A few images of the CPUT Faculty of Informatics and Design's 2010 Design Indaba Expo Stand designed, built and manned by the students. Images: Amy Tertiens.
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Sunday, 28 February 2010
CPUT FID DI Stand 2010
The CPUT Faculty of Informatics and Design 2010 DI Stand drew major interest at the opening of this years Design Indaba Expo. Students from the Product and Graphic Design Departments designed and constructed the stand in record time. The main material was xanita board, which is a stronger new look corrugated cardboard, able to be shaped and worked to produce the stand. Various design items were displayed around the stand as well as visuals on two iMacs which produced an energetic display of what the faculty has on offer. Students from the departments and the PR department informed interested parties over the three days to sign up for the new year at Cape Towns leading Design Institution. Kudos all round for all who focused their attention toward the stand over the weeks leading up to the expo.
The video above shows some of the intricate typographic detail that was achieved with the xanita board.
Google Liquid Galaxy live demo at TED
Google's Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt's 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View. From YouTube.
Design Movies at the Labia
There are some inspiring movies screening at the Labia this week. They are design based and in conjunction with the 2010 Design Indaba and Expo. This is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to view a collection of movies in this genre in one week. There will be no demonstration of how to 'glitter a ham' at any of the showings - you had to be there!
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Friday, 26 February 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Michael Beirut from Pentagram NY
"Don't be so darned clever"
"You get power by giving away power"
"The real opportunity may not be part of your scope of work"
"Consistency without looking the same"
"Your audience is more wonderful than you think"
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The Design Indaba Conference
Go view whats on during the Design Indaba Conference taking place over the next three days.
The Dessign Indaba Expo runs over the weekend and is well worth the visit. Leave comments here to encourage other students to attend the expo. See ya all laters.
The Future is being Designed
Creative Cape Town recently shot and flighted a video of CPUT's Faculty of Informatics and Design on their own Channel. Why not take a look if you can spot yourself in the movie. I am interested to hear your comments of the video.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Bleak, Shallow and Repetitive
Now that the thrill of our hyper-connected existence is gone, virtual life has become a depressing daily grind. We toil late into the night, unleashing an endless stream of status updates and tweets in a desperate attempt to keep ourselves relevant, desirable and in.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The first open presentation to students - keynote
A GD Digital Tutor, Adam Weston, is seen demonstrating the presentation application Keynote. Keynote is compared to Microsoft Powerpoint only a whole lot better - and that's a fact! It is available on all Imacs in all Studios for your use. Watch the Welcome to Keynote intro under the Keynote Help drop down menu to get you going. If you using Powerpoint after you have discovered Keynote you have a problem.
Workstations of Designers
Ever wondered what designers work on. Is it mac or pc? In an amazing designed studio? Are the workstations better than what you studied on at college. Its always surprising what can be achieved with the basics in technology. Either way Mac Rocks!!!!!!
Monday, 15 February 2010
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Brilliant Logo Solutions
Go and have a look at these brilliant logo solutions. We never to old to be inspired. What impresses me is that even with new printing technologies making cmyk printing cheaper than spot colours, designers still choose to use one and two colour logo solutions. Click here thanks to Abduzeedo.
TIE sessions
Students are busy at work skyping with their groups in the UK at the University Hertfordshire. Their presentations will commence on Friday 10:00am South African time.
New photos at Flickr Photostream taken by Amy Tertiens.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Live skype link up with TIE on Day 1
Day one got off to a promising start with the TIE student sessions. Cape Town Groups were decided and the students soon got down to conceptualizing their first assignment. The afternoon was mainly spent with setting up their Skype link up with their respective 'partners' over in the UK who. We were all amazed to see the size of the UK group when the webcam was turned to face them - a big WOW was heard in the tightly packed Room 3.18. Tomorrow the students kick off, after a cup of coffee, with making visual contact with the UK students and proceed with sharing ideas over the hemispheres. Here's to a great initiative all round. Have a look at the images to the right in the Flickr Photostream of the groups in day one or Click here.
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Randy takes another knock
Recently seen in the creative corridors of GDCT. An attempt to scale and overcome the cardboard vehicle which has been parked for days in the passage area outside the GD1 studios. An unsuccessful attempt resulted in the performance artist seducing his bated audience to yet another knocking classic. The vehicle was later seen to be driven away. Randy has yet to be seen again. 'till later sports fans.
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