The Media Innovation Awards celebrate the innovative use of screen based media across the South West. The 2009 competition will launch in October and any member of a South West based cluster group or their clients can enter.
There will be 17 categories and the overall winner will be awarded the 2009 MIA Trophy.
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The nominations will be announced in February and the awards presented at a glittering gala awards dinner to be held at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol on Thursday 12th March.
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The 2008 awards attracted entries from as far afield as Penzance and Poole and will be promoted to nearly 4000 members of the clusters all working in the media, design and new media sectors.
The judges area respected members of the UK media and new media industry which will enhance the value of the awards.
A student from Plymouth College of Art has been chosen to design the trophy for the 2009 Media Innovation Awards.
| Janey Pointing has been selected to design the trophies for the 17 individual categories, as well as winning the competition to design the trophy received by the overall prize winner for the Media Innovation Awards 2009. |
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She is a mature student who decided to return to full-time education in 2006 so that she could pursue her love of art and all things three dimensional by taking the Applied Arts course. She had the opportunity to study glass making and has used her skills with this medium to create the winning innovative trophy.
Janey says her design is based on the aesthetic concept of an ‘umbrella’, as the clusters are umbrella groups for people working in Media and Design in the region,
“I feel honoured to have won this commission and I hope that my trophies will have pride of place within the recipient’s home or office."The competition was open to all students in full time education in the South West and the winner receives £500 to cover the cost of the design and production of the trophy, which will be presented to the overall winner of the Media Innovation Awards 2009.
Karen Stockdale of the Media Innovation Awards said, “The trophy design competition presents an exciting opportunity for young designers to put their creativity to the test and the standard of entries received this year was extremely high. Innovation was the key factor for the trophy design and Janey’s contemporary design is an excellent choice.”
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