Editors Michael and Emily-Grace during this academic year collaborated with the University of East London and the second year Fashion Marketing and Fashion Business students on a live brief with the working title ‘What Defines London Creativity in your Borough?’
The module allowed the students to express themselves and contextualise their core discipline learning within specific markets and trends relevant to their discipline within the Fashion Marketing and Fashion Business and Culture sector. 
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The highlight from this collaboration was from second year student @melissa.amasse who gave an insight to the music club scene @beaubeauscafe

“…Is a gender-fluid collection with a focus on my cultural background, heritage, personal feelings, and art appreciation. The main inspiration and primary research come from my family's past during the communist period in Romania, compared to today's generation and society”

By VANESSA LAZAR

The Editors of Original Magazine have ignited a thrilling challenge for the Fashion Media & Promotion students at West Suffolk College.

Over the past weeks, students have poured their passion into crafting a magazine that delves deep into the themes of 'Plastic Fantastic' and 'Just Stop Oil.'

“Every woman has heard some variation of “beauty is pain.” Beauty is often linked with physical and mental pain and the idea that we must suffer for beauty…”

by Jessica Roye

Whilst this project has been about experimental process, it has now developed into something more. This project entails my fascination with passing of time and how thats presented within a still image.

All bein’ well explores my Jamaican heritage, referencing cultural elements in both Jamaica and the UK in order to create a space to play with masculine identities.

My last name is also foreign to Americans and constantly questioned about where it comes from and how it is pronounced. Growing up I had to hide different aspects of my identity from people. To my peers back home in New York, a very pro-Israel city I had to hide the fact that on my father's side I am Muslim.

by Malka Krijestorac

Using a combination of materials such as latex, silicone, ink, corn syrup and glass wax I created this realistic and educational experience. I used a one-way system for this installation as I intend for the audience to experience some sort of transformation as they walk through. It also mimics the process of an animal being killed, there is no turning back or escaping. It is only one way.

By Sofia Kassaris

Check out the full interview with upcoming singer and songwriter KANDA…

Greta talks all things interning with Original Magazine…and all the benefits.

He is an artist, illustrator and medal-winning international athlete with a disability in his left hand. After studying art, he moved into book illustration graduating from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon in 2011, majoring in graphic design. Barrangi subsequently completed his MA studies at the Royal Drawing School of London.

Collaborative exhibition between two students from UoS exploring the sub-culture of skateboards in Ipswich.

“…I’m never 100% satisfied with my work, as I said before I’m a perfectionist, I have to forcibly stop myself from tweaking and changing my garments till they look how I envisioned them, it’s very much a blessing and a curse…”

“…I embarked on a thought-provoking journey by crafting a planet and subsequently reducing it to ashes, symbolically portraying the dire consequences of global warming.”

- Yibao Liang

“…I mainly worked with a handy cam in order to add a sense of intimacy to my project. The low quality footage stands in as a metaphor for how I look at my past, being less about the perfect shot and more about the atmospherical affect it has on me…”

“…Today this roadway though has become an extensive network of superhighways: our faces curated, formulated, and rendered at once through a hyper-image flow. Unface questions the implications of such a network.

Should we return to the old roadway? In the information age, perhaps it is privacy, and the right to be unseen, that’s more essential to sustaining intimacy and connection…”

“…The tapestry intends to feel like a mash up of conflicting feelings, representing the contrasting thoughts inside somebody’s brain.

You can see sentences being scribbled out, reversed and repeated over and over again in an attempt to represent guilt, denial and overwhelm. The words sit amongst illustrations of a fairy-like playful world, representing the innocence of my younger self.

“…My Italian heritage inspires much of my design work.

I enjoy the challenge of designing for dierent womenswear markets, eg. occasion wear, outerwear, couture and high street.

I have recently begun designing accessories and other artefacts using the 3D printing process…”

“…The Artyverse is the fictional universe I have been developing through my artwork since I was a child, which consists of ethereally glamourous aliens with a deep running Sci-Fi mythology told through each piece. This was my way of escaping the reality of growing up as a queer individual.

I wanted to create a safe space for other people with this collection so I thought about where I, and many other queer people, have felt the most alienated growing up and that would be in sports…”

“…Through my work, I strive to ignite conversations and evoke emotions, driven by a passion for the transformative capabilities of textiles, and the deep enjoyment of research and experimentation.

As a designer, I enjoy the art of problem-solving, which challenges my current way of thinking and allows for creative opportunities through a tactile and experimental approach…”

Geyujing Shen was born in a small city in Zhejiang, China, where the subtropical climate has brought evergreen tree species everywhere, bringing economic benefits and maintaining the local ecology, but people are mostly oblivious to their presence - just as women are experiencing in China, and with the status of queer, the way trees are treated deepens Geyujing's anxiety about identity, presence, and visibility.

By Geyujing Shen

Did you know, if you surround yourself with the right people, your output increases up to 15%? However, being surrounded by the wrong people can decreases output by 30%?

“…This is not me saying that you must be one of those people that wakes up at 5am and has a 20 step morning routine doing yoga at sunrise. (as much as I dream that could be me, I know I could never). It can be simple, like waking up at the same time every morning, going for a walk in the day..” By Original Magazine Intern - Natasha Lee

Editor Michael will go through his 5 things he wish he knew before starting a new project; offering up some useful tips, reflecting on his freelance work and documentation of amateur football.