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Vice Chancellor's Education Abroad Scholarship
Crime Stoppers Advertising Campaign
Awards for Short Film Animations
Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association Awards
2005 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards
Finalist of the Electrolux Awards and the reecedesign Awards
Dyson Student Design Awards 2005/06
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Vice Chancellor's Education Abroad Scholarship (May 06)
The inaugural Vice Chancellor's Education Abroad Scholarship was awarded to Industrial Design student Darren New on 9 May 2006, at the Education Abroad pre-departure night for outgoing students.
The Vice Chancellor's Education Abroad Scholarship consists of airfare, travel insurance and a weekly stipend during the exchange semester. The scholarship is assessed on academic excellence, community involvement, ambassadorial skills, motivation and maturity and is funded by Swinburne Alumni.
Darren is a mature age student, who is taking his wife and three children on exchange to Germany with him. After leaving a career in the Electronics and Printing industries, Darren has started a Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) at the Swinburne Prahran campus in 2005. He has returned to study with great flair, receiving praising references from academics and currently holding a High Distinction average.
Darren has been involved with Salvation Army for 21 years, including working as an area captain organising teams of collectors. He has also worked as a volunteer emergency relief worker and most recently was a participant in programs such as welfare dinner cooking and sharing company with people in need.
Vice Chancellor Ian Young announced and awarded the scholarship, reflecting on the rewards of the exchange program. "Student exchange is a great opportunity, not only in your education but in your life as a whole". He spoke on the benefits of being immersed in an educational environment which is different to your own. "You never really experience and understand another culture until you live it. The development I've seen in returned students is dramatic."
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The Faculty of Design's School of Film and Television students have been praised for their effort in the producuction of four television advertisements for the Crime Stoppers advertising campaign. The four 15-second commercials will be aired on Chanel 9 in the near future.
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Congratulations to Natalie Ebenreuter, a PhD student in Multimedia Design research, who has just won the prestigious 2006 Fulbright Postgraduate Award in Visual and Performing Arts. Natalie will now spend nine months Ohio State University's Dance Department and Advanced Computing Centre for the Arts and Design.
Natalie is one of just twenty talented Australians to become a Fulbright Scholar in 2006.
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Awards for Short Film Animations
Congratulations to Thomas Leung, a Multimedia Design Honours Graduate, who has won several awards in recent months for his two short film animations – Sukki’s Story and Living in the Dark.
In February, Thomas Leung was the star of the Victorian Animation Festival at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), winning three awards. Thomas was awarded Best Film as well as Best Production Design for Living in the Dark and Best Sound Design for Sukki's Story.
More recently, Thomas has sold Living in the Dark to SBS’s television program ‘Shorts on Screens’. Two images from Living in the Dark are shown below.
Sukki’s Story has been selected as part of the Australian Digital Shorts Program at the Sydney Film Festival 2006. Both animations will also feature at the Melbourne International Animation Festival 2006. Two images from Sukki's Story are shown below.
Congratulations Thomas and to all who helped with his films.
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new design 2006 Awards (March 06)
Congratulations to Industrial Design Honours graduate, Campbell Boyer, who has just been awarded a Special Commendation for his entry into the Australia-wide competition, new design 2006. Campbell was selected as one of the fifteen finalists last month in the competition run by Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design based in Surry Hills, Sydney. His 'Articulating Chair' was chosen from nominations put forward by academics from art and design courses around the country.
The exhibition will be on tour for the first time and visit the Melbourne Museum from July 13 to September 15, 2006.
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Lebens[t]raeume 2006 (March 06)
Romy Hockley, an Industrial Design Honours graduate in 2005, has been awarded one of the three grand prizes in the iF Concept Awards, “Lebens[t]raeume 2006: Living Spaces for the Elderly – Visions for the Future". Romy entered her design "Simmer Stove", a kitchen stove with elderly users in mind.
