News and events in Design TAFE

16/02/2013 RMIT Green Inventors Competition - Grand Final
See the award winning inventions from RMIT’s student ‘greenovators’ as they battle it out to win the major prize in RMIT’s Green Inventors Competition .

15/04/2013 Pop Craft and Jack of Diamonds
Graduates from RMIT's Diploma of Textile Design and Development, Brianna Read, Kayo Taguchi and Pauline Tran have opened a pop up shop and exhibition on the ground floor of RMIT's Building 80 on Swanston Street.

04/05/2013 Spiritus Loci - Textile exhibition
A textile-based group exhibition that explores connectivity to the non-human and human, seen and unseen networks in sacred nature places.

Furniture Design alumni are creating the future 29/04/2013
RMIT Furniture Design alumni Ash Allen, Rowan Turnham and Dale Hardiman are exhibiting their furniture designs at the OBJECT FUTURE exhibition.

Global furniture designers make an impact 10/04/2013
RMIT Diploma of Furniture Design alumni Nicholas Gardner is one of a selected number of young designers chosen by the American Hardwood Export Council to collaboratively explore the use of American hardwood in their work.

RMIT shines at Dulux colour awards 22/03/2013
RMIT student Adrian Rivalland has the won student category at this years Dulux colour awards for his Backyard Shinanigans design.

RMIT fashion gets high praise 21/03/2013
RMIT graduates from the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) Emma Boseley, Nixi Killick, Jiyu Hong and Natasha Fagg are gaining high praise for their designs currently on show at the iD International Emerging Designer Awards in New Zealand.

Fashion graduates in trans-Tasman spotlight 12/03/2013
RMIT University fashion graduates are the stars of showcase events this month at the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (18-24 March) and the iD Dunedin Fashion Show (10-17 March).

RMIT's furniture designers have the edge 07/02/2013
RMIT University furniture design has dominated the international design competition The Edge 2013, with two awards and 11 finalists.

RMIT graduate creates sustainable buildings 14/01/2013
RMIT Building Design graduate Tim Sonogan, is a building designer and architectural draftsperson who aims to "preserve the natural environment by using clever design techniques, new technologies, and the correct materials for the job."