Programme
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Student name : Destination/award/year
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| MA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Sam Keung graduated won First Prize in the Victoria and Albert Museum International Photography competition ‘People and Places’. |
| BA Animation and Design |
Jonathan Tate, worked on the Creature Comforts animations produced by Aardman during a level 2 placement which went on to win a BAFTA and an Oscar. He was then offered a contract to continue working on the new American series of Creature Comforts in the USA. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Kevin Scilitoe (1998) has worked as an armature engineer mainly at Aardman since graduating from Sunderland. His first feature film credits were for Chicken Run. He worked on the Oscar and BAFTA winning Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit and on Warner Brothers The Corpse Bride. |
| BA Graphic Communication Design |
Jarmo Kovalainen was offered five employment opportunities from top design agencies during his first month following graduation. He went on to become a Senior Designer at PUNDA, a top graphic design group in Finland. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
The Design : Multimedia and Graphics course at Sunderland was acknowledged in Computer Arts as having the ‘longest period of continuous achievement by any UK degree course’ and it is the only course in the UK to have been selected for the prestigious Computer Arts Showcase – for a record ten years in a row. |
| BA Illustration and Design |
Utaka Godo Creative Director at Buinichi Publishing – Japan - a prestigious natural history and wildlife publishing house. During Utakas’ studies the Society of Wildlife Artists awarded him with a bursary against heavy competition nationally. He also exhibited his illustrations in the Mall Gallery, London and contributed to SWA calendar in the same year. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Tim Holman now works as a modelmaker in New Zealand and his credits include two of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films – The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
John Cramman produced the rigs and hydraulics in three of the Harry Potter films : Philosophers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and the BAFTA winning Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. |
| BA Illustration and Design |
David Jennings – won a contract for a series of three childrens books for Tiger Publications the month he graduated and has gone on to develop his reputation as an illustrator producing work for bluechip companies. |
| BA Animation and Design |
Kam Li Cheng’s BA final project animation ‘The Highwayman’ was submitted to the internationally renowned Bradford Animation Festival (largest in the UK). Although entered for the student category, it was considered so good that it was selected for screening amongst the elite professional work in Panorama. It was then shortlisted for a Royal Television Society Award. |
| MA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Olivier Laruelle was employed by ‘Agency Republic’ an innovative and highly respected Design agency in London. His website for the famous G8 Summit in Edinburgh in 2005 won acclaim at the Media Awards UK 2006. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Matthew Chaloner and Darren Jackson represented the UK in the International Ice Carving Festival in Latvia 2006 (The World Championships of Ice Sculpting). Darren won First Prize. They are amongst several 3D Design graduates who work as Ice Sculptors for a London based company. One of them Ben Edson won the Metropolis International award for Best Product Modelmaking, while Matthew Chaloner has title credits for the James Bond film ‘Die Another Day’, having sculpted the ‘special effects’ ice bed, of Halle Berry fame. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Ryan Davies works as motion-graphics designer for top Newcastle based Games design company Eutechnyx. They produce some of the best selling Playstation games on the market including Grand Theft Auto. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Graham Mitchell designed and produced an interactive learning tool for nursery school children called ‘Burnie the Rocket’ which was Overall Winner of the Europrix Student Prize (Europe’s Best in Multimedia) as well as the John Lansdowne Award. It was also selected to be ‘Best of Multimedia Category’ in the Student design Yearbook and it was the only entry from the whole of the UK to be selected for Milia Top Talent Awards in Cannes, world class Multimedia conference. Volkswagen later asked to buy the character rights for an advertising campaign. |
| BA Illustration and Design |
Daniel Rogers who graduated with MA Distinction in Illustration Design was helped to set up his company ‘Ican Design’ by CreativitiWorks - an incubator organisation supported by the University which helps young creatives set up their own businesses. Ican Design has now been running since 2004 and with a growing client base, has moved into new offices. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Danny Broddle set up his own design company ‘Passarella’ immediately upon graduating. Based in London, the company specialises in web design for the music industry and has won many international awards including Winner of best Audio website at FlashInTheCan in Canada. |
| BA Illustration and Design |
