QUT transforms into style-central with an extravagant catwalk showcase of fashion in late November at six: QUT Fashion 2011 Graduate Show, as each designer debuts a collection of six pieces.

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Shows
Tuesday 29 November, 7.00pm
Wednesday 30 November, 7.00pm
Thursday 1 December, 7.00pm
Friday 2 December, 7.00pm

QUT's prestigious Fashion Design school has produced some of Australia's hottest talents in recent years, including Gail Reid (Gail Sorronda) and Clea Garrick and Nathan Price (Limedrop).

Wednesday 7 September, 2011

SIF90, the winners of our very first 48 Hour Game-Making Challenge, have since parted ways, each following their own career trajectories in the games arena.

We brang them back to have an open panel chat prior to this year's 48 Hour Game-Making Challenge.

Tom Killen (of The Voxel Agents, creators of Train Conductor) and Luke Muscat (from Halfbrick Studio and lead designer on Fruit Ninja) talk about making games, going indie and everything in between.

Joining the boys was Henrik Pettersson, the Viking half of the team from QCA (The Sword Lady and The Viking), who won the 2010 Freeplay Best Design Award for Up-Down-Ready, and whose team were the overall winners at 2010's 48 Hour Game-Making Challenge.

GRID NORTH

A new collaborative project by Boxcopy
The Block, CI Precinct, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus
27 July – 13 August 2011

In the film, when asked by Spock ‘why are you climbing the mountain?’ Kirk says, somewhat facetiously, because it’s there — a remark attributed to the climber, Mallory. Mountaineers climb, yes, because it’s there – because otherwise you’d be walking on the plains. But the mountain is climbed because I think the climber wants to hug the mountain. He wants to envelop that mountain within his body; he wants to make love to the mountain. And on its highest and finest level, whether these tough young guys with their sinewy bodies and their one-meal-a-day routine will admit it, there is a passionate affair going on between the climber and the mountain. Why do I climb the mountain, I would say the climber would say because I am in love.

- William Shatner

Grid North, a project by Brisbane based Artist-Run Initiative (ARI) Boxcopy, simulates the alpinist’s journey from first sight to summit, encapsulating all the risk, wonderment and glory in one specially crafted expedition. This trekking adventure tests physical and mental limits through rugged terrain and harsh conditions, while also offering moments of marvel and scenic revelation. Boxcopy creates an installation that uses the grid datum of the existing site to make space for audiences to navigate and discover the varying altitudes and wild vistas of artistic endeavor.

Grid North is the fourth large-scale installation in Boxcopy’s program of projects dedicated to temporary, ephemeral, site-specific installation-based works. Other off-site projects have included an installation for Structural Integrity, a 2010 Next Wave Festival keynote project in Melbourne, and a residency in Singapore supported by Next Wave and Asialink. Boxcopy supports the experimental and innovative practices of early and mid career Australian artists, and is currently run by Anastasia Booth, Joseph Breikers, Anita Holtsclaw, Tim Kerr (Canada-based), Channon Goodwin, Daniel McKewen, Raymonda Rajkowski, Marianne Templeton (UK-based) and Tim Woodward.

Wednesday 3 August 2011

Since April 2010, Halfbrick has sold six million copies of it's iPhone and iPod Touch game Fruit Ninja.

Phil Larsen, the Halfbrick marketing whiz behind Fruit Ninja's quirky internet ads joins us to chat about the world of mobile and casual games marketing, and the success of the Fruit Ninja campaign.

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[ video by Alastair Pickering ]

{ footage from 2010 Vena Cava Productions }