My Design Career

Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be a designer. It all started when I was probably about 10, I received a technical drawing kit for my birthday. I was so excited I opened the plastic wrapping to get straight into it. From that point on I’ve always surrounded myself with art and design whether it was music, film, television or a variety of other medium.

So as I made my way through high school, visual art and design and technology where always my strongest points. It was the favorite part of my school life that I can remember, sitting in the art rooms sketching away; and working my way through a variety of projects in the wood work room.

As I progressed into the later years of my schooling it became evident that this was where I would take my career. I excelled in both my Visual Arts and Design and Technology MDP’s. I received a nomination for the DesignTech Awards held at the Powerhouse Museum each year. I also entered one piece of my Visual Arts MDP into a local art contest and received a Highly Commended Award. Unfortunately I was short in receiving a spot into university at the end of my hsc.

I consequently went finished a Cert IV and Diploma in Digital Media, and then went on to work for nearly a year at Moreton Hire in the signage department. In those three years I gained a vast array of designing and graphic skills. That period of time in my life allowed me to truly realize that I wanted to go further with my knowledge of design and being able to build the pictures I was drawing. I had always wanted to go back to uni and try again. I came across Industrial Design and I had always wanted to look into this career. I decided to apply again and consequently here we are now at this point in time.

I hope that after I finish this course I pursue a career in something that changes the world. I have been to a lot of places and I think the world needs to change and creating something which makes the world a simpler, easier, better or just happier place is the key to design at its simplest form. In essence design is the way we find something in the world and strive to make that better than what it was previously; whatever that might be. If I can pursue a career which achieves this then that is design. I enjoy designing so much so I think no matter where my career leads me as long as I can continue doing what makes me happy then that’s what it’s all about.

I enjoy so many things and it would be hard to pinpoint where I would want to work, I could say that I want to work in medical research, but the truth is I would gladly work for Audi any day of the week.