2001 Swinburne Undergraduate and TAFE Course Guide

1999 Victorian Design
Awards
Several of Swinburne’s National School of Design
graduates (and recent graduates/alumni) were
successful in being finalists and winners of these
prestigious awards.
The awards program is committed to promoting
excellence and achievement in the design
profession across all disciplines and career levels.
The various categories and winners were:
Graphic Design – Young Designer Award
Winner
Ryan Guppy, Ampersand (restaurant identity).
Graphic Design – Student Design Award
Winner
Katherine Chadwick, Health and Disease stamps.
Graphic Design – Student Design Award
Finalists
Katherine Chadwick, Bohemia Central.
Bruce Armstrong, Capabilities Brochure.
Naina Indira Knoess.
Industrial Design – Student Award Finalists
Anthony Heap
Patrick Corcoran
Martin Reid
Interior Design – Student Finalist
Mark Nolan – Incite
Interior Design – Young Designer Award
Finalist
Martin Reid – Duel
The Grant and Mary Featherston Award
Winner
Carl Moriarty, PSU: Portable Sterilisation Unit.
The Grant and Mary Featherston Award
Finalist
Aran Rhee, High Vision and Tactile Clocks for the
vision impaired.
Rani Smale
Bachelor of Design student Rani Smale
has always been interested in art, but it
took a couple of false starts to get her
into it as a career. “When I left school I
started doing a general arts degree, but I
fairly quickly worked out that that wasn’t
for me. I worked for a while, and then
went overseas to England and Europe for
a couple of years.
“When I came back in 1994 I enrolled in a
degree in Tourism, but I found that it
wasn’t creative enough. At that point I
went for the big change in direction and
decided to go with design. I had heard
that the Swinburne course was a really
good one, so I applied as a mature-age
student – not really expecting to get in!”
Rani, who is 29, started at Swinburne’s
Prahran campus in 1996. “I’ve always
been interested in the fine art side of
design – drawing and illustration – and I
was really pleased to find that that was a
good part of the course. I’d hate to think
that would ever be completely overtaken
by the computer side.”
“I did find it difficult to adapt to the
computer side of the course at first – I
didn’t feel my computer skills were up to
scratch, and it’s great that Swinburne is
now teaching computing to the first year
design students. You need both, the
computing and the fine art elements
of design.”
a big change in direction
Bachelor of Design
Rani has recently completed her IBL year
in the design offices at the Walt Disney
Company, a real coup as the company
only takes one student a year. “Disney
wanted someone who was interested in
illustration, and I’ve been working on
ideas for toys, games, clothing – anything
that can be manufactured.
“Doing IBL has been such a valuable
experience – I’ve seen what actually goes
on in the industry, and how design
principles are applied. I’ll go back to
Swinburne with quite a different
perspective.”
Rani completed her Honours year in 1999
as a full-time student. “I’ve had some
really good teachers at Swinburne. Some
of them are absolutely inspirational. The
student group is quite a mixed bag, which
makes it interesting!”
Where does Rani see her design studies
taking her? “For now I want to get some
good industry experience, somewhere I
can do illustration work. I might do some
freelance for a while. In the really long
term, I like the idea of having my own
business.”
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