Hello DD’s. My name is Ryan from DD07. I haven’t posted on here for a long time. I’ve recently created a simple blog on tumblr for posting some of my experiments in design, photography, 2D/3D animation and music. I’d like to share it with you.
http://rublog.tumblr.com/ (This one is for inspiration and stuff I find)
Hope you like it, comments welcome. 
Check out the typography videos done by DD14 students in term 2.
Hey Gang,
Some of you might rememeber there was a one man shooting “crew” here in our campus back in April. Here is the link to the print press on Adobe site, we sent them a selection of videos but they end up using only one of them…
Demonstration by Adrian Ludwig
Adobe announced the first Android device to be shipped with the Flash plug-in is the HTC Hero. The device supports Flash Lite 3.1 and not the previously announced full Flash Player 10, which means ActionScript 3.0 would not be supported, only up to Flash Player 9 movies made in ActionScript 2.0 will be playable. Adobe claims that this means that up to 85% of Flash on the Internet will be supported. “The new phone delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and provides access to a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web today.”
Read full article
“As a top of the range device it sports multi-touch HVGA, accelerometers, GPS, Compass, WIFI, a 5MP Camera and the incredible Android Webkit Browser. With Flash the web browsing experience on the device is fantastic, rich and gives you access to a more complete Internet. In this mobile optimized runtime we also have support for streaming audio. You’ll be able to interact with games and rich Internet sites, widgets and of course the HTC Hero is a touch device with a huge HVGA (320×480 px) screen.”
Full article on Flash Mobile Blog
Hey guys, figured some of you might be interested on watching the video of the Frank Newfeld Conference that happened a few weeks ago at SFU.
Here’s a brief description of Frank Newfeld:
One of the original judges at the first Alcuin book design competition, Frank Newfeld, book designer, illustrator, art director, and former Vice President, Publishing at McClelland & Stewart, shared some of his thoughts on illustrated books, particularly those for the younger reader.
Click on the image or here to watch it.
Radiohead Weird Fishes by Tobias Stretch from Tobias Stretch on Vimeo.
Hello,
Our collective shot a film last weekend, it was made entirely with a Canon EOS 30D dSLR camera. Just wanted to share, hope you enjoy.
DD14 Bashar Alaeddin’s information graphic about Petra, a recently designated wonder of the world, is featured at Maga Design Group’s blog as the Map O’ The Day #82. The infographic was created for his term two Interactive Design course to present the influences that shaped Petra.
Congratulations to Stefan Ramirez Pérez, from DD14, who won at the recent GDC/BC Salazar Student Awards event. Venice, his term two chroma key talking head video, was selected by a panel of distinguished design professionals as the winner of the Web Design and Interactive Media category. Other finalists included the team of Aaron Chiesa, Henry Sukarya, Lisa Temes, Toru Kageyama (DD12) for their motion infographic, Iran: Nation of Bloggers, and Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, also from DD14, for his kinetic typography project, Century Schoolbook: Piano 2.0.
Design isn’t just a job - it’s a lifestyle. Use Twitter to show us how you live and breathe design and you could win a seat (valued at $865 CDN) in the 5-day Digital Design Summer Intensive at Vancouver Film School, running from July 6-10, 2009.
All you have to do is tweet once a day for 7 days within the 14-day period and in each tweet, answer the question “What are you doing right now to prove you deserve a seat at VFS’s Digital Design Summer Intensive?” in your own creative way.
Competition closes midnight May 24, 2009
For more info, click onto http://www.vfs.com/tweet
Thought this could be useful for those who may be thinking of creating/updating their portfolios:
How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website
Jeff Greenberg (DD06) has qualified to represent Canada in the Cannes Young Lions competition. He has earned a trip to France in June for being part of a two-person team that won the Cyber category of the 2009 Globe and Mail’s Young Lions competition. The challenge involved creating a web ad within 24 hours. Congratulations and good luck in Cannes!
Hello all, this is Vincent from DD10 (that really tall bloke with the strange laugh). Anyways, I have some exciting news. Since graduating and being hired at Bigpark, I have been working with some amazing engineers and designers on a Free-To-Play Flash-based Tower Defense game by the name of Wizard Defense.
Filling the role as both a designer and developer, we recently just went open beta! I want to stress that this is my first professional project I’ve worked on and I feel very proud to have had the privilege to work on one of the best and most polished Tower Defense games out there. I invite you all to come and play our game and give some feedback! On a sidenote, I was not the only VFSer to have worked on this game, I worked on WD alongside your very own UX prof. Miles Nurse, Charmie Kim, and Daniel Bittencourt (both from GD).
Omega Code poster designs by Marco “Vinny” Vinicio (DD02) and Jamie Peterson (DD10) have been selected to be published by IdN World later this year. Their artwork was among the top 20 out of almost 400 submissions from around the world. Vinny’s art is also being used as the cover illustration for the Zero Point One EP.
