Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Human Rights Posters
Students were asked to research and visually articulate one of the thirty articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Continue reading article
ITB Promo Videos
This first year Introduction to Digital Media students were tasked with producing an ITB promotional video to be used as part of the Institutes web based marketing campaign. Students were given about 30 minutes training with cameras prior to this assignment, and had less that one day to capture all of their footage.
Celebrity Portraits
Visual Language 1st years were tasked with representing celbrity’s while communicating three different concpets (evil, masculine, feminine, intelligent, wealthy). They used visual elements including signs, symbols, locations, placement colour and scale to change the context of an original image. Continue reading article →
Upcoming Video Projects
Watch the promos for some upcoming 2nd year video-based group projects.. Continue reading article →
Digital Imaging: Semester II
Well folks, semester 1 is nearly over. Time flies when your making photographs…. Continue reading article →
Photo Soc
Hey,
I’m finally up and running 🙂
Congratulations to Photo Soc for their great exhibition last week, excellent job. I also heard they are the most successful society, with the fastest growing numbers in the college. Before the exhibition they had 36 members, and now have a grand total of 47. They will be launching a new assignment very soon, where everyone in photo soc will have to create pictures, with the theme of ‘A Day in their Life’. Looking forward to seeing the results already.
Typographic Portraits
2nd year students were asked to carefully study the features of their face, while composing a sketch. Using only typographic elements they communicated their features using typographic characters and glyphs alone, firstly in a collage on paper, and secondly in digital format. Continue reading article →
I’m just waiting on a call from Hollywood!
Last year my friends Helen and Alex asked me to play the lead role in a short movie they were making for a competition called Pangea day. It seemed like a very interesting idea so I agreed. Continue reading article →
Competitions!
“Cadbury Apprentice” want you to design a brand new wrapper which builds on Cadbury Dairy Milk’s Irish heritage and in return win €10,000! Find out more at http://theapprentice.cadbury.ie/.
Each week, Miller Beer are giving away €250 for your photograph with a twist. View entries, and find out more at http://pix.ie/group/giveitatwist.
Design Principles Field Trip
Thanks to Robert for providing some photo’s from our 2nd year Design Principles & Practice field trip last week. Continue reading article →