Computer Animation Arts

Congratulations everyone! I was chatting to Kissley Leonor on Thursday, a representative of the British Library, who sent me an email to say that our stand was featured on the New Designers 2013 exhibition highlights post. Find it here

Welcome to the New Designers 2013 Post With The Most Special Edition - a showcase of graduate work exhibited at New Designers 2013 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition featuring 3,000 newly graduated designers and for four days CGAA graduates represented themselves and their course to exhibition visitors - potential employers and industry contacts among them. We always like to push the boat out a bit for our graduates at New Designers and ensure their show is a talking point.  New Designers is a busy exhibition with loads to see and our challenge is always to find unique and memorable ways of encouraging visitors to engage with our graduates and their work.  In 2010, we got old-school and arty with screen-printed production drawings, and artists' easels - which just happened to win CG Arts & Animation the 'best in show' award! In 2011, we went wild for ...

Job done Class of 2013! Congratulations all of you on an awarding-winning New Designers 2013!   Special thanks to Stevie P, Lydia and Anita for all their usherette-action - and for those all those lovely idents, Steve.  Thanks too to Chris Hunt for being our 'white van man' and coming to London to collect our hurriedly dismantled cinema.   Final word then? Something inspirational about 'as one door closes' and all that, and something too about saying 'au revoir' and not 'goodbye'...  Wishing all of you happy travels and best of luck for the future; follow up on those contacts, be pro-active, and keep in touch! :)

Go here for the UCA press release!

Go here!

Well done to everyone involved in New Designers; it was great to see everyone, and sad to say goodbye to some... :( I hope there weren't too many sore heads this morning, although I suspect that will be the case, as things were already in full swing when I left at half eight...

Last night (03/07/2013) was the New Designers 2013 Private View, which was awash with vodka cocktails and golden gongs.   There'll be more on the blog about this later, but guess what?  CG Arts & Animation won 'Best Stand'!  We've got an award, a certificate, two bottles of bubbly - official pics will follow!  It was a great night, so congratulations to everyone for putting on a fabulous show!   (Aidan, Bo, Molly & Max in the VIP winners lounge!)