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CONTENT S
NGĀ IHIR ANGI
Creative Arts
INTRODUCTION POSTGRADUATE STUDY
02 Rankings and awards 42 Postgraduate study
> Bachelor of Creative Media
03 Welcome Production (Honours)
04 Wellington > Bachelor of Commercial Music (Honours)
> Postgraduate Diploma Design
05 Student life > Postgraduate Diploma Fine Arts
> Postgraduate Diploma Māori Visual Arts
06 Make and create > Master of Design
08 Opportunities > Master of Design Weta Workshop
> Master of Fine Arts
> Master of Creative Enterprise
DEGREES > PhD
11 Bachelor of Design
with Honours GRADUATE STUDY
> Concept Design
> Fashion Design
48 Admission and Enrolment
> Semester start dates and
> Industrial Design
completion times
> Integrated Design
> Selected entry and open entry
> Photography
programmes
> Spatial Design
> Textile Design 50 Portfolio requirements
> Visual Communication Design
53 International students
23 Bachelor of Fine Arts
with Honours 54 Scholarships
25 Design and Fine Arts Degree 56 Key Information
> Events
Structure > Fees
27 Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts > Accommodation
> Support
29 Māori Visual Arts Degree
Structure
31 Bachelor of Creative Media
Production
32 Creative Media Production
INSIDE COVER: ORIENTATION 2018. STUDENTS Pathways
GRADUATED 2020 AND 2021. > Film and Television
> Animation and VFX
Please note: The information contained > Game Development
in this publication is indicative of > Creative Technologies
the offerings available in 2022 and
> Producing and Directing
subsequent years. This information
may be subject to change. While all
> Immersive Media
reasonable efforts will be made to 37 Bachelor of Commercial Music
ensure listed programmes are offered
> Music Industry
and regulations are up to date, the
University reserves the right to change
> Music Practice
the content or method of presentation, > Music Technology
or to withdraw any qualification or
part thereof, or impose limitations on
41 Foundation Certificate
enrolments. For the most up to date
information please go to
creative.massey.ac.nz
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
OUR GRADUATES
ARE SOUGHT AFTER
BY EMPLOYERS,
WITH 77% OF ALL
GRADUATES FROM OUR
BACHELOR DEGREE
PROGRAMMES*
Rankings &
IN FULL OR PART-TIME
EMPLOYMENT
WITHIN SIX MONTHS
Awards
OF GRADUATING
* Music, design, fine art and creative media production
– Graduate Destinations Survey 2020
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS JAMES DYSON AOTEAROA MUSIC AWARDS
Top 100 for art and design for 5 years running. Massey grads have won the National Dyson Tiare Kelly, Felix Holton and Dylan Clark
Award for 17 of the 19 years of this award. In completed their Bachelor of Commercial Music
RESEARCH (PBRF)
2020, of the 24 entries, 7 were from Massey, degrees while working as band members
Across design and visual arts and craft, with all three top places being won by Massey with top-rated act BENEE. BENEE dominated
the College of Creative Arts comes out on design graduates. at the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards.
top, with the largest number of top-rated
researchers of all tertiary institutions in TE TOHI O TE PAPA TONGAREWA MAJOR AIRPLAY
New Zealand. RONGOMARAEROA 2020 graduates who released successful
Ka pai rawe to our Professor Bob Jahnke, singles and albums include Transistor (Lochie
RED DOT
who won the Te Tohi o Te Papa Tongarewa Noble), Sofia Machray and RIIKI (Raquel
Ngā Pae Māhutonga Wellington School of Rongomaraeroa award in 2020 for outstanding Abolins-Reid). Transistor and Sofia received
Design has ranked in the top 3 in Asia Pacific contribution to ngā toi Māori. strong airplay on student radio throughout
in the annual International Red Dot Awards for New Zealand. The RIIKI single ‘High Heights’
six years in a row, with five design graduates TO THE FLOOR
has had over a million plays on Spotify,
winning awards for their work in the 2020 Wellington School of Design’s Ashley Oswin significant airplay across major commercial
competition. won the To The Floor design competition with radio stations in New Zealand, and RIIKI
DINZ BEST AWARDS her carpet tile design ‘Circular Relationships’. has performed at a number of major summer
She is now developing a carpet tile collection festivals.
In 2020 a third of all student finalists were with global manufacturer Milliken-Ontera.
from Massey, and 24 projects were awarded INDEPENDENT SHORTS AWARDS
gold, silver and bronze across all categories. GOOD DESIGN AWARDS
Film lecturer Gwen Isaac received an
Over the past 18 years of the awards there Industrial Design students Daniel Shorrock, honorable mention for best documentary short
have been 510 Massey student finalists and Zoe Lovell-Smith, Chris Warren, Oscar at the Los Angeles based Independent Short
279 award winners. Jackson, Fergus Salmon and Liam Avery won Awards for her film ‘Siouxsie and the Virus’.
a Gold Good Design Award for their Electric
Cargo Trike.
ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFT /
DESIGN AWARDS
In 2020, PhD candidate Erana Kaa won the
Friends of the Dowse Fashion Design Award,
and Lucy Grunfeld and Saskia Jamieson won
the ECC Lighting and Furniture Product Design
Award. Two other Massey students were
highly commended, in Ceramics, and Visual
Communication Design (Illustration).
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
Nau mai
Haere mai
WELCOME TO THE
COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS
Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is
New Zealand’s leading university in creative
TE HAANA PAEWAI (BMVA 2020) arts, offering comprehensive, internationally
benchmarked, future-focused programmes.
Our studio-based learning environment creates
innovative thinkers and makers. World-class,
industry-connected academic staff provide an
inspiring and supportive culture that will give you
the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in
all creative industries.
We offer internationally acclaimed degrees in
Design, Māori Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Commercial
Music and Creative Media Production.
With an excellent reputation for innovative
creative arts research and practice, Toi
Rauwhārangi is New Zealand’s oldest and most
comprehensive creative arts school.
At Toi Rauwhārangi you will work across disciplines
and on collaborative projects that develop
leadership skills and foster lifelong connections.
Our courses are often based on live briefs and
projects, giving you real world understanding and
connections with people in the industry. You’ll
develop both critical thinking and technical expertise
that prepares you well for a creative career.
Our degrees place our graduates well ahead in the
increasingly competitive global job market, where
entrepreneurial attitudes and creative problem-
solving skills are highly sought by employers.
Toi Rauwhārangi staff are recognised in Aotearoa,
the Pacific and internationally for their distinctive
contribution to indigenous art practice. We’re
dedicated to Māori achievement in teaching,
research and learning, and committed to the
success of Māori and Pacific students.
Our programmes are based on a pōwhiri framework
that acknowledges our distinct cultural and
geographical location in Aotearoa New Zealand.
This framework develops confident students who
display toi (creativity), mōhio (virtuosity, skill),
mātauranga (understanding), mana (autonomy),
and whānaungatanga (connectedness).
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
Wellington
KNOWN AS
NEW ZEALAND’S
COOLEST
LITTLE CAPITAL
Wellington is a creative, friendly, and safe
city to live in. Our campus is centrally
located, within walking distance from the
thriving city centre.
Wellington is compact, accessible and vibrant,
and there’s always something happening. The
centre of government and business in Aotearoa,
Wellington is also home to our world-class film
industry, top design firms, tech hubs, Te Papa
Tongarewa and a flourishing art scene.
Surrounded by lush green hills and a diverse
coastline, Wellington is full of walks and places
to explore. The city is famous for a vibrant
creative culture fuelled by great food, coffee and
craft beer.
Massey’s campus is not far from entertainment
and nightlife in Cuba Street and Courtenay Place,
with excellent transport links, as well as the
beautiful waterfront. Everything is within easy
walking distance so that both work and play are
right on your doorstep.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
JEFF MCEWAN
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
Student life
WE WELCOME
DIVERSITY, WITH
CLUBS, GROUPS
AND CULTURAL
NETWORKS TO
HELP YOU FIND YOUR
PLACE AND MAKE
NEW CONNECTIONS.
Our campus offers plenty of resources
to inspire and enhance your study and
creative practice.
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
Make & create
DEVELOP new knowledge, ideas and systems.
EXPERIMENT with new ways of seeing,
making and doing.
LEARN from some of the best practitioners
and researchers in the world.
KA MUA, KA MURI
XOĒ HALL EXPLORE what it means to be a creative
person in Aotearoa New Zealand.
COLLABORATE AND CONTRIBUTE
share ideas, make new work, and participate
in real world projects that make a difference.
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
OUR STUDENTS
SPEND MOST OF
THEIR TIME AT
MASSEY MAKING
AND THINKING
IN STUDIOS,
WORKSHOPS AND
MEDIA LABS.
TYPICALLY, AT LEAST
TWO-THIRDS OF
YOUR CLASSES WILL
BE HANDS-ON.
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ABOU T THE
COLLEGE
Opportunities
WHEN YOU STUDY
CREATIVE ARTS AT
MASSEY, YOU BECOME
PART OF A DIVERSE
CREATIVE COMMUNITY.
WE OFFER LOTS OF
EXTRA OPPORTUNITIES
TO HELP YOU FIND
YOUR WAY.
MEET AND MAKE
NEW BUSINESS
The college has partnered with
MBIE, DIA, MPI, Callaghan,
Te Papa, Cuba Dupa, WREDA,
WOW, Alexander Turnbull Library
and Agribusiness New Zealand.
GO ON AN INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND WORK ON
STUDY TOUR MEANINGFUL PROJECTS
Fashion and Creative Media Production Producing VAKA, a climate change
students in India, 2019. documentary, enabled students of
Creative Media Production to film on
location in Tokelau, with assistance
from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade.
