Skipping the somewhat clichéd ‘welcome to my new site’ post, I thought I’d launch right in and talk a bit about the end of year show at which I exhibited my work last week.
The exhibition consisted of over 70 final year projects from the Multimedia Design and Technology and Broadcast Media courses at Brunel. I was exhibiting Paste Up, the content management system I have been developing since the beginning of the year. The project attracted a great deal of interest, especially from fresh-faced first and second year students looking for some inspiration for their projects.
My stand (with beautifully illustrated signage by Sarah Yu)
The atmosphere was fantastic, and the whole event seemed very much like ‘closure’ for those of who have spent the past four years working so hard for our degree. It was very rewarding to see such genuine interest from staff, students and visitors alike.
One of my favourite projects was Dean Claydon’s Annotate That, a web application that allows users to discuss and annotate websites. Like Paste Up, Annotate That uses jQuery to explore new ways of developing websites through the web interface.
Students discuss their projects with a lecturer
There were also a number of fantastic moving image projects, namely Laurence Dawes’ 3D animation Below and Keahn Rahimi’s Roll Tomorrow, a film that juxtaposes 8mm film stock and HD digital footage.
Visitors to Made in Brunel will get another opportunity to see these and many other Brunel students’ projects at the Bargehouse in London from 9-12 June.
UPDATE: My friend Mani Koechert has published a review of the show on the Made in Brunel website.