Beth Sibbald Produced design and illustration for publications relating to the ‘Archigram’ exhibition at the Baltic. She also regularly produces design work for the Laing Gallery, Newcastle. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Romain Berthet currently employed in the Austrian branch of Ogilvy Mather – one of the worlds leading Advertising Agencies – has won numerous international design awards during his time at this design group. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Gemma Procter has film credits for her work as a modelmaker on the Wallace and Gromit feature film (2005). She was also in the credits for her work on Chicken Run and more recently on Curse of the Were Rabbit. She has been a model maker at Aardman since she graduated. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Romain Perin won third prize in the prestigious Mando Student Website Awards 2002 - national website design competition out of over 150 entries, and now works as a web designer for the top award winning web design company called Shift in New Zealand. |
| BA Graphic Communication Design |
Victoria Eves went on to become a Senior Designer in Open University publications division. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Neil Skeldon was winner of second prize in the prestigious Mando Student Design Awards 2004 - a national website design competition. His entry actually started out as a first year website assignment at Sunderland, which he then developed further. He now runs his own web design company in Phuket, Thailand. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Kemi Olusoga won an Excellence award from Computer Arts for her superb digital illustrations in her ‘Holy book for Atheists’ and also won an Apple Computer Education prize. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics (formerly Electronic Media Design) |
Andrew Godfrey was a Finalist in the RSA Student Design Awards competition with an interactive multimedia design for a passpicture system to replace conventional passwords at cashpoint machines. He went on to become a designer working in London. |
| The Design Degrees |
The Student Design Yearbook is a glossy prestigious book printed annually featuring the top design talent in the UK. For two years running, the Sunderland Design degrees won ‘Best of Multimedia’ and had the work of over ten students featured. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Angela Goodwin became a Senior 3D Designer at IKEA UK. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Glenda Young developed a coursework website assignment, for an entry to the Guardian Student Media Awards 2000 and was shortlisted to the finals. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Gary Ellis, Tony Scott and Peter Younge were all highly commended for their use of technology in their entries to The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths - Craftsmanship and Design Awards |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
A team project by four of our French students Yann Binet, Romain Berthet, Romain Perin and Olivier Laruelle, was selected to be presented in Vienna when their entry to Europrix - Europe’s Best in Multimedia was shortlisted for the finals. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Brynne Porter went on to work as a rapid prototyping model maker at Jay Jays in Teesside |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Matthew Foster was employed to produce special effects involving liquid engineering, (chocolate, etc) working for Neave Billings in London. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
After graduating, Stuart Hingston set up his own design company called White Room Creations based in Newcastle, with clients ranging from Primula Cheese to Mercedes Benz |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Sean Tucker specialised in 3D modelling and animation during his degree and went on to work in this field in London – a set of skills he found to be in considerable demand. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Julian Bishop won the Kelly Morgan Award for Best Creative Model Making 2004 and went on to work as a model maker for York Model Making in Yorkshire. |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
Aiden Bargh and Daniel Bruce were both highly commended for their design work in the Chartered Society of Designers Student Awards |
| BA 3D Design Innovation |
While still a final year 3D student, Amalia Peill won second prize in a national competition to design a laminate for Formica UK. Her designs were included in the Formica Design a Laminate Book, and also on the competition website. She went on to design biodegradable childrens furniture which is now mass produced. |
| BA Animation and Design |
Simon Gillard was shortlisted from thousands in The Games Workshop Scriptwriting Competition. The Games Workshop is an organisation with a worldwide following. |
| BA Illustration and Design |
Paul Harris has had his work selected for inclusion in 'Images 31' published by the Association of Illustrators in 2007, which is an annual of the very best illustrators. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Charis Kan produced a website during a work placement, which won the Favourite Website Award in October 2006. Voted for by the public, the FWA features cutting edge website design. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Barry Gee works as a Web Manager in local Government in Durham, developing interactive e-learning websites and materials for schools as well as managing some of their e-learning portals. His remit includes exploring new ways for children to interact and learn. |
| BA Graphic Design Topup |
James Egan was awarded membership of the highly prestigious ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) for his design of a wonderful book looking at the origins of well known phrases through typographic experimentation. An example was a Greek style typeface painstakingly created for 'Spill the beans' on a concrete floor with real baked beans! |
| MA Animation and Design |
Maki Kobayashi’s MA animation film called Strawberry Loop has enjoyed enormous success having been selected for showings at
- the East End Film Festival in London, as well as
- the London Film Festival
- Festival Internacional de Filmets in Barcelona and
- top film festivals in Japan.
