The Geelong College is proud to announce that we have been accepted to participate in the 2021 Geelong Design Week. We are so excited to host an event that will showcase our Arts Centre and how exciting a career in the Arts can be.
Unpredict-ABLE features design disciplines including fashion, architecture and visual media to showcase young local designers and inspire current and prospective design students. The Young Masters, Old Collegians working in creative industries, will present short talks and a panel discussion about working through unpredictability. Hosted by renowned leader Tuba Kocaturk, Deakin University Professor of Integral Design and Director of the Mediated Intelligence in Design Research Lab.
We will also be offering guided tours through the Keith Humble centre, which displays the students works.
The event is free, but you do need to register here.
This event is part of Geelong Design Week 2021, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong.
Host:
Tuba Kocaturk is Professor of Integral Design at Deakin University, School of Architecture and Built Environment. She is the founding-director of the MInD (Mediated Intelligence in Design) Lab; a transdisciplinary and practice-based research group that operates at the intersection of Built Environment, Information Technology and Design Innovation. She is also co-leading the DesignMind – Deakin University’s International Design & Innovation Platform. Her expertise centres upon the creative, generative and collaborative use of information and communication technologies and digital media in Built Environment and in Design. Tuba’s work is predominantly practice-based and advocates the use of “design thinking” and “system thinking” as a methodology for knowledge production and as a strategy for cross-sector innovation. Tuba is the Senior Editor of International Journal of ‘Architectural Computing, which is committed to deepening the understanding of the foundations of digital systems for Architectural and Urban Design and the technologies enabling their development and application.
Panel members:
David Gilbert-Kent (OGC 2002) is the Founder and Director of Geelong-based creative agency, Three Names Creative. Having worked in the design industry for over 15 years in various creative agencies in Melbourne, David started his own business (Three Names Creative) in 2017, specialising in three main areas – brand, design and digital. David loves the diversity of work, be it designing a new brand for a start-up construction company, building a website for a law firm or creating a large scale e-commerce platform for baby products – it keeps things interesting! Prior to starting Three Names Creative, David also worked in the UK for a large multi-channel Creative Agency, where he gained further experience in the digital space while having the opportunity to work on global brands. David’s passion for all things creative began in the Austin Gray Centre at The Geelong College. It was here he spent years sketching, painting, designing – and finally completing his year 12 folio. Unlike many teenagers, David always knew exactly what he wanted to do post school – and it was from there he was able to pave the way for his future in the design industry.
Ferne Millen (OCG 1996) is a multidisciplinary, creative artist whose main focus is on storytelling through photography and installation. From a young age her love of culture and the land was nurtured by her parents who took her and her siblings to many national parks to enjoy the natural world. Ferne was first mentored in photography by the late Peter van der Veer while she attended The Geelong College. In 1996 she won the VCE Art Prize. Ferne then went to the Victorian College of Arts where she majored in Photography and Theatre studies. Ferne’s love of performance saw her focus on photographing live music and theatre. She was the official photographer of events and festivals across Australia including a decade as official photographer to the Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Falls Festival. Her portrait work became more prevalent in later years with Ferne’s work selected as a dual finalist in the Moran prize with her Portrait of Archie Roach “with Archie” and “Raphael and his Children” in 2014. Later “with Archie” was purchased by Deakin University for their permanent art collection where it currently resides at The Institute of Koorie Education (IKE) “Raphael and his Children” was also a finalist in the National Portrait Prize in 2014 and “Who’s that Lady?” in 2015. Ferne’s’ main focus in her photographs is to act as visual storyteller of her subjects, capturing essence as well as content. Her vision for this photographic journey is to continue to develop it into a library of images, and sound bites, that are accessible to a wider audience, before these images and their related stories are fragmented and lost.
Casey Egan (OGC 2004) Rip Curl - Global Men’s Head of Design, born & Raised in Jan Juc, attended Shillington College in Sydney to further his interest in Graphic Designer before finding himself working at Quiksilver in the Art Department. After 4 years at Quiksilver and working in the industry, he was hired by Levi’s Strauss & Co as the Global Progressive Denim Designer based in San Francisco, California. Working at Levi’s is where his passion for apparel design really began and he found himself really drawn to the idea of designing thru the medium of Fit, Fabric, Trims and Washes to create new products. Since Levis, he has held roles as Head of Design for Wrangler, set up his own denim brand D.I.G and more recently working as Global Head of Design for Rip Curl. Some of the benefits of working for a core surf brand (besides surfing daily) is he can continue to further his passion for design on a global scale, collaborate with extremely talented artists, innovative fabric mills and help world class athletes to create exciting new products for the consumer.
