Monash Art & Design Graduand Show 2009

The creative works of more than 250 final year Design and Fine Arts undergraduate and honours students from Monash University's Faculty of Art and Design will feature in the annual Graduand Student Exhibition, which will be launched this Friday 20 November 2009.

Work includes interior architecture (interior design), industrial design (product design), visual communication (graphic design), multimedia and digital arts, sculpture, painting, ceramics, photomedia, printmedia and glass.

My favourite piece of work was from the industrial design secion. It was basically a air purifying system which was quite simple and effective. It was decorative at the same time. It was a maze which let a plant run through it. This design won the Ivetech Award for Best Product Design (Industrial Design).



Anothr piece of work i found very interesting and eye catching was Amber Harris's “E=mc2”.

10 Populat Australian Logos

1. GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery business, but later moved into the automotive field, becoming a subsidiary of General Motors (GM) in 1931. Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and, on behalf of GM, holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea. Over the years, Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models. In the past, Holden has offered badge engineered Chevrolet, Isuzu, Nissan, Suzuki, Toyota, and Vauxhall Motors models in sharing arrangements, with Daewoo, Opel and Isuzu-sourced models sold currently.

2. Woolworths is the largest supermarket chain in Australia, owned by Woolworths Limited. It is colloquially known as "Woolies" and in Victoria the majority of stores trade as Safeway.

3. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest bank by market capitalisation in Australia, with businesses across New Zealand,Fiji, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Commonwealth Bank provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and broking services. Commonly referred to as the Commonwealth Bank (or Commbank), The Commonwealth Bank is now the second largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of January 2008 with brands including BankWest, Colonial First State Investments Limited, ASB Bank (New Zealand), Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec)and Commonwealth Insurance Limited (CommInsure). On 7 December 2007 the bank won its skirmish with ANZ over bragging rights to the title of "Australia's most convenient bank".

4. Qantas Airways Limited is the national airline of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport. It is Australia's largest airline and is the world's second oldest airline. Qantas is headquartered in the Qantas Centre in the Mascot suburb of the City of Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales.

5. Organisation promoting the use of a standard logo to distinguish products where a prescribed percentage of production has occurred within Australia.

6. Cricket Australia, formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket. It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee.

Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Australian cricket team, the Australia national women's cricket team and youth sides as well. CA is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and One Day Internationals with other nations, and scheduling the home international fixtures.

7. Tourism Australia is a statutory authority of the Government of Australia, with responsibility for tourism marketing within Australia and internationally, as well as research and forecasting of domestic and global tourism trends.

The organisation was formed on 1 July 2004, under the Tourism Australia Act 2004, and merging four previous organisations: the Australian Tourism Commission, See Australia, the Bureau of Tourism Research and the Tourism Forecasting Council.

8. The Australian Football League (AFL) is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances (ranked 4th in the world for average attendances.

The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September. This is followed by a four-week finals series which culminates in two teams playing off for the Premiership, in the Grand Final.

9. The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, which is called as the Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship reasons, is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand. It is the Southern Hemisphere's elite rugby league championship and the most attended rugby football competition in the world.

10. Telstra or Telstra Corporation Ltd is an Australian telecommunications and media company, formerly owned by the Australian government. Telstra is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, mobile services, dialup, wireless, DSL and cable internet access in Australia. Telstra is based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Formerly Telecom Australia, the company was renamed in 1993 under the Telstra brand. It was privatised in stages between 1997 and 2006. Telstra's headquarters are located at the Telstra Corporate Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Transformations

Transformations was a exhibition held from the 12th of November to the 18th of November at the J space centre for contemporary arts at Chisholm Institute of Tafe Dangenong. The exhibition was held by the graduate students from the certificate IV interactive digital media course. The exhibition featured the works of Mireille Beaufremez, Benjamin Chan, Oslyn Franks, Michael Mavracic, Yvonne Picot, Sylvia Riley - King, Leanne Roberts, Quan – Hung Truong and Annie Watkins.

I found most of the work was computer based. However, quite a few works were done using manual techniques. Some of the work had a 3D element to it as well.

My favourite piece of work would have to be ‘Interior No 1’ by Michael Mavracic. I personally thought the detail in the work was amazing and the whole feel of the piece just grabbed my attention.

Another piece that I really liked was titled ‘Protection’ by Benjamin Chan. The piece had a lot of emotion to it. It showed a person covered in cloth and afraid.

Another interesting piece of work was ‘Paris’ by Sylvia Riley-King. I liked the whole text element that was added to it. It gave the work an added bit of interest and the combination of both the visuals and text really worked.

‘Evolution Highway’ by Annie Watkins was a really good piece of art that had been produced digitally. It won the Best Digital Painting & Drawing Award.

"The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy" - Ralph Lombreglia