Designer: Duel (Netherlands)
Manufacturer: Duel (Netherlands)
Inspired By: Arabic design
Material: Print on transparant plastic
Colours: full colour

The Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology seeks a Professor in Interior Design. They seek an experienced designer or architect with strong research skills. We require a PhD is for this appointment. The search will remain open until we fill the position.

This is an opportunity to join a team of experienced designers and design researchers as they contribute to the educational, scientific, and professional teaching missions of Swinburne University of Technology. Swinburne is listed among the top 500 universities in the world in the Shanghai Jiaotong (SHJT) university rankings and the Times Higher Education Supplement World University Ranking.

The industrial and interior design group offers degrees at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, including the MDes, the PhD, and the DDes. Top students are eligible for a place in our widely-respected Industry Based Learning program or our well-known honors degree program in the Design Centre. Sustainability is a leading theme in our courses. We have had great success in national and industry sponsored design awards and we offer exchange and study-abroad programs with European, Asian and North American design schools.

As a member of the interior design group, this professor will be part of the 3D group, which includes industrial design. As we develop new course offerings in the curriculum, we will be exploring interactions between industrial and interior design for the new technologies of our time.

The Faculty is home to many designers and scholars with international reputations. We have three research clusters within the National Institute for Design Research (NIDR). Prof. Dori Tunstall and Prof. Norman Sheehan lead our work in indigenous knowledge and design anthropology. Prof. Allan Whitfield heads NIDR and leads the program in neuro-affective design research, working closely with Prof. Paul Hekkert of Technological University of Delft (Netherlands) and Prof. Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University (Canada). Dr. Simon Jackson leads design history and theory. Our faculty includes Prof. Frank Fisher, one of Australia's leading educators in sustainability, and Prof. Per Mollerup, one of the world's best known experts in communications design. We have a robust and highly successful doctoral program, a growing research profile, and a strong contingent of active scholars who serve on journal and publishing boards around the world.

They seek academics with industry experience, a completed doctorate, and teaching experience in the university sector. If you join us at Swinburne Design, you will bring research interests, academic publications and enthusiasm to build on the success of our faculty and our university as we move toward the future.

Contact
Dr. Gavin Melles,
Head of the Academic Group for Industrial and Interior Design
gmelles@swin.edu.au
Tel. +61 3 9214.6851

Website(s):
- swinburne.nga.net.au

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Design Style Take A-Ways

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If you don’t want such bold colours you can always tone things down a bit by using more muted colours, soft naturals and inject just a hint of bold colour with a splash of turquoise or lime.

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Modern Indian design style

If you want to bring the look right up to date rather use ornately carved furniture use modern light wood and pile on the colour with bedding and curtains. Use antique brass curtain poles to hang a single curtain at a small window and sweep to one side for a dramatic effect, beaded tie backs would add the finishing touches in keeping with the Indian theme perfectly.

Look for classical Indian curtain material online, hang swathes of fabric at your windows or use them to drape over the end of your bed. Contrasting cushion covers trimmed with sequins will also add to the look. Use paisley and geometrics together on walls and if you don’t want to use wallpaper hang curtains on metal curtain poles as wall hangings.

Add further touches of Indian style by using fretwork mirror and picture frames which can be in dark stained wood or painted in bright colours to blend with your colour scheme. Use accessories which reflect Indian style such as statues of elephants and imagery of Indian gods in gold or silver frames. If this is too fussy for a modern Indian theme use peacock feathers positioned near to the window to enable the light to catch their natural iridescence.

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