubyu are currently offering a 10% discount for students at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, which can redeemed at the checkout using the following code ubyu-CCAD-10.

On 1st December, DocHouse presents a special screening of THE ARBOR + Director Clio Barnard In Conversation at Riverside Studios. Clio is a Chelsea Fine Art graduate is delighted to invite current students and staff at Chelsea College of Art and Design to this event.

As a special introductory promotion, DocHouse are offering Chelsea students a special FILM FOR A FIVER discount.

The Arbor has been hailed as a ‘remarkable film: conceptually acute, brilliantly realised, impossibly sad’ (The Daily Telegraph). A multi award-winning film, The Arbor has received five star-reviews from Timeout, The Guardian and The Telegraph to name but a few.

 We hope you can make it along to this unique screening and would be very grateful if you could share details of the event with your students via email or post on your website. For full details and to book tickets see here: http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1318586269

 DocHouse is the UK Centre for Documentary in the Cinema. If you would like to know more about us and/or the screenings then please take a look at our website www.dochouse.org or contact charlotte@dochouse.org

 Charlotte Balnave ~ DocHouse
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
020 8237 1220 ~ www.dochouse.org

commonplace is a fun, friendly and honest student website recently launched to share knowledge, tips and advice about living and studying in London. All the content has been created by current and graduating students at UAL; everything from maps, videos, speak to camera talking heads to study tips and recipes.  We’re hoping commonplace will go some way to bringing UAL students together a bit more to share ideas, stories and other stuff, but we need you to be involved for it to work!  Go to commonplace or the Join In page to find out more.

Thursday 3rd November 2012 – Room E201, Chelsea College of Art and Design

We are really keen to find out what current students think of our prospectus, and whether or not we should be producing a printed prospectus at all. We are holding a series of focus groups led by an independent external researcher asking questions such as where you looked for course information, what information you think a prospectus should contain and how it should look.

If you’d like to give your views please contact Laura at l.lanceley@chelsea.arts.ac.uk to sign up for one of the sessions below.

10.30 – 11.30 am : 1st year BA Fine Art UK/EU students
12.00 – 1.00pm : Postgraduate students
2.00 – 3.00pm : 1st year International BA students (any course)
3.30 – 4.30pm : 1st year BA Design UK/EU students (GDC, Textiles, ISD, FdA)

In return we’ll give you £15 work of vouchers to spend in the College Art Shop.

Laura Lanceley
l.lanceley@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
020 7514 7780

Discounts for Chelsea students and volunteering opportunities available for this event in Camden on Sunday 30 October :

Sunday 30 October, 2pm to 11pm, inc. sunset procession £15.50 adv. (Chelsea and Goldsmiths students £10 adv)
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, NW1 7AY

Tickets and information halloweenmusicfair.co.uk
If you’re interested in volunteering with decorations or event organising contact zoecoleman@gmail.com

Join us for a spectacular autumn music fair. Expect sets from Lulu and the Lampshades, North Sea Radio Orchestra and many more folk-inspired acts in the Victorian surrounds of Cecil Sharp House, the HQ of the English Folk Dance Society in the heart of Camden.

Among the stags-heads and walled gardens of this unique venue, take in three stages featuring a psychedelic mixture of aural treats. Ethiopian desert sounds from Krar Collective, British folk tunes from the Urban Folk Quartet, chamber pop from the famed North Sea Radio Orchestra and the nation’s finest up and coming artists, including Lulu and the Lampshades and Jonnie Common.

Have your tarot read, tuck into a hog roast and hot spiced cider or join the costumed sunset procession from Primrose Hill. Into the night DJs from Heavenly Records, BBC 6 Music’s Freakier Zone and Django Django  will whip the halls into a frenzy with their pick of seasonal sounds.

Poetic paving stones are among a selection of new public artworks going on display at British Land’s Regent’s Place in central London. The concrete slabs engraved with poetry and created by Chelsea College of Art and Design student Emma Hunter will join a film by fellow student Ami Kanki playfully looking at how the public interact with art.

The works by the Chelsea College students, part of University of the Arts London, are the result of a British Land competition to create an original artwork for the site. The winning works were selected for the way they integrate artworks and architecture at the Euston Road site with the public and local community.

Ami Kanki’s film Regent’s Place Museum investigates how the public engage with the artworks already on site. Despite the outside setting, passers-by tend to treat the artworks as if they were in a museum; looking for clues as to how much participation is allowed. The film shows Kanki playfully testing the rules surrounding interaction with the artworks, placing knitted hats on Antony Gormley’s figurative sculptures and consequently turning the site’s security guards into characters in the film itself. 

Called Set in Stone, Emma Hunter’s paving slabs are inscribed with poems composed by teenagers from Samual-Lithgow Youth Club in West Euston. She was keen for the work to involve the surrounding community and bring something from local young people into what is largely a corporate space, allowing them to feel an increased sense of ownership. Set into the very ground beneath which visitors walk, the poems quietly provide a private escape into the imaginations of the passer-by without disturbing the existing architecture.

