Remembering David Lin: September 6, 1985 - June 28, 2019
Centre for Digital Media is saddened to learn that MDM alumni David Lin passed away on June 28, 2019. David graduated from the Master of Digital Media program in 2014. Before the MDM program, he graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double concentration of Design and Media in Interactive Arts and Technology.
Read MoreGerri Sinclair Award Winners on Building a Mixed Reality Concert Experience
Centre for Digital Media’s Gerri Sinclair Award for Innovation in Digital Media is awarded every year to recognize a student or group of students in the MDM Program who created a digital media product or innovation that has great potential either as a commercial digital media product...
Read MoreDemo Day Mixed Start-ups with Accelerators, Funders and Like-Minded Entrepreneurs
Last Tuesday, Centre for Digital Media held its first annual Alumni Startup Demo Day & Mixer, where alumni startup companies from the MDM program, along with startups from CDM’s partner schools - UBC, SFU and BCIT - presented their companies, met with investors and networked with entrepreneurs.
Read MoreFrom Audio Engineering To Game Design: Meet Quinn Brander
Many students who enroll in the Master of Digital Media program have interesting backgrounds that ultimately shape their career paths after the program. Take Quinn Brander, for example, a CDM alumni that came to the program in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in audio engineering.
Read MoreMDM Grads Offer Design Sprint and Rapid Prototyping Services
Agile, design sprints and rapid prototyping are terms that we hear everywhere but how do companies leverage these methods to innovate fast and work better in teams? MDM grads Marina Bertoldi and Julie Puech (the duo from The Impossible Studio ) are helping businesses with questions...
Read MoreFrom MDM To Managing Director of Thinkingbox: Meet Christine Clark
Graduating from the Master of Digital Media program can lead to many pathways in the digital media industry. The program gives students a ton of career options and the path each graduate takes is always interesting. Meet Christine Clark. Coming from UBC’s Theatre Program, she took the...
Read MoreThree MDM Student Cohorts Work Together To Develop VR Theater at SIGGRAPH
This past summer, Vancouver hosted SIGGRAPH, an annual computer graphics conference. The conference attracts tens of thousands of global visitors and was the first time SIGGRAPH was back in Vancouver since 2014. MDM faculty Larry Bafia was this year’s producer for the Computer...
Read MoreWhat Makes an MDM Student Cohort Successful?
This is a farewell speech from Master of Digital Media Program Director, Richard Smith. The speech was spoken at the MDM ungrad on August 17th, a celebration of the completion of the first three terms of the MDM program. In the MDM program our students learn many processes along the...
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