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27 January 2015

2014 NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION | CREATE: 100% SUCCESS RATE!

We are thrilled to announce that all of our 2014 NCAT Folio Preparation students who successfully completed the VTAC Tertiary/TAFE application process have been given first round offers! This follows the last three year's 100% success rate! All the NCAT Create students who applied to courses gained entry into them. Many Create students have gone on to establish personal art practice in a studio environment and one has landed an artist in residency position with the City of Yarra.

Our NCAT Folio Preparation and NCAT Create students will be going on to highly diverse courses from within the Art and Design fields, as well as into private and public arts practice, which is really exciting to see.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them all on their hard work and persistence. Some students came to us unsure of their direction but they all left us confident, well skilled and really ready for University. Their preparation included intensive work on interview techniques, research on career pathways, a methodical approach to the VTAC preselection process and the production of truly amazing art and design folios. They will confidently head off to university with friends made at Folio Preparation.

We wish them all well on their individual journeys and look forward to seeing them do wonderful things in the future! We will also enjoy seeing them return to NCAT to possibly present to staff and students at forums and Industry days in the coming years.

Here is a run down of the diverse and exciting courses they have been accepted into:



Bachelor of Design (Communication Design)                          RMIT University
Bachelor of Communication Design                                        Monash University - Caulfield
Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media)          RMIT University
Bachelor of Design (Games Design)                                         RMIT University
Bachelor of Illustration                                                             Melbourne Polytechnic 
Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design                            RMIT University
Associate Degree in Graphic Design                                         RMIT
Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       Melbourne Polytechnic - Fairfield
Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       RMIT
Diploma of Graphic Design                                                       Melbourne Polytechnic - Prahran
Bachelor of Textile Design                                                        RMIT University
Diploma of Visual Merchandising                                             RMIT
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Sculpture                                              University of Melbourne - VCA
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Visual Art                                              University of Melbourne - VCA
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art - Object based Practice)                  RMIT University
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art - Expanded Studio Practice)            RMIT University
Bachelor of Fine Art                                                                   Monash University - Caulfield
Graduate Certificate in in Visual Arts                                         University of Melbourne - VCA
Masters of Public Art                                                                  University of Melbourne - VCA
Diploma of Visual Arts                                                                Latrobe College
Diploma of Visual Arts                                                                RMIT


19 January 2014

NCAT Folio Preparation: 100% success rate for the third year running!

We are thrilled to announce that all of our 2013 Folio Preparation students who successfully completed the VTAC Tertiary/TAFE application process have been given first round offers! This follows the last two year's 100% success rate! Our students will be going on to highly diverse courses from within the Art and Design fields, which is really exciting to see. 


(Some of) the 2013 Folio Preparation students at the Semi-Permanent Conference
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them all on their hard work and persistence. Some students came to us unsure of their direction but they all left us confident, well skilled and really ready for University. Their preparation included intensive work on interview techniques, research on career pathways, a methodical approach to the VTAC preselection process and the production of truly amazing art and design folios. They will confidently head off to university with friends made at Folio Preparation.

We wish them all well on their individual journeys and look forward to seeing them do wonderful things in the future! We will also enjoy seeing them return to NCAT to possibly present to staff and students at forums and Industry days in the coming years.

Here is a run down on the courses they have been accepted into!


2014 TERTIARY OFFERS

NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION – DESIGN STREAM:

Communication Design
 RMIT University
 City

Communication Design
 Monash University
 Caulfield

Interactive Digital Media
 RMIT University
 City

Design - Graphic
 Swinburne University of Technology
 Hawthorn

Graphic Design
 Victoria University
 City Flinders

Graphic Design
 NMIT
 Fairfield

Textile Design and Development
 RMIT University
 Brunswick





NCAT FOLIO PREPARATION – VISUAL ARTS STREAM:


Fine Art (Print Imaging Practice)
 RMIT University
 City

Fine Arts (Production)
 VCA – Melbourne University
 Southbank

Visual Art
 RMIT University
 City

Textile Design
 RMIT University
 Brunswick

Photography and Photo Imaging
 RMIT University
 City

Photography-Digital/Analogue/Commercial/Art
 Photographic Imaging College
 Preston

5 May 2013

FORMER FOLIO PREPARATION STUDENT ANITA RYLEY NOW VICE PRESIDENT OF AGDA

Anita Ryley
Matthew McKenzie
Former NCAT Folio Preparation student, Anita Ryley (ne: McArthur) been appointed as the new Vice President of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA). 

Anita completed Folio Preparation back in 1999 (when it was known as NDS) and went on to graduate from RMIT University's Communication Design (Then Graphic Design) in 2002, where she met future Seesaw Studio co-partner, Matthew McKenzie. 


Melbourne's Seesaw Studio, of which Anita is Creative Director & co-partner, has recently won in the Identity-Range of Implementation category for the Flinders Hotel project at the 2012 AGDA Australian Design Biennale. 

As Creative Director, Anita "brings a passion for brand development, collaboration and strategy to Seesaw’s creative solutions. She has been past judge of both the Fairfax Employment Marketing Awards and Brisbane Advertising and Design Club awards". She is also a guest writer for Desktop Mag. 

Seesaw Studio is the brand agency that has overseen the wonderful creative collaboration that is the rebranding of NCAT (Northern College of the Arts & Technology) - from initial concepts to full roll out. It has been an exciting project for us, seeing our former student manage a difficult project with maturity and creative insight. Swapping roles from student to creative director | from teacher to real-life client was inspiring! 

Congratulations to Anita & the team at Seesaw!

NCAT Rebrand 
NCAT Folio Preparation - Northern College of the Arts & Technology

Images and quoted text reproduced with thanks to Seesaw Studio seesawstudio.com.au