James Danby, Director of London Leasing at British Land said “The creation of a fun and attractive environment that people can work, shop and live has been a priority for Regent’s Place. Public art enhances the communal areas of the estate and provides both members of the public and occupiers a chance to sit and reflect during their busy days. The addition of these exciting new pieces of art will complement our existing collection on the estate including pieces from Antony Gormley, Julian Opie.”

 Set in Stone and Regents Place Museum will take up residence at Regent’s Place until the end of the year. The competition was set up by property developers British Land to nurture new undiscovered talent from the MA Interior and Spatial Design course at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, and to further enhance the Regent’s Place estate.

We are looking for artist film submissions for an upcoming film festival at the Barbican, in association with the Japanese Embassy. We are looking for short pieces (up to 10 mins) to be shown between or before feature films at the Barbican as part of the Premiere Japan Festival in November 2011. This is a great chance to have your work seen by a large audience in an amazing, world renowned venue.

We are specifically looking for work from Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon students at any level from any course, which is:

1. Created by Japanese student.
And/or
2. About Japan or featuring Japan.

Note: Ideally, in reaction to the Great East Japan Earthquake but this is not imperative.

All work would need to be initially submitted to Ed Webb-Ingall based at Chelsea on a DVD as a .mov clearly labelled with duration, name of piece, name of artist, contact details and aspect ratio.

Deadline for submissions is: Monday 15th August 2011

I would strongly advise you get in touch sooner if you are interested in having your work seen. For more information: http://ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com

University of the Arts London
16 John Islip Street
Millbank
London
SW1P 4JU
UK

T: +44(0)20 7514 7923
E: e.webb-ingall@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
www.arts.ac.uk

Final year students enrolled in Chelsea’s BA Interior and Spatial Design have been working on a project to deign a pavilion for the Ecobuild conference and convention. The requirements were that the pavilion must address issues of sustainability and must in some way incorporate surplus stock of the Speedo LZR Racer professional swimming suit, after the suit was banned by the Federation Ineternationale de Natation.

The students began by studying the material, taking apart the suits and looking at their specific form and construction. They tested the suits’ water resistance, repulsion and waterproofness and their capacity for tension and expansion through wrapping, stretching and tessellating.

The students began to evolve methods of deconstruction and reconstruction of the material through techniques such as sewing, braiding, weaving and knitting, extending their understanding of the properties of the material and how it could be used.

The students presented 19 different pavilion designs to representatives of Speedo and Ecobuild. One student project in particular, designed by Kristina Bernard was selected to form the design for the final project as well as the ideas and concepts presented by two other students, Chloe Waite and Prim Aphiphunya. This project would be built by thirty students and two lecturers from Platform 5 and will be displayed at Ecobuild.

Kristina’s design took the form of a pergola and aimed to blend the man made with nature by weaving living willow with the racer suits.

Chloe discovered that the suit material possessed qualities that could be used to create a living wall, by planting inside the suits and using its water resistant properties to hold water in.. Her research have been used to explore how the man made can be used to enhance the possibilities of the natural.

Prim found a technique by which the fabric could be woven with enough strength to support the weight of a person walking or sitting within the woven fabric. Her research will inform he design of the furniture within the pavilion.

For the staff and students at Chelsea the project of adapting material made by man for swimming contests, into a sustainable project of an architectural nature and been a challenging and enormously rewarding experience. It has renewed their questioning and made them consider the ways in which materials are used and adapted and reused in future work.

The new pavilion was given a new life after Ecobuild as it was donated to Charlton School, embodying the notion that something made by man and declared obsolete can be reused in an effective, purposeful and beautiful way.

The Platform 5 Ecobuild 2011 ‘Space of Waste’ team are:

Prim Anyaporn Aphiphunya, Kristina Bernard, Celine Bourd, Nafsikaa Guelle, Emma Harrison, Gabriel Hobby, Agata Holys, Yu Ikegaya, Jungkyu Kang, Lucy Kinyanjui, Su Jin Lee, Nadia Piroz,Samerah Rahimzada, Yuri Seo, Jessie Yu Ting Su, Lauren Tucker, Chloe Waite, Caroline Li Xin Choo, Dion Cox, Sophie Dunnage, Wezhu Gui, Jung Yeon Kim, Anton Bjorsing, Jaekwang Lim, Justyna Plata, Ainhoa Querejeta, Natasha Skerrit, Sunmo Yang, Carolina Caroa, Sara Bergman, Nicole Lamison.
Luke Walker & Joy Flanagan – Platform Leaders
Anne Prahl – Sustainable Design Consultant

More info at: http://platform-5.tumblr.com

We have started a new series of short video clips called ‘Chelsea Shots’ that we hope will give you an insight into life at Chelsea. The videos will feature students, staff, events and exhibitions.

For our first series we have interviewed some of our Undergraduate students. In this interview we spoke Turi Baardsen, who is in her 3rd year of the BA Interior and Spatial Design course. She speaks to us about her current project and shows us one of her log books.

For the full series of videos visit – www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/chelseashots