RMIT Master of Communication Design

Q.W.i.M exhibition and font workshop

This Melbourne Design Week, MCD alum Courtney Bree (she/they) showcases her community design initiative Q.W.i.M (Q***r Women in Melbourne) with an exhibition, font workshop and panel discussion at Coburg Studios.

Courtney (she/they) is a q***r, socially responsive designer whose work aims to improve the social and political landscape.

Courtney's project, Q.W.i.M, aims to re-invigorate the history of q***r women in Melbourne and strengthen their identity through q***r archiving, co-designing fonts and protest inspired artwork. She will be presenting a participatory installation, where you'll find the opportunity to contribute to a hand-written font. Have a sit and get creative with your fellow design community members, and have a chat about the issue's impacting women in Melbourne's design community.

From 11am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday, you'll find her installation on Level One of the Exhibition Space. At 1pm on Sunday, Courtney will be participating in a panel discussion with other designers that explores their design as community building practices.

Come view her work, purchase art (profit goes towards funding further research) and become involved with the project itself if it invokes your passion.

People of all genders, sexualities and cultures are welcomed to participate!

Her exhibition runs concurrently with the Coburg Maker's Market, which features food, music and over local 50 stallholders.
Check out Q.W.i.M beforehand .w.i.m.research
25-26 May
11am-4pm
Coburg Studios, 69 Charles St, Coburg North
Link to the website:
https://designweek.melbourne/events/coburg-makers-market-mdw-edition/Links to an external site.

Join us from 21 May to 2 June 2024 for COUNTER-SPACE, an exhibition curated by the 2024 Master of Communication Design students that explores the Lyceum Club's rich design heritage. Discover the architectural and social contributions of women designers at the RMIT Design Archives@ rmitdesignarchives during Melbourne Design Week 2024. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Welcome to the COUNTER-SPACE exhibition! Join us and step into the world of the Lyceum Club’s design heritage.
Opening time:
Tuesday 21 May 2024
6:00 PM -8:00 PM
Exhibition time:
21 May -02 June 2024
Location:
RMIT Design Archives windows
154 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3050, Melbourne
Image credits:
Photograph of Berenice Harris, 1945-1949, unknown photographer, Berenice Harris Collection, Gift of the Robin Boyd Foundation, RMIT Design Archives
Photograph of two women fixing car, Victoria Border, 1945-1955, unknown photographer, Berenice Harris Collection, Gift of the Robin Boyd Foundation, RMIT Design Archives.

Great work from the Curating & Exhibiting Communication Design team 2021/2022: https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2023/feb/beyond-borders. Happy 2023!

Going Beyond Borders RMIT Master of Communication Design students have designed a world-first exhibition of work by revered international designer Pieter Huveneers.

'Pieter Huveneers: Beyond Borders' catalogue now on sale at Woolmers Estate, alongside 'Huveneers' special issue of the RMIT Design Archives Journal. More details forthcoming on the website ...

The 110-page catalogue for 'Pieter Huveneers: Beyond Borders' has arrived Woolmers Estate.

Congratulations to the 2021 & 2022 Curating & Exhibiting Communication Design studios for designing 'Pieter Huveneers: Beyond Borders' at Woolmers Estate in Longford, Tasmania. Amanda Floyd, Ellen Waite & I installed the exhibition 2-6 January. Tanis Wilson and Woolmers Board Chair Peter Rae AO opened the exhibition on 7 January, followed by a Curator's walk-through & afternoon tea in the Interpretation Courtyard. Feel free to to drop in if you are in Tasmania this summer: https://woolmers.com.au/events-exhibitions/ all best noel

Greatest Of All Time launch tonight at Folding Social at RMIT First Site. Come attend a cardboard workshop next Monday! Deets on website: https://foldingsocial.com/ Christmas GOAT? Joyeux Noēl!

Come and enjoy some social folding @'Folding Social' 7-12 October, First Site Gallery, RMIT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO3jn2Psak

Panel 4 Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor Panel 4 of the conference in Paris 4 - 5 April 2022 Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor.This workshop is an output of an ERC project 786314, CRAACE.

