Thursday, 2 February 2017

The Media and Arts programme’s application period’s 2017 results (part 1/2)

The application period to TAMK’s Media and Arts programme and its study paths Interactive Media, Music Production and Fine Art ended on 25.1.2017. This time, the number of first-choice applicants was 334, which was a really good result in the new application system.

At the moment, our teachers are assessing the applicants' pre-tasks and portfolios. As a result for assessments we will invite about 100 applicants in total to an online interview - no more travelling to exams!. Invitation letters to online interviews will be sent in mid-February 2017. The online interviews will be organized 20.-23.2.2017.

The next application period will be next year, but it's good to start practicing your skills and expanding your portfolio already now in order to be ready for the next year's application. For motivation and more information, please check these student stories about studying in TAMK's Media and programme and it's study paths.

Interactive Media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIA-FaSTtuY&t=27s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWKyh0fRe8


Fine Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWutbGWsogE&t=26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZZQqAw89A


Music Production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj9kIZN6zY&t=30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZuUNYw-IEk&t=14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlQTG3JyV0

Check also these new success stories (these are in Finnish only at the moment)

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/suosikkibandi-antoi-kenkaa-johtohahmolleen-maailmankiertue-alkaa-perjantaina-tampereelta-24239117

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/battle-beastin-noora-louhimo-nama-ovat-viisi-tarkeinta-asiaa-jotka-ammattimuusikon-pitaa-tietaa-24223710

http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/tamperelaiset-niko-ja-marcus-jahtaavat-maailman-isointa-pophittia-tekevat-satatuntisia-tyoviikkoja-24223702/

More stories will be published from each study path in future to give you a good insight to our studies. Hopefully these will also give an extra motivation to all who will be invited to online interviews and also for those who may not be invited to interviews this year. Stay tuned to follow latest news and our students’ stories!

Timo Kivikangas
Head of Degree Programme in Media and Arts

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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Gezelligheid, Tam Tam, and Zuid Holland

It has been 41 days since the May Day spring celebration in Finland, Vappu, which is also the day I began my internship with Tam Tam and the adventures in The Netherlands.

The first week was rather exciting as I experienced the nomadic living without proper accommodation arrangement, due to working permit issues. It involved many camping nights and hostel searching, but nonetheless first week at Tam Tam has been wonderful and I was warmly welcomed by many friendly faces and cozy receptions. It is a good reminder for all TAMK Media students with non-EU citizenship to look into visa requirements way before your internship and exchange studies starts in another EU country to save yourself from unexpected troubles.


First day at Tam Tam / My mobile home at Amstelveen’s beautiful camping site
Tam Tam is a full service digital agency based in The Netherlands. Its open space atmosphere, abundant portfolio and spontaneous working culture with more than 120 people working in three offices has been fascinating. Clear table policy, self-service lunch buffet in Dutch style, friendly Tammos and their straightforwardness and curiosity are amongst the cultural discoveries of my adventure in The Netherlands. There are always happenings in the office, such as series of Mobile First sessions presented by the Mobile design team sharing their thoughts and updates on the digital content design field focusing on mobile platform with all Tammos during lunch time. I especially admire such culture of sharing within an organisation and gets everyone (even HR and finance department) on the same page on digital design direction in the field.



Waternet available in app store / Tam Tam visitors from Lillebaelt Academy!
I have been learning much from my coach buddy, Barry and the design team on interaction design in mobile apps helping with building wireframes and animating mobile prototype with Origami, besides doing other visual tasks like motion animation and online ad concept design. Amongst my favourite Tam Tam projects is this award-winning mobile app, Waternet which helps Amsterdammers navigating their ways on canal water. Colleagues at Tam Tam are generous with sharing their cultures with foreigner, as knowing that I am a big cultural observer. Several gezellig lunches made by colleagues are lekker and lunch time has always been interesting to make my own sandwiches. Here I also learnt much about empathy from the people orientated culture portraying from the slight gesture from team leaders with their greetings, HR ladies who have been tremendously helpful with practical matters such as work permit and insurance.

Superlekker couscous on a Friday lunch / Cozy girl-power-pancakes lunch

The first month of internship at Tam Tam had flashed by quickly as time flies. At the same time I have been exploring much of the Dutch culture settling in south of Holland in a beautiful canal city named Leiden. Cycling is a pleasure here and discovering various food and fresh ingredients from outdoor markets are thrilling, too. The Netherlands is located below sea level which formed interesting landscape: you simply cannot see the water as it is higher than you!

Leiden, a city with 120,000 populations / Dutch delicacy, Haring (herring fish)
The multicultural scene and openness of the Dutch people means plenty of topics to talk about over beers and outing sessions especially summer is here. Another month and a half to go before internship ends, and I look forward to more adventures and discoveries in the land of not just cheese, windmills and tulips!
Dutch favourite bread topping, Hagelslag / Exploring Rotterdam with two wheels

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Sunday, 20 April 2014

IMP at the future of web design

Last Monday afternoon I grabbed my bag, bought an infamous £3 Tesco meal-deal and headed to the Manchester’s bus station for a 5 hours megabus ride, to attend the annual Future of Web Design conference in London.




Future of web design is a world class conferences about web design, but not only. Some satellite subjects such as UX design, system design, animation and web development were widely covered by the 28 speakers. The conference was held at the brewery, a fancy conference hall in a great location in central London.

Something I personally really liked at this conference in general was its balance. From one hand, you could get great technical talks about web design (debates about CSS frameworks and why we hate them), web development (great Javascript tools and libraries introduced) and new technologies (CSS Masks, anyone?). From the other hand, there was plenty of conceptual talks about the role of web designers, what design is and new great ideas about what we can all do with it.


Simplicity in design and other great insights 

A very interesting session I’ve quite enjoyed was a talk by Stephen Hay from the Netherlands. He talked about simplicity in UX design, and gave some bad examples for how many web systems make a crappy experience just by complicating everything for no reason.

Bonny Colville-Hyde's talked about using comics in UX reports. She has an interesting theory (which I very much agree with) that nobody likes to read a boring 40-pages report. So instead of boring her clients, Bonny writes her UX reports in a comics format. According to her, this method is always very successful even with the most unexpected clients.

Robin Hawkes’s data visualisation talk was quite inspiring, talking about how to make data visualisation work and how to do it in practice with d3.js. He showed some amazing examples showcasing the power of d3.



Overall, it was an awesome experience. Hundreds of professionals from all around the world attended Future of web design, it had a chilled and friendly atmosphere and above all, it included great food, free booze and a great after party!

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