Student Profiles
Culture+Context
Rangi Adams
Rangi Adams is studying Culture+Context at the school. Rangi came to the school with a different objective than many of his classmates. Rather than wanting to become a designer, Rangi intends to pursue a career in teaching. With his unique interests, Culture+Context was particularly attractive, as it provides the flexibility necessary for the requirements specific to his career path.
Matthew Paterson
As a postgraduate student studying for his Master’s in Design at Victoria University, Matthew Paterson’s research explores the connection between photography, gaming and ever-improving graphics quality. Blending historical research and contemporary practice, Matthew is constructing digital images that pose new challenges to audiences.
Industrial Design
Ruth Sumner
Ruth Sumner is currently in her final year of her Industrial Design degree. Ruth Sumner says that design is her “first language,” and that she uses this vocabulary to navigate between conceptual design, industrial design and visual communication.
Tiago Rorke and Greg Saul
Tiago Rorke and Greg Saul are graduates of the Industrial Design programme. They created a name for themselves in the School thanks to their talented experimental approach to design and their tireless curiosity. On graduating Greg took a position as a visiting researcher at the JST Erato Design UI Project in Tokyo, while Tiago was much in demand at the School as a research assistant and teaching fellow.
Read more about Tiago and Greg.
Media Design
Jonathon Toon
Jonathon Toon is studying Media Design at the School. Jonathon's project from the MDDN221 Experience Design course was featured in issue 111 of the highly prestigious ProDesign magazine, with the title "The Nature of Living". This interactive work tracked users motions with customized computer vision software and hardware, rewarding the actor with meditative abstract visuals in an experience highly influenced by notions of Visual Music and Synaesthesia.
Benjamin Jack
Benjamin Jack is a Media Design Graduate. Ben has found the Media Design programme at Victoria to be “a fantastic way for me to cultivate an interest and understanding of the ways new technologies can be used for creative expression.” Since graduating, Ben has continued as part of our community as a tutor for our first year Creative Coding course, while also working full time with the eco-education gaming company, MiniMonos.