STUDY ABROAD AT ONE
OF MASSEY’S WORLD-CLASS
PARTNER UNIVERSITIES
Clara Gan, BDes (Hons) Industrial
Design, studied at Munich University,
Germany in 2019.
MAKE GREAT WORK
Our students win awards at national
and international competitions.
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JOIN CLUBS AND ABOU T THE
COLLECTIVES THAT CONNECT COLLEGE
YOU WITH PEOPLE WHO
SHARE YOUR PASSIONS
AND INTERESTS
Banter and Brews, a student
initiative focused on supporting
the transition from study to work.
Open Lab is a place for students to
gain real life design experience. We
bridge the gap between students and
EXHIBIT, PROMOTE OR the wider design industry, with paid
PERFORM YOUR WORK ON internships and the opportunity to
work with actual clients.
AND OFF CAMPUS
The final year exhibition for Check out Open Lab The Podcast
graduating students, Exposure on Spotify or iTunes.
Exhibition is a must-see event
held at the beginning
of November each year.
ACCESS FAB LAB WGTN
Use all the tools and workshop
facilities here at the college,
including digital and fabrication
resources at Australasia’s first
Fab Lab.10 DESIGN EVA NGAMANU JADE JOHNSTON TEXTILE DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHY ANYA WANGSUWAN JENNY MOON VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN SPATIAL DESIGN LES MEADOWS, MICHAELA LAWN, HAVILAH ARENDSE SHUBHAM GHANATHA, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FASHION DESIGN
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DESIGN
Bachelor of
Design with
Selected entry
Honours
Four years full time
Wellington BDes(Hons)
Find your design strengths at DESIGN MAJORS INCLUDE : CAREERS INCLUDE:
New Zealand’s most comprehensive
> Concept design Industrial designer, documentary photographer,
design programme. > Fashion design graphic designer, fashion designer, textile or
Ngā Pae Māhutonga Wellington School of > Industrial design surface designer, service designer, spatial
Design was established in 1886, and continues > Integrated design designer, advertising executive, brand manager,
a tradition of research-led, innovatively taught > Photography information designer, commercial photographer,
design education that has produced some > Spatial design transport designer, interaction designer,
of the world’s most respected and successful > Textile design concept designer, entertainment designer,
designers. > Visual communication design pattern-maker, user experience (UX) designer,
fashion stylist, typographic designer, freelance
The BDes(Hons) offers majors in photography,
concept design, fashion and textile design,
WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT design contractor, design researcher, illustrator,
DESIGN AT MASSEY? business owner, and many more.
spatial and industrial design, integrated design
and visual communication design. Vibrant studio environments GUS HUNTER
In the course of your study you’ll address local Collaboration drives your creative development A visual communication and design graduate,
and global issues, producing inspirational design Shared briefs across majors Gus Hunter is now a senior concept designer
solutions for a rapidly changing world. For Designers work in multi-disciplinary teams as at Weta Workshop. From an early age he
example, through design, how do we encourage well as on individual projects knew he was interested in art. A keen drawer,
more young people to vote, our consumer he was enthralled by the drawings in Marvel,
practices to be more sustainable, our services Design thinking DC and Creepy comic books; films such as
more efficient or our environments healthier? Create systems and experiences as well as Animal Farm; and old master painters such
products as Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci.
The first year explores design practice and its His Pacific island heritage fueled his desire
core concepts, methods and applications through Live briefs
to give back to the community, and he has
hands-on projects. You’ll be introduced to a Work on projects for real clients
worked with local budding artists to illustrate
range of disciplines and the principles of design Pōwhiri framework children’s stories for their own schools.
through investigation, concept development and Experience learning through an integrated
making. You’ll mix, discuss and collaborate with He was one of the lead concept designers
Pōwhiri framework, which incorporates Māori on King Kong and also had a significant
other students across art, design, music and perspectives and guides you through four years
creative media production. Work individually as contribution to many of Weta Workshop’s
of supportive learning movies including the Lord of The Rings
well as with peers and tutors to develop your
own design voice. Office hours trilogy, The Hobbit, the Narnia films and
Seek advice from any academic staff member, Avatar. He also worked on the Gallipoli:
Throughout your study you can choose electives not just your own lecturers The Scale of Our War exhibition at Te Papa
that support your selected major, or allow you to Tongarewa. Gus was inducted into the
branch out into other creative disciplines. Graduate job-ready College of Creative Arts Hall of Fame in 2016.
Emerge well-prepared for a creative career
anywhere in the world.
WHY FOUR YEARS?
Your fourth year is an opportunity to really
extend your skills and push the boundaries of
design innovation. You can choose between
the more research-based honours programme
or a project-based non-honours programme.
