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COFA Annual 2009 Exhibition - College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia 
 
It’s a big event on the Sydney art calendar - every year, for one night, thousands of artists, students, academics, curators and members of the public pack the College of Fine Arts (COFA) to see the most interesting works made by final year students at The University of New South Wales art school. The exhibition is called COFA Annual 2009 

Hit play, and you’ll see some of what they saw - smoking heads, an endless flood of spilt milk, an army tank made from office refuse, and a lot more - a stunning collection of work across every medium you can think of…

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Ian McArthur from COFA Online discusses the Collabor8 Project, a cross-cultural online studio for Chinese and Australian students.

The implications of true cross-cultural learning and teaching are highly relevant to the future of education in an increasingly networked world. Ian speaks about the recent Porosity | Collabor8 project called ‘e-scape’ porosity.c8.omnium.net.au. The project is an international collaborative design studio between China and Australian Universities that successfully used online and face to face studio teaching practices. Ian explores the cultural, communication and trust issues that arose when students from two different worlds worked so closely together for the first time.

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Trent Jansen, the award winning Australian object designer of the Moooi Pregnant Chair, talks about his love of graffiti and his stencil design that brings it into 3 dimensions.

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‘13 Stingrays’ is a music clip by College of Fine Arts (COFA) student Toby Pedersen for Sydney band ‘Richard in your mind’. Toby approached the band with some examples of his work and they were more then happy to let him proceed. ‘13 Stingrays’ has won the Wacom Award for Best Motion Graphics.

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Simon Waterfall is a director of a UK fashion label called Social Suicide socialsuicide.co.uk/ and former Creative Director and Founding Partner of Poke London, a leading creative interactive design company also based in the UK. Simon speaks to COFA Online about the creative journey that led him to where he is today, and the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach in creating successful, cohesive design solutions.

Through discussion of the challenges and creative thinking behind his fashion label Social Suicide, Simon offers us a glimpse of how design is, through necessity in our digitally networked world, a bridge that unifies different means of communication about an idea.

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Eva Rucki and Sebastian Noel of Troika troika.uk.com, a successful art and design studio in London, discuss two of their amazing installation pieces - Firefly and Cloud.

Eva and Sebastian speak about breaking convention, and generating the original ideas for both projects. They also highlight the conceptual and technical problems that arose during construction, and discuss the innovative solutions they derived to overcome these problems. These are two truly amazing cross-disciplinary projects.

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In this talk with COFA Online, Nik discusses how his traditional training in sculpture has become integrated with his creative approach to design problems. He explains how to approach the development of ideas for projects, and the necessity of understanding the details and essence of the core concept to enable an idea come to life.

Nik Roope is Creative Director and Founding Partner of Poke London, a leading creative interactive design firm www.pokelondon.com, and Hulger, an innovative product design company www.hulger.com.

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