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Maria Centola showcases her design and illustration skills in mobile games, websites and apps as a Digital Designer in London

Maria Centola showcases her design and illustration skills in mobile games, websites and apps as a Digital Designer in London

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight

Maria Centola moved to the UK after graduating from IDEA School of Design in 2016. Her 3-month design internship at Sennep in London became a full-time job. Maria mainly creates user interfaces at Sennep using Sketch, InVision and After Effects including new illustrations for Sennep's mobile game OLO.

Her freelance projects include editorial pieces for Montecristo, street banners for Port Moody, and postcards for the redevelopment of the Canada Post Office in downtown Vancouver.

In June 2020 she will start as a Digital Designer at an agency called SOON_. Check out Maria’s story and podcast!

Third year students UI Design Systems Project—Designing a Finance App for Teens

Third year students UI Design Systems Project—Designing a Finance App for Teens

James Neufeld
Student Work

Third-year IDEA students were put to task, over a 3-class UI design sprint. Students from IDEA Grad 2021, were given the challenge to make financial data analysis motivating and easy to understand for a niche user group! Shown above: CoinHub personal finance app UI design by Haluka Yagi (IDEA Grad 2021). Instructor: Christina Lee Kim Koon (IDEA Grad 2010).

Check out some of our favourites from this UI Design project!

IDEA22 Studio Tours to Mobify + MetaLab Vancouver

IDEA22 Studio Tours to Mobify + MetaLab Vancouver

Christina Paone
Field Trips

IDEA22 set out to explore the working environment and day-to-day tasks of two Vancouver based digital design businesses.

This group of second-year students is in the process of studying interaction design foundations. This course focuses on: UX storyboards/user empathy, landing page design, motion design, HTML & CSS, and CMS structures.

Check out some photos from the field trip!

Garret Schauteet (IDEA15), Designer at BASIC @ Google HQ in San Diego

Garret Schauteet (IDEA15), Designer at BASIC @ Google HQ in San Diego

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Industry Connections

Garret Schauteet (IDEA Grad 2015) spent 3 years in Vancouver with the incredibly talented team at 123w while collaborating with partner agencies and a vast amount of freelancers from all over the world.

From there, he moved to BASIC® and spent 2018 embedded at Google in San Francisco, where he helped elevate Made by Google’s digital retail and product experiences on a global scale.

He’s recently transferred to BASIC®’s HQ in San Diego, where he continues to work on new Google initiatives and other global brands like Coach and Airbnb. Catch up on Garret!

Emily Rose—illustration and design practicum at Chairman Ting Industries Inc., Vancouver, BC

Emily Rose—illustration and design practicum at Chairman Ting Industries Inc., Vancouver, BC

James Neufeld
Practicums & Internships

"So many promo packages!" writes Emily Rose regarding her practicum at Production Road working under the owner of Chairman Ting Industries Inc., Carson Ting. Emily never thought she’d be part of an email chain with over 100 emails, working on a project from all different countries and different timezones!

Her practicum included designing icons to be animated, an album cover, learning different ways to apply her illustrations and even transferring domain names for a website client.

Check out Emily's practicum story!

Shanene Lau (IDEA18)—Junior Designer at Cossette Communications

Shanene Lau (IDEA18)—Junior Designer at Cossette Communications

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Graphic Design, Industry Connections, Practicums & Internships

Shanene Lau’s practicum last year turned into an internship and then a job as a Junior Designer. In this Grad Spotlight, Shanene shares her advice to art school students regarding “paralyzing fears”, making decisions and concludes “Remember that you already have everything you need, in here *points to heart*”. Catch up with Shanene!