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Congratulations

Last night RMIT industrial design graduates Dean Benstead and Tate Anson have taken out top honors at the Graduate of the Year Awards in the industrial design category of the Victorian and Tasmanian section of the Design Institute of Australia's GOTYA awards. Tate was awarded the colorways GOTYA award and Dean won both the industrial design GOTYA award and was the overall winner of the GOTYA for Victoria and Tasmania. Congratulations to Dean and Tate pictured with myself and Ian Wong their lectures,both were outstanding students in my concept design electives.

Dean was employed in February by leading industrial design consultancy Charlwood Design and Tate is a member of Melbourne Movement and will travel to Milan in April to exhibit his 'Stretch' range at Salone Satellite.

Vehicle concept sketching class

We have been very lucky to have Ryan Fonceca and Glen Tay two young designers from Holden design drop in to the class every Tuesday night and help the students with their sketching Glen has also shared some of his sketching with them.This makes for a very creative class.

1st Year Sketching

Last week I told my 1st year students to open their eyes and observe how objects really looked....here are two very good examples of shiny cylinders

RMIT Engineering

It was a busy week I also visited the the RMIT Bundoora campus to give an automotive styling lecture to the engineering students

Creative Speed Sketching

My vehicle concept sketching elective started with a full class as usual with most of the students off and running and eager to create new concepts. Glen Stephenson did some quuick speed sketches

Drawing mice Sketchfest

This semester I have started teaching at Swinburne University and for a change we are learning to Sketch with markers pastels and pencils.These are simple sketchfest sessions as part of their project work. One of the lessons was sketching computer mice to learn how to show form and surface.

Colour and Form

Well another year starts and another new group of 1st year Industrial Design students learn to draw digitaly in the RMIT Wacom lab.They start off getting used to drawing on Cintiqs using Alias Sketchbook with some basic form and colour hue lessons.

Congratulations

Congratulations..... Ryan Fonceca starts his new job at Holden Design tomorrow we all wish him well....attached is some of Ryans latest sketches the top coupe sketch is Ryans take on my masterclass brief.Ryan and myself in the RMIT Wacom lab.

First sign of autum

We are now seeing the first signs of autumn the most colourful of the seasons up here on our mountain, and it reminds me of what colour is all about.Its all around us we just need to really look. When you see a yellow rose in the garden or a little red plane or some motorbikes parked in the street if you look closely you will see that it's made up of numerous yellow or red colour hues caused by reflections highlights and shadows.
So to all my students when we sketch a product really study the colour hues that make it that colour.
Looking forward to a CREATIVE semester and welcome to all my new students.

Masterclass student concepts

For the second masterclass session Wacom Australia kindly helped out with the loan of a new Cintiq 24HD for the students to trial with some very positive feed back and some great results. I have included some of the students work.....progress has been fast with the almost one on one tuition

Car sketching masterclass

The first all day session went well and all students worked hard and produced some great work.We mainly concentrated on form,colour and the stance of the vehicle.