10 Mar CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF: Ben and Monelle’s Graduate Talk
A capacity crowd packed Central’s Library theatre to hear Ben and Monelle’s graduate talk yesterday. Brimming with a freshness and insight from last year’s Graphics Graduate group AKA 'Great Scott' – BENJAMIN CLARK (who won the Travis Walker Award and passed ISTD) and MONELLE TRACHEZ (who...
29 Feb Safely Letterpressing safety posters
Great to see students instructing students today as Jordan helps this weeks group with the finer points of setting type and printing from a ’newbe’ perspective. A few pics of Brad in full flight also. (*Behind the scenes all of staff photo also features in todays gallery...
22 Feb Introducing Clean Slate 2016 with guidance from Richard Keenan
Kudos to Bain Media's Creative Director Richard Keenan for his time and energy critiquing work last week for the newly named ‘Clean Slate’ graduate group. With a long coffee in hand he gently teased out the goodness of 35+ simulated Award School entries. Strong concepts. Great 'baby naming' session....
22 Nov Great Scott! a tribute to those who love attention to detail
A relatively small CIT graduating group battled through 2015 with a major ArtSchool brief, a distinctive Outpost 51 branding gig and an epic ISTD assessment – This year, they were known as Great Scott! Last week saw them pull together a classy, well lit exhibition with customise letter-pressed...
21 Oct AGDA Folio Review 2015
Great work to all of the students, both AGDA and DIA at the annual folio review last weekend. Graciously hosted by Curtin, we had a good response from both students and industry professionals. On that note; a MASSIVE thank you to all of the great industry...
13 Sep What should the best artschool in Western Australia look like?
A tough second semester brief for Adv Dip this year. Brand – but don't re-brand, add flexibility – but don't dilute, say ART – but don't forget DESIGN and MEDIA. Tough gig for any designer, let alone students, however, feel the love in the level 7 boardroom at...
10 Sep AGDA WA 2015 Mentor Program ‘shapes up’ with help from Monelle and Zoë
Wondering who made those engaging and collectable hand crafted AGDA WA mentor program ‘student characters’? Introducing the talented duo of Central Adv diploma students Monelle Trachez and Zoë Walker, who helped me collage each characters from old stock photo books, pantone swatches and found objects and who stood...
03 Jul Neil Hollis retires
Neil Hollis, was born in 1954 and has been teaching for nearly forty years at the Western Australia School for Art Design and Media (then, Central TAFE, then Central Institute of Technology). That is, he has been teaching longer than I have been alive, although...
01 Jul WHERE’S MY HOVER BOARD?!
A fantastic end of term exhibition fundraiser by GREAT SCOTT! last week called WHERE'S MY HOVER BOARD?! was a huge success. Well done team. A busy silent art auction saw some skate decks, tees and sneakers attract a premium price and the night was accompanied by some huge sounds from BASKERVILLES, APOLLO'S SON, MR.MCLEAN,...
19 Jun Bookmark Project for Central Library
A funky little brief put together at the last minute for our diploma graphic design students — The Central Library Bookmark project is now on show from June–July 2015 at 25 Aberdeen Street in Northbridge. Some good team-building and exhibition system practice for Diploma Group C as...
04 Jun ISTD 2015 Student Assessment introduction
Featuring a detailed walk through by Australiasian chair, Becky Chilcott and followed up by Tina Mash's student perspective, this is a richly illustrated and detailed talk offering vital information for those wanting to submit to the 2015 ISTD SAS and study at University to complete...
29 May Noma Bar’s talk at Central Institute of Technology is “off the hook”
Celebrate WA, students, staff at Central, AGDA WA and the wider Perth design community are hosting Noma Bar, one of the world's most talented visual communicator this long weekend for WA Day. Unfortunately we were unable to record his 354 slide presentation (using pro-AV equipment)...