Written by Bob Hartzell

1. Advertising Graphics: A remarkable amount of advertising still takes the form of a printed page.  True those pages are often published on the internet, but the layout, design and theme requirements are similar to those required by a print ad.  Increasingly online ads are incorporating applets or video, so this profession crosses into multimedia on a regular basis.

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This is the call:

Welcome to the first edition of the inter-university open days DobleClick, hosted in the city of Vic (Barcelona, Spain), from the 16th to the 18th of March 2010. This event stems from the collaboration between students and professors.

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Gunilla Burstedt, Director of the School of Film Directing of Gothenburg University and Poul Nesgaard, Principal of the National Film School of Denmark wishes the students welcome

A group of lecturers and students from TAMK School of Art and Media participated in the annual Nordic Film School meeting hosted by the film school at Gothenburg university. We post two reports from the event:

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We have had a lot of interaction with the Utrecht School of Arts, but no formal agreement of staff and student exchange before. But soon we will have.

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Free entry!

That’s right. Pretty in Pop is the best get-together place in Tampere at the moment! People are falling in love! In Pretty in Pop you can hear music from different sources, some of it you may already know, or not.

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Welcome to the opening on Wednesday 24 February at 4pm.

Everyone explores their surroundings in their own way, and every environment creates different feelings in different people. It is said that home is where the heart is, but where exactly is the heart? Some feel at home almost everywhere when others are constantly searching for their own place. Many also seek to change their living environment into their own image, but they may not always realize that the environment could be changing them at the same time.

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Tampere Art Museum H.R. Giger exhibition

Story and photo by Vasia Tolou, '09 IMP
Okay, so it wasn't exactly a battle. More of a case of us admiring the beautifully disgusting or disgustingly beautiful art pieces by H.R.Giger at the Tampere Art Museum. The newly founded IMPD group of designers has been doing a lot of interesting things both online and in school premises lately, however, we hadn't done anything more organized yet. All that changed this Thursday with our visit to the museum, kindly organized by our very own Neil Hopkins.

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Anna

Story: Eevi Korhonen, '09 IMP
Autumn is still far away, but tutors, the older students who are responsible for guiding the new students through their first year, are already busy at preparing the way for new students. The tutor selection was done earlier this year, and the three brave people entrusted with tutoring the second ever class of IMPs are Eevi Korhonen, Anna Tikkanen, Nelli Norman. Nelli is already a veteran tutor, thanks to her previous studies at TAMK, but Eevi and Anna still have to face the tutor training gauntlet ahead of them. Because nobody is born a tutor - they must be trained.

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Story: Niilo Gustafsson

A group of students of TAMK School of Art and Media (TTVO) are once again setting up the TTVO's legendary Filkkaribileet-party for the honour of Tampere Film Festival.

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The entrance to the university is stunning! You can't capture this enourmous plaza in one picture. The main auditorium in the center

The tour in Netherlands by Leena Mäkelä and Cai Melakoski continued yesterday to Hague. The Hague UAS Academy is our newest partner in the Netherlands. The cooperation has been active, several lecturers have visited TAMK School of Art and Media and the first three exchange students from Hague have studied at TAMK this academic year, so now it really was time for us to see the school we have heard so much about.

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Story: Maiju Virkkunen and Saana Sillanpää
This spring Tampere UAS Art&Media presents a film called “Crumbs of hope”. The movie is about hope that can make you get through tough times in life. Many of today’s young people are experiencing the effects of recession for the first time in their life as money is tight and there are no guarantees for landing a job after graduation. However,  during these hard times tens of students and volunteers were ready to work hard for this film.

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Story and photo: Leena Mäkelä
Our International Week (May 3-7) and Tampere Art Factory (TAF) opening weekend May 7-9 will host many student and university staff delegations from the Netherlands. TAMK School of Art heads of degree programmes Cai Melakoski and Leena Mäkelä visit our five Dutch partner schools this week. The International week is a central topic of the meetings.

