RMIT UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF
ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
- Art & Design
#1 Australia, #11 Worldwide* - Fashion & Textiles
#1 Australia, #11 Worldwide^ - Architecture & Built Environment
#3 Australia, #28 Worldwide*
Featured Design Courses
Bachelor of Design Communication Design
Duration: 3 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
Communication Design applies to the shaping of communication across all aspects of contemporary society, from commercial, entertainment, and education, to environmental, cultural and civic sectors.
This degree prepares you to be a locally- and internationally-aware communication designer capable of working across a range of domains and industries, including graphic design, advertising, branding and illustration consultancies, as well as design and communication units within corporate, government and non-government organisations.
Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours)
Duration: 4 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
In the 21st century, the definition of 'interior' can no longer be simply equated to the inside of a building. Conditions of interior and interiority are increasingly affected and transformed by contemporary technologies as well as social and cultural forces and relationships.
You will learn to think and operate like a designer and, studying in a highly creative studio setting, you will learn from distinguished design practitioners. You will learn to design through the process of responding to a range of design briefs from the conceptual to real-life situations. You will be provided with technical and communication tools such as AutoCAD, 3D imaging, hand-drawing, film production and model making, as well as verbal presentation skills.
You'll have the opportunity to travel and engage with industry through workshops and projects that allow you to respond to complex design challenges. In the 4th year, student will have the opportunity to undertake internships and gain valuable experience with leading design practices in Melbourne and internationally.
Bachelor of Design Digital Media
Duration: 3 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
This degree will teach you to be a digital media design specialist in interactive media, digital video, sound design/soundtrack or digital environments.
You will explore the core disciplines of the field, and then specialise in visual effects and compositing, motion graphics, interactive and mobile media design, or sound design.
You will gain a solid grounding in contemporary digital media design theory and practice, and will explore how digital content can be planned, produced, applied and integrated.
Bachelor of Fashion (Design)(Honours)
Duration: 4 Years | Intakes: Feb
Through engaging studio-based projects you will gain a multi-layered global experience, working with academics and key industry figures on projects that push you to create high-level, explorative responses to fashion design opportunities. Experts from the Australian and international fashion industries share their knowledge with you, teaching courses or providing guest lectures.
Each year, students are selected to showcase in national and international awards and events including the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) and Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW), and some students are invited to show their collections at the prestigious London Graduate Fashion Week.
Master of Design Futures
Duration: 1 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
The world is changing rapidly, and the pace of innovation and digital disruption is accelerating. Despite this, many of the social, cultural, political and professional structures that support our communities have remained static and unchallenged for generations. Our education, healthcare and primary production systems, our workplaces and our products need to keep up. We need design leaders, design strategists and design thinkers to dismantle these structures, and to dissect and solve some of our most complex problems. Whether it’s rethinking the way remote communities access healthcare, creating a less risk-averse corporate culture, or developing a more individualised education system, our world needs more innovative thinkers and communicators; people with the knowledge and skills to design our future.
The Master of Design Futures is an accelerated, graduate course for working professionals. It is suitable for both designers and non-designers who are looking to transition into new design practices and for those wanting to advance their careers in strategic leadership roles.
In this flexible and self-directed course, you will benefit from experiential learning practices as you develop the strategic skills and tools required for leadership. Empathic research, journey mapping, rapid prototyping and storytelling are all tools that you will learn to use in your problem solving process.
Master of Fashion (Design)
Duration: 2 Years | Intakes: Feb
In this master’s degree, you will have the opportunity to advance and expand your fashion design knowledge, and further research your design practice specialisation. You’ll define your position in the world of fashion, and pitch your work to industry through an innovative body of publicly-showcased work.
We seek to imagine future commercial contexts, create ethical design propositions, and use cross-disciplinary design strategies to drive global and competitive fashion design practices.
You will establish your design, communication and presentation methods and strategies for fashion garments, products, accessories, objects, artefacts, materials, spaces and experiences of and for the body specific to your design practice.
The course is dedicated to advancing your design practice through classes that give you the strategies create specialised propositions, and to target specific areas of commercial markets, research directions and cross disciplinary practice.s. You will choose electives that enable you to customise your study, culminating in a collection, design project, research investigation, or industry placement.
Master of Architecture
Duration: 2 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
RMIT Architecture has an international reputation for design excellence and leads the way both in Australia and overseas by producing graduates who are design innovators.
With a strong focus on ideas-led venturous design exploration, RMIT’s Master of Architecture will assist you to develop a sophisticated understanding of architecture, while providing you with a diverse set of advanced skills and learning experiences.
You’ll continue to develop the core skills of architectural design learnt in the degree to an advanced level. You will enhance your understanding of architecture and design-based research, acquire diverse skills, undertake a wide variety of learning experiences and gain critical awareness of your own work.
RMIT Architecture and its graduates continue to achieve at the highest levels and are acknowledged by the national and international architectural profession.
Master of Animation, Games and Interactivity
Duration: 2 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
Equip yourself with professional and creative skills to shape your career in your chosen area.
You enter this course via a series of topics that build on your ideas of character development, narrative development, and game play design, before consolidating your skills in professional research projects and your industry portfolio.
This course builds on more than 20 years of RMIT’s success in postgraduate teaching and research, focusing on the advanced theoretical and practical aspects of professional production in animation, games, and interactive media.
As you acquire skills in these areas, you will develop a directorial vision and in-depth understanding of narrative, visual, and interactive media through studio projects and collaborations that focus on current global trends.
By the end of your studies, you will have completed a number of major studio works in your specialisation, as well as a substantial amount of research.
Master of Design Innovation and Technology
Duration: 2 Years | Intakes: Feb, Jul
Speculate on the future of design practice and develop design methodologies that integrate the needs of people with the potentials that lie within technological innovation.
Through the engagement of an international community of forward-thinking, practice-based academic researchers and professional designers, you will join a dynamic learning environment that is in a continual state of evolution.
As innovation in design practice is positioned at the intersection of several disciplines, you will have the opportunity to address issues from a wide variety of professions such as engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, service design, graphic design, animation, interaction, lighting, media and sound design.
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