The design industry is built upon the principles of composition and storytelling across all media. More and more, the lines of traditional mediums are blurring. As such, designers who understand mixed-media ideation are in high demand. This term 6 course focuses on the combination of digital and analogue techniques to efficiently produce stop motion animation for compelling narratives. This course is built on the principles of teamwork, organization, and experimentation; students work in teams, while contributing to a single class project.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #19 - Whoa Nellie

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night (drawbynight.notsosimpleton.com) artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca

Early on in their year at VFS, Digital Design students work on a group project that involves only one task – keep a marble in motion for as long as possible.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #33 - Home Sweet Home

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

See Marisa Torres' work featured on Lovely Package.

Find out more VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

At this Digital Design Slam, student teams had one day to design and produce an identity and motion graphics package for a music awards show. They presented their final design concepts to a panel of judges.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #35 - The Game Plan

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Artist and Instructor Kristina Fiedrich, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

As part of the team building component of Term 1 Project Management, students are given a box of dollar store objects and a mission: keep a marble moving along a course for as long a time as possible, with it ending up falling into an egg cup. Armed with plastic necklaces, dominoes, bendy straws, a roll of toilet tissue and other priceless objects, teams compete to create the best design to meet the goal. Upon completion, the teams analyze their designs for strengths and weaknesses and process key team dynamic components — How were design decisions made? How were disagreements resolved? How was leadership determined? Did team members contribute equally to the vision and how did they each fare when it came to implementation?

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

In the Branding 1 course, students are challenged with positioning a new or re-branded product in a crowded marketplace. Through research and analysis, each student develops a strategy and concept, the logo and all of the assets for various applications of their brand.

With his project 'Skewers', JL Lum developed the concept and brand for a modern and hip approach to "street meat".

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

In the Interactive Design 2 course, students are asked to craft the user experience, information architecture and user interface designs for a fictitious website using creative common images. Felipe and Luis chose to create an engaging online experience for a faux soccer team called the Razor Dragons.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

As part of the team building component of Term 1 Project Management, students are given a box of dollar store objects and a mission: keep a marble moving along a course for as long a time as possible, with it ending up falling into an egg cup. Armed with plastic necklaces, dominoes, bendy straws, a roll of toilet tissue and other priceless objects, teams compete to create the best design to meet the goal. Upon completion, the teams analyze their designs for strengths and weaknesses and process key team dynamic components — How were design decisions made? How were disagreements resolved? How was leadership determined? Did team members contribute equally to the vision and how did they each fare when it came to implementation?

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

In the 2D Graphics 2 course, students were asked to create a vector self-portrait using Adobe Illustrator. They could chose to do a headshot or full body, in any pose that interested them.

These are samples of some of the best work.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #32 - Game Over

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

VFS brought the Intensive experience to Mexico for the first time this year. Over a five day period students were given a chance to experience life as a VFS Digital Design student in a hands-on program led by our faculty of industry professionals – including Head of Department Amber Bezahler.

Digital Design students learn to refine their skills in communication, interactive, and motion design. Graduates from the one-year program go on to work in a wide variety of rewarding roles in the industry, including User Experience Designer, Interface Developer, Communication Designer, Typographer, Motion Designer, and Project Manager.

Find out more about VFS’s one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #35 - The Game Plan

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Artist and Instructor Kristina Fiedrich, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

Draw By Night #27 - Myth Math

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

As part of the Term 5 elective, Experimental 2D Graphics, we spend one entire class in a room with no computers. We bring all sorts of materials together like paint, magazines, pencils, markers, glue and we even had a sewing machine. Each student uses all these materials to create hand-made textures to scan-in for later use in their digital work.

This exercise is one of many that suggests that not all answers to visual problems lie behind your computer screen. Sometimes you need to get your hands dirty!

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #32 - Game Over

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

The design industry is built upon the principles of composition and storytelling across all media. More and more, the lines of traditional mediums are blurring. As such, designers who understand mixed-media ideation are in high demand. This term 6 course focuses on the combination of digital and analogue techniques to efficiently produce stop motion animation for compelling narratives. This course is built on the principles of teamwork, organization, and experimentation; students work in teams, while contributing to a single class project.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #33 - The Hand Off

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

In term 2 2D Graphics 2, students gain a mastery of Illustrator techniques. They then turn their creativity loose and design illustrations for customized T-shirts. Ironing them on is half the fun!

