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.

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

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

Myron Campbell, an instructor in Digital Design and a big part of the VFS community, has been named Interactive Designer of the Year at the 2010 Canadian New Media Awards!

Myron is an accomplished designer whose recent work has included (as then-art director at Switch Interactive) attention-grabbing interactive installations at this year’s Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

Read Myron's guest post about his win on the VFS Blog.

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

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.

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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

Former Disney Imagineer and CEO of Sircus Studios, Jan Sircus at Digital Design Talk: Spaces. Sircus presented a talk on using space to create storied places.

Find out 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.

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.

The theme of the evening was "tactile" and it featured several Digital Design students and grads presenting their projects. Alex Beim, CEO/Creative Director from Tangible Interactions presented a special talk about projects that are both multi-touch in their behaviour and "touching" in the way they connect with audiences.

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

For the Interactive Design 3 course project, Heather Lee created a Flash-based site providing education for and awareness of child nutrition.

Learn 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

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.

VFS Digital Design students in term 4 experimented and focused on alternative ways to address design campaigns. For their final presentations, they gave a short synopsis of new ad trends.

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

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

The term 3 students brainstormed preliminary concepts for their non-profit client projects.

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

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca

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.

Draw By Night #22 - Aquavelvet

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 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 vfs.com/digitaldesign.

Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.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

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.

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

Simon Vieira's graduate project, Diligo, is a social change website that allows people to collaborate, socialize, and invest together in ideas that will change the world in a positive way. The site enables individuals to post an initiative and have the public rate it. The higher the rating, the more exposure the initiative gets.

The branding effort for this project included the identity itself, the brand guidelines booklet, packaging, advertising, stationary and the website itself.

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

2D Graphics 3 is an elective course that combines techniques from both Illustrator and Photoshop. The class analyzes and deconstructs current styles and trends, such as “Street Art” and how the movement has expanded beyond graffiti into things like yarn-bombing, wheat-pasting, stenciling, sticker art and LED art. The students then emulate this style.

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

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.

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.

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.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

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.

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.

In term 5, the Packaging class was challenged to brand and attract consumers to buy their products off the shelf.

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

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.

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.

Learn 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

VFS Digital Design welcomed Alex Beim, CEO and Creative Director of Tangible Interactions recently to speak at a Digital Design Assembly.

The theme of the evening was "tactile" and it featured several Digital Design students and grads presenting their projects. Alex Beim, CEO/Creative Director from Tangible Interactions presented a special talk about projects that are both multi-touch in their behaviour and "touching" in the way they connect with audiences.

Find out 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.

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 #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

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 #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

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.

For her graduate project, Marija Vidanovic developed a unique accordion news-magazine called ‘Flip’ that allows young urban professionals to quickly flip through daily headlines. This novel, eco-friendly solution eliminates the need of glue and staples.

Find out more VFS's one-year Digital Design program at 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.

Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.

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.

In term 5, the Packaging class was challenged to brand and attract consumers to buy their products off the shelf.

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

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.

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.