Study Abroad | London
Summer 2025: Academics

Course Code: CSM 312

Instruction Language: English

Industrial design as a discipline is ever developing in line with technological and social changes. The industrial design student of today is just as comfortable designing for public discourse and services as well as the traditional object-based foundations of the discipline. At Central Saint Martins students are expected to show a willingness to engage in practice through a unique range of processes and technical skills. This 3-week intensive course will help students, who may not be entirely familiar with the design process, learn how to develop projects through the use of key technical skills including; research techniques, sketching, prototyping, CAD & CAM. Through a continuous project, students will also learn how to introduce critical narrative discourse to their practice.

Course Code: CSM 306

Instruction Language: English

This is an interdisciplinary 3-week fine art course that aims to provide an innovative and experimental approach to the making and development of your work. On the course you will respond to open and concept-based projects and you will be encouraged to develop your own unique approach to realising your ideas. The course will encourage you to work in any medium that is appropriate to the concept of your project. You will be presented with short one-day projects, and longer projects of up to a week, designed to challenge you and encourage new ways of working. You will have the freedom to experiment with a range of disciplines, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. The course is studio and practice based and work on the projects is complemented by a programme of presentations, group discussions, critiques and talks from visiting arts professionals, including artists and curators. We focus on discussion during the course and talking about your work in the context of contemporary art practices. The course will assist you in developing practical, critical and conceptual skills necessary to encourage your own development as an artist. You will also receive an introduction to London’s contemporary art scene via gallery trips to the harder to find London galleries to complement and contextualise the work that you are making. The course is aimed at students with a strong commitment and an inquisitive approach to contemporary art practice.

Course Code: CSM 309

Instruction Language: English

At Central Saint Martins we understand Graphic Communication Design as an expanded practice. This means we are interested in thinking about design from a broad range of perspectives that challenge conventional understandings of the discipline. During this intensive three-week course, you will experience a taster of the five study Platforms that make up the undergraduate Graphic Communication Design programme here at Central Saint Martins. These platforms will introduce you to a range of ways of thinking and feeling about design. The Platforms in question are: Experience & Environment, Information & Systems, Narrative & Voice, Strategy & identity, and Time & Movement. Within each Platform experience you will be given a di9erent project brief to challenge your understanding of the subject. These short projects will stimulate your thinking and enable you to become more confident of your own areas of interest and specialism. While embarking on these projects there will be opportunities to explore the city, thus enabling you to experience what London has to o9er as a world- renowned cultural destination. The final week of the course will provide a more open-ended studio environment to enable you to bring more of your own personal position and agenda to the fore. During this final week you will choose one of the five Platforms briefs to develop further into your own personal project.

Course Code: CCA 310

Instruction Language: English

Outcomes could include images, picture books, series of images, performance, three dimensional objects, text-based work or other more idiosyncratic conclusions. With the support of your tutor you will navigate this journey in a way that is meaningful and useful to you. You will be given a series of tasks in the first part of the course that have been developed specifically to push your thinking and making. These will act as starting points to trigger your imagination and generate a body of research from which you will produce an outcome. The tasks will include elements of drawing, experimental image making, roleZplay and movement, exploration of unconventional narrative forms, 3D loZfi making, and will include a research trip in London. This course will be useful to you if you are interested in authorship, creating stories for picture books or comics, developing a portfolio for further study or simply looking for new methods of research, idea development and experimentation. This course is suitable for all levels from ambitious beginners to more established illustrators, designers and artists.

Course Code: CSM 310

Instruction Language: English

This is a 3-week course for students of all levels and experience interested in interior design. Through a structured method of problem solving and unique thinking, this highly structured course begins by analyzing existing interiors, retail spaces, restaurants and bars in London. You will learn how to ‘read’ an interior. After the design project brief is given, the course will involve a mix of creative exercises and workshops. This will lead you through the basics of interior design as well as the fundamentals of the design process to completing a finished project. We have a ‘hands on’ and practical approach to the design process. Design for us, is all about thinking through making and doing. The course provides you with a structure where creative ideas, drawing techniques (both technical skills and sketch visualization) and model making enable you to be confident when presenting your ideas. The course will provide you with high quality and dynamic 2D and 3D work, which may be used in your portfolio, as well as demonstrating good practice in research through producing a dynamic sketchbook. You can expect an intense and challenging studio experience with fellow students from broad social and cultural backgrounds.

Course Code: CSM 311

Instruction Language: English

This in-depth 3-week course combines visual primary research with studio practice to focus on the exploration and examination of composition, colour and design through various printing techniques for textiles. Studio and workshop sessions will be complemented by visits to places of interest including galleries, museums and textile retailers. Your print design work will be based on independent research, gallery and library visits and at the end of the course you should have a sketchbook full of ideas, a collection of printed fabric samples exploring various techniques and a final piece(s) that you will show in a group exhibition on the last day of the course.

