Hawkesbury Fish Exhibition Banners designed for UWS 2013

Design at Nepean Arts and Design Centre have collaborated with UWS Office of Sustainability to produce signage for an exhibition at their offices that displays fish from the local Hawkesbury region linked with the Aboriginal history of the area. Lapstone Public School were asked to produce artworks to create the Aboriginal history in visual form while Design was asked to create stylised fish imagery to work with the background works. Imagery was combined on two banners which are displayed every Wednesday at the Office of Sustainability UWS Richmond until the end of the year.

Contact 2013 Exhibition Invitation

Our end of year Contact Exhbition is coming up so please come along and see all the works from graduating students in Graphic Design, Interior Design, Interactive Digital Media, Visual Merchandising, Design and Desktop Publishing from Nepean Arts and Design Centre.

The exhibition opens on Tuesday 26th November at 6pm.  

Generous students at NADC 2013

One of our Interior Decoration Certificate IV students, Mina Matti, turned up last week with these hampers to give to people from our TAFE who were affected by the recent fires. There was four members of staff who lost their houses in the fire and one had partial house damage to her house. There have been many students who have been affected either directly or indirectly and WSI have organised many fund raising events to assist the fire affected community.

Thank you Mina for your wonderful contribution, it was greatly appreciated.

People's Choice Award at Breast Cancer Breakfast 2013

At the recent Breast Cancer Breakfast, attendees were asked to vote for their favourite poster design. The winning design was by Doug Keating who was unfortunately not at the breakfast so Helen Clare accepted his prize of a $100 gift voucher on his behalf. Last Monday Helen presented Doug with his award. Doug was very happy.

Breast Cancer Institute Breakfast 2013

This year we celebrated our 9th year of working with the Breast Cancer Institute at Westmead Hospital. The Design section have been producing Hope posters for the annual charity breakfast celebrations providing inspirational artworks and imagery of patients, doctors, nurses and support staff associated with the Institute. The breakfast is a fund raiser for the Institute and it is also a platform for raising awareness of research and treatment developments.

This year again the the students provided a great range of posters to decorate the breakfast event. The posters show many of the attendees at the breakfast so there is always a great interest in what creative designs students can do with images of people and sunflowers to promote Hope.

Again, Helen Clare and Anita Nau-Kleinmann worked tirelessly to make sure all posters were completed on time and ready for display. One of our Graphic Design students, Shayne Cocks, was the official photographer for the breakfast and was kept busy throughout the breakfast and then after taking photos of people for next years Hope posters.

Anita Nau-Kleinmann, Helen Clare and Sandi Lucock from Design at Nepean Arts and Design Centre

Interior Design Students meet celebrity at Bunnings 2013

On Thursday 24th October evening, Shirley Gagin and Joanna Nestoroski took a group of students from Advanced Diploma Interior Design, Diploma Interior Decoration and Visual Merchandising to an even held at Bunnings Seven Hills where TV celebrity Shayna Blaze and the Interior Designer from 'The Block' and 'Selling Houses Australia' was presenting and demonstrating interior decoration tips.

The students immensely enjoyed the very well organised and very popular event. Despite being packed and everyone wanting to have a personal chat and a photo with Shayna, our students still got the chance to meet Shaina in person, have a quick chat with her as well as a photo.

Halloween in Design 2013

This year some of our Graphic Design students dressed up to celbrate Halloween. We had Kenneth Flores dressed as a Ninga, Douglas Keating as a Zombie, Leanne Millard dressed as Edward Scissor Hand and Linnaine Williams dressed as a cat. Nice one Designers. 

Design involved in Penrith to "Make my park Pop", October 2013

The Make My Park Pop project was officially launched on October 21st 2013. Ken Morgan, Graphic Design and Visual Merchandising Teacher at NADC,  took part in a Penrith Council initiative call ‘Make My Park Pop’ on 19^th September to design and instigate community spaces around the Penrith area. Jo Ernsten from Visual Arts Teacher NADC also participated in the consultation with Ken. The concept designs produced by the participants produced in the workshop were very well received by Council. The trial park fronts Henry and High streets in down town Penrith and stretches toward Riley Street.

"This park gives our CBD a more attractive, greener gateway - somewhere for locals and visitors to meet and relax or enjoy activities, and discover what’s on offer from a unique mix of eateries, shops and businesses.

The park was designed by community and business representatives, designers, creatives and student architects at an intensive workshop on 19 September. They were guided by world renowned urban tactician Mike Lydon and place-making specialists Place Partners and The Lot. The design was then presented to a public workshop that evening."
http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/MakeMyParkPop/ retrieved 24th October 2013

Ken Morgan (centre) with the other members of the community that designed the outdoor space.

NADC in the News with Reg Mombassa - 20th September 2013

Penrith Press attended the 2013 Nepean Open Day in the last week of Term 3 to report on the event, take photos of our special guest Reg Mombassa and soak up the creative and vibrant atmosphere.

Penrith Press, 20th September 2013

The Pitch Winners for 2013

"pitch-ure this" team are Judith Tan, Aaron Bernacer, Jeffrey Song, Mubashir Ahmed, Tanya McLeod and Annelise Mack.

The Pitch Winners for 2013 with their campaign "pitch-ure this".

Graphic Design Diploma students again pitched their winning campaign ideas to promote awareness of and produce promotional material for global environment projects. Well done!