The award ceremony took place within the exhibition "Lebensraueme", a specialised show about universal design. The exhibition was part of the annual tradefair called “Altenpflege+ProPflege", Europe 's leading exhibition for elderly care which took place from 14-16 of February in Hannover , Germany. www.ifdesign.de
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Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association Awards (March 06)
Congratulations to Rodney Zandbergs, a part-time Multimedia Design Masters student, who won an award at the 12th Annual Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association Awards on Friday 3 March. He was awarded the Best Student Developed Content for his website www.postcodeproject.net/intro.htm (Flash 8 plug-in is required for viewing).
It’s a composite work that features content supplied by other Multimedia Design Postgraduate students in a very elegant and clever site designed by Rod. All those involved should be congratulated for their contribution. A list of award winners can be viewed at www.aimia.com.au
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2005 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the Multimedia Design and Communication Design Academic teams. Their hard work in 2005 has been recognized with a prize in the annual Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence awards.
A Certificate of Commendation was awarded to the Communication Design team (Ray Graham, Margaret Woodward, Nick Wight, Lynette Zeeng, Tony Elliot, Tony Ward, Nanette Carter, Michael Hall and Neal Haslem).
The Multimedia Design team (Stephen Huxley, Nicole Wragg, Bill Trikojus, James Marshall and Natalie Ebenreuter) was presented with the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Finalist of the Electrolux Awards and the reecedesign Awards 2005
Erik Andershed, a Swedish exchange student at the Faculty of Design in 2005, has been short listed in the prestigous Electrolux Design Awards. His cordless vacuum cleaner, Eclipse, is featured in the February issues of local magazine Curve and Italian magazine Ottagono.
Also, Erik was one of nine student finalists in the reecedesign Bathroom Innovation Award 2005. A photo and description of Erik’s entry ‘The modul massage bath’ appears on Reece’s Bathroom Innovation website, www.bathroominnovation.com.au.
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Dyson Student Design Awards 2005/06
Continuing the tradition of outstanding performances at the Dyson Student Design Awards, seven recent graduates (three from Industrial Design and four from Product Design Engineering) have been shortlisted for the final.
The Dyson Student Design Awards is an annual competition run in parallel with the Australian Design Awards and hundreds of students from Universities across Australia submit design projects into the competition each year. The selection of a final shortlist of twenty-one entries, occured after a number of judging points with only the best judged submissions proceeding through each round.
Industrial Design Graduates
Lee Yean Chen has developed a Women’s Sanitary Disposal Unit that reduces cleaning time, is more user friendly, and sanitizes itself with each use.
Jansen Lye's product addresses the multiple issues associated with Diabetes sufferers by developing a portable self testing and administrative device that combines a number of previously separate functions into the one unit.
Nicolaas De Man has tackled the always difficult task of designing a fully adjustable ergonomic occupational therapy chair for children afflicted with Cerebral Palsy. His design is modern, fresh, and avoids the stigma associated with this type of medical furniture.
Product Design Engineering Graduates
Marika Mulqueen has developed an Ovarian Cancer Screening Device using non invasive MRI technology. Easily transportable, it has been designed for use in doctors’ surgeries allowing for the early detection of ovarian cancer.
Paul Sparks has designed Disaster Relief Housing for displaced communities devastated by natural disasters. It is extremely lightweight and easily transportable with a modular construction that allows unskilled assembly without the use of tools.
Suzanne Hurst’s wheelchair for paraplegics who live independently supports both manual and powered operation allowing the highest level of physical activity and independence. It utilises ‘nanotube construction and incorporates manual recharging and regenerative braking.
Steven Kelliher’s Microdyn Pathogen Lab, is a handheld device that enables quick and discreet testing of foods and utensils to address the escalating problem of foodborne illness. It has the capability to test liquid, solid and swab samples for up to six types of bacteria and viruses with quantifiable results in less than 10 seconds.
We wish these students the best of luck in the final round of judging and awards presentation.