“This collaboration was one where real and tangible results were evident. The collaboration between the health sector partner and design student had during 2010 and 2011 events produced a large number of ideas and potential projects..The very simple initiative of using USB sticks to provide information to expectant mothers had resulted the employment of five people and high annual savings for the Health Authority. This is a highly impressive outcome for a student project ‘idea’ and is evidence of a genuine ‘meeting of minds’ and a will to develop and implement ideas to production. It also provided students with entrepreneurial opportunities to further develop their own projects. Excellent collaboration.“

Sandra Gunn, Curriculum Director of the City of Glasgow College, Great Britain

“A persistent collaboration addressing one of our most serious challenges in the future – health. The collaboration has a modern approach with great potential to develop even further. The progress of InnoEvent over years is described as well as the generation of new jobs and the potentially increasing financial return.”

Ann-Britt Carlsson, Officer of Development, Västarvet, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

You can read more about the project here.

Jumdum Media

Jumdum Media is a creative web agency that helps people kick ass in the digital world, using strategy, technology and creativity! They love to inspire and showcase their passion for design and creativity in every project.

Thomas loves the fact that whenever people hear the word Jumdum, they smile. The word itself means nothing. Thomas just thought of names like yahoo, jubii, google ect. Something that would be easy to remember. Since this was Thomas’ own company, he wanted it to be something different and funny. That’s also the reason why he chose his signature colour to be pink. Why not? Jumdum Media has certainly raised a few eyebrows since it launched.

What do you love about MMD?

What is not to love at MMD Odense?? Everything is in a perfect harmony.

All the time we are encouraged to make possible each crazy idea we have. Like one of my teacher said: “All big companies started from nothing”. To be more specific, take a look at Google and Facebook.

The school provides us with a top technology and updated information to make the study more attractive and to make you understand that each of us could make the next revolution.

Even during a small project the environment in the school gives you a great feeling, like you would work in the best team from Google.

Being an international school we change opinions and thoughts with many other cultures making friends from all over the world.

Last but not least: the magical Friday Bar, where after a long week we treat our colleagues, friends and teachers with a cold, cheap beer.

This is just the beginning, I’m in the 1st semester .

Why did you come to MMD?

It took me one year of my life (while I studied at another school in Odense, Denmark) and a blog (made with Adrian Stoiedin) to realize that I don’t belong there and my place is at MMD Odense.
Here is the place where I can express myself in my own way without any restrictions. In this school you NEED to think outside of the box.

What do you want to be?

My goal is to work as manager in my own multimedia design company. To achieve this, MMD Odense gives me the opportunity to learn and improve the way of dealing with customers. It helps me to think outside-the-box and makes me believe that everything is possible in the design and interaction part of this education. In order to run a company the business part is essential to know how to make the strategies, to be able to react in different situations wisely and to be a great project manager.
I’m looking forward to gather new experience and knowledge as much as possible, during this education, to be ready to face the real wide world, well prepared.

I uge 46 fra den 14.–20. november 2011 er der mere end 100
tilbud over hele landet til alle, der drømmer om

at starte virksomhed eller se deres virksomhed vokse. Der er
arrangementer for alle – fra iværksætterspirer i

folkeskolen til direktører med vækstambitioner. Ugen byder
på events, workshops, konkurrencer, foredrag og

konkret rådgivning, hvor danske og udenlandske eksperter
stiller deres viden til rådighed.

Bag kampagnen står Økonomi- og Erhvervsministeriet sammen
med 33 offentlige og private organisationer.

I 2010 deltog 12.200 unge, iværksættere og virksomheder i
141 arrangementer. Kampagnen er en del af Global
Entrepreneurship Week med 40.000 events i 100 lande.

Dækningen laves i samarbejde med Nordfyns erhverv.

Michael Lundorff-Hansen er kontakt person.

What do you love about MMD?

I like the learning process that differs very much from other countries.  Working in groups is really a lot of fun: we share ideas, emotions, stress, food, beers, and insanity! It is nice to have curious people who share your inspirations; and to find yourself busy without even feeling that you are actually working.

I also love meeting people from different countries and making friends from all over the world, just staying at one place!

I also love the Friday bar! It’s nice to chill out and have a cheap beer among fellow students.

Why did you come to MMD?

Actually, I was very amazed when I saw this speciality. It sounded like mix of all the things that I am interested in and the boring parts were excluded from the equation. Just the perfect match!  Also, I have the option to work on projects related to the real world and this sounded just awesome for me! I always tried to understand people’s different way of thinking and behaving because I love to find a way to make them smile.

I told to myself: “Finally, there is a place where I will no longer have to choose between design and programming, and not only this, but at last I will be able to use them both to make people happier. ”

What do you want to be?

I have found myself very curious about the many possible directions after my graduation.  Many doors are opened in front of me right now due to the fact that this education gives a lot of interesting options for further growth.  I think that I will just try to combine and use all of them in the multimedia scope where I would really love to become an Experience Designer one day soon.

You can see more of Adriana’s work at her online portfolio: http://adrianabg.com

Frost Portfolio

My name is Lyubomir Spirov. I have always been interested in creating  cool things. For instance I started doing so by drawing horror characters, mecha concepts, imaginary super heroes and so on.  Since then, I have known that somehow the art of drawing would be part of my life.

