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Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)

Jim Kosem

May 14, 2010 — 1 min read

Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation was great, a couple of nervous stumbled, but they really engaged everyone with a newscast, signage, a survival manual and great thinking holding it all together. Links to follow soon.

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