AUT Art & Design
Graduate Showcase
500+ Students
120 Fields
8 Departments
1 Exhibition
We are very proud to present our showcase of the graduating students from Kura Toi a Hoahoa School of Art and Design at AUT. The student work represents the culmination of an educational experience, exploring a range of art and design topics, issues, approaches, and technologies. These creative projects reflect the School’s ambition to foster the individual creative potential of each student through engagement with world-class facilities. Our students create consciously and communicate within a culture of inclusivity, reciprocity and connectedness, embedding the University values of tika, pono and aroha.
We hope you enjoy viewing the art and design work and helping us to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students in 2024
Ngā mihi nui,
Professor Mandy Smith
Head of School
Kura Toi a Hoahoa School of Art and Design
Communication Design
Communication Design can provoke a change in understanding, challenge behaviours or tell a story by sharing and communicating messages. Student work represents historical and modern concepts of visual language and design. Conversations that represent the power of language that ultimately impact our everyday lives.
Digital Design
Digital designers tell stories through animation, visual effects, and game design. Our students are in high demand for moving images, interactive and immersive fields, animation, motion capture and visual effects, gaming, cinematic production, and augmented and virtual reality. Work featured evidences our students’ creativity, communication and storytelling, in compelling and engaging ways
Fashion Design
Fashion Design focuses on conceptualising and developing innovative products. Fashion marks time. It inspires change and responds to the cultural and political issues that underpin society. Our students evidence critical understanding and work that looks to the future of fashion and its ability to record histories.
Industrial Design
Industrial design is an exciting and rapidly evolving profession, and our graduates are award-winning and well-prepared for a changing future. Students work with tangible, three-dimensional manufactured objects like consumer products, furniture, packaging, medical and sports equipment, as well as systems, services and interfaces. Many products are the solutions to real-life problems where ethical, environmental and social responsibility underpin all aspects at the core of their practice.
Interaction Design
Interaction Design focuses on digital interfaces, as well as physical artefacts, including digital web platforms (desktop, mobile and other devices), apps, way-finding and navigation systems, as well as wearable technologies and augmented visual spaces and product interfaces. Our student's evidence work that weave connections for a range of contemporary and future-orientated contexts, technologies and platforms.
Spatial Design
Spatial Design is a contemporary multidisciplinary programme that explores space through interior and architectural design, exhibition, event and performance design, visualisation and virtual environments. Spatial designers are experts at finding their way into new situations by interpreting and analysing them spatially, experientially, and culturally. They reinvent, reconfigure, redesign, and renovate places, working with (and questioning) what exists.
Visual Arts
Our graduating visual artists understand the trends and concepts driving contemporary art, the importance of mātauranga Māori, and how to work collaboratively to produce objects, craft, images, taonga and artefacts. They create works that generate new ideas and invent new modes of expression. They are critical, ethical and creative visual artist practitioners.
Postgraduate Studies
Our postgraduates are ethically, culturally and environmentally aware. Their journey from undergraduate to postgraduate is told here, where the navigating space of the weave offers room for new discoveries and knowledge.
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