Final recording of workshop in Paris (4 – 5 April 2022) Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor, 1873–1939:

Recordings of the CRAACE conference Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor Recordings of the CRAACE conference Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor are now available on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbXwIdG17yc

Panel 6 and conclusion Panel 6 of a conference Exhibitions, New NAtions and the Human FActor, 1873-1939This conference is an output of the ERC project CRAACE (786314) funded by Eur...

Panel 2: 'Imperialisms & Anti-Imperialisms' of 'Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor' (Paris, INHA, 4-5 April, 2022). Glasgow workers, speculative federation & high tensile structures in Milan with Harriet Atkinson, myself and Laura Moure:

Panel 2_Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor Panel 2 of a workshop Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human FActor (Paris, INHA, 4-5 April, 2022).The workshop is an output of the ERC project CRAACE (786314).

Panel 1 of "Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor" conference I atttended, virtually:

Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor - Panel 1 The workshop Exhibitions, New Nations and the Human Factor was held in INHA, PAris, 4 - 5 April 2022.The workshop was part of the ERC project CRAACE (nr. 786...

Congratulations to Giri Balasubramanian for being selected for Dell India (Dell Futurist) Sustainability and Art mural project! https://www.instagram.com/tv/CczjrviBxu0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Shoutout to the winners of the Dell Futurist Sustainability + Art competition. We were incredibly amazed by your talent and grateful for your time and effort. Continue to inspire more. Do not miss to check out the artistically crafted mural at Khasra No. 258, Lane, 3, Westend Marg, Champa Gali, Saidulajab, Saket, New Delhi, Delhi 110030. burns_like_gin @vaasanthi_reddy @chaitra___________ @giri.varshan @thegirlwholikestohog #Dell #DellIndia #DellSustainabilityAndArt #DellFuturist #Competition #Winners #art #sustainability #Masterclass #sustainableart #artist #breathe #connect #create #artsy

This Sunday 27 march, 1:00 - 3:30pm AEST Naarm, you are invited to a free online workshop 'Type, interrogated' which is being co-delivered by current Masters student Chiarra Paton-Dowling and alumnus Dennis Grauel, together with lecturer Fayen d'Evie and curator Anca Rujoiu. The workshop is one outcome from a project supported by Goethe Singapore and the EU Network of European Union National Institutes for Culture, which invited artists to mount a cultural critique of "smart cities."

The workshop will situate type as an active agent within the political, cultural, and anthropocentric systems it upholds. Participants are invited to join in imagining typographic modes of subversion and disobedience. The 2.5 hour workshop will be delivered online, incorporating type exercises to stimulate parallel conversations, critical and poetic thinking, performative manifestos, reflective pauses, questions and provocations.

Registration link is: https://tinyurl.com/typeinterrogated
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Tracing Latencies: Type, Interrogated Workshop Thank you for expressing interest in "Type, Interrogated", an online conversational typography workshop with Dennis Grauel, Fayen d'Evie, Chiarra Paton-Dowling and Anca Rujoiu. Please fill in this form to register for this workshop. Date: Sunday, 27 March 2022 Time: 10:00AM - 12:30PM SGT Venue: Onli...

Congratulations to Xinyuan Li, Dawn Liu, Yue Yang, Shuai Shao (Best Designed Student Book) & Girivarshan Balasubramanian (Best Designed Student Cover) for making the 70th Australian Book Design Awards 2022 Longlist, along with 7 other RMIT students. Also great to see alumni and staff Zenobia Ahmed, Kim Mumm-Hansen, Stuart Geddes, Ziga Testen Jenny Grigg and Stephen Banham feature!

News Archive - Australian Book Designers Association 16 March 2022 70th Australian Book Design Awards Longlist Announced! ABDA is thrilled to present the longlist for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards. Please join us in celebrating the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia in 2022. You can download th...

