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Art and DesignProfessor John Redmond, Foundation Dean: Welcome to art and design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Anna Drummond, Graduate, Interior Architecture: I knew that the minute that the moment I walked into Monash I'd come home … this is where I belonged and I never doubted it the whole of the four years. I found that it was certainly driven by ideas … very much the philosophy of design, the philosophy of architecture and through that really teaching students to fall in love with what they're getting involved with. I think that's the difference between Monash and perhaps other institutions. They're not necessarily just preparing you for employment; they're preparing you for a way of thinking and preparing you for a way of entering the world. There's something about Melbourne that's very attractive from an architectural point of view. Melbourne as a culture is very open to design ideas and philosophies. Rob Peter, visiting designer from Canada, Founder of the design firm Circle and foreign correspondent for Communication Arts: I think the benefit of having visiting artists is bringing in outside perspective. It helps to reframe how we see things. Andy Wong, Student, and Industrial Design: I've entered the Wheels competition, also known as the Young Designer of the Year Award and I was short listed in the top ten last year. Being an international student coming from another country to Melbourne and studying in a new place was quite difficult in the beginning. Getting support from the international liaison officer here at Monash, along with other staff members and fellow students was a big help, especially in helping me adjust. Professor John Redmond, Foundation Dean: I sometimes say to our international students "come to Melbourne to we'll take you out to the world." Monash is a truly international university with campuses and centres around the globe. Art & Design students can take subjects or even a whole semester at the stunning Monash Centre in Prato. This is a marvelous way to be introduced to Europe and one that gives you a whole load of depth that you wouldn't get if you went on your own. Candy Cheng, Honors Student, Visual Communication: This year is my honors project. It's a one year project and you can decide what you want to do or specialise in. I chose to develop the characters because I've always been interested in illustration and character development. There are six wooden characters (they are limited edition) and they are meant to comment on consumer culture. Domenico De Claro, Department Head, Fine Arts: Well I think the advantages we have here are that we do have representatives from each of the creative industries if you like working together as well as people working on a purely research basis. I think we'll have a community hereof creative people that will construct a very dynamic sort of context. So much depends on people being willing to work outside their comfort zone. Alex Martins-Roe, Masters Student, Fine Arts: I think that Monash students are much more thorough in the way they think about their works conceptually into disciplinary practices being fostered by a kind of emphasis on conceptual practice rather than the medium dictating the artwork. So, although there are still painters, there are also people who use painting in combination with other media. My projects have involved performance, video, sculpture and drawing and a combination of those so it's a fairly inter-disciplinary practice. Mark Richardson, Lecturer, Industrial Design: We have a really diverse number of projects that are run throughout the whole course, ranging from consumer products to furniture, to white goods, and of course through to transport design. Melbourne's one of the hubs for automotive design in the Asia-Pacific region so we've got Toyota, GM Holden, and Ford here. Each one has a design studio so obviously this is the place to study if you're going to be close to the industry. PACE is an initiative supported by GM motor company worldwide and here locally we're supported by GM Holden. Monash is pretty important because they've provided us with a lot of the tools that they use within the automotive design industry so our students are able to get up to speed pretty quickly. Professor John Redmond, Foundation Dean: Monash graduates have the intellect, skills and the confidence to go out and take on the world and that's exactly what they're doing.
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