2015 News

Read past news stories from the School of Design Innovation's 2015 news archive.

  • Pokemon

    Media Design student’s internship in Tokyo

    Four Victoria University Media Design students spent the summer in Tokyo doing an internship at the animation studio OLM. OLM produces computer graphics for animated films and television they’re behind the well-known Pokemon series.

  • Three students looking at a computer.

    Design grads head to Melbourne

    When three Victoria University of Wellington students took part in the Viclink Futures Bootcamp during the summer of 2012/13, they wanted to learn how to build a business around their passion for developing computer games. They duly formed their own company, One Legged Crab (OLC) and, just 18 months later, were flying to Melbourne to showcase one of their games – Boy Goes To Space (BGTS) – at PAX Australia.

  • Live the dream logo

    Young entrepreneurs help create a better New Zealand

    New Zealand’s next generation of social entrepreneurs will gather at Victoria University of Wellington this summer for an intensive enterprise accelerator programme called Live the Dream.

  • Teaching fellow Birgit Bachler

    Open Source success for teaching fellow

    Victoria University Media Design teaching fellow Birgit Bachler won the Open Art award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards last night.