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Fresh and 'in the moment', our blog keeps you in the loop with the vitality and quality of work from our students, and the thoughts and observations of our design experts.

Graduate designing t-shirts for a day

Admin 22 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

Graphic Design graduate Graham Murray has had four of his designs sell on t-shirt website 1-day tee, where every day a new kiwi designer gets to sell their design.

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Making of Turtle Pizza Cadillacs

Admin 21 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

MDS Stop-Motion tutor Aleks Sakowski has whipped up a 'making of' for his five-month epic music video for The Parallel Dance Ensemble's (Coco Solid featuring Bobbi Soxx) Turtle Pizza Cadillacs.

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Monthly Experimental Games

Admin 20 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

You may well have heard of Petri Puhro. He is that Finish student who decided to take on monthly challenges to create a game in a week. And his work's been talked about around the game development world and even rewarded at IGF 2008.

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Creative Advertising grads will get you out

Admin 17 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

Creative Advertising graduates Steve Hansen and Ji Hong Kim "PK" are on placement at Colenso BBDO and have created print ads for Land Sar, and work alongside the "Yeti" TVC.

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Deadline: Post-it Stop Motion

Admin 17 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

This Super fun stop motion animated video made with the humble post-it note was made by Bang-yao Liu as a senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design in the US.

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3D Environments

Admin 17 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

The September class of MDS's Diploma of 3D Computer Animation has just wound up and, as is sometimes the case, a trend emerged amongst the collective work produced during the final weeks of the course.

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Lost and Found

Admin 17 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

The Studio AKA CGI adaptation of Lost and Found, the endearing children's book written by Northern Irish author Oliver Jeffers, is such an outstanding little film that we had to gush about it.

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MDS students win Topical Newspaper prize

Admin 15 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

Two Creative Advertising students, Tim Twigden and Karin Lundgren, took out the Topical Ad of the Year at the Student Creative Newspaper Advertising Awards last week.  Take a look at their fart ad here.

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Team rewarded for Time To Fly

Admin 13 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

The seven students from the Graduate Diploma of Advanced 3D Productions, class of February 2008 have had a bit to celebrate over the last few weeks. Their short films Time to Fly and Incipiens have been doing really well on the Animated Films Festival market.

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Illustration: what’s your perspective?

Admin 08 Jul 2009 Comments (0)

MDS graduate Aimee Carruthers is coordinating an exhibition at Cross Street Studios, with artists of different mediums displaying work that meets their perspective of illustration.

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