The Art & Design Education Resource Guide (ADERG), has a brand new website for improved access to the best information about what and where to study creative arts at an Australian university, TAFE or private college. Our brilliant GREAT SCOTT graduates feature some fine work on...
Agile Coach and change guru Michael Grau from the upcoming Australian Design Festival spoke wonderfully last week about What is UX and Why is it Booming in Perth? A carefully constructed and gentle paced walk through unpacking people’s existing frameworks in order to make calculated guesses on which interaction touchpoints...
With limited time and the 'term' break used for pre-campaign reports, our seven teams performed exceptionally this year for the 2016 Google Online Marketing Challenge. Katrina Hibbs from Hyperactive Digital kept teams on the sharp incline of learning during week two and encouraged experimentation using extensions, display adverts, live...
A full on hour-of-power with Katrina Hibbs last week threw the spotlight on more than just Adword Fundamentals, as she outlined her outstanding Google Online Marketing Challenge legacy at ECU and gave our seven Adv Dip GOMC teams an impressive amount of tips and tricks to maximise their...
A great flurry of activity prior to our first Work In Process with Music Business students who came across from Leederville. Students were able to listen to each other present, hear general feedback directly from the client groups and shortlisting of the various music festival was able...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...