2014, Semester 1, Design Course Information Sessions

Our information sessions for Design courses starting Semester 1 2014 are coming up so come along if you want to know about all our courses we can offer and the career paths they can take you.
Tuesdays: 17th September, 8th and 22nd October, 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th November, and 3rd and 10th December from 9:30 - 10:30am in PG:51. 

 

Nepean College Open Day Pics 2013

The Open Day at Nepean College was a great success. The highlight of the day was the Q&A with special guest Reg Mombassa. Reg assisted in the opening of the Visual Arts Diploma students exhibition in the Trapezium gallery, participated in the Q&A with Leo Robba in our T Block auditorium, jumped in and played a song with the performing student band and produced some drawings in our outdoor space. A great day.

Reg playing with the student band

Reg with the Head Teachers of Design and Visual Arts, Sandi Lucock, Cath Barcan, Karen Mulvihill-Wray and Jo Ernsten

Leo Robba and Reg with the Head Teachers of Design and Visual Arts at Nepean

Reg with Design teachers, Karen Mulvihill-Wray, Helen Clare and Sandi Lucock

Reg enjoying the artworks by the Visual Arts Diploma students on display

Design Course Pathways at Nepean

If you are considering a career in Design though are not sure exactly what field you would like to go or how far you would like to go then have a look at our Design course pathway options. You could start off at Certificate III and work your way through to a Degree, all while studying at Nepean Design, Nepean Arts and Design Centre.

Nepean Open Day 2013, 11 September

Nepean Arts and Design Centre Open Day

Come and join us for a talk by Reg Mombassa, an exhibition opening of current Diploma of Visual Arts students, a free BBQ, drawing demonstrations plus more!

When: 11th September
Where: P and T Block, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, Kingswood TAFE
When:
12-1pm - Diploma of Visual Arts exhibition in the Trapezium Gallery, P Block
1-2pm Reg Mombassa will give a guest lecture in T Block Auditorium - the talk will be streamed live to adjacent classrooms (TG09, 10 and 11)

2-3pm Drawing event on the lawn between P and T blocks. Reg will join students drawing from props and models.



Image © Reg Mombassa



DG Design Highly Commended 2013

Congratulations to Salie Christian, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design student who is a finalist in the DG Student Design Competition 2013 (Tertiary Division). Salie's design titled The Great Depression was judged among with many other designs from around Australia.

Finalists for the DG Student Design Competition 2013 are now online at the ADERG Channel:

http://www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/aderg/dg-student-design-competition/

Graphic Design students create very popular fonts 2013

 

As part of the Graphic Design Diploma, students are asked to design new and creative fonts based on a chosen theme. The fonts are then formatted in FontLab and uploaded to DaFont.com for distribution. As you can see from the amount of times the fonts have been downloaded that the fonts, as always, are extremely popular designs. Winning the download is Michael Wong's Nouveau Fontdue design. Well done all Designers.

Hat Day at Nepean Design Centre June 2013

The Thursday Fun Day was another success this week with student wearing their best hats to college.

Alec Bates

The Mad Hatters

Carohl Rittlewski

Spomenka Riger

Nepean Design working with local industry

Nepean Design Fair June 2013

Some of the Advanced Diploma Graphic Design students who participated in the Design Fair.

Salie Christian, Mitchell Mamo, Sandi Lucock (Head Teacher), Jake Oxley, Tarsha Humphreys, Morgan Boehringer, Skye Uren, Daniel Baker (Teacher), Allison Garnon, Allen Wan, Barbara Dubi,

 Eleaine Yong, Mark Wotherspoon and Venessa Mayer.

Shayne Cocks, Graphic Design Diploma, had some lovely photographic prints and cards for sale.

Skye Uren, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed and printed her own comic based on life at Nepean Design Centre.

Allen Wan, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed six characters influenced from games and videos that have their own personalities and own environment. Those characters were then placed on postcards for sale at the Fair.

Paige McGovern, Design Fundamentals Cert III, had some lovely sweets for sale which were snapped up very quickly.

Jake Oxley, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed and painted his own unique skateboard.

Tarsha Humphreys, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, had her own range of lazer cut jewellery with imagery her drawn eyes etched into broaches, necklaces and earrings.

Venessa May, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed her own range of T-shirts and printed them up on a large range of sizes along with various prints.

Kerrin Fernandez, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed his own range of playing cards.

Elaine Yong, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed a children's ezine.

Judith Tan, Graphic Design Diploma, had her own range of jewellery and greeting cards.

Mitchell Mamo, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, designed lights out of perspex.

Barbara Dubi, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, wrote and arranged a number of songs for a CD. Those songs were performed at the Fair.

Emily Mills, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, has produced her own range of hand painted shoes and had some of those shoes on display at the Fair. She has also opened her own online Etsy shop selling her unique designs.

Morgan Boehringer, Advanced Diploma Graphic Design, had his own range of gothic apparel for sale at the Fair which included a range of t-shirts, patches and unique bags made out of ties.

The Design Fair was supported by the Student Association who funded a sausage sizzle for visitors. The Design Teachers jumped in to help with all the cooking. So Young Lee and Daniel Baker did the cooking while Phil Spasich (Head Teacher Design) and Ricardo Della-Rico served.

Mike McPherson, Karen Mulvihill-Wray and Anita Nau-Kleinmann, Teachers of Design, also enjoyed the Fair.