During the Innovation Camp, participants will engage in a 3-day Mini-Studio experience (a shorter version of NuVu’s typical 2-week Studio Module) and will go through the design process of brainstorming, developing, and building a project. With the support of NuVu Coaches (visiting innovators and experts in their field), participants will advance their ideas through a critical, iterative design process.

The Graphics Mini-Studio Track will focus on a topic that involves a challenging real-world graphics problem. Sample projects are provided below that showcase the type of work that will be done in this Mini-Studio.

Our Goal was to make a movie that we would give people who aren’t at NuVu an idea of how NuVu works. We decided to focus our movie on the design process that goes on at NuVu, since that is one of the main things that makes NuVu what it is. We made scenes showing many tools and steps that we use when making projects, starting with brainstorming and all the way to the final model.

We decided to take live film and animate things on top of it, so that not only the content, but also the style of the movie show what students could do at NuVu. The style of our animations is white animated lines overlayed on top of live footage. We wanted to make the animations seem friendly and helpful, so we made them help the person in the scene do what they needed to do, from giving guidelines to follow, to showing things from new angles, to just making life easier.

We created an animation discussing Narcissistic Personality Disorder. NPD is a psychological condition in which a person has an excessive sense of self-importance, an extreme preoccupation with themselves, and lack of empathy for others. This disorder can be taken lightly, so we are trying to bring forth the truth about NPD. We hoped to educate people on the actuality of the disorder and provide original facts while weaving in humor through out the entire video. Captivating the audience with humor makes learning about the psychological condition more "fun". We chose this disorder because it has a message that hits home to everyone; everyone is a little bit narcissistic. We chose to completely animate our infographic because we invisioned a disproportional body. This body had a larger head to make "fun" of the "big-headnedness" and self-obsessed charchteristics associated with NPD.