GUS HUNTER12
DESIGN
Concept Design
BDes Major
Create concept design in both 2D and 3D Concept design is about visualising and BO MOORE, MDES 2016
for entertainment and education within developing the ideas behind film, television, Bo Moore is a concept designer with a
film, animation, television, gaming, gaming, performance, or interactive experiences. passion for character design, interactive
and location-based experiences. In concept design you’ll use traditional art narrative and worldbuilding. Her work
Design stunning visuals and concepts forms like drawing and sculpting 3D models, blurs the line between science fiction and
as well as making digital plans and renders, to fantasy, telling stories of the strange
for imaginary worlds, compelling
communicate your concepts for new objects, and the strangely familiar through a range
characters, engaging environments,
characters or environments. of mediums.
and incredible stories.
You could be designing characters, creatures, She has worked for Huhu (a Māori TV
Apply these skills as you explore props, vehicles and machines, all the way to animated children’s show). She has also
storytelling through idea creation, building entire worlds to form the foundations developed concept art for Pukeko Pictures
drawing, explorative design, modelling of feature films, theme parks, events, toys or plus she was the key designer on the award
and sculpting to realise the design exhibits. winning Promised Land books – the world’s
of environments, props, characters first LGBTQ themed fairy tale.
Concept design is one of the first stages in every
and costumes. design process, and concept designers create the
JOEL SAVAGE, BDES(HONS) 2014
basis for further production and development,
3D ARTIST (FRAMESTORE, UK)
rather than finished products.
Joel is a 3D artist. He worked at Weta
In this major you’ll study in courses focused upon Workshop and Magic Leap as a 3D artist
drawing, prototyping and rigorous conceptual and modeller, before moving to Framestore
development of characters, environments, in the UK. At Weta Workshop he worked
costumes and creatures. on Ghost in the Shell, GKR and Pacific Rim.
BO MOORE JOEL SAVAGE13
DESIGN
Fashion Design
BDes Major
We consume fashion daily; it constantly You will explore and develop fashion design There are also opportunities for internships,
shapes us and is shaped by us. The concepts for international markets as well as and for students to collaborate internationally
global impact of this multi-billion-dollar Aotearoa New Zealand, through garments, with other fashion design schools and present
industry is challenging future fashion accessories and systems that respond to the collections at New Zealand Fashion Week and
thinkers and makers to explore new times. Learn skills in idea generation, fashion other Fashion Weeks around the world. Our
communication, pattern making, construction, graduates have a long history of success in
directions and make changes to create a
materials, historical and contemporary fashion design competitions such as WOW, iD Emerging
more sustainable future in fashion.
analysis and critical thinking, challenging how Designer Awards, Hokonui Fashion Design
things are done through fashion practice. Think Awards, Miromoda Fashion Design Awards,
broadly and push boundaries, exploring anything including Sean Kelly, winner of Project Runway
from a 3D printed open-source garment design, (USA) in 2014 and Bradley Smit winning a Silver
to a gender-neutral collection that questions Award at the Best Awards 2019.
ideas of gender and identity.
JING HE, BDES (HONS)
Our facilities and staff offer almost unlimited FASHION DESIGN, 2020
possibility. You may find your work on the
Assimilation // Annexation intends to
catwalk following in the footsteps of alumni like
simultaneously expose and confront the
Kate Sylvester and Kathryn Wilson; you may
institution of marriage from my cultural
develop new sustainable fashion systems taking
perspective. This collection embodies
fashion towards a more responsible future.
diverse Asian feminine identities and voices,
by performing and capturing moments of
my mum’s life through transformed bridal
dresses, exploring concepts of loss, memory
and nostalgia. The white wedding dress
may function as a representative stereotype
of femininity whilst exploring hidden
symbolisms through cultural tradition and
social rituals for women. From China.
CAITLIN SNELL, BDES (HONS)
FASHION DESIGN, 2020
The lockdown created an inability to
purchase new non-essential fabrics,
providing motivation to find innovative ways
to incorporate scrap, damaged or repurposed
household materials into my work. These
were donated or acquired at zero cost during
the Level 3 and 4 restrictions. This allowed
me to work slowly and sustainably while also
considering the role of nostalgia in producing
pleasure.
JING HE CAITLIN SNELL14
DESIGN
Industrial Design
BDes Major
As an industrial designer you’ll develop You’ll learn how to meet the social, cultural, You’ll work in our state-of-the-art studios,
aspirational and elegant objects, economic, and environmental needs of people workshops and digital fabrication facilities
products and systems for our world. through innovative thinking and creative including Australasia’s first Fab Lab. Our
You’ll design products and develop application of new technologies, defining the industrial design graduates win national and
new-to-the-world ideas, for example world for future generations. international awards for their work, including
Red Dot, Dyson, Electrolux, Sony, LG Designer’s
a mountain bike helmet that can manage As an industrial design student you’ll learn
Institute Best Awards, and the ECC NZ Student
concussion, or a garment to help how to manipulate the material world using
Craft / Design Awards. Our alumni can be found
people manage anxiety. both physical and digital processes. Through
in design roles with Apple, Ducati, Nike, Fisher
studio-based classes you’ll learn about idea
and Paykel, Formway, Macpac, Howard Wright,
generation, materials, processes, human
Gallaghers, Weta Workshop and phil&teds.
experience, ergonomics, visual communication,
modelling and production. LESLIE MEADOWS, MICHAELA LAWN,
Psych SHUBHAM GHANATHA,
BDES (HONS), 2020
Psych: Leslie, Michaela and Shubham set
out to design and develop a personal electric
vehicle that could meet the needs of a broader
range of commuters. Psych is an adaptable
electric micro-vehicle that allows the rider
to adjust its configuration for different uses,
placing it between the convenience of a
bicycle and utility of a car.
