Design Centre produced a promotional DVD for  Vetassess to enlighten trade skills migrants applicants from around the world about Vetassess and its services. The DVD explains the assessment process and outcomes of the trade skills to the viewer. It elaborates the trade occupations and the countries that are eligible for the assessment and portrays the information in a simple and easy to comprehend approach that can be accessible to a global audience.

Design Centre students undertook several location shoots to film simulated skills assessments as well as video editing. motion graphics production and DVD authoring.

The Digital diaries project had been developed as part of a large training materials project for the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, on behalf of the Departments of Child and Family Studies and Community and Further Education (TAFE).  The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is the peak body in Victoria for all  non government agencies who provide out of home care services for children and young people in protective care.

The digital diaries are about the thoughts and experiences of young people in residential care who, as well as recording their story,  also participated in the development of the design features of their stories with Design Centre students.

It was a collaboration over a period of 8-10 weeks with one design student being assigned to work one on one with a young person.

The digital diaries create a positive and lasting memory for these young people but most importantly they are an extremely effective training tool for direct carers who work in out of home care settings.

The training materials,  including these AV materials,  will be rolled out across all training organisations who deliver the Certificate IV in Protective Care in Victoria.  They will also be used by the Department of Human Services and placed in every residential care organisation in Victoria.

Esplora was a mobile phone game produced for Thomson Learning by Swinburne University Design Centre.
Esplora was aimed at Years 7 to 7 school children.
The game focus was on correct grammar, in particular matching words with their correct ‘articles’.
The game involved driving a scooter past various obstacles until an article stage is reached and them the player has to name the correct article.
The Esplora game is now being distributed with Thomson Learning Esplora textbooks.
The game can also be downloaded from http://www.esplora.com.au/content/view/40/72/

In 2007 Inner South Community Health Service (ISCHS) High Rise Support Team and Swinburne University Design Centre continued the successful program – “Tales from the High Rise” – enabling older people from public housing communities to share their stories with a wider audience.

With the success of the previous years ‘Tales from the High Rise’, the 2nd instalment had secured funding and also extended the brief by including voices of non- English speaking tenants.
Our project, Tales from the High Rise, has resulted from a partnership established with Swinburne University’s Design Centre* (Prahran Campus), their students and 9 tenants (story tellers) from the High Rise Support Program estates (King St, Victoria Ave, Union St, and Inkerman St).
The project is a collaboration between the high-rise storytellers, Inner South Community Health Service and Swinburne Design Centre.

The tenants teamed up with Swinburne honours students to create three-minute videos that combine the storyteller’s voice with memorabilia from their personal archives, such as photographs, film, certificates, music and sound.
The second series built on the pilot, and included stories in languages other than English, and brought together the many different nationalities that live side by side in public housing in the inner south of Melbourne.

The Gertrude Street Annual Report is a project that has been undertaken by the Design Centre for a number of years. The gallery provides studio and exhibition spaces for a variety of contemporary artists. The Annual Report forms a significant marketing device and requires students to develop an innovative solution that reflects the nature of the facilities and the artists.

Kana Chan was a mobile phone game produced for Thomson Learning by Swinburne University Design Centre. Kana Chan was aimed at Years 7 & 8 school children to teach them basic Japanese by hunting for specific Kana that makes up words. The game was design and developed by Swinburne University Design Centre using Flash Lite 2. The Kana Chan game is now being distributed with Thomson Learning Japanese textbooks.

The Inner South Community Health Old Persons Support Team and Swinburne University Design Centre launched a Digital Storytelling Project in 2006. This pilot project called “Tales from the High Rise” was a collaboration between Inner South and the Design Centre which was aimed at encouraging residents from public housing to share thier stories with a wider audience, to promote self worth amongst the participants and to foster a wider awareness of people in public housing. The project was launched to a packed house at the Design Gallery in Prahran.

Design Centre has worked closely with Quality Pharmacy to develop its retail branding. In a highly competitive commercial market, Quality Pharmacy has provided projects from traditional print based catalogues, brochures and booklets to varied selection of retail store design, signage and point-of-sale displays.

An early stage project, Operations Feedback Systems required the development of a corporate identity. Design Centre presented a range of concepts within a short time frame from which a design was selected and developed. This identity was then put into production across stationery and a website developed.

Living Links is part of a large-scale change project currently being developed by the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority. The project is in its infancy and required Design Centre to produce an identity, which could be used on brochures, websites, newsletters and publications. The development of the identity required the outcomes to appeal to a range of key stakeholders from local residents and landholders to all levels of government and corporate sponsors.