Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media News

The Vancouver Podcast Festival is coming November 8-10, 2018.

There will be live podcasts and events featuring shows like You Must Remember This, This is That, In the Dark, and The Allusionist, as well as masterclasses on interviewing, sound editing, and writing for audio. Check out the line-up here.

For a limited time, ECU students can get discounts on tickets and passes. To get a $5 discount on evening shows at the Rio, apply this discount code at checkout: VPF2018STT

This can be used for tickets to see Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, You Must Remember This, In the Dark, The Allusionist, and more! Apart from the Allusionist show, all of the Rio shows will present at least two podcasts per show.

Grow Op 2019 – Call for Submissions The Gladstone Hotel's Annual Exhibition on Urbanism, Landscape and Contemporary Art

Deadline For Submissions: October 30th 2018, 11pm EST
Exhibition Dates: March 20-24, 2019

Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, celebrates in its seventh year in March 2019 an exhibition of art and design considering ENERGY; and cultivates ideas across a broad range of disciplines. Clean energy, dirty energy, social energy, positive energy, negative energy, climate energy, embodied energy, resilient energy.

Do we hoard, waste, commodify, burn it, or do we store, reuse, renew it? How humans and other species live within and without natural systems of growth, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life.

Third-year undergraduate design students are invited to apply for the 2017 Ecological Design Award. This year's award is valued at approximately $500. To be eligible, the successful applicant or applicants will refer to specific work or projects that:

Mobilizing the Arts for Community Connection and Change will explore art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.

The one day summit will be moderated by Emily Carr Assistant Professor, Justin Langlois, and features presentations from Emily Carr faculty, Zoe Kreye and Holly Schmidt, along with talks and workshops by artists from the wider Vancouver community including: Corey Bulpitt, Alex Grünenfelder, Carmen Papalia and Ayotzi 68. 

Third-year undergraduate design students are invited to apply for the 2016 Ecological Design Award. This year's award will range from $750-$1,000. To be eligible, the successful applicant or applicants will refer to specific work or projects that:

Best of the OIAF

Animation Fundraiser

Friday February 19th

6:00pm-9:30pm

SB Lecture Theatre Room 301

Screening of a selection of the best films from the 2015 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Fundraiser includes a reception and pizza from 6:00-7:30. Screening begins at 7:30, followed by a draw for raffle prizes. Proceeds will send an ECU student to the 2016 festival.

General Admission: $10

Student Admission: $5 (with valid student ID)

Alexander Farah's ('14) award-winning short film Sahar, which premiered at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, is now online and available to the public. Farah's film has been selected for the reputable ShortoftheWeek.com and has since then, become an exclusive Vimeo Staff Pick

Watch the film here: Sahar.

As part of a retrospective of films edited by the renowned editor, Haida Paul, Associate Professor Peg Campbell's dramatized documentary Street Kids, on juvenile prostitution in Vancouver in the early 1980's, will be screened on Saturday, June 27. Shot entirely in still photographs, innovative animation techniques and a layered soundtrack draw attention to the lives of young people working the streets.  

Haida Paul: Four Films | 4pm

Current, Emily Carr’s design research journal is an annual multi-platform publication that seeks to showcase the richness and texture of creative practice and research within our institution.

A selection of sustainability-themed information design projects by third year Communication Design students is on display at Science World to coincide with Green Month. The work was undertaken as part of the Critical Design studio course taught by Katherine Gillieson, Associate Professor of Communication Design.