Design at Monash

The design professions touch all areas of modern life - news and print media, the Internet and electronic media, consumer and technical products, furniture and interior fittings, exhibitions, and interior architecture.

The Department of Design offers degree courses in industrial design, and visual communication (graphic design) and interior architecture.

Monash is one of the few tertiary art institutions in Australia to include art and design within the same Faculty, which benefits students of both disciplines. First-year design students, for example, study a core unit in perceptual drawing, an invaluable skill for use in rapid concept development and visual research in later years. Design students also study digital imaging within the Faculty's sophisticated new Digital Imaging and Multimedia Design Studio.

Courses within the department have been structured to ensure that students develop high-level skills in visual concept development, visual communication, digital imaging, oral and written presentation, and professional practice. In the final year of each course, students develop their own folios which, together with their core professional practice studies, put them in a strong position to gain immediate employment within their desired profession upon graduation.

All course coordinators and lecturers are practising designers, and many are actively involved with relevant industry associations such as the Design Institute of Australia (DIA). The Department of Design also manages a commercial design consultancy, which brings together staff and alumni from different areas of design practice to work as teams on large and small projects for industrial and commercial companies requiring innovative design solutions.