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Interaction Design Exhibition

Jacob — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 06:47:19 +0000

This exhibition provided insight into the Interactive & Visual Design (IVD) unit, which will be re-launched in 2019 as a separate Interaction Design (IxD) degree. In preparation, unit developments have been tested to situate the new degree with embedded industry engagement and student entrepreneurship opportunity.

This exhibition presents an example of three current IVD units that were engaged with industry partners for assessment driven outcomes. The experience gained by the students includes understanding industry operation, collaboration with partners, and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices. As too, development of high-fidelity prototype production and presentation of work as ‘Kickstarter’ style videos, for valued industry and start-up opportunity.

Learn more information about the IVD works here.

Science in Focus

Jacob — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:39:37 +0000

Enjoy a visual installation displaying striking and unexpected scientific imagery set to a musical score, revealing diverse aspects of QUT research and delighting with its beauty.

This installation celebrated a collaboration between QUT Institute for Future Environments, QUT Creative Industries Faculty and the talented QUT staff and students who have submitted these amazing images to the QUT Science in Focus competition over the last five years.

Learn more about the winners from the 2018 competition here.

Witness: A Photojournalism Exhibition

Jacob — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:25:17 +0000

This series of exhibitions blends student work produced in a QUT visual journalism unit with the professional work of an American journalism lecturer.

Brisbane and Beyond: People and Culture in Two Countries

Visuals hold incredible power to change the world. Images, as the building blocks of other forms of visual expression, are especially powerful.

American curator Marvin Heiferman (2012) argues that images not only represent, but they also serve a catalytic function. “They engage us optically, neurologically, intellectually, emotionally, viscerally, physically. They demand our scrutiny and interpretation. Photographs seduce and motivate us; they promote ideas, embed values, and shape public opinion” (p. 16).

Around the City: Images from Brisbane and Surrounds

Curated by QUT Digital Journalism lecturer Dr T.J. Thomson, this exhibition exclusively features the work of students enrolled in KJB104: Photojournalism. After honing their technical proficiency skills, students had the opportunity to create images in each of the following categories:

Environmental portraiture
Feature photography
Sports photography
Night feature photography
News photography

Students also created one photo story of 6-12 images that provided a more in-depth look at a person, process or event. A curated selection of these will be showcased in this exhibition.

Visual Voices From the United States

These images are drawn from T.J.’s visual journalism and documentary photography portfolios from the US. Much of the work comes from his time spent in Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri and represents a diverse set of activities and experiences, including sports, breaking news, feature and general news.

T.J.’s aesthetic is informed by journalistic news values, such as timeliness, impact and proximity but also by bold, vibrant colour, careful and strategic positioning of elements in the frame, and appropriate incorporation of negative space for balance as well as pragmatic purposes.

Excerpts

Kyle Zenchyson — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:46:05 +0000

Excerpts 2018 is QUT Visual Art’s showcase of postgraduate contemporary art practice. The diverse array of images and experiences in this exhibition display the emerging edge of academic research and contemporary art.

The exhibition featured creative works by artists Karike Ashworth, Naomi Blacklock, Christopher Handran, Chris Howlett, Annie Macindoe, Meaghan Shelton and Elizabeth Willing produced during their postgraduate studies. These artists use video, performance, sculpture and photography to ask compelling and incisive questions of culture, history, and personal experience.

View an album of some of the works here.

Crest

Kyle Zenchyson — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 01:45:55 +0000

Crest features Visual Arts students graduating from QUT’s unique open studio program, working across diverse media, including performance, moving image, installation, drawing, sculpture and more.

View an album of some of the works here.

QUT Design Festival

Kyle Zenchyson — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:32:57 +0000

The QUT Design Festival launched the end-of-year showcase with an Open Night event – culminating in exhibitions and installations across all design study areas and visual arts.

Fashion

BBLWRP

Browse and procure one-off garments designed by 12 talented young designers in a curated pop-up store.

Frock Paper Scissors

Help launch the 13th issue of Frock Paper Scissors – an annual publication providing insight into all things style, culture and art through the eyes of QUT’s new generation of creatives.

