Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

Crafting Magic 2.0 – The Thickening   2026 Posters | Open Education Talks https://oetalks.opened.ca/category/2026-posters/ The Crafting Magic 2.0 poster links to the art project’s website, Shift/Work: Crafting Magic https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/craftingmagic/ which is written and maintained by Prof Neil Mulholland and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 It also links to project repo […]

The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century George Elder Davie (First edition 1961; third edition 2013, Edinburgh University Press) The Scottish university system differed markedly from the English one. It prioritised broad general education and a strong philosophical foundation: Four-year general degree (usually entered at age 15–16), providing a broad education […]

Art in Translation (AIT) publishes the best writing from around the world on the visual arts, architecture, and design in English translation. The journal was launched on 26 February 2009 with generous funding from Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. Initially published three times a year, Art in Translation increased its frequency to four times a year, starting […]

In this 70th anniversary of Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh, alumnus Mengying Zhang shares her experiences as a valued member of our Nursing Studies community  Could you introduce yourself and share when you studied in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh?  My name is Mengying Zhang, and I completed my MSc and PhD in […]

​Poppy, from the UK, studying Arabic and History  Year of Study: second year undergraduate Accommodation Type: Private   Part-time job: Student Ambassador   Day one  I like to spend my Sundays meal prepping and getting ready for the week ahead. Usually in the morning I’ll spend my time at church catching up with friends, plus they offer a free meal for […]