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May 10, 2012 •
The Award Ceremony for Screentest: National Student Film Festival was held at Roxy: Bar and Screen, at great chill out venue where you can watch films and socialise, found on Borough High Street, London. It was packed when we arrived with nearly every director bringing crew, actors and guests. It was professional yet casual so...
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May 1, 2012 •
The Saturday at Screentest continued to demonstrate the vast talent of the student film-makers through the inventive and unique films that we viewed. Unique was certainly the word to describe the experimental film screening which was our first stop. Experimental films are known to contain hidden meanings or strong imagery that can either engage the...
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Apr 17, 2012 •
When StArt Magazine got wind of a national, student volunteer run film festival that promotes aspiring British talent, we could not resist checking out such a like-minded event. So a couple of weekends ago we travelled to the capital for the three day festival, held at South Bank University, excited to find out what...
When the winners of the World Press Photo 2012 competition were announced on February 10th, many expected the kind of fierce debate that the competition has come to produce. But few of those would probably have expected those debates to still be raging nearly 3 weeks later, with bloggers and magazines taking to their keyboards...
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Feb 29, 2012 •
Some of you may remember the fashion writing competition that we promoted at the end of last year for Freemans. Well, the time has flown by and the winners were announced recently, with Harriet Oliver from Manchester Metropolitan bagging herself an iPad and the opportunity to write for Freemans. We took a trip over to...
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Feb 27, 2012 •
The StArt Chart is back and we have decided to reduce the amount of artists featured to bring you a compact, focused selection of the best up and coming artists out there every month. It wasn’t easy compacting it down to 5 this month as there a lot of new faces out there bring something...
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Feb 27, 2012 •
2011 may very well be remembered in music history as the year of re-unions, as we witnessed (amongst others) the likes of Pulp, The Darkness and even The Stone Roses getting back together. But Guided by Voices have bucked the trend by actually releasing an album, and in double quick time as well one might...
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Feb 27, 2012 •
To give you more of an insight into what we as a team are up to at StArt, we’re going to cut out the middle man and write some of our own articles, so expect to see some updates from myself (Jack), Jonny and Kate in the near future. I’m kicking things off with a...
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Feb 20, 2012 •
Saturday and day two at London Fashion Week started with Sheila McKain-Waid’s collection for British heritage brand DAKS. The labels House Check featured heavily in full length dresses and coat linings. Inspiration came from the Queens Diamond Jubilee and kept the collection well grounded in the label’s history. Trousers were worn with sheer shirts and...
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Feb 15, 2012 •
Hannah Simpson is a Third year Illustration & Animation student at Kingston University. Her ‘Bacteria’ project (see below) earned her the runner-up prize in the V&A Illustration Awards Student Category in 2011. We caught up with her to ask her some questions about her work. What is/was your course like at university and did...
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Feb 14, 2012 •
Georgia Alcock is a 2nd year design student at Leeds College of Art & Design. Initially undecided on her career route, her course at Leeds has helped her to realise her passion and talents; particularly jewellery and accessory design. Her intricate cutwork collars and tribal-inspired collar tips have been a great hit online and at...
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Feb 12, 2012 •
Student protests across London. Image courtesy of RTÉ News © Stephanie Allen is a second year English Studies student at The University of Nottingham. Her journalistic efforts have been recognised by The National Student, for which she has already written, while today she discusses the life of a student here on StArt. Deciding to...