School of Art & Design
Art and Design grads win major international award title
Every March in Munich, Germany, the Fashion Week of art, craft and design takes place. It is the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades, or Internationalen Handwerksmesse München.
“It's a global focus for our discipline,” says Dr Rohan Nicol, Head of Jewellery & Object at the ANU School of Art and Design. “The key practitioners, players in the field, are all present and watching. And Talente is one of the significant pillars of that.”
ANU Ceramics researcher aiding doctors on frontline of Coronavirus title
ANU School of Art & Design researcher Mr Rod Bamford is applying his design expertise to create face shields for doctors on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis.
Sun rises on ANU students' redesign of mental health centre title
Reaching a milestone like turning 30 can be the catalyst for change and a refresh. At least it was for the organisation formerly known as PANDSI (the Post and Ante Natal Depression Support and Information Inc). PANDSI recently turned over a new leaf and was reborn as the Perinatal Wellbeing Centre.
Artificial trees capture new bird species on candid camera title
A collaboration between the ANU School of Art and Design and the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society using artificial trees has attracted birds and other wildlife never before seen in a damaged Canberra landscape - catching them on camera at the same time.
The experiment also involves the ACT Parks and Conservation Service and uses a series of power poles and translocated dead trees erected in landscape under regeneration.