MCAST 3D & Interiors Portfolio

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Chad Wys

Chad Wys gives a new meaning to traditional VS contemporary, check his work out

Behance

Well since it looks like I will never find the time to have my own website... it always feels like such a burden to even start thinking about a layout. I've decided to start uploading my portfolio on behance.net rather than on facebook. I used to update my deviantart account regularly, but for various reasons I have fallen out of love with deviantart. Behance has a much more professional look and is essentially a big portfolio of great graphic work, I urge you to have a look when you have time. There is even a nice clean version you can send to clients so that they won't see all the ads and extra stuff (just add /frame after your name) so here's my under-construction portfolio:

I'm pretty sure some students have a behance account, if so - link me :)

Alphonse Mucha Exhibition

"Over 100 works by Mucha, under the banner In Quest For Beauty: Alphonse Mucha 1860-1939, will be showcased at the Salon of the National Museum of Archaeology in Republic Street, Valletta between February 25 and May15."
Read more on the Times of Malta


You probably already know about this but just in case you missed it. It doesn't happen very often that we are graced with such an exhibition in Malta. I hope there's more of these events. I'd rather see a corner of a work by Mucha rather than go to Isle of MTV ;)

Student Work - Media

This is still student work by Sean Aquilina however it was done before he actually started the Media course, some very good shots here - have a look...

A very well planned and executed Research project on the History, Principles and Purposes of Editing by Media Student, Sean Aquilina. (In Maltese).

Student Work - Interactive Media

Currently correcting Units and writing new assignments, in the meantime here's a 3D animation by:
Mark Julian Borg, Interactive Media.

Banner

I keep getting tired of this blog's banner - perhaps I can get students to design a new one in the coming units :)

The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop

Infographic: The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop by Tech King

Student Work - Interactive Media

"This is animation for a TV program created by Mark Julian Borg, Julian Carter and Alex Ferrante. Music composed by Carter.

All done in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects"
HND2 Interactive Media, Animation techniques  

What is Graphic Design?

I showed these two videos to Foundation Diploma students this year who were unsure what the difference between Graphic Design, Interactive Media and Media Production is. This might seem very obvious to certain individuals, but very confusing for others. Essentially, at Art and Design MCAST, Graphic Design involves some illustration, web layouts, print, editorial and packaging as well as some animation. Interactive Media is all of this - but minus the illustration part, web includes development and code, and print, editorial and packaging are replaced by 3d, flash, programming and some editing.

Media Production is something else entirely - this involves the process of script writing, filming, editing, post-production etc... Some students were even confused as to how Graphic Design is different from Fine Arts. The most basic difference is that in Fine Arts you have no client - so in a sense you are much more free to do whatever you like. Anyway - here are two excellent videos from Vimeo which clearly explain what Graphic Design is, and how it is perceived.

what is graphic design from Steve Quinn on Vimeo.


What is graphic design? from Design Council on Vimeo.