Congratulations!

Congratulations!

A huge congratulations to all of the School of Design Graduates for 2024!

It was wonderful to celebrate the completion of your studies together this year’s event - RMIT Design Grad shows 2024.

I was delighted to see the remarkable work on display from all programmes from undergraduate to masters and to be there to celebrate your fantastic achievements. I am very pleased to thank all the family, friends and partners who came and created the wonderful energy and atmosphere at the event across both days.

I would also like to extend a special note of congratulations to the following winners of the Dean’s awards 2024 and to wish everyone the best in your onward careers. We hope you keep in touch and look forward to seeing the amazing things you will achieve in your work in the future!

Andrea Siodmok
Dean, School of Design

The Dean's Awards, are in recognition for the pursuit of excellence, value and contribution through a relevant discipline design project. They are not necessarily about the highest grade, but rather seek to recognise a student, or student team, who have through a project brief, used their design expertise in the broadest sense to make the world a better place through their project and practice. Submissions will be evaluated on the grounds of design outcome, process, articulation of a values based approach to design, that include inclusion, diversity, reconciliation and care for the environment. 

Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media)

Mia Achatz

2024 Dean’s Award Winner
Bachelor of Design
(Animation and Interactive Media)

Mia has contributed significantly to the programs community of practice throughout their study. throughout the Program. Mia has contributed excellent work to partnered studio projects aligned with with social impact, including work for Living Positive and Peter Mac Cancer Centre. Mia consistently demonstrates values of empathy, understanding and inclusion in both her contributions and individual practice. Mia is to be celebrated as a role model to the degree.

Bachelor of Design (Games)

B.S.F. Complex (Group): Bora Erdogan Sinead Garry Fentine Gard

2024 Dean’s Award Winners
Bachelor of Design (Games)

B.S.F. Complex is a character-driven comedy game, developed by Bora Erdogan, Sinead Garry, and Fentine Gard as their capstone project for the RMIT Bachelor of Design (Games). The team B.S.F. Complex team embodies an admirable dedication to collaboration, featuring all three creators' distinct creative voices while blending them into a coherent whole.

Bachelor of Design (Digital Media)

Adrian Frichitthavong

2024 Dean’s Award Winner
Bachelor of Design (Digital Media)

Adrian has distinguished himself through his exceptional intertwining of creative ambition, technical skill, and community mindedness. He has produced outstanding work by synthesizing his learning across studios, as demonstrated by his installation NeuroMetrix Booth that is exhibited in the Design Grad Shows 2024. He also founded the Blender Meetup, an extracurricular 3D workshopping space, and has contributed extensively to student activities and exhibits.

Bachelor of Design (Communication Design)

ACHAAR (Group)

2023 Dean’s Award Winner
Bachelor of Design (Communcation Design)

Achaar: A showcase of South Asian Design, Typography and Cultural Identity' was an independent collaborative initiative by 11 Master of Communication Design students (two Semester 1 graduands, five Semester 2 graduands, and four continuing). It opened in the Building 9 Glashaus on 23 July 2024 as a way to build a community of practice and connect with the undergraduate Communication Design community and is ongoing.

Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)

Kate Thaus

2023 Dean’s Award Winner
Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)

Kate Thaus is an outstanding industrial designer who strives to excel in all that she puts her mind to. Her final year Honours outcome titled "Nox: The 6 PM Project" is a speculative design intervention that addresses rationalisation of a long-term relationship with alcohol. Kate's design research has navigated Australia's culturally embedded casual relationship with alcohol. Her final design outcome stands to challenge the norm and to awaken drinkers to a heightened self-awareness by visually demonstrating the beverages consumed at certain times and over a week duration. We celebrate Kate's exceptional desire and passion for the topic that inspires both staff and students to strive for excellence. She is the perfect exemplar to be awarded the Dean's award. Congratulations Kate!

Master of Communication Design

Lloyd Mostafa

2023 Dean’s Award Winner
Master of Communication Design

Lloyd Mostafa has sought to expand his practice through collaboration and an extended inquiry into access and inclusive publications which seek to connect the visual and verbal. His Research Project publication, 'I Want To Feel The Textures Of Your Thoughts And Experiences…' developed from a 2022 collaboration with Fayen d’Evie for 'Liminal Magazine': 'Sometimes When The Curtains Are Open, We Wave At Each Other.' In 2023 as part of his internship, Lloyd developed an innovative web-based live captioning system for ~~~~~ “...derelict in uncharted space…” at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, which received a ’Sound and Technical Innovation Award’.

Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT)

Tina Mangwani

2023 Dean’s Award Winner
Master of Design Innovation and
Technology (MDIT)

Tina Mangwani's capstone project Outbound addresses this issue of social exclusion that people with locomotor disability face in accessing hospitality services in India. Using an innovative de-centralised approach and co-design methodology the project aims to create a network of restaurants that are physically and socially equipped to cater to the needs of PWDs fostering physical and social inclusion. 

Master of Animation, Games and Interactivity (MAGI)

Nhu Bui

2023 Dean’s Award Winner
Master of Animation, Games
and Interactivity (MAGI)

Nhu's work always begins with ideas of home and belonging, of culture as comfort. In her characteristic AR works, Nhu uses technical tools to bring together the familiar and the new, to transport the user into a hybrid space where the maker's memories of home in Vietnam, interact with physical spaces thousands of miles away - her works create a fusion of home and away. Nhu's thoughtful and moving works have always been anchored in strong conceptual starting places, with the tools always in the service of ideas. Nhu is an extraordinary practitioners with real vision and the capabilities and determination to bring them into being.

  • Winner: ACHAAR (Group) - Ishaan Ambavane, Jarred Keith Labrooy, Tanisha Maria Naik, Satya Darshini Penmetsa, Kaushik Prabhu, Zaib Shaeen, George Thomas

    Special Mentions: Hei Kam, Mia Murone, Yew Qi Yap

  • Winner: Kristoffer Santos

    Special Mentions: Trudi Boatwright, Rachel Kraan, Stella Vassilion

  • Winner: Makushla Harper

    Special Mentions: Max O'Brien, Lenie Chin

  • Winner: Fariz Hirzan

    Special Mentions: Isabel O'Sullivan, Daniela Moreno, Echo Sun

  • Winner: Adrian Frichitthavong

    Special Mentions: Ma Katrina Engle, Hugh Fuchsen, Vivian Luh

  • Winner: Mia Achatz

    Special Mentions: Kath Yuan, Emily Wildfire, Barney Brooks

  • Winner: B.S.F. Complex (Group) - Bora Erdogan, Sinead Garry, Fentine Gard

  • Winner: Coffin Room (Group) - Wing Yan Kwan, Lam Le

    Special Mentions: Louis Fourie, Eamon Harte, Fitriani Revanda

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

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