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ffresh - the student moving image festival of Wales - takes place at Glyndŵr University in Wrexham from February 20th - 22nd. To find out information on the festival programme & ffresh awards; read exclusive interviews; and see the best new work by upcoming visual artists from around the world go to ffresh.com and follow us on facebook & Twitter. Diolch yn fawr! var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-26062110-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Here's the trailer for our new short film competition Terror in 20 Seconds! To inspire you we've uploaded a selection of short scenes from some of our favourite horror films below. Deadline for entries is Friday, February 15th. Help us make the scariest short film ever!

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Joe Stark

Here's the final entry for the ffresh 10 Design Competition by University of Glamorgan student Joe Stark. Vote for your favourite design on the ffresh Facebook page. The winner will receive £250 as well as having their design as the official artwork for ffresh 2013!

Here’s what Joe has to say about his entry:

During this design process I really wanted to incorporate an element of movement within the artwork. I wanted to give the viewer an idea of what Ffresh is about and also to engage them with an interesting and unique design. I achieved the movement element by taking some long exposure shots of city lights and cropping out interesting hexagonal sections.

The idea behind using hexagonal shapes first came to me when researching into Glyndwr University itself. In recent years, the university has been involved in the production of hexagonal mirror segments for the worlds biggest telescope. As Ffresh changes venue each year I felt it was important to have some kind of link to the venue within the artwork, and this interesting fact was a way to do it.

I went with a popular current theme of geometric shapes and tables to give the piece more depth and diversity, hoping to appeal to a student audience. The bold white title and information stand out well from the background and is a clear indication of when and where the event is being held.

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Stacey Yasmin Chadfield

Here’s the penultimate entry for the ffresh 10 Design Competition. Vote for your favourite artwork on Monday on our Facebook page.

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Jordan Amblin (2 "Balloons")

Here’s the 2nd entry from first year Advertising Design student Jordan Amblin from the University of Wales, Newport. Voting will open on the ffresh Facebook page on Monday!

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Megan Little

Here’s the latest entry from University of Wales, Newport student Megan Little. We'll be uploading more entries through till Monday when voting opens!

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Gemma Smart

Here’s the latest entry from 3rd year Glamorgan University student Gemma Smart. Voting for the competition will open on Monday, December 3rd.

Here’s what Gemma has to say about her entry:

The idea for this poster came from when me and my flatmates where playing around with the exposure and shutter speed settings on one of their new camera's and we where experimenting with the different patterns and images that we could make using different lights. The whole process was fantastic fun and I feel that the images really show this, and captures how we feel about design, motion, film and animation, it should be exciting, fun and experimental.

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Jordan Amblin (1 "Pink)

Thanks to all of those who submitted their work to the ffresh 10 Design Competition - we received some fantastic work! We'll be uploading all the entries on the tumblr site every day this week and voting will open a week today (December 3rd).

Here's the next entry from 1st year Advertising Design student from the University of Wales, Newport Jordan Amblin.

ffresh 10 Design Competition entry by Jamie Pearce

Submissions for ffresh 10 Design Competition close next Friday (Nov 23rd). Here's the 1st entry from Jamie Pearce. All entries will be uploaded to the Tumblr site once they're received and public voting for your favourite entry will open on Monday, Nov 26th and close on Monday, December 3rd.

Here's what Jamie has to say about his entry:

There were 3 elements of ffresh I wanted to capture: that it's celebrating its 10th anniversary; that it's a fun event; and simply that it's a festival.

I achieved this by making the backdrop out of a series of images taken in a children's playground. The colour light orbs, which were taken in a separate studio appeal to the student target audience who can relate to the nightclub inspired colours, they also hold a sense of mystery about them, which hints at a sense of discovery. Finally, I wanted the festival message to be brought across, so I tried to achieve this through the type, some of which has a sense of grunge, which relates to a camping or organic background.

Havana Heat is a steamy love letter to Good Books in the bodice-ripping language made famous by Mills & Boon books. Animated by world-famous duo McBess and Simon of The Mill in London.

We know that Christmas in November doesn't feel very Christmassy, but this ad for Vodafone Ireland by Nexus Animation is pretty special, and, very Christmassy.

Documentary film about the installation "Literature vs traffic" in Melbourne for their The Light in Winter festival. The installation was created by Luzinterruptus - an anonymous artistic group in Madrid who seek to highlight problems within cities using a wide variety of temporary light-based installations.

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