Course Code: CSM 305

Instruction Language: English

The course assists you in contextualizing and developing your ideas about art through an array of visual and critical lenses, from modernist art history to contemporary cultural theory and conceptual practice. A series of informal seminars and tutorials will help focus your research. The group will engage with an array of activities to trigger creative links with London’s rich contemporary visual and material culture, from gallery and museum visits to sessions working alongside professional artists, curators, writers and publishers. Students will build a deeper understanding and working knowledge of contemporary art practice, with confidence as well as a key network of cultural resources and connections.

Course Code: LCC 301

Instruction Language: English

In the 21st century, Advertising is still one of the most creative and innovative forms of communication. Creating conversations, empathising with customers, selling more things. But how can we do it better? How can we get the best out of media both old and new? How can we create work that the public simply can’t ignore? From conquering blank sheet of paper phobia to making a TV ad and writing and presenting a full-blown pitch, you will learn and have some fun and games along the way.

Course Code: CSM 307

Instruction Language: English

This course will suit students with a very creative design aesthetic in fashion and those who wish to develop and specialise in knit and other related fabrics. It will offer a taster of the BA Fashion Design with Knitwear at Central Saint Martins. You will be shown how to initiate ideas via your sketchbooks and how to explore your research and develop fashion and fabric designs from it. With a series of workshops covering techniques such as machine and hand knitting, crochet, embroidery and smocking you will be encouraged to design and produce a range of fashion and fabric ideas. You will learn how to edit your work and where to concentrate your technical abilities. You will be supported by professional technicians. The first two weeks will be spent experimenting and developing your technical expertise. At this point you will choose one fashion look or silhouette to develop and produce during the third week for a fashion show on the final day. Throughout the three weeks you will be expected to visit London’s museums, markets, cafés and clubs to inform your design development. Your design solutions must be contemporary and relevant. You will receive peer and individual assessment and will potentially develop a strong and successful design project.

Course Code: TBD

Instruction Language: English

Fashion today operates within a highly competitive business environment. This fashion business study abroad summer school programme will develop your fashion marketing, merchandising and media skills and you will benefit from our expertise, which makes us one of the foremost global fashion education establishments. We offer a unique and dynamic learning environment, within which you will develop and enhance your individual potential. Our team of specialist tutors, combine their teaching with professional consultancy and freelance work, which guarantees that you are informed of current industry practice.

Course Code: CSM 303

Instruction Language: English

How does the fashion communications industry work? Fashion design is just the start of a huge industry that uses concepts of fashion promotion and communication to connect fashion with global audiences. This course will explore the workings of the fashion industry helping students to understand how to promote fashion. Your fashion journey will track the process of research, design and realisation for fashion communication and then focus on understanding creative ways to promote fashion. You will look at how different media is used to communicate fashion and specifically how journalism, photography and styling can help sell fashion ideas. Your final project will be to produce a fashion shoot or a look-book for a fashion brand. This course will enhance your existing communication skills and help to formulate your communication ideas. Students will be immersed in a European fashion arena for 3 weeks and will be expected, independently, to explore aspects of the industry as directed, with other students. Although an intensive course, it is a unique and fun London fashion experience with likeminded "fashionistas".

Course Code: CSM 301

Instruction Language: English

Central Saint Martins’ fashion alumni like John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney have changed the way that the world looks at fashion. In this 3-week course you will use research as the key to the design process, using London’s streets, museums and people as the starting point. You will then go on to develop your ideas into designs and explore a range of different illustration techniques to present them to finished portfolio standard. You will be expected to push your ideas to expand and explore what is possible through the design process. During the class you will also visit specialist fabric shops and the costume collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. You will be assessed on research in a sketchbook, sketches and rough design ideas, with designs developed from these ideas presented as illustrations to portfolio standard.

Course Code: LCC 303

Instruction Language: English

Gain new skills in digital photography, develop a portfolio of strong photographic work and grow your existing knowledge of the history, theory and practice of photography. Explore a wide range of photographic genres such as street photography, portraiture, photojournalism, conceptual photography and fashion photography. Throughout the course you will be given introductory lectures by photographers who have created work specialized in these areas who have worked in fashion, editorial, advertising and fine-art photography. The assignments will enhance your creative camera control as well as develop your conceptual awareness. You can work individually, or with your fellow students, to produce visual responses to the brief, coming together at the end of the week to share your results with your tutor and the rest of the class, receiving feedback on your photographs.