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 2023.
Ngā mihi nui,
Dr Mandy Smith
Head of School, Art & Design
Communication Design
Communication Design can provoke a change in understanding, challenge behaviours or tell a story by sharing and communicating messages. Here woven patterns represent two parts of a conversation and the power of language that surrounds us and ultimately impacts our everyday life.
Interaction Design
Interaction design focuses on digital interfaces, as well as physical artefacts. This includes digital web platforms (desktop, mobile and other devices), apps and product interfaces. Here, this pattern offers woven connections between our environment and one another.
Visual Arts
Our visual art students have created works that generate new ideas and invent new modes of expression. Here we have grown our own voices, and the woven pattern reaches for our Tūpuna (ancestors) as they reach towards us, connecting to our kaupapa.
Industrial Design
Industrial designers work with tangible, three-dimensional manufactured objects like consumer products, furniture, packaging, medical and sports equipment, as well as systems, services and interfaces. Here black lines are woven tightly together, as if foundational forms. For Industrial Design, many products are the solutions to real-life problems where ethical, environmental and social responsibility underpin all aspects at the core of their practice
Digital Design
Digital designers tell stories through animation, visual effects, and game design. The double weave offers an alternating narrative that brings together creativity and problem-solving inherent in our digital students.
Spatial Design
Spatial Design is a contemporary multidisciplinary programme that explores space through interior and architectural design, exhibition, event and performance design, visualization 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. Here two woven triangles face each other offering a spatial reference that is edged by the future and acknowledges our past.
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.
Fashion Design
Fashion Design focuses have a visionary eye for texture, shape and detail that responds to the major challenges in fashion consumption. Here lines represent woven forms that look to the future of fashion and reference its ability to record histories.