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #35 - The Game Plan

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Artist and Instructor Kristina Fiedrich, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

Draw By Night #30 - Bugs Gone Wild

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

In the 2D Graphics 2 course, students were asked to create a vector self-portrait using Adobe Illustrator. They could chose to do a headshot or full body, in any pose that interested them.

These are samples of some of the best work.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

“With a brief as open as Digital Design’s final project, the only guideline I had imposed on myself was to create something I would enjoy from initial concept to research and definition to production to delivery,” Roger says. “I knew if I wasn’t absolutely sold on the concept, I would probably lose interest halfway through and inevitably experience an existential crisis.”

See the full case study on the VFS Blog.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

VFS Digital Design's Appetizers Night is a chance for graduating students to showcase their favourite project to an industry audience on the lookout for hot young talent. The keynote speaker this time around was Peter Jin Hong, Digital Design Alumnus and User Experience Designer at Google+ Photos.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

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The theme of our recent Digital Design Talks was originality — a mix of all that is wonderful and inspirational. Tim Shetz, a designer and instructor from San Francisco, started the talk with the topic, ‘Be An Originator, Not a Duplicator’. Then, our student, Dalhi Guzman Inzunza, presented his paintings and unique graphic compositions done at VFS. Finally, Boca (Marcos) Ceravolo, our alumni who specializes in motion, showed the students his latest project, ‘MTV Brazil’s 2011 VMB’.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

At this Digital Design Slam, student teams had one day to design and produce an identity and motion graphics package for a music awards show. They presented their final design concepts to a panel of judges.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

For his Branding 2 project, Scott Strathern chose to brand the identity of a waterfront boutique hotel on the shores of False Creek in Vancouver. The result is a refreshing take on a modern hotel that meets the needs of his audience — smart, design savvy, cool, and hip people in the know. The brand package consists of competitive analysis, moodboard, environment design, logo design and miscellaneous branded applications.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

“As it was an entirely personal project," explains Roger, "I would hope it reflects my personality and interests – things like type, brand strategy and development, historical and pop culture references, packaging, posters, robots, monsters, time travel, irony, and conversely when appropriate, earnestness.”

See the full case study on the VFS Blog.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

The theme of our recent Digital Design Talks was originality — a mix of all that is wonderful and inspirational. Tim Shetz, a designer and instructor from San Francisco, started the talk with the topic, ‘Be An Originator, Not a Duplicator’. Then, our student, Dalhi Guzman Inzunza, presented his paintings and unique graphic compositions done at VFS. Finally, Boca (Marcos) Ceravolo, our alumni who specializes in motion, showed the students his latest project, ‘MTV Brazil’s 2011 VMB’.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

Draw By Night #33 - The Hand Off

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

Draw By Night #33 - The Hand Off

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan

As part of the team building component of Term 1 Project Management, students are given a box of dollar store objects and a mission: keep a marble moving along a course for as long a time as possible, with it ending up falling into an egg cup. Armed with plastic necklaces, dominoes, bendy straws, a roll of toilet tissue and other priceless objects, teams compete to create the best design to meet the goal. Upon completion, the teams analyze their designs for strengths and weaknesses and process key team dynamic components — How were design decisions made? How were disagreements resolved? How was leadership determined? Did team members contribute equally to the vision and how did they each fare when it came to implementation?

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at <a href="http://www.vfs.com/programs/digital-design" rel="nofollow">www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign</a>

Photos by <a href="http://dannychan.ca" rel="nofollow">Danny Chan</a>

In the 2D Graphics 2 course, students were asked to create a vector self-portrait using Adobe Illustrator. They could chose to do a headshot or full body, in any pose that interested them.

These are samples of some of the best work.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.

As part of the team building component of Term 1 Project Management, first term students are each given a box of dollar store objects and a mission: keep a marble moving along a course for as long a time as possible, with it ending up falling into an egg cup. Armed with plastic necklaces, dominoes, bendy straws, a roll of toilet tissue and other priceless objects, teams compete to create the best design to meet the goal. Upon completion, the teams analyzed their design for its strengths and weaknesses and the teams process key team dynamic components — How were design decisions made? How were disagreements resolved? How was leadership determined? Did team members contribute equally to the vision and how did they each fare when it came to implementation?

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Draw By Night #33 - Home Sweet Home

What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Digital Design instructor Myron Campbell, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/programs/digitaldesign

Photos by Danny Chan