Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 5

N ew M ed ia

Kolmar ’11 share their passion for new media

Program
 Diversity
 &
 Collaboration

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Graphic
 Design

Web
 Design

Mobile
 Development

Programming

Video
 Produc:on

Game
 Design

Digital
 Journalism

Audio
 Engineering

Digital
 Imaging

Interac:ve
 Art

Physical
 Compu:ng

Wearable
 Technology

3D
 Modeling

Anima:on

Foster and Kolmar worked with a University of Maine design
team to develop ‘Under Your Skin,’ an interactive exhibit at
the Bangor Discovery Museum (see their demonstration of the
exhibit in photo at left). Foster said, “This project was my first in
New Media where I really saw the beauty of collaboration. The
experience was extremely rewarding and gave us a chance
to see what it was like to work with a client. We were given the
chance to go to the Bangor Discovery Museum with several
iterations of our work. They would have suggestions and then we
would go back and work those suggestions into our design until
Kolmar and Foster developed the above graphic for their
it was exactly what they wanted for their exhibit.”
New Media presentation.

Kolmar and Foster agreed that students work best in a hands-on
environment and that Thornton Academy’s 21st Century Classroom Project (see p. 2) will provide the opportunity
for students to test their ideas and experience the full design process.
Design. Collaboration. Innovation. Reiteration. Implementation. This is how Kolmar and Foster represented New
Media at their recent visit and Thornton Academy looks forward to integrating its New Media classes into the Arts
& New Media Department over the coming year.

-P.E.
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