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Matariki art a koha from AUT Pou Māori
Panel discussion: Auckland’s volcanoes
AUT designed Woo-Laces now on sale
AUT wins at Lexus Design Awards 2024
New looks hit runway at AUT fashion show
AUT winners at Best Awards 2024
Can a $5 T-shirt ever be ethical?
AUT students redesign St Paul Street
AUT finalists at Best Awards 2024
Visual Arts RELAY at Te Uru Gallery
Hollywood film technology now at AUT
Three AUT tauira behind Matariki art
Type Directors Club award for AUT grad
AUT student wins $15k Springboard Award
Leap Day: Time and Space Connection
Te Ataata 2024 - Julie Stephen Chheng
Climate crisis artwork on show in India
AUT Design for Health Symposium 2023
Māori chief inspires fashion student
Graduate Fashion Show a runway success
AUT students tackle food insecurity
AUT winners at Best Awards 2023
AUT gallery renamed Te Wai Ngutu Kākā
Are you making a meal out of research?
2023 Pat Hanly Creativity Awards
AUT finalists at Best Awards 2023
Matariki artworks a koha to all
Graduates at heart of futuristic play
Te Ataata 2023 artist in residence
AUT grads win $15k Springboard Awards
New curator joins ST PAUL St Gallery
Visiting Ben Shemen at Doc Edge Festival
AUT fashion raises money for hospice
Award-winning AUT architecture student
What makes a treasure, a treasure?
Student success at Lexus Design Awards
New professors and associate professors
Punch selected for European festival
2022 Pat Hanly Creativity Awards
Artwork responds to climate crisis
New MENA student mentoring programme
AUT finalists at Best Awards 2022
Fashion student ‘level above the rest’
Opportunity to shine a light on Matariki
Nova Paul's work in Indigenous Triennial
CS4HS open to more digital teachers
AUT X Challenge 2021 – The Final Pitch
Centre for Design Research launches
Four Marsden fund grants for AUT
New Professors and Associate Professors
Easier cooking for diverse needs
The sustainable in-tent: fashion design
Students go global with APEC logo design
Creating a healing environment
Teaching sustainability in design
Documenting what’s left behind
Click & Collect Sculpture Exhibition
World-first triple PhD joint project
Moana view in Ars Electronica Festival
Meet the 2021 X Challenge Finalists
AUT climbs up the global rankings
Universities must embrace partnerships
Fulbright NZ award winners 2021
Hayakal al Noor, Bodies of Light on now
Five questions: Professor Fiona Peterson
Ad school grads winning awards
Good Health Design & We Read Auckland
A Body That Lives Walter Prize showcase
Visual arts alumna revives Niuean art
AUT alumnus wins major artist residency
Passion for entrepreneurship and design
Stamping out the racism epidemic
Evocative new work at the Art Gallery
Design and Creative Tech PG Awards
AUT 2020 Best Awards finalists
AUT alumn Haydn Jack changing the world
A new way of research storytelling
Design Through a Pasifika Lens
Why does art and design matter?
Techweek 2020 AUT playlist launched
AUT grad named international finalist
PUNCH: a new film by AUT Welby Ings
Thank you artwork for essential workers
Fiona Amundsen: Walters Prize nominee
Augmented Reality book wins competition
Speaking Surfaces: stories and spaces
Waitangi Day and Pride's shared history
Cookbook sales fund refugee scholarship
AUT gets 5 QS stars in all categories
New Professors and Associate Professors
Top students awarded AUT Blue Awards
Turning city streets into public spaces
AUT triumphs at 2019 Best Awards
AUT VR project exhibits at UN, New York
Voices for the Future: UN Summit in NYC
AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings
19 first in family scholarships awarded
val smith named Arts Foundation Laureate
Card game makes collaboration easy
48 AUT finalists at 2019 Best Awards
The business of prison and fashion
AUT students design Export NZ trophies
Reimagining the future of care
AUT artist in residence part of Tūrama
Design grad wins Pol Roger competition
A new direction for art on campus
DCT confirms two new Heads of School
62% increase in AUT researchers
TDC64 Auckland: World’s best typography
The Techweek19 programme is live
Uncommon milestone for 'Sparrow'
Diversity celebrated at cookbook launch
Five questions: Professor Frances Joseph
“Education is the key to life”
Fiona chosen as Fulbright NZ Scholar
AUT designers make international finals
Celebrating AUT through the years
Gaining skills for the workplace
Clever Little Monthly wins X-Challenge
New Professors and Associate Professors
Minister launches sustainable blueprint
AUT Blue Awards recognise top students
AUT Blue Awards honour arts and culture
THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three
Memory inspired knits exhibited in NYC
AUT 2019 domestic and international fees
AUT academic joins NZ Project Runway
Five questions: Professor Charles Walker
AUT student's work dazzles at awards
Palliser Ridge Scholarship knitted-up
Prime Minister recognises AUT students
New resource for youth with psychosis
AUT Grad wins Australia’s most prestigious graphic design award
Communication Design graduate Alistair McCready has won Australia’s single top graphic design award.
