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AUT winners at Best Awards 2024

Art and design
16 Oct, 2024
This year at the 2024 Best Awards, staff and students achieved an incredible 48 pins, surpassing AUT’s record performance from last year.
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Can a $5 T-shirt ever be ethical?

Art and design
02 Oct, 2024
Everyone loves a deal, but can a $5 t-shirt ever be ethical? Probably not, says Lisa McEwan, AUT senior lecturer in design for sustainability and fashion.
St Paul Street Activation Project Sketch

AUT students redesign St Paul Street

Art and design
23 Aug, 2024
The semi-permanent street upgrade, opening late next month, was designed by postgraduate students in collaboration with Auckland Council.
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AUT finalists at Best Awards 2024

Art and design
22 Aug, 2024
This year’s Best Awards finalist list features 77 AUT student projects.
Relay Exhibition Poster

Visual Arts RELAY at Te Uru Gallery

Art and design
16 Aug, 2024
RELAY, a multi-disciplinary, durational exhibition at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, opens Saturday 17 August.
Virtual production studio

Hollywood film technology now at AUT

Art and design
06 Aug, 2024
AUT’s virtual production studio is open now, with technology used to create shows like The Mandalorian- now in the hands of today’s students.
Laces made by Jacob Smith

Enter the Woo-Lace

Art and design
11 Jul, 2024
Sneakerhead and AUT Bachelor of Design student Jacob Smith has developed a biodegradable shoelace using strong New Zealand wool.
Art works by AUT students for Matariki

Three AUT tauira behind Matariki art

Art and design
25 Jun, 2024
The free Matariki art resource pack for 2024, commissioned by Pou Māori at AUT, was created by three School of Art & Design tauira.
Abbey Luong Artwork

Type Directors Club award for AUT grad

Art and design
28 May, 2024
A typeface exploring her Vietnamese heritage has won AUT graduate Abbey Luong an award at the New York-based organisation’s student competition.
Emily Parr - Te Muri I (2022)

AUT student wins $15k Springboard Award

Art and design
09 May, 2024
AUT doctoral candidate Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) is the 2024 recipient of an Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard Award.

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