Congratulations to alumna Maner Shi for being a Big Dream Artist, whose illustration was featured in Federation Square, Melbourne & Times Square, New York in December 2021: https://vimeo.com/656787670

Congratulations to alumni Thy Hà ['Forward to the Past' pp16-23] & Zenobia Ahmed & Dennis Grauel ['A Slow Dialogue on Care' pp160-165] for the publication of their essays in 'Further Reading 3, Down South, Outgazing our Views' http://further-reading.club/index.php/programmes/print-no3/

Congratulations again to Salty Fish (Meiying Lin, Woying Lam & Woolyball Li) for expanding communication design communities of practice for the Blackbird Protostars: https://exhibition.blackbird.foundation/ Thanks, too, to alumnus Lorenzo Villar for facilitating this opportunity, and, of course, Joel Connolly of Blackbird Ventures & Foundation.

Blackbird Protostars Season 1 Exhibition

ACCA is seeking an experienced Curator to join our team (0.8 FTE, dedicated First Peoples position). Applications close Monday 17 January, 5pm
Read more and download the position description here: https://acca.melbourne/about/jobs/

The Curator will take a leadership role in the development of the third iteration of the Yalingwa Indigenous visual arts initiative, including developing a major new exhibition focusing on commissions by contemporary First Peoples artists.

The role also contributes to ACCA’s wider artistic program, exhibitions and public programs involving Australian and international artists. This position is supported by Creative Victoria.

Image: Vicki Couzens, 'Djawannacuppatea' 2018, installation view, A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Andrew Curtis

Rarau mai Living city, an immersive exhibition exploring the city of Auckland through data, has been announced as a finalist in Digital Design for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. Designed by Auckland War Memorial and OOM Creative, which is led by former RMIT University lecturer Greg More, the installation features contributions from 2019 Masters of Communication Design graduate Thy Hà and Industry Fellow Dr. Michael Dunbar.

The single room exhibit allows visitors to explore the people, environments and systems of Auckland through large-format projections on the walls and floor, an LED tower, interactive touchscreen and spatial soundscape. The exhibit it designed as an immersive experience, allowing visitors of all ages to see the city through multiple data lenses.

Thy Hà was approached by OOM Creative to design Māori pixel font families for use in the LED data display, a dynamic text-based visualisation. Drawing on expertise with diacritics—marks on letters indicating pronunciation—which Thy developed through her Masters research project designing Vietnamese typefaces, two pixel fonts were extended to crisply display Te Reo Māori.

Michael Dunbar worked with OOM Creative and the Auckland War Memorial Team to design and develop the touchscreen interactive display, which allows visitors to explore Auckland city through the three thematic map-based interactive data visualisations.

These collaborations demonstrate the rich and nuanced ways that Communication Designers contribute to the design for cultural experiences and storytelling through data.

Big congratulations to everyone involved!

Rarau mai Living city Established by the Victorian Government in 1996, the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are an opportunity to highlight and celebrate local design capability.

And a little Stitt in time!

Congratulations to Master of Communication graduates 2020 & 2021, those who I was lucky enough to see again at Marvel Stadium and to those who graduated in absentia. See change & design for change!

Reshaping Worlds was a Semester 1 collaborative project between and Master of Communication Design's Advanced Communication Design Studio (GRAP2681) and second-year Art History + Theory students in the School of Art.

Salty Fish (Wooly Ball (Jia) Li, Wo Ying Lam, Meiying Lin and Larissa Francis) were selected to develop the publication 'Reshaping Worlds': https://reshapingworlds.com.au/.

Congratulations to Salty Fish, and a big thanks to Michael Bojkowski, who lead this studio, and Kristen Sharp for coming to us with this opportunity for art + design | histories + futures to elide. Enjoy!

all best joyeux Noël

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Congratulations to Chiarra Paton-Dowling, AGDA Finalist in both Student Craft & Publication: https://agda.com.au/agda-award/agda-design-awards-2021/finalist/student-craft/94104 https://agda.com.au/agda-award/agda-design-awards-2021/finalist/student-publications/94121

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The 2021 Graduate Festival of Design kicks off today!

Celebrate the amazing work our talented students from the School of Design have been working on all year, featuring projects in digital design, video, sound, animation, games and heaps more. https://www.rmitgraduatefestivalofdesign.com/

Image by Li Hsin Chang.