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End of year show 2010 meeting

All final year BDes and BSc (UG Main) students.

There will be a meetingt o discuss the end of year show on Thursday 11th MArch as 14:30 in the design studio. I expect a full attendance as you will all be involved in the set up. In your absence you may be allocated a task.

We will be discussing the following:


Poster4Tomorrow 2010 launched

Calling all graphic designers- the Poster4Tomorrow 2010 theme has been identified as "Death is not Justice". If you are interested in engaging with this exhibition please click here for more information.


A message from the Bauhaus

Second year design students Tracey Lee Clarke and Tom McClean have been having the time of their lives in the Erasmus 2009/2010 exchange programme at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar in Germany. This is a fantastic opportunity open to all second year students and there are several Universities across Europe open to do business. We also have the pleasure of having exchange students visiting Magee. See some of the images capturing the culture and the craic of this exchange programme.

1st year typography field trip

Year 1 BDes design and communication students enjoyed the change to get to grips with the origins of typography at the Ulster American folkpark, with vis com lecturer Padraic Lynch. For more see http://www.mrlynch.com/?p=145

Stephen Campbell- Multimedia computing and design success

Stephen Campbell, year 2 BSc Multimedia Computing and Design students, who is also an Irish international paralympic swimmer is one of the first people to be selected for the Institute of Sport’s Career Athlete Development Programme. To read more click here

Well done Stephen!


Maya software download

You can download a Free 30 day, fully functional trial from here for Mac or PC

 


Design Competition: Mental Health Awareness

Open Your Mind Art Competition 2010

The Open Your Mind Project is running an Art Competition in the University of Ulster, Art College.

Students are asked to submit original pieces that cost them no more that £40 to produce.

Students should submit their pieces to the Student Union office in the Art College by 12pm on the 25th February.
No submissions will be accepted after this time.

Students are asked to submit their name, address, telephone number and email address along with their artwork.

Photography Competition

Dear all Magee staff and students,
Enjoy taking pictures? Then please enter our “Magee’s Got Talent Open Photography Competition”!

We are looking for images of Magee and its people, setting and region. We are interested in pictures ranging from the beautiful, serious or meaningful to the humorous or quirky. Pictures can be any genre (e.g. portraits, landscapes, architectural, action shots, events, everyday life).

Mac Lab- right click solution

Students using the Mac lab will have experienced some issues with the right click function of the mouse. These preferences can be set under your own user profile.

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse> Set rigth click to Secondary click.

 

This should resolve the issue.


Cineclectic Video competition

Students see the following opportunity to get your work recognised. You may wish to consider some of your present work for this or even something you on an extra-curricular basis. Please let me know if you intend to ompete.


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