Brunel University approached Naked Creativity to make some suggestions as to how graduating students’ work displayed at the annual Made in Brunel exhibition could be better presented online. Naked Creativity put forward the concept of a online archive of all the graduating students’ projects, allowing prospective employers, university partners, and potential future students to browse and filter students and their project work.
Crucially, the archive would evolve, with students able to edit their own profiles and projects, adding additional images and video, or adding further projects that they had worked on during their time at Brunel. With career prospects of keen interest to prospective students, graduating students will be able to update their page with their current employment status, as well as linking to their LinkedIn profile.
The Naked Creativity team worked closely with both course staff, the university’s Alumni office, and student organisers to concept and design a filtering mechanism that would allow users to rapidly find students or projects that met their interests or criteria. The sophisticated filtering system Naked Creativity implemented removes search options which are not available based on the user’s current suggestions, thus eliminating the likelihood of no results for a particular search.
An import procedure exists so that data already collected for the exhibition and book can be repurposed rapidly for the online portfolio, without significant additional data processing. By utilising the Naked Creativity content management system, staff, and in the near future, students, will
be able to make changes to profile pages, projects and imagery.
be able to make changes to profile pages, projects and imagery.
The Made in Brunel portfolio was launched to coincide with the 2012 exhibition and has since been added to each year.
“ Made in Brunel has been working with Naked Creativity for a number of years and we are extremely proud of the strong connections between the company and the University. It was natural therefore for us to approach Naked Creativity when we wanted to develop a smart solution to showcase the great talent produced year on year at Brunel under the Made in Brunel banner.
Great design, ease of use and the long-term vision to make something that can evolve over time were key requirements for us and we knew that Naked Creativity would deliver exactly what we needed. The portfolio site is now, already, an integral part of the ongoing story of Made in Brunel. ”
Clive Gee, Director of Development
Clive Gee, Director of Development