HANNA DE RIDDER
BDES (HONS), 2020
Mindful: In this project, Hanna set out to
address cluttered, chaotic and stressful
home environments especially for people
living in smaller spaces. She designed a flat
packable, multifunctional storage system
LESLIE MEADOWS, MICHAELA LAWN, SHUBHAM GHANATHA
for two people with an emphasis on only
holding the necessities. ‘Mindful’ improves
peoples’ wellbeing through reducing
both physical and mental clutter, as well
highlighting the often-wasteful life cycle
of domestic furniture and reflecting
on consumption and purchasing habits.
HANNA DE RIDDER15
DESIGN
Integrated Design
BDes Major
In the past decade, designers have had Integrated design allows you to include design Integrated design offers a new way for you
to become agile and multidisciplinary studio courses from two design majors. Choose to approach a design career and form your
in order to respond to the speed of from concept, fashion, industrial, photography, own solutions to the challenges that emerge
change in the world around them. The spatial, textile and visual communication from contemporary design practice. With the
distinction between different fields of design. You could explore the intersection of Wellington School of Design’s traditions and
photography and fashion, or textile design with expertise, integrated design will encourage you
design has blurred, as the demand for
an industrial application, or any other design to form your own creative, professional and
proactive, versatile, flexible and curious
combination that appeals to you. consultative methods.
designers has increased.
You’ll begin by exploring famous and well- TRACEY GUIEB, BDES, 2020
understood models of design from over the past
BenifiSense: A Sensory Jacket for Individuals
century. As you progress, you’ll integrate a variety
with SPD. BenifiSense is a jacket that aims
of techniques and strategies in your design
to prepare adults with Sensory Processing
practice, considering perspectives that include
Disorder (SPD) for environments where they
a diversity of people, their needs and desires,
may be prone to experience sensory overload.
cultures and contexts, and points of view.
It does this by catering for the senses in a
discrete and non-disruptive way, allowing
the user to interact with the jacket when and
how they want, depending on their individual
sensory needs.
This project was developed within a 4th year
industrial design brief.
TRACEY GUIEB16
DESIGN
Photography
BDes Major
Photographers help people to see the Massey has the longest running photography When you graduate, you’ll join Massey alumni
world in new ways, using both critical programme in New Zealand and is led by some whose careers span the range from fine
understanding and highly developed of Aotearoa’s most distinguished contemporary art to commercial, photojournalism, fashion
technical skills with the ability to use photographers, including Anne Noble, Shaun photography, content creation for digital media,
a range of communication modes. Waugh and Wayne Barrar. and work within the gallery/museum sectors.
You’ll be introduced to a range of technologies HENDRIX HENNESSY-ROPIHA
while developing a social and cultural NGĀTI KAHUNGUNU & NGĀTI
understanding of photography’s place in society. RAUKAWA, BDES (HONS) 2020
There are well-equipped studios, colour- We can travel only a short way together:
managed digital photography computer suites We stood in the intersection and talked without
and high quality digital print facilities, as well as opening our mouths. You appeared younger,
wet-based darkrooms and specialist labs. like when we first met, surrounded by people
who shared a closeness with you. It was
As the course progresses your work will embrace
strange, fading from a dream while realising
longer-term, often self-directed projects dealing
that for now, this would be our final farewell.
with ideas and issues of real relevance within
your personal and professional life. You can ‘We can travel only a short way together’
choose to develop expertise in commercial, art- explores the underlying issues of taboo,
based or documentary photography, with access restriction and invisibility when discussing
to a wide range of cameras and capture systems suicide in New Zealand.
to realise your dreams.
MIA VINACCIA
BDES 2020
Queen. Gendered stereotypes and unrealistic
ideals impact how we view ourselves and the
people around us. This is especially evident in
editorial, commercial and fashion photography,
where gendered stereotypes coincide with
the problematic physical appearances
that are reinforced in our day to day lives.
‘Queen’ playfully reveals how the extreme
stereotypes of gendered power are embedded
in contemporary society and play out through
mass media and cinematic experiences.
HENDRIX HENNESSY-ROPIHA MIA VINACCIA17
DESIGN
Spatial Design
BDes Major
TOM CALDER, (HONS)
SPATIAL DESIGN, 2020
Shelter from the Storm offers the tourist
industry a contemporary backcountry hut
experience on Grasmere Station as an
alternative to the Great Walks multi-day
tramping geared for mass-tourism. A
contemporary interpretation of traditional
backcountry hut heritage providing more
profound experiences with the natural
environment and history. The design is
generated through explorations into spatial
experiences of shelter, backcountry hut
typology and interior elements, including
strategies for camouflage and framing.
