The national joint application for international degree programmes of Finnish universities of  applied sciences closed last week. The number of first choice applicants for our Media programme was 18% higher than last year.

One of the highlight of new studets' orientation week in August is the Mölkky Challenge. Here's the group who started last year

Story and pics: Heidi Mäenpää
One of the traditions TAMK's Game Development Club Score has are Game Nights. They haven't been held so often in the past, but we decided that it is time to change that! We sent out invitations and finally on Friday we prepared ourselves for a night of fun with many epic games.

People appreciating the snacks

Story: Johanna Lievemaa
This week our animation lecturer Tuomo Joronen took TTVO a little bit back in time to when the art and communication students used to have more classes together. We do get to combine our different skills in projects but don’t sit in the same classroom so often. Now, hopefully starting a new trend, a group of animation enthusiasts from all Degree Programmes gathered together for a TV Paint Workshop led by talented Joonas Utti from Anima Boutique. He's of course a former TTVO student.



Alvarez by Johanna

Artmedia blog spotted on Twitter the note:
@heidi_maenpaa Got into Wooga Training Program at #Demola with @DhTier, hope we see @silliet on our visit to Berlin! Whoop! #tamkmedia
...and made the following interview on Facebook:

Question 1: What is Wooga?
Emma Kiiski (@DhTier):
Wooga is the world's third largest social game company, based in Berlin. Their main focus are Facebook and iOS games that attract all kinds of people, not just the usual gamers.

Heidi Mäenpää (@heidi_maenpaa):
-Wooga is Demola's newest, and the first, training program provider. They are Europe's largest social games developer and their offices reside in Berlin.

Emma at Demola

Story by Johanna Peltola
The third year of media studies brought along a moment of epic proportions for two IMPs: Amir Abdi and I had been accepted as student volunteers in Asia’s biggest computer graphics –event – in Hong Kong! It was going to be a smashing trip, and so it was, I tell you.

Last December we were getting ready for an 11,5-hour flight from Paris to the massive Eastern metropolis of over seven million city dwellers. The destination was no less than SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 –conference.

Can you hear? The world is calling!

University of Salford in Manchester is our oldest international partner. The intense and variform cooperation has however mainly involved film and television studies. But now the cooperation will be broader; the relations were extended to include digital design and game design during the visit by TAMK School of Art, Music and Media Dean Ari Koivumäki and me to University of Salford end of February.

D4DM is in the light and open Centenary Building. old campus

University of Salford (Manchester, UK) is the oldest international partner we have, we established cooperation in 1995, four years after School of Art and Media started. The cooperation has featured student and staff exchange, a joint MA in Screenwriting, film projects etc.

The Salford students at our main entrance