Story and photos: Emma Kiiski
This year’s Global Game Jam was launched with more participants than ever before. It was officially announced on Saturday that there were 7,000 jammers around the globe! In Tampere, Finnish Game Jam was arranged the second time in Demola. The main goal of this whole weekend’s global event is to create games in 48 hours at the same time with people all around the world.

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Story: Jaana Ristola and Ninni Luhtasaari
In Finland we have a term: kukkahattutäti. Literally translated, it means an auntie with a flower hat, but in internet forums you're likely to get that mock name if you support equality between people, ethic choices, ecological thinking, or display similar symptoms of naive idealism.

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Maxim Bakos posing with the poster of our first year media students

Maxim Bakos from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest made a quick visit to Finlayson Campus on Thursday. We started our cooperation three years ago when we joined a EU animation project proposal coordinated by Maxim and MOME. That proposal was not successful, but now we have made another project proposal, so it was really time to meet after all the emailing.

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Me admiring the Manhattan skyline from the other side of the river in Brooklyn Story and photos: Niina Virtanen, Media management '07

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Aina and Felipe visited a painting class

Yesterday Aina Roca from the University of Vic visited our campus with Felipe Ludeña Vaquerizo, trainee at TAMK International Services.

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The city tour map

Story and photos: Tia Tuovinen
It’s Saturday, -8 degrees and bunch of foreigners are out on town throwing a mobile phone, skiing as a group and doing other not your typical weekend activities like wife carrying. Only in Finland, one might say.

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The campaign visible in snowy Tampere

Degree Programme in Media - 20 seats available!

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Dr. Christopher Hales

Experimental short films @ Spede
Friday January 21st
Screening starts at 15:30
Finlaysoninkatu 7 Tampere
Spede (2nd floor)
Story and pics: Albert van Zyl

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Left to right: Tuomo Joronen, Jarno Tolonen, Sohvi Sirkesalo, Cai Melakoski and Ari Närhi in front of the Palacký University

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The winners of the 2011 Swan Lake Award were announced last night in Mittweida, Germany.

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Swan Lake Festival is on, tonight its highlight, the Award ceremony.

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Story: Tia Tuovinen
Don’t you just hate the gloomy, doomed feeling of Sundays - Nowhere to go and nothing to do except for wait for the next work loaded week to come? The salvation, also known as Surreal Sundays, is here to save us all!

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Ikuinen Gallery
January 13 - January 27 2011
Pieces of Cake
Open 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

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Most of TAMK new exchange students have arrived. They started orientation at TAMK main campus on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon the exchange students of the degree programmes in fine art, film&tv and media came to Finlayson campus.

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Story and illustrations: Johanna Lievemaa
One of the large 10 credit courses for us 10IMPs this autumn was Print Design. It was a kind of a continuation from the previous design theory and Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator loaded course Visual Design (also 10cr). The main topics this time were typography, illustrating and interactive elements. We had 4 different teachers to guarantee a wide range of information. The final task of the course was to create a poetry book as an interactive PDF. We had to pick our favourite poems and then illustrate them and compile the book in Adobe InDesign.

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The joint application for degree programmes run in English of Finnish universities of applied sciences started today and will be open until February 15th 16:15 Finnish time.

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