Budding student entrepreneurs prepare for AUT’s “Dragon’s Den”
X-Challenge, a new university-wide competition that gives every AUT student an opportunity to develop an idea for a business, cause or project will culminate with a Dragons Den style pitch night on Thursday 23 November.
AUT wins big at 2017 Best Design Awards
AUT has won big at the 2017 Best Awards - the annual design industry awards dinner held last Friday, 6 October 2017.
AUT at NZFW Graduate Show 2017
Three talented fashion designers represented AUT at this year’s New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW) Graduate Show.
From Auckland to Paris: Four AUT students heading to Europe's largest tech festival
Four AUT students, with support from the Embassy of France in New Zealand, have been selected to present their work at Europe's largest digital festival, this month in Paris.
New Head of School of Communications
AUT has appointed a new Head of the School of Communications.
New Head of School of Communications
AUT has appointed a new Head of the School of Communications.
Disobedient teaching: surviving and creating change in education
Despite being expelled from Secondary School and suspended from Teachers College, AUT Professor Welby Ings’ new book is about teaching.
Disobedient teaching: surviving and creating change in education
Despite being expelled from Secondary School and suspended from Teachers College, AUT Professor Welby Ings’ new book is about teaching.
A perspective unique to Manukau
Communication Design students from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) South Campus exhibited their end-of-year work at the gala opening of the Original Art Sale, being held at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau from October 14-16.
AUT student represents NZ at Edinburgh Arts Festival
AUT PhD Candidate Olivia Webb and her artwork represented New Zealand at one of the largest art events in the United Kingdom, the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
Earlier this year Olivia was invited to create an artwork for the festival as part of the festival’s 2016 Commissions Programme. Her new artwork, Lapides Vivi, was launched at this year’s festival.
AUT secures 25 Best Award nominations
Twenty five projects by students and staff from the School of Art and Design and Colab have secured nominations in the country’s top design awards.
TEDxManukau: Explore, Realise, Act
Last month, David Sinfield, senior lecturer and undergraduate programme leader of Graphic Design and Moving Image at AUT South Campus, explored the relationship between lettering, design and storytelling across time and space at TEDxManukau.
AUT alumnus to study at Columbia University
Congratulations to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) alumnus, Jeremy Olds, who has been awarded a 2016 Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Award.
Veiqia Project at AUT reawakens women’s role in Fijiian society
The Veiqia Project Exhibition is now open at AUT’s St Pauls St Gallery Three as a result of the journey of seven women reconnecting with a ‘sleeping’ practice.
Final year fashion students transformed the newly-reopened St James’ Theatre into a fashion hotspot last week.
AUT Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab wins top prize at Best Awards 2015
AUT’s world-first in-hospital design lab took home top honours at the Country’s design awards on Friday night.
AUT University's Art Involvement
There are very few exhibition projects that cover such a vast variety of projects – including cows, milk, earthquakes, water, tea, horses, temporary offices, mud, photography, objects and more.
But AUT University’s Transforming Topographies, on now as part of the 5th Auckland Triennial, can.
AUT fashion graduates take on the world
Eight AUT Bachelor of Design (fashion) graduates have been named as finalists in the iD International Emerging Designers Awards.
Sara Andrews, Petra Benton, Charlotte Cho, Sohong Lim, Monique Lynch, Richard McCoy, Fraser Mildon and Bay Rawlinson all completed their studies with AUT in 2012 and have been named as finalists in the awards.
