Interactive Media Design

studios

The heart of the course is in the IMD studios, where our students not only work together, but very much make themselves at home. These studios are modelled on the multidisciplinary studios within design groups and whether our students are working in teams or individually, they always benefit from each other's ideas, opinions and skills - and friendships.

In and around the studios, our students have access to all the facilities you might expect, with the support of expert technicians. We have our own dedicated IT network consisting of Apple iMac workstations, installed with all the necessary tools including Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and InDesign, as well as MS Office. All users have generous network quotas, which includes personal live webspace (along with which students also make heavy use of a MySQL database server). In addition, we have access to high-end video editing and 3D animation suites.

We now exclusively use Arduino microcontrollers for the portions of the course which involve physical computing. Along with these, students have access to electronic components, motors and more esoteric addons such as GPS, WiFi and RFID modules.

We also maintain a selection of projectors and speakers, digital still and video cameras, lights, and professional sound recording equipment.

Other facilities include woodworking and electronics workshops, laser cutters and fabric printing.