Teaching designers to make
RMIT University Lecturer - Industrial Design | MDIT | Interior Design
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For 11 years, I’ve taught across RMIT’s Industrial Design, MDIT and Interior Design programs helping students move from ideas to reality.
Services
Design thinking
3D Visualisation / CAD
Prototyping
Research methods
Studio mentorship
Make it real
Developing ideas and bringing them to fruition.
Make it safe
Tools are nothing without judgement.
Make it work
Learning the value of iteration and feedback
World-leading institute
RMIT’s design programs sit within a globally recognised design ecosystem, with Art & Design consistently ranked among the world’s leading institutions (QS).
My role has been to build student capability where it matters most: turning intent into manufacturable prototypes, and building the confidence to iterate fast, safely, and with taste.
The challenge
Design education has a gap: students can be strong conceptually, but struggle to translate ideas into buildable, testable artefacts, especially under time pressure, limited budgets, and unfamiliar tools.
My role
I started at RMIT in early 2014 as a workshop technician, progressing to sessional lecturing from Semester 2, 2014. Across 11 years, I’ve taught approximately 1,300 students across:
Industrial Design (Honours)
Interior Design,
Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT)
What I delivered
Ideation and Communication
Concepting and visualisation
Design sketching
Presentation and pitching
Capability building
CAD to CAM
3D printing fluency
Workshop prototyping craft
Design thinking and strategy
Design methods
User-centred design
Design research
Scale
11 years / 1,300 students taught
Multi-disciplinary delivery
Design methods to process to making
Credits
Assorted images of previous graduates' work, including Timothy Ottoway (Project Flock) and Nick Perillio (Zenyth, Morph)
Students finish semesters with prototypes that don’t just look good, they work, communicate intent, and survive scrutiny.
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