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UCOL Power Hour of Research - April 2017

Room 4.3.25, UCOL, King Street, Palmerston North. Starts Thu 27 Apr, 4pm

A photograph of wooden type

Hear from our creative arts lecturers first-hand as they talk about their latest research

You're warmly invited to attend UCOL's Power Hour of Research for April 2017, focused on the creative arts.

Qualities, concepts and considerations required to create a unique Māori identity for a typeface
This research has been driven by the frustrations experienced as a visual practitioner, with the lack of relevant and well-designed Māori fonts that are available for use within current Māori design practice. With this in mind, the intent behind this project was to explore the visual qualities of both traditional Māori art forms and printed text, in order to combine these and develop a range of fonts that display characteristics of authentic Māori forms, without being too obvious or tokenistic.
Researcher: Andre Te Hira, Design Degree Lecturer

A more creatively friendly approach to interactive media
While traditionally the development of a video game has heavily involved a knowledge and expertise of computer programming language to achieve the final product, current popularity and success of independent development within the game industry, has resulted in an evolving online community of tools and applications designed to streamline the process with no coding knowledge needed but is the promise to good to be true?
Researcher: Barry McGoldrick, Lecturer - 3D Modelling


Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP to Sharon Patterson - S.Patterson@ucol.ac.nz

When
27 Apr

Location
Room 4.3.25
UCOL
King Street
Palmerston North

Hours
4pm - 5pm

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