Learn more about the magazine here.

QUT Graduate Fashion Show

Experience the full creative vision of QUT’s emerging fashion designers during an exciting evening show.

More info here

Industrial Design

This exhibition showcases the work of the 2018 Industrial Design honours students. Gaze upon projects completed after months of hard work and dedication by QUT’s graduating class of designers.

Learn more about the showcase here.

Interactive and Visual Design

Works from Interactive and Visual Design graduates spanning many areas of design will create a diverse and immersive display of talent. Wander, the title of 2018’s theme, represents the journey of learning and self-discovery during each graduates time at QUT.

Learn more about Wander here.

Architecture

Two exhibitions present the design work of graduate and Master of Architecture (Year 5) students.

2018 Architecture graduate projects presented are the epitome of a 4-year Architecture Journey that has been encapsulated into one final project – The Hall of Democracy – a brief, attempting to solve the lack of a democratic figure in Queensland through the use of a context responsive Architectural intervention.

The postgraduate student work explores individually selected projects across several thematic contexts. These research-informed design projects explore questions of procurement, sustainability, society, city-making and ethics. Thematic contexts this year developed proposals for six local (Brisbane, Hamilton, Nambour, Red Hill, Toowoomba and Woodridge) and three international sites (Florianopolis in Brazil and Chongqing and Jinan in China).

Interior Design

Interior Design focuses on the human experience of our built environment. It embodies how humans engage with space and how they interact with other bodies and objects in space.

Students from the graduating cohort of Interior Design have spent the past year exploring ways in which design can enhance the experience of living. The resulting projects are a unique interpretation of the Interior Design process relative to each individual’s area of professional interest.

Landscape Architecture

Exhibited work showcases final-year Landscape Architecture students’ interests in wide-ranging environmental and social concerns relevant to the Anthropocene.

The QUT Landscape Design Studio provides students the opportunity to set their own brief and deliverables and apply advanced landscape architectural knowledge to themes and problems that align with their career aspirations. The outcomes are significant, demonstrating the vision, technical wherewithal and necessary conviction to address the diversity and magnitude of contemporary landscape issues.

Furniture Studies

Student teams of the 2018 Furniture Studies unit worked in partnership with Lendlease and Artisan to design and fabricate furniture prototypes for the landmark commercial building – 25 King St, Fortitude Valley and Artisan workshop spaces.

Furniture pieces incorporated CLT timber panels donated by Lendlease and were fabricated in the renowned J Block Design Fabrication Studio Lab, support by talented lab and tutoring staff.

Teaching Staff: Marissa Lindquist, Titta Waddington, Billerwell Daye
J Block Staff: Simon Belton, Ian Ashworth, Phil Mergard, Paul Ridings, Simon Hewitt.

Visual Arts

Crest is the graduate exhibition of the Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) degree, showcasing emerging artists who have spent the past three years developing their art in QUT’s unique open studio environment.

More info here

Excerpts 2018 is QUT Visual Art’s showcase of postgraduate contemporary art practice. The diverse array of images and experiences in this exhibition display the emerging edge of academic research and contemporary art.

More info here

View an album from the Open Night here and browse through architecture works here.

QUT Graduate Fashion Show: XV

Kyle Zenchyson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:05:56 +0000

After perfecting their craft for years, and now, graduating Fashion students of QUT put their work on show over two exciting runway shows.

2018 was a very special year , the 15th Anniversary of the QUT Graduating Fashion parade.

This is a very special occasion for Queensland Fashion. We have seen a spectacular raise of talent and creativity in recent years. Some of our graduates are working in top fashion companies in Europe and the US. – QUT Fashion lecturer Icaro Ibanez-Arricivita

2018’s cohort has already delighted top fashion journalists and media through their participation in Mercedes-Benz Fashion festival, a collaboration for the opening of W Brisbane and also James ST Resort Festival, where they met Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Australia Edwina MccAnn and representatives from Esquire China, Hypebeast and Harper’s Bazaar.

View a gallery from the show here.