Postgraduate Certificate in Design

Explore how communication design can transform and enrich human experience. You develop expertise in analysing, researching and applying master's level thinking and design practice in a range areas, including visual language, information design, wayfinding, typographic design, interactive and augmented design, layout, social media and web-based design propositions.

We promote a collaborative design approach responsive to the needs of users, the environment and business; enabling a conceptually driven approach to design concepts. You can hone your design skills and acquire knowledge and experience with cutting-edge technologies. We challenge you to think creatively and push accepted boundaries.

Focusing on the wide range of specialist areas within the digital realm – including animation, cinematic and post-cinematic practices, virtual production and immersive technologies, screendance, gaming and photogrammetry – offers exciting possibilities for your study.

Develop expertise in analysing and interpreting narrative and creating a compelling sense of immersion. Communicate complex ideas, data and visual forms to a wide range of audiences and participants.

This pathway blends storytelling, information and interaction with cutting-edge technologies to produce creative outputs that push innovation and boundaries within the digital arena.

Postgraduate study in fashion design will enable you to expand your personal design style. Through this practice-led pathway you’ll develop a conceptually robust, multifaceted approach to your practice.

Explore the different ways you can incorporate craft-based skills with cutting-edge technologies to produce bold approaches that re-position local and global fashion trends. Inspire change and counter-cultural, social, historical and political issues related to the industry.

Facilities you can access:

• Industrial seamless knit computerised knitting machines
• Dubied hand-flat and domestic knitting machines
• Industrial 18 colour intarsia knitting machine
• Apex Shima Seiki Design Systems
• Industrial seamless accessory machine
• Flat proto-type industrial digital print machine
• Screen printing facilities
• Felting machine

Art and design facilities

The Good Health Design pathway focuses on design that has a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing.

Our team of transdisciplinary researchers and creatives collaborates with clinical experts, healthcare professionals and researchers from other disciplines to share and test ideas, and develop unique solutions.

The studio works on a project-by project basis, incorporating all design disciplines to create solutions across spaces, environments, communication, services, digital and physical products. Through this pathway you learn to customise your approach to health and wellbeing problems by using human-centred design approaches.

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Good Health Design Gallery

Postgraduate study in industrial design enables you to hone your critical and creative thinking, design thinking, ideation, prototyping and communication skills.

Find solutions to real-life problems, and create work that explores tangible, three-dimensional manufactured objects like consumer products, furniture, packaging, medical and sports equipment or systems, services and interfaces.

Facilities you can access:

• Digital fabrication facilities
• Virtual production facilities
• Textile design laboratories
• 3D laboratories
• Moving image and photography facilities
• Wet laboratories for prototyping ceramics and other media

Art and design facilities

Focus on the specialist areas of spatial experience, material narratives, visual production, and explore how space transforms and enriches us. You develop expertise in analysing and interpreting existing conditions and sites to build a sense of place, visualising immersive spaces and helping others to visualise space.

We work with what already exists, refitting, reusing, reworking and adapting. We're detail-oriented, attending to materials, surfaces, pattern, fabrication, and connections.

This pathways blends craft-based skills with cutting-edge technologies through creative design outputs that push innovation and boundaries within spatial design.

Facilities you can access:

• Digital fabrication facilities
• Virtual production facilities
• Textile design laboratories
• 3D laboratories
• Moving image and photography facilities
• Wet laboratories for prototyping ceramics and other media

Successful design leaders integrate imagination and tactics to create meaning, design experience and commercialise value through product, service and organisational innovation. This pathway combines creativity with strategic design thinking to create significant competitive advantage that is desirable, feasible and sustainable in a business context.

It aims to develop, bridge and enhance students’ creative potentials by instilling potent theoretical, tactical and design comprehensions to undertake leadership roles in strategic design in the creative industries, government sectors, and institutions.

The Textile Design pathway focuses on print, knit, laser cut, and 2D or 3D technologies; incorporating multimedia and fabrication approaches to re-think textile design on a local and global level.

It blends craft-based skills with cutting edge technologies through creative design outputs that push innovation and boundaries within textile design.

Facilities you can access:

• Industrial seamless knit computerised knitting machines
• Dubied hand-flat and domestic knitting machines
• Industrial 18 colour intarsia knitting machine
• Apex Shima Seiki Design Systems
• Industrial seamless accessory machine
• Industrial digital print roll to roll machine
• Flat proto-type industrial digital print machine
• Screen printing facilities
• 3D printing facilities
• Laser cutting facilities
• Felting machine