Swinburne University Design Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Swinburne University Design Centre commenced over 25 years ago. It was, and continues to be, the pioneering, university-based design consultancy in Melbourne, Australia. Design Centre is renowned as a place where graduate students at Honours or Masters level are individually mentored by a management team of experienced designers within a fully operational professional design office environment. We execute well over 100# projects each year, 80% for external industry clients. These projects, with real clients, real budgets, the pressures of delivery deadlines and technical issues relating to implementation and production requirements, are carried out by teams of our graduate designers. One or more of the management team remain responsible as design directors throughout all projects.
With 30# graduate students, about 10# in each of the three areas of practice - communication (graphic) design, industrial design and multimedia design - supported by a six person management and administration team, Design Centre is a sizable design studio by any measure. We have the capacity to efficiently execute significant design projects. We are able to augment our design expertise from other Faculties and Centres within Swinburne University according to specific project needs.
In addition to projects with targeted design outcomes, Design Centre also carries out applied design research for clients who seek independent, scholarly analysis, design audits, recommendations and reports which will better inform subsequent design development phases of work. In parallel with Design Centre, the Faculty hosts the largest cluster of PhD design research students in Australia who operate in the National Institute for Design Research.
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