Dear Studio
Sincere congratulations to you for your semester's work, the guests last night and for judging the awards repeatedly commended the quality of the work. We hope you understood too how impressed Richard was.
We want to thank you too for setting up the EYES exhibition space late last night (and a special thank you to Rivkah who was so generous with her time yesterday afternoon.) It all ran very smoothly.
Having spoken after to a number of those present in the judging panel we are to understand that it was a very difficult process, particularly due the high quality of the work across the board. Different to last year, the judges struggled to find clear winners, and were very split right to the end. This is a testament to how valuable your work was in producing diverse ideas. As Alex said, each one of the projects did come up as a favourite for one judge or another, the final 4 came as a combination of common denominators, strong opinions, vigorous discussion, compromise and argument. We do definitely commend the four projects Jade, Emma, Euric, Ben, as stand outs through the difficult process, and hear very honestly Alex's commendation of the other eleven. We will work out how to distribute the awards in the coming month or so.
Tim and I decided on Wednesday eveningwhich projects we wanted to showcase in the atrium for EYES. We decided this on grounds for exhibiting, as difference to last year's work, ability to communicate the studio themes, and ability to represent the broad range of projects in the studio both in approaches and detail. We chose a pair to do this of Euric and B1.
Tim and I are yet to do the final grading of your projects and semester's work, and will be submitting to moderation on Tuesday afternoon. Please try to keep away from us academically, at least till the end of next week. We intend to give you clear feedback after the marks come out. We would also like your feedback for our own learning and improvement. If any one is going away, please let us know so we can consider another time to meet.
If anyone is interested andor capable with publishing skills (indesign and web) we have set aside a chunk of the grant to final publication of your work in combination with last year's studio. If anyone would like to apply to do this with Tim and I, please let us know.
See you tonight at EYES,
your proud tutors,
Ammon and Tim and Richard