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Jannie Oosting from the Hague University of Applied Sciences will give the workshop “Challenge: make absurd designs for a famous Dutch brand” on April 24, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

In the workshop Jannie will provide an outline of the Dutch Media landscape, continued by a real challenge: to make a design for a Dutch brand. You will present your results to each other and to a critical but enthusiastic panel and the winner will gain…. you guess!

Registration on International Week workshops has expired, but there are free seats available for this and some other workshops. For instructions please consult the International week web site or FB page.

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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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International Week web site
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Dr. Ruth Dockwray from Southhampton Solent University (UK) will give the workshop "Visualising Music" on Tuesday April 23 1-4 PM.

This workshop will demonstrate how to analyse sounds in a visual way and construct sound-boxes of popular music tracks. This will be useful for developing critical listening skills and visualising final mixes of pop tracks.

Registration on International Week workshops until April 18th!
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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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Learn more: 
International Week web site
International Week on Facebook
Read about the previous International Weeks
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By David Marin

There is something more behind the color, the paths and the letters, all together create a story, a fresh experience to the user. This is the story of the development for the Immigrant Advice Center in Tampere  Finland.

Four months ago the opportunity to develop a new image from the Immigrant Advice Center was presented as a part of the Design Management course.

A group of students from several countries dealt with the problem and came out with one result that was officially presented in the first week of December.

It was not easy to come out with a logo that manages to include everything that the IAC was trying to convey, after several ideas we pulled it off, one logo and some applications were ready, the client was really pleased about it and also our group.

At the end, this task was a great experience for me, the highlight of my exchange studies here in Finland, one think that will live for me all my life. At the end all i can say is thank you to my teacher, my team mates and the IAC.

The author studies at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. He did his exchange period in our International Media Programme this autumn semester.
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The teacher of the Design Management course was Simona Vitalini
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In December 2012, twenty-eight (28) proposals from twelve (12) schools were received for a corporate identity design competition, launched by The International Association of Film and Television Schools (CILECT), in search of a new visual identity and to project an image that evokes the new spirit of CILECT in the new millennium.

This design competition was initiated to be participated among students from educational institutions from around the world whom are full member school of CILECT. Being a member of this organisation, students of TAMK Media Programme were also invited to participate. The CILECT Executive Council reviewed and shortlisted six (6) applications as outright candidates for the winning prize of €1500, and students from TAMK proudly grabbed 3 spots out of them.

One of the students, Joanne NH Wong has emerged to claim the winning prize with her corporate identity design submission, based on the art direction of simplicity, parallel creativity and internationality.

"It is a pleasure to claim the winner spot and the handsome prize, after spending efforts in quite short time frame to accomplish the submission before deadline. Credit also goes to fellow mate, Josef Pacal, who was there working together and helped with some good design advice. I'd like to express appreciation of TAMK's networks that provides great channels and information to students such as posting this design competition. Indeed an excellent Christmas gift this year. Thank you!" - Joanne NH Wong

Example of new CILECT newsletter design with the new logo identity

About CILECT:
CILECT is the association of the world’s major film and television schools. Its goals are to provide a means for the exchange of ideas among member schools, and to help them understand the future of education for creative personnel in film, television, and related media. It is dedicated to the creation, development and maintenance of regional and international co-operation among its member schools, and to the encouragement of film and television training in the developing world. In the year 2012, CILECT had grown to include 159 institutions from 60 countries on five continents. www.cilect.org
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Joanne NH Wong is a TAMK International Media Programme student.
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A couple of months ago - May 30th to be exact - the first handful of pages of a new webcomic, Feral Gentry were published. It tells the story of Tuomi, an antisocial faery who lives alone among humans - not for long, though. If I had to label it, I’d probably categorise it into new weird, speculative fiction and/or drama. The comic updates on Wednesdays.

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Story: Teppo Nieminen
It was 30th of August. A brave group of media students prepared to face the mysterious woods of Halimasjärvi. The other half of the class had already aborted their mission, scared of what they might confront.

The goal was to use the nature as a source of inspiration

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Ever wondered about how marriage affects social status? Or just wanted to learn some random fun facts about Finns? Well if you have, go check out some info-graphics made by students of the Animation and Visual Design course at the cafe on the 2nd floor. You'll find info-graphics on these topics, and more!
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Story and photos by Johanna Lievemaa

Reporting after the Design Management -course

What is Design Management? It is a far wider concept than one 5 credit course can cover.

“Design is too important to be left to Designers.” (Raymond Loewy)

Concept Designs by Kristina and Sabrina

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Story and pictures: Heidi Mäenpää

First the desired design was printed on a transparency

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The winner!

Heidi Mäenpää, our second year Media student (IMP) won Finnish first price in the Adobe Nordic Creative Battle.

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A visualization of the project green wall (Miska Wilhelmsson, Danko Pantovic, Antti Kareinen)

Story: Simona Vitalini
During the Design Management course for the second year students, the opportunity to have hands on a real project was truly a challenge. Developed at Demola with the collaboration of City of Tampere, the eco2 projects, were innovative and coherent with the brief.

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Story: Johanna Peltola
Cool and challenging projects, that’s what the students get to do here in TAMK. The spring semester of International Media Programme is reserved for an interactive media –project, worth 30 study credits, which may be used for one big project or several smaller ones. Every student is however expected to carry out a project connected to industrial life.

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Village of the Future will build up on Tampere Keskustori (central square) and the event takes place September 2nd and 3rd, 2011. The village will give information on climate change and sustainable living in an out-of-the-ordinary way.
Story: Essi Santala

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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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Tuomas Mikola demonstrating his princess pose in front of the IMP10 poster

Story: Johanna Lievemaa, Kristina Põldots and Heidi Mäenpää
Some of you might have noticed the huge and entertaining picture which has appeared on the wall in the 2nd floor hallway. The 10IMP poster has finally arrived.


IMP10 found out a way to make everyone love their poster. Number one: make them wait. Number two: make it massive. Who could pass this great poster and not smile? A big hand to our design team for the great idea and creation! But how did it all come alive?

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Interaction designer and lecturer Pawel Pokutycki from the the Design & Communication department of the Hanze University Groningen (Academy Minerva) will host a one day workshop on day two of our International Week (May 3rd) titled:

Design Spam - workshop on conceptual and experimental approach to interaction design

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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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As we're are now officially over with the first period of our semester, the students of 09's Media Degree Program are naturally eager to get busy with their new and improved skills as well as to gain more. So what do a bunch of aspiring designers do to get networked, create and develop their skills? "A Group" would be the answer.

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