LAC 24 Minute Design Competition - Round 3

24 Minute Design Comp - Round 2 Winners

The 2nd round of the LAC 24 minute design competition series was held on Tuesday 18th March in UC Uni Bar, with the theme: Beer Baron. The brief involved creating a label for a new LAC brew which would include a new and 'creative' name and slogan. By end of competition, we had received a collection of very interesting and hilarious design entries. After we had assessed all the entries we came up with the round 2 winners.

Winners:

1st place - Phoebe Gordon (3rd yr)

2nd place - Amalie Shawcross (1st yr)

3rd place - Steve Kirsu (3rd yr)

On behalf of the Landscape Architecture Club, we congratulate the winners and also the other participants for their hard work. See you all for round 3.

UC Tutors win awards

At the recent ACT AILA awards the University of Canberra was well represented with a number of teaching staff and past students winning awards these were:

ACT Award for Design in Landscape Architecture
Special Jury Citation: “Demonstration Small Project”

Fresh Landscape Design
Project: Searching for sustainability in Canberra Garden

which is the company of Jennie Curtis

ACT Award for Research & Communication in Landscape Architecture

Dianne Firth
Project: ‘Living with Bushland’
Client: Queanbeyan City Council

ACT Award for Research & Communication in Landscape Architecture
Special Jury Citation: Education and Leadership

Brittle Gum Design
Project: Sustainable Canberra Landscapes

Brittle Gum Design is the company of former tutor Edwina Richardson.

New Leaders Awards
Student Landscape Architect

Ella Doney

Ella Graduated in Landscape Architecture last year.

The LAC wishes to congratulate all winners and wish them the best for the future.

24 Minute Design Comp, Round 2

TheTriumph of Landscape: Turner to Monet

The National gallery of Australia is currently exhibiting works from Turner, Glover, Streeton, Constable, Monet, Van Gogh and others. The exhibition is based on the landscape and the way in which the artists approach and view the landscape, nature and its relation to humans.
Entry is $20 for adults, concession $15, children $6.
There is also a series of lectures about the artists and their works relating to the landscape during the course of the exhibition, more information about these can be obtained from the NGA (nga.gov.au/TurnertoMonet/)
The exhibition runs from 14th March to 9th of June.

In April there is another exhibition at the NGA called "Treescape". this will be running 12th April to the 3rd of August. (www.nga.gov.au/Treescape/)

24 minute design comp, Rnd 1 winners

The first round of our 24 minute design competition series was held last Wednesday in the Landscape Architecture studio. With only a small turn out for round one, which was a Mr Squiggle design theme to create a character. In the 24 minutes and with a couple lines on a page the competitors came up with some interesting characters and a number of surprising results.

Winners for Rnd 1 are: 1st: Max Power 3rd yr (aka Nick Hall)
2nd: James Norton 4th yr
3rd: Phoebe Gordon 3rd yr.

They now sit on top of the leader board with 10, 9, and 8 points respectably. For those wanting join in, there is still a chance to keep in contention with the leaders before they get to far ahead. Rnd 2 will be held next week with the date and venue still to be advised.