It is official: We are innovative. We managed to completely persuade the panel of experts at the “Digital Media NRW” innovation competition, part of the “Digitales Medienland NRW” initiative, with the project presentation of an HTML5-based browser game framework and a game built on it: Our project will be sponsored for one year under the ERDF co-financed operational program for North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ziel 2 “Regional Competitiveness and Employment” objective of the EU.
Behance in Düsseldorf
VUCX has been invited to present our works at Behance Düsseldorf event.
Friday February 21st, 7 pm at Coworking Loft, Midener Str. 30, Düsseldorf
Behance Portfolio Reviews are international events for leading creatives. They take place monthly and are aimed to present and get feedback on creative work, hear from experienced professionals, and meet local creative communities.
My favorite projects
It has been almost half a year I am working as an intern at VUCX. I have to say it was a pleasant experience so far but challenging at the times. I have been doing a lot of small internal things from printing out my own business cards, so I can get in to the VIP REGIELOUNGE 44:DÜSSELDORF event.
What is it all about?
I thought by now I would be able to tell you what VUCX is all about, but you know what? Even the people working over a year as freelancers here can’t tell you exactly. It’s always about different projects and that’s why it is so interesting!
Before coming to Cologne I did some sneaking on Vision and so I had some basic idea about the company itself. It is pretty clear when you visit the website that it is not just about moving images or just printed media. It is crossmedia.
I always get this question: what is crossmedia?
First week at VUCX
We, me and Lui (new italian office buddy),
have got a first day at VUCX a week ago. It was quite confusing, with so many new names to remember from the head of office till the dogs runing around, but also great! The office is filled with such an atmosphere that it seems everybody has got a shot of happiness before coming to work.
I don’t know how does it work but once you step in here you can immediatly feel the relaxed, friendly, creative and open office vibe, make a cup of coffee whenever you want and plate of pasta for lunch, for example. Also I have been told that every crazy idea coming up to your mind is to be visualized and made happen by the people here and hi end film, photo & video equipment held in the technic room.
As from the point of view who am I and what I am doing here: I am an intern coming from Lithuania trying to get better idea of what working in the creative field means. So far I have been doing some presentations – simply putting things together, helping with some layouts for the upcoming Easter sales brochure for Lyoness and retouching couple of photos as well as pimping up an old logo to the new one!
VUCX supports school project in South Africa
VUCX is supporting the rebuilding of primary school „No-Moscow“ in Qunu, South Africa. The project was intitiated by former president and Nobel prize winner Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela together with the Lyoness Child & Family foundation.
At their Annual Meeting in Vienna with 11,000 participants the worlds biggest shopping community Lyoness had organised an auction for the benefit of the Lyoness Child & Family Foundation.
The object of desire was a hand-signed framed image of Nelson Mandela, which had been taken during the latest visit at the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in July 2012.
The creative process in film making
It all starts with the visual
Check out this interview with Olivier Stockman from renowned Sands Film in London.
Sands Film is a studio, a creative environment, a costume manufactory specialized in historical costumes, a theater, and much more.
Olivier talks about the studio and their work in general. One of the most fascinating insights he shared is the non-digital creative research process.
He explains why non-Googelish creative research and inspirational non-digital work are essential to finding inspiration. And what it does to you and your creative process in general. And why they built this vast library with thousands of visuals. “It all starts with the visual…” The visuals are classified by subject, years etc.
Non-Googleish creative research means the urge to type in words into Google and other digital platforms like Pinterest to find instant inspiration.