When I graduated from high school, I stood up and told myself that I had to move on. That’s what I did- I followed my heart and applied for MMD, because I wanted my creativity to come back. Before being enrolled at MMD, I had had no clue about Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Maya etc.

As I was going forward, I discovered a new world without any boundaries and then I came up with this: “A web/graphic designer itself is a God”. After passing the first semester, I had a clear vision of what I would put most efforts on-  visualization.

What’s my project all about?

Having been inspired by the world’s coolest company- Blizzard, I came up with an awesome idea on creating a portfolio design that would fit my interests absolutely.  It was a good reason to express my dedication to that giant gaming producer by creating a piece of work that shall hold inside all my game and design passion beyond any limits.

How did I make it?

The most complicated part of my task was actually  figuring out of the concept. Firstly I started by sketching the design up with a pencil. It’s a good method in order to create the basic structure of your project.  You might ask what is so hard? Well, there are many rules that you have to work by.  Anyway, I made five or six sketches and then I had to consider which was the best.

What tool did I use?

After getting clear the concept, I used the well-known programs- Photoshop and Illustrator.  By doing so, I  gave a life sparkle to my sketch and got it done just like you can see it now. To be more precise in my explanation, I made the logo in Illustrator, and the rest of the design in Photoshop.

How much time did it take?

Summing up all of the steps that I covered in order to finalize the design, I spent  about  four  days of hard working . Most of the designers will do such a piece of work for 2 days, but I personally prefer working out everything  until  it is done perfectly.

Do I have more works to show?

Yes, I do! Recently I have become a member of Deviantart’s creative community and there I have submitted all the works that I have got up to now. Do you want to check it out?  Click here.

What would I like to master?

In several years, I find myself both as a web designer and a concept artist. I would very much like to create complex gaming web designs, characters and environment. Yet I have got to do a lot of work but at least I have put a start to it.  “99% of hard working and 1% of talent”, as it were.

12 Poems by Ave

I’ve always thought that it is important to make your own projects alongside your education. In that way your portfolio will automatically increase, while you go in depth on specific topics. And then it’s just great to learn something new while creating an an interactive experience.

So after enjoying the concert with Ave on Spot Festival 2009 where they played with Odense Symphony Orchestra and Herning Boys Choir, I took contact to the band from Funen, and offered my help with their on-line material. It has since developed into a greater cooperation and friendship, and I have the last 2 years working as a multimedia designer for Ave.

Apart from press photos and other visual material, the majority of my work for Ave has concentrated on a promotional website for their album release in October 2010.

The design for 12poems.com

The whole concept behind 12poems.com came when I listened to the music of Ave. The stories I got from listening, was written down, I found some of my old pictures which was cut and pasted in before they were put together again in Photoshop. It actually ended up with every single item on the website were photographed separately and then put together in order to create the house. Most of the effects that have been photographed are things I’ve found in Ave’s rehearsal room.

Programming 12poems.com

I was always sure that the website should be very visually and be an interactive site where users had to get involved to find their way through the universe.

Since I never really had created a flash website before, I started out by looking for a flash developer to assist me in this project. And get my design to be interactive and lively. But since I could not find anyone who had the time or courage to get involved in the project, I chose to take an on-line course in flash coding. And in that way I got the design to work as a website. It took time and was incredibly hard to work alone with everything myself. But after launching the site, and receiving all the good PR that has been on the project, I’m very proud and happy with the outcome.

My flash teacher at MMD, Michael Koch has been a fantastic support and help when the coding went wrong and I had to write, call or met up at his office with all my many questions. And therefore a big thanks for your help, Miko!

It has been an amazing learning experience and insanely fun to be allowed to create the universe for the album “12 Poems And Sing Me The Silence I Once Used To Know”.

But it does not end at 12poems.com. There is something new under its way and in the end of 2011, and start of 2012, there will be something new from our side. Until then, you can see the universe at www.12poems.com and follow my work at www.stinealbertsen.dk

Tell us about yourself.

Hi there, my name is Szabolcs Szakacs, I’m from Romania where I finished “Titu Maiorescu” University and got a bachelor in informatics in 2009, delivering a project about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I got a scholarship to come to Denmark and study computer engineering at Southern Denmark University, where I graduated in 2011 with a thesis about web technologies, design and search engine optimization. Recently I graduated as a multimedia designer from Lillebaelt Erhversakademiet where I participated in several projects with people from different cultural and educational backgrounds and as a final project, together with my colleague, Egle Slimaite, we opened and launched our own company, called Handcrafted Dream Studio.

What do you love about MMD?

MMD was different from all my previous educations, it was something that I’ve chosen out of pure curiosity and a little interest. It turned out to be the most friendly environment that I’ve ever studied/worked in; people helping each other from different groups, socializing every Friday at the “Friday bar” and other cool events.
Oh, maybe you’re more interested in what you might learn? I can tell you that if you are up to it, you can learn a lot! Some of it won’t be interesting, some of it will be boring and some of it might not even be enough, but you’ll learn how to work together, share the knowledge and succeed as a team and in the same time learn on your own and learn how to learn the best way, your way!

Why did you come to MMD?

I came to MMD because I had time and didn’t know how better to spend it (at that time I didn’t had a job). I believe I made the right choice. This education helped me make a huge step towards my dream to open my own company. I found the right person to do it with, I got an incredible amount of help from teachers and professionals and here I am now, as the proud Marketing Manager of Handcrafted Dream Studio.

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• What do you love about MMD?
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