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| BA Graphic Design Topup |
Graeme Metcalf won a student competition to rebrand Kingsmeadow Comprehensive School in Gateshead. He worked with staff, pupils, the board of governors and the architects, to
enable him to produce a branding solution that could be taken right throughout the school, from printed material to uniforms, livery, and the building itself.
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| BA Illustration and Design |
Three illustration students Caroline Derrick, David Westgarth and Kirstine Fountain were shortlisted for the prestigious Lloyds TSB Illustration Awards, The Art of Nurture 2008. |
| BA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Adam Hartwig was shortlisted for the Adobe International Design Awards for his work creating real-time 3D with live conversion to printable nets in Flash and for his explorable worlds. |
| BA Animation and Design |
David Hutchinson and Ross Phillips animation graduates had their degree show films ‘The Birdwatcher’ and ‘The Old Man and the Bee’ selected for viewing at the Manchester Exposures Film Festival 2008 |
| BA Animation and Design |
Ross Phillips also won the first prize of £1000 in the Radar Competition at the London Film Festival. He has also had his film shown on the Italian MTV channel QQOB. |
| MA Animation and Design |
Kam Li Cheng’s MA film was screened at Siigraph 2008 one of the most prestigious animation festivals in the world |
| BA Animation and Design |
Gillian Biddle’s degree show film was selected to be screened on QOOB TV |
| BA Animation and Design |
Ahove Sule Level 2 Animation student produced a music video for a rap band in London who are releasing it to TV with their track. |
| BA Advertising and Design |
Ernest Wiyanto entered several different categories of the Crowbar Awards - an annual event run by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of Singapore. He won seven Crowbars and will appear in next years annual. Immediately after graduating, he was offered 3 different jobs by top Ad agencies around the world. He accepted the role of copywriter with Young & Rubicam in Singapore. |
| BA Advertising and Design |
Dani Brown and Paul Mann, a creative partnership were highly commended in the YCN (Young Creative Network) Annual Awards, with some adverts for the media giant SKY. A spokesperson from SKY said their work was exceptional and perfect for the target audience. |
| BA Advertising and Design |
Chris Rush and Andy Peel a creative partnership working in London, were finalists in the AV 08 festival, with a short promotional film they made entitled Awkward Conversations. |
| MA Design: Multimedia and Graphics |
Sam Keung who previously won First Prize in the Victoria and Albert Museum International Photography competition, has now won 2nd prize in the highly prestigious National Geographic International Photography Competition 2008 |
| BA Animation and Design |
Qian Yang (Joy) came second place in the National
Museums of Scotland Art Competition. Her work will be exhibited in the Museum of Scotland Hawthorneden Court in 2009, and also used in the National Museums Scotland enterprises and membership scheme.
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| BA Illustration and Design |
Susannah Rajaniemi, Chris Dunn, Frieda Schube and Sarah Kent all had their work shortlisted for the highly prestigious Lloyds TSB Illustration competition 2009. |
| BA Animation and Design |
David James film Peter and the chameleon was been
shortlisted for a Royal Television Award. David himself now works full time at Whetton and Grosch Studios as a traditional modelmaker working on models and props for television and film.
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| BA Advertising and Design |
Neil Bates and Teemu Markkanen were selected to have their work featured in the prestigious D&AD Student Annual 2009 |
| BA Animation and Design |
Gillian Biddle’s film "Beirut-Nantes" was accepted to screen at the
London Short Film Festival 2009. The film has also been selected from those being screened at the festival for the '4th Vauxhall Auteur Theory Award'. The organisers say "they will showcase the new generation of D.I.Y. auteurs who have produced inspired, refreshing work with personal flair and nerve."
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| BA Animation and Design |
Laura Mcdonald won the Aardman Competition to design and
sculpt a character that would fit in the Wallace and Gromit series. Her prize was her model photographed and signed by Nick Park and presented as a certificate of achievement.
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| BA Advertising and Design |
Neil Bates and Teemu Markkanen were selected to have their work featured in the prestigious D&AD Student Annual 2009 |