New year goal already decided for AUT staff member
As we get closer to the new year, many of us will be thinking about setting goals, but AUT staff member Kritteka Gregory already knows what her goal will be, to qualify in badminton for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
AUT University’s Rookie show last night delivered on its promise to be unlike any other.
AUT’s graduating art and design students show their best
AD12 Unexpected Spaces, a five-day exhibition by the graduating students of AUT University’s School of Art + Design, opens today and runs until Sunday 11th November.
Christmas shopping with a difference
The end of year is usually marked by moments of gifting desperation brought on by the Christmas season. AUT’s ST PAUL St Gallery aims to alleviate the burden by hosting an End of Year Fair mixing art, craft, design and performance – a fair where some things are for sale and some things aren’t, and most things are under $100.
Next Generation of Fashion Launched at AUT
The local fashion industry will be out in force at Rookie 2011 tonight to see what the next generation of fashion design talent has to offer.
AUT lecturer a 2012 Fulbright Scholar
Research into site-based art projects has seen an AUT senior lecturer be the worthy recipient of a 2012 Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar Award.
Sparkling Spices set to light up at the Aotea Centre
The next interactive exhibition by CoLab launches tonight with the work fitting in perfectly with the Diwali Festival happening over the weekend.
Heritage helps inspire success
Two AUT fashion graduates, both inspired by their heritage, have come up trumps at the 2011 Miromoda Maori Fashion Design Awards.
Wearing air and light: experimental fashion, New York style
Fashion designer Diana Eng is bringing her left field ideas to Auckland this week, hosting a series of “Geek Fashion” workshops and exhibiting her own works at ST PAUL St Gallery. Eng, who began her fashion career as a contestant on Project Runway in 2005, is teaching the fashion-minded how to make inflatable clothing, garments that light up, and “deployable” shirts that mimic origami.
AUT fashion grads continue winning streak
AUT fashion graduate Sandra Tupu has pulled off a first, winning both the Supreme Award and the Runner Up prize at the Westfield Style Pasifika fashion show.
Performance Design takes centre stage at AUT
Performance design will be centre stage at AUT University from August 13-28, when practitioners from across the country gather to generate and discuss New Zealand’s contribution to the 2011 Prague Quadrennial: International Exhibition of Performance Design and Space, PQ11. The Quadrennial is held every four years, presenting performance design from more than 70 countries in three categories: student, national and theatre architecture.
Smelly socks tell story of cultural identity
Has the smell of sunscreen ever convinced you that there is sand between your toes? If so, you have experienced synthetic synaesthesia, when one sensory experience triggers another “phantom” sensory experience.
Visitors to the HP Future Designers exhibition at Urbis Designday voted graphic designer Anzac Tasker as their favourite designer.
Seven stunning installations by recent AUT design graduates impressed Designday guests on March 20th but Tasker took the prize, winning a HP touch screen laptop – one of only two in the country.
New designers look to the future at Urbis Designday
AUT University postgraduate students will give Auckland a taste of what’s to come at Urbis Designday’s inaugural Future Designers exhibition.
AUT University is the only tertiary education provider chosen to take part in Urbis Designday, a one day event which features installations by 12 New Zealand design stars (including Xanthe White and Zambesi) at leading showrooms around Auckland.
AUT proud to support the Auckland Triennial
The internationally significant Auckland Triennial has opened, with AUT University continuing its support for the event as Triennial Partner.
The 4th Auckland Triennial, “Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon”, is based on the theme of risk and adventure in art today and features work by 27 New Zealand and international artists.
Menswear success at iD Dunedin fashion awards
AUT fashion graduates Sandra Tupu (pictured) and Glenn Yungnickel took away awards with their menswear collections at this week’s iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards.
AUT Rookie impresses fashion A-listers
It was standing room only last night at AUT Rookie 2009, when AUT University fashion students showed their final collections on the runway. Fashion insiders, the media, designers and their families and friends crammed into St Pauls Church to see 22 collections take to the catwalk.
Singing shirts, purses with inbuilt touch alarms and cycling jackets that indicate when you turn are a few of the spinoffs of technology that allows fabric to respond to stimuli like light, sound and touch. This week, international electronic textiles expert Dr Leah Buechley will be in Auckland to show how it is done.