NADC Open Day 2014

Nepean college is having an Open Day on 17 September 2014. Events will be taking place in every section of the college for future students to see classes operating, talk about career and course options, view student work and participate in college activities.

 

Nepean Arts and Design Centre will be having a number of activities as mentioned below for future students in Graphic Design, Interior Design, Visual Merchandising, Interactive Digital Media, Design Fundamentals, Fine Arts and Photography. Please come along and be a part of the activities.

 

Soundlapse, Interactive Digital Media collagoration with Penrith Council and NADC 2014

Soundlapse is an immersive audio tour through the heart of Queen St St Marys and is this year’s contribution to the Queen St Riches & Textures Initiative.  It was officially launched on Wednesday the 3^rd  September at the Memorial Hall St Marys in front of a small crowd of council dignitaries, locals and TAFE staff and students.

 

The launch culminates the impressive work of the Interactive Digital Media students from NADC (Nepean Arts and Design Centre), who researched, interviewed, recorded and edited the documentary style stories for the app and website.  The app guides visitors to special areas of Queen St where it plays the audio story developed by the students. TAFE teacher Andrew Wagstaffe developed the app, and it is currently available on the Google Play store and soon to be released on the Apple App Store.

News of the launch has been published in News Local.

 

Visual Merchandising display WOWs Parramatta 2014

Earlier this month Karen Doughty from the TAFE Parramatta Office approached the Visual Merchandising staff at Nepean Arts and Design Centre to assist with a display to go in the front window for MELT (Manufacturing Engineering Logistics Transport) industry line. Ken Morgan and Rosslyn Manuel ( VM teachers) worked with their students to design, construct and install an attractive and eye catching display utilizing industrial items.

 

The finished display has captured the attention of the viewing public as they have been observed trying to decipher  what some items are: for example the robotic arms, freezing WSI sign can cooler #d Art (see photo). This in itself is creating such an enormous interest in not only this industry line but the fact that we have presence at Parramatta.

The response from students involved  was also very positive as they enjoyed being on the work experience on-site.

Other participant in the project were: Liz Hellenpach (Industry Officer) and Karen Doughty who arranged the sourcing and delivery of all the MELT industry work samples for the display. The MELT logo was prepared by our DEEFA design studio at short notice as MELT did not have a visual identity. Thanks go to Anita Nau-Kleinmann and Coleen English-Thomas for creating the designs & Nuri Susamci for his assistance in the cutting of props with our digital foam-cutter.

Thank you to all involved for such an impressive result.



Left to right: VM Teacher Roz Manuel, Students: Marcela Ottova, Anna Nguyen, Stephanie Forster, Kara Mosquera and Felicity Raymond.

Statement of Outstanding Performance for Graphic Design International student 2014 at NADC

Congratulation to International student Randell Hidalgo who completed his Advanced Diploma studies at Nepean Arts and Design Centre in Semester 1 2014. Randell received an award for all his contribution to the Nepean Arts and Design Centre's Design section throughout his studies of the course.

 

Randell has been a fabulous asset to the Design section at Nepean Arts and Design Centre. He has completed his Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design after successfully completing this Diploma of Graphic Design and was a constant inspiration to his fellow students and staff as he has considerable experience in the industry along with a great design flare. Along with being a great students and producing amazing Design works he has assisted the Deefa Design Studio in many college and external projects. One of those projects was the Student Success Centre recently launched at Nepean TAFE's Kingswood Library. Randell helped develop some interesting imagery and signage that helps promote the Centre and provides a relaxing supporting environment for students.

Congratulations Randell!

Randell with his award

 

Randell being congratulated by Acting Head Teacher Design, Sandi Lucock

DG Student Design Competition 2014 Success for Graphic Design students

Congratulations to three of our Advanced Diploma Graphic Design students for their entries into the DG Student Design competition 2014 to design the cover for the magazine, Jonathan Bouquet, Glen Sutherland and Scott Mitchell. Students were required to produce a cover that was inspired by or in the style of a famous Designer. We had one Second Place and two Highly Commended, Congratulations.

Design students from around Australia enter the DG Student Design Competition competition and we have had some great results including winning first prize in 2009 for the cover design.

Second Place

Jonathan Bouquet

The Great Warhol

 

 

Highly Commended

Glen Sutherland

Paul Rand: American Modernist

 

and

Scott Mitchell

Saul Bass Story

 

Bachelor of Applied Management Design at NADC Semester 2, 2014

Bachelor of Applied Management Design, complete the final year of this degree at Nepean Arts and Design Centre. If you have completed your Diploma and Advanced Diploma then why not consider gaining skills to develop your own design business or further your career opportunities in Design management. http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/design/about/desktop-publishing/

Interior Design student honoured for top work at TAFE, 2014

Minoo Toussi was honoured at the recent Western Sydney Institute Student Excellence Awards for her hard work and dedication to her studies in Interior Design Advanced Diploma at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre, Kingswood.
Published in the Western Weekender, June 13, p.26.