Brilliant

Ok, so I’m procrastinating, if only this could happen to make the time pass quicker!

SUBU Awards – “Dedicated Designer”

So, the SUBU awards were the other week. This is basically a night were people who have contributed to the student union get some acknowledgement for the work that they have done over the year. This years awards were different to previous years, with all areas of the SU under the same roof rather than having separate award nights for each.

I wasn’t able to go to the awards (in actual fact I didn’t really know anything about them until the afternoon before!) but as it turns out I won an award for working on Nerve Magazine. I was awarded the “Dedicated Designer” trophy. It’s a really nice glass engraved trophy and has pride of place on my window sill at the moment! haha.

I have designed every issue (barring one where I was on holiday for the deadline – Jan 09 issue) whether I get the articles a week in advance as its suppose to be or the day that its meant to be going to print. I’m a reliable designer! And enjoy the work that I do most of the time…having said that there is only so much that you can do for the sport section (zzzzzz)!!

I’m hoping to continue designing into next year, which will be my final year, and hopefully it will help set me up for a career once I finish. There are new changes coming to Nerve Magazine next year…it should be big and better so watch this space!

Web 2.0

In one of my many procrastinating moments, I came across this website called Name This.

Its basically a company that “rebrand” or come up with names for new companies/enterprises but are too lazy or not creative enough to come up with their own. Or are they? Could they be more intelligent than that and by using the online “world” actually be producing some of the most creative names in commerce?!

Someone had a seriously good idea with this site – but on the topic of Authorship…who is the author of the new name?! After all the people behind ‘Name This’ couldn’t have chosen the best option had it not been for the wider online community contributing to the site.

The site actually marks your suggestions with a comment i.e. Very Unique, Average and Not Unique. There are loads of completed ones as well as those still active. Each has a countdown of how long left there is to post a suggestion.

Pretty amazing stuff – lets just hope that these people aren’t getting paid LOADS of money for the work of other innocent people.

 

Anyway, I think thats enough for now.

Animated Music Video

What seems like an eternity ago now, I saw a music video on ‘The Hits’ over the summer. At the time having not long finished our ‘Animation’ unit I thought it was a good example of I think is stop frame animation. Correct me if I’m wrong.

So here is the video;

It is too an OLD song, and the quality of it is pretty poor, but I thought it was quite clever. For the time it was made this was probably revolutionary (well not that extravagant but you know what I mean!).

Anyway, that has finally got rid of that link from my Bookmarks bar

Microsoft Surface

Just stumbled upon this video on another blog

(www.kiwipulse.com/microsoft-surface-my-dream-interactive-table/)

I just thought it was pretty cool how you can interact with an interface in this way. It is similar to the BumpTop video I posted a few weeks back.

Facebook Surfing

Ok, so I’m procrastinating…but I just found this video posted on Facebook by Claudia.

It’s such a good idea! Mad that you can actually bring somewhere to standstill by – standing still! The best line in the whole thing “I thought it was only me that saw it for a little while” HAHA!