Design Principles and Practice

Well done to second year Design Principles & Practice students who recently completed their first assignment; to design an original symbol and subsequent brand. The group voted on whom they felt best realised the assignment brief… Continue reading article →

30th October 2010

| by Niamh O'Hora

Visual Language Graphic 60

Well done to all the first year Visual Language students on completion of their first assignment in which an object must be represented visually in 60 different ways. Students voted on their personal favourites in response to the Graphic 60 assignment brief… Continue reading article →

Inspiration |

11th October 2010

| by Niamh O'Hora

The world’s smallest stop-motion animated character

Meet “Dot” the tiny animated character who takes on the world in this animated short advertising the Nokia N8’s Cellscope microscopic 12-megapixel camera. Certified by the Book of Guinness World Records, the animation was created by Aardman Animation, the folks behind the Wallace and Gromit series. Shooting only four seconds of footage per day, the team worked painstakingly to produce the movie.

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Competitions |

8th October 2010

| by Niamh O'Hora

Student Poster Competition

2009 was a great year for ITB with our 10th birthday celebrations, increasing student numbers and more clubs and societies on campus than ever before. Sometimes when you have a significant birthday, it’s time to take stock and think about who you are and where you are going. For ITB, this means asking staff, students and the greater community what ITB means to them, why is ITB here and what are ITB’s strengths? What do people want to tell us that we don’t already know about ITB? Continue reading article →

Inspiration |

8th October 2010

| by Daniel

Watch These Colors Dance, Then See How It Was Done

from GIZMODO

How do you make paint move with the grace and litheness of a classically trained dancer? With a Canon 5D Mark II, and a whole lot of patience. See for yourself what 5,000 frames per second gets you:

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“Bringing Color to Life” was funded by Canon to promote their Pixma printer line. It’s beautiful, haunting effect—made all the more fascinating by this look behind the curtain.