University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ
After the private view on 29 May, the public exhibition runs from Monday 1 June. The campus turns into a gallery, cinema and media complex to showcase student work.
Private view on 31, 5-8pm; public exhibition Sat 1 June 10am-4pm onwards. Showcasing student work from: BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1), BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design and BA (Hons) Fine Art.
Art & Design Gallery, College Lane Campus, University of Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB
The School of Creative Arts is to be transformed into an expansive gallery, with recent graduates from across all disciplines including, Design, Film, Media, Music and Visual Arts. Open 10am-4pm.
Falmouth Campus, Woodlane and The Design Centre, Penryn campus, Treliever Road
Spanning animation, illustration, graphic design and digital media, this is a rather great excuse to visit sunny Cornwall in June, should you need one.
It's also the former college of Paddy O'Hara, winner of last year's D&AD New Blood contest to design the cover of Computer Arts' New Talent special. And we're running this exciting contest again this year – enter here.
Loading Bay, F Block B3, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
@FreeRangeShows
Free Range is an entire season of free graduate art and design shows, occupying different units at the Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch – spanning fashion, design, photography, interiors and architecture.
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The first show features design work from the University of Middlesex. Private view, Friday 5 June 6-10pm; public exhibition from 10am-7pm 6-7 June, and 10a,-4pm Monday 8 June.
Animation, Graphic Design and Illustration are amongst the courses exhibiting here. The show opens at 6pm onwards on Friday 5th June 2015 and runs until Saturday 13th June at the Belfast School of Art.
Private view 5 June 6-9pm; public view 6-14 June, 10am-5pm. Work displayed from Fine Art, 3D Design, Graphic Communication and Illustration, Textiles: Innovation and Design.
MK Building, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1DT
Artwork from over 300 students across 16 BA (Hons) and BDes (Hons) courses will be on display, embracing the areas of applied arts, digital media, fashion and textiles, fine art, graphic communication, illustration, interior design, photography and product design.
Computer Arts designer and Bath Spa graduate Rich Carter will be keeping a close eye on his former college. Courses range from Contemporary Arts Practice to Creative Arts, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Graphic Communications, Photography, Textiles for Fashion & Interiors and Three Dimensional Design.
Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, TOB2, Earley Gate, Whiteknights campus
Shows featuring a wide spectrum of design projects for print and screen by students on the following courses: BA Graphic Communication, MA Book Design, and MA Information Design programmes.
High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ
Advertising Creative, Fine Art, Foundation Studies: Art, Design and Media, Furniture, Graphic Arts, Product Design, Spatial Design, Fashion Design, and Textiles and Surface Design will be displaying.
Friends and family not he 12th; public viewing from 13 June. The exhibition will showcase exciting creations by the next generation of artists and designers across the art and design courses.
Roland Levinsky building, Scott building and Peninsula Arts Gallery - Plymouth University
Mills Bakery and Slaughterhouse - Royal William Yard
High quality work from graduating Honours Degree students will be shown, sold, or commissioned from 3D Design, Fine Art, Illustration, Media and TV Arts, Photography, Digital Media and Animation, Architecture, Graphic Communication with Typography, and Digital Art and Design.
Part 1: Art, Film, Visual Communications and Music
12-20 June
Central House, 59-63 Whitechapel High St, London
Private View on the 11th June from 6:30pm. Courses represented will include Fine Art, Photography, Animation, Film and Broadcast Production, Music Technology, Musical Instrument Making, Graphic Design and Illustration
Entitled, Going, Going, Gone, this exhibition follows the foundation show (which takes place between the 22nd and 28th May) and is reserved for Bachelor of Arts and Extended Diploma graduates.
With a consistently strong calibre of talent coming out of Leeds each year, it's well worth a trip to West Yorkshire.
13–26 June City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB
The 2015 event includes work from students in architecture (19 June – 2 July), art and design research, computing, creative art practice, design and technology education, graphics, fashion, fine art, furniture and product design, games design, interior design, jewellery and metalwork (13–19 June), media arts and communications
Design Building, City Campus East, Northumbria University City Campus, Newcastle
After a private viewing on 6 June, Northumbria University's REVEAL degree shows are open to the public and free of charge from 17 June 2015. Open 10am-5pm, Monday-Saturday.
This year’s show will see graduating Ravensbourne students collaborate on a fashion show, HD cinema and variety of thought-provoking exhibitions.
Approximately 200 members of the fashion industry and press are specially invited to the show. A HD cinema will also showcase the work from Ravensbourne’s digital film students and there will be an extensive showcase of each specific course in separate exhibition spaces allocated throughout the building.
The festival showcases the best creative work from the University of Salford's School of Arts and Media students and will include art and design degree shows, original theatrical performances, live music, student journalism and media awards ceremonies, a fashion runway show and a range of other exciting events and installations.
The Summer Show identity this year has been designed by MuirMcNeil. There's invariably a strong showing from this UAL college, and LCC's School of Design is headed up by long-term CA collaborator Lawrence Zeegen.
Besides staple disciplines like graphic and media design, animation, graphic communication, illustration and visual media, book art ad design, there's an entire course dedicated to surface design.
Ben Pimlott Building, St James, New Cross, London, SE14 6AD
Private view, Thursday 18 June 2015: 6pm - 9pm. Open to public Friday 19 June - Monday 22 June 2015: 10am - 7pm, except Sunday 21 June 2015: 10am - 4pm.
Private view on Thursday 18 6pm-9pm, then open to the public from Friday 11am-5pm. Closed Sunday 21 June. Courses on display include BA Fine Art - Painting, Print and Time-Base Media, Sculpture, Set Design for Screen and more.
Private view 19 June 6-9pm; open to the public from 20 June 11am-5pm (times vary throughout the week). Courses cover Graphic Design Communication, Fine Art and more.
This is the main CSM grad show to visit for designers and art directors, with graphic design, character animation, communication design and textile design exhibiting alongside more craft and product-based disciplines like ceramics, jewellery, furniture and industrial design. It follows the more fine art-focused Show One (late May).
School of Design: RCA Kensington: Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU
Fine Art: RCA Battersea: Howie Street, London, SW11 4AY
Ranging from paintings to prints, glassware to jewellery and furniture to textiles the RCA's annual graduate show is packed full of around 600 art and design postgrad students exhibiting exceptional work across a multitude of media.
For many studios and agencies across the country scouting for new talent, this is the big one: D&AD's annual showcase of the cream of new talent from 70 courses from all across the UK, helpfully squeezed into one London-based venue to save on time, effort and travel for the typically time-pressed creative director.
The exhibition spans the disciplines of illustration, advertising, digital, motion graphics and graphic design. However that's just one small part of the New Blood programme, which incorporates the Awards (the ceremony for which takes place at a mystery location in Shoreditch on Thursday the 2nd July), the New Blood Academy, and the New Blood Festival too.
Put simply, if you only go to one graduate show in 2015, be sure to make it this one.
