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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2010
Moving space: C&CI 2010 short film competition
Loraine Beaton is one of 4 finalists in the Cement and Concrete Institute’s (C&CI) 2010 short film competition who will receive R25 000 to produce her film. Students were invited to focus a critical gaze on the built environment, in particular the urban environment, and the role of concrete in it.
The completed films will be shown at the Architect Africa Film Festival 2010, subject to selection for screening by the festival’s viewing committee. The Architect Africa Film Festival will form part of AZA 2010 and will visit all major centres in SA. Films will be made available and marketed to international architecture film festivals through the Architect Africa Film Festival (subject to all applicable protocols) and will be offered for broadcast to a local television channel.
Flags Galore
Miranda Rautenbach, Phillip Kraft, PJ Kotze, Cené van der Merwe and Ignatius Meyer entered an international exhibition that was open to artists and students. All our students were accepted into the exhibition. Cené even received a special mention in the German press. Their task was to select two flags of any country and to explore the relationship between them in a flash animation. (Visit: http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net/flag-animation.html).
The exhibition was held in Cologne on 16 April, will be going to Berlin soon and has just been invited to Singapore. Our students are credited as well as The Open Window.
Stamps
The Philatelic Department of the South African Post Office once again commissioned our Illustration students to create designs for stamps. Themes varied from “The year of Bio-diversity” to “Bridging the Digital Divide”. Students who came up with the winning designs were: Tyrone Patrick, Jacoline Naudé and Roxanne Thomas.
2009
Assegai Awards
- Student Marketing Campaign - gold, silver & bronze
South African Bank Note Society’s Banknote Competition
- Melandi Marneweck (2nd), Alinde Lombaard (3rd) & Matty Naudé (finalist)
Loerie Awards
- Louis Minnaar (Bronze), Hano Erasmus & Marthinus Wessels finalists
TOW Best Achievement Awards
- Degree level 3: Melandi Marneweck & Christopher Pinto
- Degree level 2: Alexis Schofield
- Diploma level 2: Danelle Wilkinson
- Foundation level: Jonathan Hau-Yoon
2008
M-Net Edit Online Awards
- Louis Minnaar, winner: Animation Category
Construction New Media Awards
- Neil van Vuuren, winner: Innovation Category
Assegai Awards
- Student Campaign of the Year - gold, silver & certificate
South African Bank Note Society’s Banknote Competition
- Elmarie van Niekerk, winner
TOW Best Achievement Awards
- Degree level 3: Rudi Stark
- Degree level 2: Christopher Pinto
- Diploma level 2: Arno Hattingh
- Foundation level: Alexis Schofield & Karien Mulder
2007
South African Bank Note Society’s Banknote Competition
- Elani Potgieter 1st, Michelle Beukes 2nd, Tamarin Skead 3rd
New Signatures
- Francois Jonker & Neil van Vuuren, selected for exhibition
Design Achievers Awards
- Ryan Atkinson, finalist
2006
South African Bank Note Society’s Banknote Competition
- Francois Jonker finalist
Loerie Awards
- Steven Brewis, finalist
2005
Construction New Media Awards
- Eddie van Rensburg, bronze award
- Wiehan de Jager, finalist
Design Achievers Awards
- Nina Pfeiffer, runner-up
Loerie Awards
- Steven Brewis, finalist
2004
Construction New Media Awards
- Lleroy Botha, finalist
Sappi Think Ahead Awards
- Kobus Fick, merit award
- Steven Brewis, finalist
Design Achievers Awards
- Christiaan Venter, overall winner
2003
Sappi Think Ahead Awards
- Benedikt Jordaan, gold award
- Christiaan Venter: silver award
- Janhendrik Burger, silver award
Design Achievers Awards
- Wiehan de Jager, honourable mention
2002
Design Achievers Awards
Steven Brewis, finalist
PRESS RELEASES
> The Open Window students have continued their winning streak by taking second and third prize in the South African Banknote Society’s 2009 banknote competition.
Click here for the press release.
> The Open Window presented the IMPAC film festival in Pretoria and Johannesburg in 2009 to promote and provide a platform for innovative short films of an exploratory nature.
Click here for the press release
> The Open Window hosted the international TEDX conference in 2009 with the aim to bring together people from design, technology and entertainment.
Click here for the official TED theme press release.