TOM CALDER
KATE STANLEY, (HONS)
SPATIAL DESIGN, 2020
Spatial designers shape the Rethink built and virtual spaces in ways that Respect your Elders: This project considers
environments that we inhabit and the are innovative, speculative, and mindful of the whether practices of holistic healing can
ways we experience them. Spatial wellbeing of people and the planet. You’ll learn be extended beyond the normal empathetic
design provides educational experience to understand, represent and create spaces, range to include heritage architecture that
in new and emerging spatial practices working between studios, workshops and site- has suffered or is suffering earthquake
and professions, while maintaining a specific environments. Learn technical drawing trauma. By personifying architecture through
foundation in traditional design such skills, rendering software and video editing its historical, social and cultural layers and
as interior architecture, landscape skills to create, imagine and represent spaces. connections, brick and mortar can be, and
and urban design. It explores should be afforded personal, body to body
You will discover ways to imagine and construct
temporary spaces like exhibitions care and respect usually reserved for human
engaging environments in both physical and
and performances, and digital spaces to human healing. This project re-frames
digital space, from the big picture right down
including online environments, virtual the perception of dormant, traumatized
to the detail of construction and materiality.
reality and mixed reality. architecture, afflicted by un-inhabitation and
You’ll explore light, surfaces and materials, and
reconstruction. By creating a practitioner,
consider the way people interact with spaces,
patient relationship between myself and a
in different social, cultural and historical
body of brick the building becomes a relatable
contexts.
and recognisable character for the surrounding
Our graduates find exciting jobs as spatial communities, who have experienced the
designers, interior designers, architectural trauma of earthquakes. Through this act of
designers, digital designers, performance care I can uplift the building’s character and
designers, landscape designers, web designers, face, renewing its place in the community and
digital FX artists, and interaction and culture of the wider site, to celebrate longevity
experience designers. New types of jobs are and trauma as part of its character.
constantly emerging.
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DESIGN
Textile Design
BDes Major
Textiles design spans everything The textile design major focuses on the creation Our students regularly enjoy success in a range
from fashion and interiors, to industrial of new textiles, materials and surfaces for a of national and international competitions
products and exhibitions. Push the diverse range of applications including fashion, including Best Awards, Red Dot, The Society
boundaries of surface, texture and product, interiors and art. You will develop of Dyers and Colorists, the ECC New Zealand
material, in a programme that prioritises specialist skills in print, weave, knit, embroidery, Student Craft / Design Awards and The Surface
dye and materials through learning traditional Design Association.
design for sustainability.
textile techniques and working with state-of-the-
art digital technologies. SOPHIE PARSONS, BDES (HONS)
TEXTILE DESIGN
We encourage you to harness the potential
Distant Connections is an interior surface
that textiles and materials have to make a
design collection that explores New
positive impact in the world, while considering
Zealanders response to Covid-19. Inspired
sustainability in your approach. Engage with the
by the spatial restrictions that limit our
history of traditional textiles in Aotearoa New
physical interactions, Distant Connections
Zealand and globally, and combine conventional
captures the consequential bonds formed
methods with high-tech approaches like VR,
within our communities. These bonds enable
bio-design and material-driven innovation.
us to maintain strength during uncertain
Textile design graduates have gone on to work times. Using digital print on paper, textile and
around the globe in areas including textile design ceramic, this collection is designed for your
for fashion and interiors; product development home; the place you now know so well.
for multiple industries like sport, health care
and travel; materials research and development;
illustration and surface design; and art.
SOPHIE PARSONS19
DESIGN
Visual
Communication Design
BDes Major
Visual communication design (VCD) As a VCD student you’ll learn to become an MATT LAW, BDES (HONS),
is at the heart of how we experience the independent creative and critical thinker VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
world; guiding, informing, educating and and maker, developing innovative responses Based on the challenges of climbing a
inspiring us every day. to address complex issues facing our world. mountain, UP! is a gameful tool designed to
In the first two years of the VCD major you’ll inspire children to develop healthy self-
Visual communication design spans management strategies — especially those
gain confidence and proficiency with technical
print and editorial design, illustration, living with a chronic health condition. Players
skills across the discipline, and learn processes
brand communication, motion graphics, take on the role of mountaineers, acquiring
for developing ideas.
video, information design, AR and VR, and trading tokens to build a route to the
and mobile application and web. Our visual communication design students and summit. Open-ended question cards prompt
graduates excel nationally and internationally meaningful discussion around a holistic
in the Best Awards, Red Dot Design Awards, approach to health and equip players with
and are recognised by the International Society transferable skills for future challenges.
of Typographic Design.
