The School of Design celebrates the achievements of their 2009 graduating class with this exhibition.
The exhibition will be on public display from May 19 to 28, 2010 in the Atrium of the School of Architecture and Design, open 9am to 5pm weekdays and 10am to 4pm weekends.
Competition to design labels for Maori and Pacific materials in the library collection
Design competition: come up with a spine label which will be featured on the materials that go into our new Māori and Pacific Reference Collection. The winning design will need to reflect the uniquely Māori or Pacific content of the resources, and ideally would also reference in some way the wider Library and University context. The winning design receives a prize worth $750. Deadline: May 21.
More info at the library
Previously a subcategory of the graphic design discipline, the new interactive section of the awards includes six subcategories, which include:
• TIME BASED GRAPHICS – Animated or moving image graphic design created for film, broadcast, TV, internet or in-house videos;
• LARGE SCALE WEBSITES – Budgets over 20K;
• SMALL SCALE WEBSITES – Budgets under 20K;
• APPLICATIONS – Kiosks, Mobile Applications, Games, and Web Applications;
• INTERACTIVE MARKETING – Components supporting a larger marketing campaign, including microsites, rich banners, or interactive elements for existing websites, and;
• STUDENT
Designers wishing to enter this year’s Best Design Awards can do so online at www.bestawards.co.nz, where they’ll also find detailed information on each of the award disciplines and categories.
Entry into this year’s Best Design Awards closes at 5.00 pm on Wednesday, 9th July 2010, with the award winners announced at a black tie event in Auckland on October 8, 2010.
For over 20 years TheNewDowse Friends have offered support and encouragement to tertiary students through the Student Craft/Design Award, which encourages innovation and creativity specifically in the areas of design and craft.
There are two awards – a First Prize Award ($3000) and a Runner-Up Merit Award ($500). The annual award is open to all students/recent graduates of a tertiary level arts, craft or design programme.
Click here for the Entry Form for the 2010 Awards.
Last year Media Design student Kenny Smith won a competition to make a trailer for the 24Hour Movie Marathon. Subsequently he was also asked to create the 48 Hour Film competition promo.
Inspiration for the animation came from old juvenile delinquent films, especially Rumble Fish and the Warriors. The visual aesthetic is a combination of analog and digital distortion – everything you don’t want to happen when you are making a film in 48 hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr57m37e7Bk
John Lewis – Senior Lecturer
John is a leading researcher in the Computer Graphics industry. His lengthy career includes employment with Disney, Industrial Light and Magic and, most recently, with Weta Digital (which he will still keep active while also working here at VUW). Some of his achievements include patented programming methods and special effects used in such classics as Forrest Gump and The Matrix Reloaded. His substantial publication record includes renown organizations such as ACM, SIGGRAPH, IEEE and I3D. John’s innovative methods for integrating mathematics and programming has exciting connectivity with our programme’s experimental and cutting-edge approach for working with digital media.
Kah Chan – Lecturer
I’m sure most of you already know Kah, who has been an outstanding tutor and guest-lecturer over the past few years. But you may not know that Kah has recently completed his Masters Degree, which also happens to be the first one in the history of our young programme. His thesis ‘Understanding Empathy with Children’ deals with 3D character design through an iterative studio methodology, and was awarded an Honour of Distinction by his examiners. This same research also lead to a paper, which was one of the few (perhaps the only) Masters-level work to be presented at the highly prestigious DiGRA conference in London this past year. Kah has also been quite active as an entrepreneur in Wellington, working with the Grow Wellington business incubator in co-founding Kickstand Ltd.
The Media Design programme is very excited about the addition of these excellent colleagues and are eager to work with them in the forthcoming years. You will all have a chance to meet and work with them in your course of studies in the very near future.
Recent graduates Tom Revill and Jason Frost won scholarships to participate in the Experience@Singapore event sponsored by Contact Singapore.
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Kairo – The Network, a multidisciplinary event combining music, dance, video and theatre, will premier at Le Phénix – Scène Nationale de Valenciennes in France on December 11th 2009. Produced by Art Zoyd, Kairo involves an international team of artists, including VUW’s School of Design Senior Lecturer Anne Niemetz, who serves as video director for the production.
Based on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s novel, Kairo evolves around the topic of emotional isolation in our technological world and the impossibility of true communication despite the proliferation of mass communication tools, in particular the Internet. A collaboration of international practitioners, this production introduces new interpretations of multimedia opera, while exploring vital topics contemporaneous to our society.
More info: http://www.artzoyd.com/site2005-gb/spectacles/dossiers/kairo.pdf
The Faculty of Architecture and Design is currently hosting the End of Year exhibition at 139 Vivian St. The Digital Media Design programme is showing projects by their current graduands. The exhibition is open until Nov 23, viewable weekdays 9am – 5pm.
On October 29th, members from VUW School of Design and the Curtin University of Technology Australia held a live teleconference, screened at the Northbridge Piazza Perth on an outdoor LED screen. This event was part of the festive opening of the Northbridge Piazza, Northbridge’s new major commercial, cultural and creative hub acting as a destination for families and passers by as well as a venue for large scale cultural events.