Kate Fitzpatrick (OGC 1998) Kate grew up in bushy Eltham, with hippy parents who built their own mud brick house. Alistair Knox, a pioneer of modern mudbrick design, was a close family friend, and her formative childhood years spent exploring building sites and playing in the wild natural environment were instrumental in guiding her future direction into architecture. At Geelong College, the House of Guilds was a source of respite within the hectic school week. Tucked at the bottom of the oval, away from the main campus, the HOG fostered an environment of camaraderie and artistic freedom. On leaving school, Kate completed her architectural degree at the University of Melbourne whilst working for Neil and Idle Architecture (led by another old collegian, Chris Idle), a small scale practice whose thoughtful house designs cemented her ongoing focus on single housing. After a stint in London, she started Auhaus Architecture with Ben Stibbard. The practice has been operating for 10 years and works predominantly on the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula, designing houses the respond to and sit gracefully in the environment.
Presenters:
Nick Manton (OGC 2016) Melbourne based, Graphic Designer currently working across a range of mediums including Illustration, Branding and Web Design. Heavily inspired by music, Nick’s interest in design began observing album cover artwork and rock posters. This led to his passion for detailed illustration which combines type and vector graphics with plenty of gritty texture. At this early stage of his career, Nick is eager to learn about how brands interact with the world in a meaningful and memorable way, and how to reflect that in his work. After recently completing his studies in Communication Design at Monash University in 2018, Nick began working full time at Cremorne digital agency Rock Agency where he continues to work with music related clientele such as Unified Music Group.
Lachlan Patrick (OGC 2014) is a tech savvy Mechatronics Engineer specialising in rapid prototyping, Autonomous Surface Vehicles and Humanitarian Engineering. Lachlan has worked as an engineer in a number of roles including welding robotics, ASV research, MSLA resin 3d printing with a 3d printing Start-up Company in Beijing as well as humanitarian engineering work in Vanuatu and India. Lachlan greatly enjoys sharing his passion for engineering and technology and has been heavily involved in engineering education for a number of years, running the Deakin chapter of Engineers without Border’s high school outreach program as well as a number of years with Deakin Engineering Outreach. In his spare time Lachlan is an avid sailor, blacksmith and DIY hobbyist. Lachlan currently works as a STEM program Facilitator at the Geelong Tech School, developing content, workflows and specialised teaching to support partner schools as well as maintenance, expansion and operation of the Tech school’s manufacturing wing where he teaches engineering design and design thinking in the new landscape of digital and rapid prototyping.
Ada Hodgson (OGC 2007) Is a jeweller working out of the iconic Nicholas Building in Melbourne. I work with gold, silver, and precious gemstones to create bespoke, one-of-a-kind and custom jewellery. Ada is committed to using ethically and sustainably sourced fine materials including recycled metals where possible and Australian mined and cut gemstones. Ada is captivated by gardens. Secret ones. Imaginary ones. Overgrown ones. The space where the natural world meets the fabricated and human willed. The romantic mystery of a contemplative green space where a little lush disorder is not such a bad thing. Hidden at first glance, they hold dreamscapes within their landscapes and a fractal beauty which is endlessly mesmerising. It’s this boundless verdant natural beauty I seek to create in my signature pieces which graft the classical with the contemporary.
William Ritchie (OGC 1997) The natural world has always fascinated William and he continually seeks to learn and increase his understanding of it. When he was seven, his mother took the budding artist to meet renowned local wildlife painter, Robert Ulmann, who mentored him and urged him to pursue his passion. Not surprisingly, William became a molecular biologist who also works as an artist, constructing highly realistic paintings, drawings and sculpture. He sees realism as the ultimate test of skill and expression of understanding — a way of incorporating science into art. William now lives in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges and primarily paints landscapes and wildlife, working mostly in oils but also in gouache, watercolour and graphite. He endeavours to portray subjects in ways that invite others to learn and better appreciate them. His goal is to capture the subject matter as it was when he experienced it.
