Central Saint Martins

Central Saint Martins is an art and design college in London and one of the six colleges of University of the Arts London. It was formed in 1989 by the merger of two nineteenth-century institutions, St Martin’s School of Art and the Central School of Art and Crafts, the latter renamed Central School for Art and Design in 1966; Drama Centre London joined in 1999 and the Byam Shaw School of Art in 2003.

In 2011 the college moved into its building at King’s Cross, next to the Granary Square campus shared with neighbours including Google and The Guardian. Teaching is organised around three Schools of Thought, C School for Culture, S School for Systems and M School for Material, covering fashion, product and industrial design, graphic communication, fine art, performance and spatial practices. The college is known for learning through making and for an interdisciplinary, research-led approach to design education.