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DJCAD Wins National Event Award
Mhari MacDonald | General
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design has won a major prize. The 2011 Dundee Degree Show was named best educational event at the UK Event Awards after impressing the judges. The awards, which were held at Wembley Stadium on 30 November, were attended by over 300 event professionals from all over the UK. The college was praised for their exhibition which showcased the artwork of 300 final year students. Tom Inns, Dean at DJCAD, said he was delighted with the win. "To do this, the quality of the Degree Show had to be outstanding, so this is great recognition for the work of everyone ...
School Children Encouraged to Play in “Good Dirt” For Breakfast
Mhari MacDonald | General
University of Dundee students have been working with with children from twenty primary school breakfast clubs around Dundee to raise awareness and understanding about where their breakfast comes from, and about healthy breakfast choices. Supported by local food producers and Dundee City Council, students based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee have been creating games that inform school children about the source of their cereals and why a healthy breakfast is essential for a good start to the day. Partners included: Dundee City Council ...
Dundee to host only Scottish showing of pioneering design exhibition
Mhari MacDonald | General
Turner Prize 2011 nominee Martin Boyce will be among the visitors to a new exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, which showcases work carried out by a pioneering industrial design group. The exhibition, 'Design Research Unit: 1942-7' opens at DJCAD's Cooper Gallery on Saturday, 19th November. It explores how industrial design developed in the UK, based on new research into the eponymous unit, who were responsible for some of the most important design produced in post-war Britain. The DRU was one of the first generation of British design consultancies, and brought together expertise...
DJCAD student selected for international exhibition
Mhari MacDonald | Time Based Art and Digital Film
A student from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design will be taking his experimental audio work to Eastern Europe next month after being chosen for an international exhibition in Slovenia. Dave Fyans (31), originally from Perth, is a 4th year Time Based art and Digital Film student at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee. He primarily works with sound art, and his epic, two hour-plus process piece 'The Persistence of Decay' has been selected for inclusion in the RadioCona Radio Art Space exhibition. The show explores the use of radio as an art space, and the piece will be presented as a physic...
Feathers by the Firth
Mhari MacDonald | Illustration
A new exhibition, which opened Wednesday 9th November, is offering residents of Broughty Ferry the chance to help design the finishing touches to a Sea Eagle sculpture planned for the banks of the Tay. In November 2009 students from the illustration programme of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, created work telling the story of the return of Sea Eagles to East Scotland for a public exhibition in Dundee. The winning design was a sculpture of three eight foot copper coloured feathers created by Kirkcaldy student Ellen Brown, "It's great to see it all beginning to come togethe...
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