AWARDS LIT Fashion student scoops ‘Student Designer of the Year’ at the 2017 Irish Fashion Innovation Awards 4th year LIT Art & Design student, Kate O’Doherty has won the overall Student Designer of the Year award for her unique and creative design at the Irish Fashion Innovation annual awards show. Fashion student Kate beat off stiff competition from forty two other students from across Ireland who showcased their designs to over 500 guests at the awards show. A bright future beckons for Kate in the fashion world and her complete collection will be on display at Limerick School of Art & Design’s annual graduate show in May in Limerick. Clonmel Animation Graduate wins National Award Jodi Henry, a graduate of LIT’s Digital Animation Production degree short film ‘Let’s be Friends’ won the prestigious Best Music/Sound Design category at Animation Dingle Film Festival this year. The animated short was her final year project while studying in LIT Clonmel. As well as the major award, Jodi was also nominated for the Best Irish Student Animation Award. Two other short films created by LIT Animation students were also screened and made the Official Selection at the prestigious Dingle Festival - “A Little Light” by graduate Rachel Barrett and “Encounter of the Purple Kind” by 2nd year students Evan Maher, Aidan Wall and Martin Whelan. The BSc (Hons) in Digital Animation Production at LIT Clonmel is designed for students who wish to design, create and animate for both 2D and 3D platforms such as TV, Film and Games. The programme blends traditional art practices with creative technologies to produce the future of animation talent in Ireland and abroad. Throughout the 4 years, there is a focus on developing students’ core skills in traditional animation disciplines of drawing, illustration, character and environment design with a strong emphasis on animation principles. Building on this base, students continue to develop their creative voice and are trained in industry standard processes, software and technologies to see their visions brought to life on screen. Information on the programme is available at: www.lit.ie/courses/LC518 LIT’s Limerick School of Art & Design gets the ‘Vogue’ seal of approval LSAD got the Vogue seal of approval recently after being picked up by the prestigious ‘Vogue Italia’, the Italian edition of Vogue magazine. LSAD’s Fashion Department has been ranked within the top 50 Fashion Design schools in the world along with famed schools Central Saint Martens in London and Parsons in New York. Speaking to Vogue Italia, Head of the Fashion Design programme at LIT, Anne Melinn said the students in Limerick are paving the way for innovation in creativity “Our students are creators and producers. The courses are based on the reality of the fashion industry, with strict deadlines and multi-tasking assignments. Their creations are then exposed to Graduate Fashion Week in London to give the student the opportunity to promote their hard work”. LSAD prides itself on former graduates which include Joanne Hynes, Kevin Finn, Karen Morgan, Natalie B. Coleman, and Danielle Romeril who are trailblazing through the Fashion world. Follow LSAD’s Facebook page to keep up-to-date with news and events at the award winning centre: Facebook.com/LIT.LSAD SPOTLIGHT
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