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Story: Siru-Emilia Määttä, Media Production '07     
In February 2009 a project started in Demola, where the goal was to produce a demo of online game platform. The game platform was created for a television program Summeris’ (Finnish Broadcasting company YLE) website. The target audience for the program is youth between 9 and 14. The idea was to create a game engine that allows users to customize the content of a game or an animation.

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Story: Iida Höckert
The Loaf Production manager


TAMK University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Media filmed a 3-minute short film The
Loaf (Limppu) in December 2009. The shootings took place in Tampere in the areas of Pyynikki
and Tammela. The crew staged a commercial space located in the premises of Pyynikki swimming hall to look like a porn store. The shootings lasted for three days.

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Written by: Sanna Lindroos
Media Production '07


Like all the great ideas in Finland, this was also born in sauna in the end of year 2009.  At that time some guys from Bubiklubi came up with the idea of arranging new festival in Tampere during the next summer.  Time passed and the idea changed into a plan, and now if everything goes as planned in the end of July there’s going to be a music festival at the main campus of TAMK.

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Learning the camera techniques

Story and photos: Johanna Peltola

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Ice skating on Pyhäjärvi

Students of the special one term programme for exchange students Interactive Media Programme frequently visit Tampere to go to Sauna, to meet their friends and to go to Sauna, to visit School of Art and Media and to do Sauna and to visit good old pubs and to take a Sauna bath. If the visit/reunion is in winter, swimming in the hole in the ice is of course an integral part of the menu.

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Story: Essi Santala, student of Lighting Design

3rd and 4th year Lighting Design students began their studies on architectural lighting with teacher Antti Hiltunen. The course familiarizes the students with common architectural lighting equipment, work in general in the architectural lighting field and during the course the students will produce a lighting design on paper for a building or space of their choice. The course is conducted by visiting teachers Antti Hiltunen and Arto Heiskanen from the lighting design company Valoa Design but several other visiting teachers will shine light on their fields of expertise as well.

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Story: Anne Heikkonen
Sauna Open Air festival gathers annually metal music fans all around Finland to Tampere and this year the festival rocks 10th to 12th of June.

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Story: Mari Ljokkoi


Pää edellä art exhibition
Pyynikki indoor swimming pool
Vernissage Fri 12.2.2010 15-17
Exhibition open until 17.4.2010 Wed-Fri 13 - 17, also during theatre shows
Free admission

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Turn right, and you see our entrance

Story: Maiju Laitinen
Mauri has a plan which he thinks would be a shortcut to easier life. Mauri has put his eyes on a rich and proud lady and he wants this lady to be all his – even for a little moment. But everything isn’t going the way Mauri planned it.

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Story: Pauli Kopu
Innovator format development is alive and kicking well. We’ve been busy with funding and co-operation arrangements, but no worries I have a good feeling that during the February we can come out of the closet with the most recent development.

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Text by Martti Sirkkola and Robert Niva
A group of students from TAMK University of Applied Sciences, the School of Art and Media are working on a 3-4 minute-long 3D animation. This is a pioneer-project, because the crew consists of students from the AV-field and the interactive and visual fields.

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The 09 Imps have been exploring their film-making capabilities lately, during our video crash course which is part of our larger Multimedia and Animation course this semester. Lead by tutor Mikko Uimonen, the imps are learning some basics in video, sound and lighting equipment handling and techniques for the purpose of filming a scene. We have been divided into four groups and each of them will make a single movie scene using what is being taught to us.

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Story: Eevi Korhonen, IMP09 student
The last weekend of January was an interesting one for game-minded students here, because Tampere was hosting one of the jamming sites for Global Game Jam. GGJ is a worldwide event where game developers, professionals and amateurs alike, get together to make games within 48 hours. During this year's event over 900 games were created by almost 4,000 jammers in 39 countries! From the total 28 jammers in Tampere, almost half were Score members (including one IMP).

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Story: Mia Hämäläinen
Iida, the children’s church route is mobile route service which helps you to explore with children’s eyes Tampere in the 20th century.  The route starts at Väinö Linna Square and guides you through about ten targets to the end of the route at Amuri Museum of Worker's Housing.

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