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Web Designer - Students’ work recognised by leading creative web design publication.
Six students studying Design for Digital Media at Gray’s School of Art have had their work showcased in Web Designer’s Creative Careers special edition, alongside that of other top digital media students from across the country.
Those featured in last year’s annual spread have all gone on to secure jobs at top, high-profile agencies and it is hoped that this year’s “raft of great talent” will be subject to the same success.
Nicholas Tocher was one of the students featured. His project was called ‘A site for sore eyes’, based around a predetermined, fictional company called The Oxygen Shop.
Matej Pavlicek’s Topic Trade Website was also a winner with the publication. His contemporary-looking, Flash-based multimedia website was created for a family business in his home country of Slovakia.
Nicola Watson is the proud creator of Fifth Column; a digital graffiti project involving LED torches focusing on getting young people to interact with their environment without resorting to vandalism.
Andrew McManus created Knots and Crosses. He wanted to create a website to promote the work of Ian Rankin and tried to translate the mood from the author’s novels using imagery from around Edinburgh.
Ian Mays’ StyleDesign project uses a Flash interface to illustrate the fundamentals of face shape in hair design. The website aims to improve hair styling by graphically representing the issues relating to different face structures.
Lubos Buracinsky created Option 1 Security, a live website for one of the biggest manned security providers in Scotland. His client was seeking a formal-looking website that utilised Flash and promoted their services.
Cameron Craddock, Digital Media Subject Leader at Gray’s School of Art, said: “This is quite an achievement for their work to be recognised at a national level by the leading web design publication. The course was acknowledged for our ‘raft of great student work’ and high standard of output alongside other well-known and established top UK courses; Bournmouth, Leeds, Falmouth, Brighton & London”.
Digital Media students create 3D visuals of Aberdeen’s proposed £13m Arts Centre
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Spectacular 3-D vision of City’s future.
Two students from Gray’s School of Art have provided a glimpse of Aberdeen’s future with a 3-D movie of Union Terrace Gardens’ new arts centre, ‘Northern Light’, which will be unveiled at Peacock Visual Arts on Thursday 5 June.
The visuals were created by Robin Hall andRobert Paul, both third year students on the Digital Media course at Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University (RGU).
Robin (25) and Robert (21), both originally from Elgin, have been working with Peacock Visual Arts to develop the short film which has been praised for its professionalism and creativity.
The students approached Peacock to see if the new arts centre could offer them an opportunity to work on this major public architecture project. Peacock jumped at the chance and Rob and Bob have been working with the centre’s award-winning architects Brisac Gonzalez for the last six weeks to ensure that the finished product is as realistic as possible.
The result is a three-minute movie which gives a highly realistic overview of the park development as well as giving viewers a tour of the state-of-the-art facilities to be found within the new centre, including a gallery, dance studio, cafe and multi-purpose spaces.
The Design for Digital Media course at Gray’s is highly regarded throughout the UK with student’s work regularly featuring in national publications, including Computer Arts and Web Designer. Collaborative projects are run on a regular basis with industry to give students experience of working on ‘real world’ projects with clients.
The Peacock collaboration gave the students a unique opportunity to work on a ‘live’ project of both local and regional importance, and the experience has led to them securing a summer placement with Aberdeen’s Touch3d (http://www.touch3dmedia.co.uk/).
Speaking on behalf of the duo, Robin explained: “It was exciting to work on such a high profile project. We knew it would be a challenging but rewarding learning experience for us so we jumped at the chance. We are glad that the response to our work has been so positive and we hope our visualisations give the public a better understanding of both the centre and how it will fit into the environment.”
Peacock staff are confident that the video will generate real excitement about the new arts centre and after the preview they hope to show it throughout Aberdeen and Scotland over the coming months.
Elly Rothnie, Campaign Director, Peacock Visual Arts said: “We were delighted to be approached by Gray’s for this project. Nurturing local creative talent is central to the new Centre for Contemporary Arts. Robin and Bob’s work is testament to what can be achieved and the first, we hope, of many collaborations with RGU. The video is a highly professional, inspiring and beautiful piece of work and it really does give a taste for what this stunning new arts centre will offer the City. Visitors to the Economic Summit will be in for a treat!”
David Crossen, Digital Media Subject Leader at Gray’s School of Art, said: “We are delighted to be involved in such a high profile project and pleased with the students’ standard of work. Digital Media graduates are highly employable and develop a range of transferable skills whilst studying on the course, enabling them to work in a variety of industry sectors.”