FRANKIE HAYMAN, BDES (HONS),
There is a growing demand for graduates who VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
can apply design thinking at a strategic level
Nudge aims to help the students of Massey
in business, government and within social
College of Creative Arts navigate curriculum
and civic enterprises. VCD graduates also go
through radical transparency so they
on to work as creative directors, interactive
can make informed decisions when picking
designers, graphic designers, user experience
papers. This online tool gives students
(UX) designers, typographic designers,
access to student reviews, student work
advertising executives, brand managers,
and alumni hindsight, acting as a window
publishers, web designers, and illustrators.
into the Massey experience.
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DESIGN
Visual
Communication Design
Pathways
Within the design degree you can These pathways are sets of electives from
combine a selection of electives which visual communication design that fit together
will give you a range of specialised well, sometimes in combination with electives
skills and in-depth knowledge. Below from other creative arts disciplines including
you can see a variety of options provided fine arts, creative media production, and
even commercial music. You can take these
currently in the Bachelor of Design with
pathways even if VCD is not your major.
Honours and the Bachelor of Design.
BRAND
Brand communication provides students KASEY MCDONELL
with a range of critical and practical skills BDES(HONS), 2020
for engaging with marketing, service and
Project Zero. We need a majority of people
experience design thinking. Beginning with
prioritising action to fight climate change, but
visual identity design, the pathway moves
climate rhetoric paralyses people rather than
through product-centred branding, and
motivating them. Designers can persuade
concludes with the user-centred strategies
more people to demand action by changing
for designing services. From designing logos
the rhetoric of low carbon behaviours.
to staging transformational experiences,
To persuade people from being concerned, to
this pathway will equip you for these exciting
demanding wider change, Project Zero excites
and growing areas of design practice.
people with a fresh approach to plant-based
meat, gives confidence with a smart recipe
service and helps support community action.
ILLUSTRATION
Explore illustration as both art form, and as MATT JENNINGS
a medium for design communication. This BDES(HONS) 2020
entails developing industry-level illustration
Mr Stranger Is Your Friend In The
skills for print and online platforms including:
Apocalypse. As the music industry pushes
text analysis, conceptual development, visual
further into the digital space, album covers
representation, visual style and rendering, and
and music videos are being squeezed into
3D modelling. You will become accomplished in
our pockets. I believe that there needs to
producing engaging illustrations and narratives
be a resurgence in the visual translations
on a range of topics, in response to course
of music in order to truly communicate an
and industry briefs. Through this pathway you
idea to those listening. In response to this,
will also develop your own personal style and
I have designed a modular Graphic-Score
perspective as an illustrator.
that enables a musician to independently
establish their own visual identity and
enhance the communication of an idea
through an album.21
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INFORMATION DESIGN
Learn how to transform complex data and TUI WRIGHT-MEMBRY
information into impactful messages. In a world BDES (HONS) 2020
that is increasingly built on information and
Puku Ora is a personal account of living with
facts, information design takes these elements
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). IBS is painful
and makes them accessible and entertaining.
and exhausting. Researching and implementing
As you progress through this pathway you’ll
scientific information is consuming and difficult.
explore how to translate data into clear
This project employs a strategy of ‘humanising
communication, engaging stories, and finally
good scientific information’. By carefully
into meaningful interactions. You’ll become
identifying each stage of this experience the book
a storyteller of data, unlocking the skills to
offers a nurturing and empathetic step by step
engage users and change minds.
support framework to follow. A book delivering
good science wrapped in beautiful empathy.
INTERACTION DESIGN
Explore how humans interact with objects, JASMIN PAPWORTH
spaces, and technology. This pathway covers BDES(HONS) 2020
a wide range of media and situations including
Safari 2.0 is an immersive online environment
website and app interfaces, exhibitions
that creates an experience that captivates
and installations, and exciting emerging
customers senses and emotions. The website
technologies like virtual and augmented reality.
uses experience and destination marketing
Through this learning, you’ll gain insight
design to convert the COVID-19 disruption
into user-needs and how to guide users in a
into a transformative innovation, with the
way that is useful, intuitive and enjoyable.
added potential to reimagine and reform the
next normal for the tourism industry. With
the case study of Nigel Perks Discovery, the
experience of the website is personal; its aim
is not to sell, but inspire.
TYPOGRAPHY
Typography can be informative, expressive or SAM FRASER
interpretative and spans all forms of media and BDES(HONS) 2020
communication. The typographic pathway builds
International recognition for Massey typography
from fundamental principles of letterforms,
students. Fourth year design student Sam
legibility and design of layouts to complex
Fraser was awarded the highest recognition
narratives. Typographic electives offered in each
of commendation in the annual International
year aim to develop skills through interpreting
Society of Typographic Designers student
simple concepts to complex self-directed
membership assessment. His was the only
research projects with an advanced level of
commendation out of 52 students who entered
craft and conceptual thinking. In the fourth year
the South Pacific assessment. His personal
there is a hand printing option in contemporary
experience of Covid lockdown was a response
letterpress and the opportunity for submission
to the ISTD brief: The Significance of Numbers.
to an international typographic assessment.22
FINE AR T S
WINONA FOLAU
MALAGA FA’ALEAGAGA
JORDAN OOSTERMAN SARAH WILLIS
OFFICECORE RECREATIONAL GARDENING23
FINE AR T S
Bachelor of
Fine Arts
Selected entry
with Honours
Four years full time
Wellington BFA(Hons)
Establish your place in the art world WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT
with some of the finest artists in FINE ARTS AT MASSEY?
