Designs on Come Out
by Emma Masters
UniSA
played a visible part in this year’s Come Out festival with industrial
design students involved in the design and production of large signage
holders that were used at every event.
The Come Out festival organisers approached UniSA’s industrial design department to ask if students would be interested in submitting designs.
“Normally we hire out the sign holders but we wanted to come up with a new and creative solution and thought it would be a great opportunity for design students to get involved,” says Bethany Adams, Marketing Coordinator for the Come Out festival.
Industrial design lecturer, Martin Freney, put the challenge to 50 of his third year students and asked them to submit designs. Come Out chose 25 of the best and then students got into groups of two and set about building their designs.
“It was a great learning experience for the students to build something they designed, and in a short time frame with the added issues of ensuring it was easy to assemble and store,” says Freney.
“They really engaged with the project and learned a lot, which is the aim of the game.”
“I was absolutely amazed at the diversity of the work presented. They were all completely different and so that made it exciting,” says Adams.
In the end, it was the designs by Richard Molling and Sunny Prosser that were chosen.
On the day UniSANews met with the collaborative group, they were looking at slight modifications on the design of the holders.
“I had some ideas on paper, but I went for something simple that fitted all the design specs and now I’m in the process of working out how to mass produce them easily,” says Richard Molling.
“I’m really happy to be able to make them and then have them out there. It’s quite exciting.”
So for the first time in 30 years, Australia’s largest and longest running youth arts festival has its own signage holders that can be used for the festival and other events, thanks to the creative minds and dedicated work of UniSA’s industrial design students.