New Zealand.
A cross-media art school
Be the commentator, the activist, the Experiment with different modes of art-making
narrator or the storyteller to transform
perceptions, express a point of view or Define the future of art
make a political comment. Explore sound, moving image, online art
and other emerging fields of practice
Work across sculpture, painting,
drawing, performance, installation, Vertically streamed classes
moving image, sound, photography, Second, third and fourth-year students
printmaking, site-responsive work, share studio spaces and classes.
curatorial activities and art writing. Freedom to try things
At Whiti o Rehua School of Art you’ll learn An open, friendly culture that encourages
from leading artists, including Walters Art diversity and individuality
Prize winner Shannon Te Ao, Fulbright-Wallace
Engine Room
Arts Award recipient Simon Morris, and Best
Contemporary art gallery on campus CIARAN BANKS, BFA (HONS) 2020
Award-winning Mana Moana team Rachael
Rakena and Michael Bridgman. What am I making? Where am I going?
Pōwhiri framework
What am I saying? No way of knowing.
This contemporary art programme fosters a Experience learning through an integrated
My curiosity about the nature of things has
critical understanding of the place of art in Pōwhiri framework, which incorporates Māori
led me to a practice centred on questioning
today’s world. Your learning will be hands-on, perspectives and guides you through four years
and manipulating materials. My exploration
working in an interdisciplinary open-plan of supportive learning
through the wider borders of painting and
studio surrounded by other students from all sculpture complements my background in
Office hours
year levels. street art, provisionality, and a destructive
Seek advice from any academic staff member,
Develop your own unique art practice, voice not just your own lecturers ethos to create paintings influenced by
and confidence as an artist in a culturally the contrast between improvisation and
diverse environment. Know who you are as an artist composition. These twin entities and my
With a fine arts degree you’ll graduate as an knowledge of industrial processes guides
You’ll be exhibiting your work from your second inventive, dedicated thinker and maker, able to my engagement in the creation of art.
year, on campus and eventually in exhibitions in define your future career in a broad spectrum of
galleries and public spaces around Wellington. creative fields
WHY FOUR YEARS? CAREERS INCLUDE:
Your fourth year is an opportunity to really Sculptor, painter, photographer, performance
extend your skills and push the boundaries artist, conceptual artist, digital media
of contemporary art practice. You can choose artist, curator, art writer, gallery assistant,
between the more research-based honours gallery director, gallery owner, gallery public
programme or a project-based non-honours programmer, gallery publicist, teacher,
programme. historian, archivist, gallery technician,
videographer, film director, scriptwriter,
illustrator, editor, stylist, publisher, filmmaker.24
FINE AR T S
RACHAEL RAKENA
MANA MOANA
RACHAEL RAKENA Rachael Rakena from the Whiti o Rehua Rakena co-leads the Mana Moana project,
NGĀI TAHU, NGĀPUHI, School of Art uses the term ‘toi rerehiko’ a collaboration between Māori and
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, to describe her practice, meaning ‘art that Pasifika musicians, artists, writers and
WHITI O REHUA SCHOOL OF ART employs electricity, movement and light’. choreographers. It is a series of short art
It claims and names digital arts for Māori films, fusing poetry, dance, song, painting,
by centring the concepts of ‘space between’, photography and animation. Instead of
‘fluidity’, ‘immersion’ and ‘continuum’ projecting on a traditional film screen,
within a Māori paradigm, and combines Mana Moana explores themes of ocean,
notions of continuum with interdisciplinary climate change and diaspora on a screen
and collaborative practice. ‘I make art of projected water.
that usually involves video and is often manamoana.co.nz
collaborative. I’ve been exploring themes
around identity and water for many
years, always with an indigenous focus.’25
FINE AR T S
Design and
Fine Arts Degree
Structure
You are automatically enrolled in a BDes or YOUR FIRST YEAR Year One
BFA Honours degree at Massey (four years).
The University year is divided into two Semester 1 Semester 2
This gives you a competitive edge in a world Weeks 1–12 Weeks 1–12
12-week semesters from February–November,
where having initiative and confidence are an
with mid-semester as well as mid-year breaks.
advantage, and where new careers continue Studio I Studio I Studio I Studio I
Please check online for a full calendar of
to be invented. S1B1 S1B2 S2B1 S2B2
important dates and university holidays. ––– .157/8 ––– .157/8 ––– .157/8 ––– .157/8
100 LEVEL / INTRODUCTION In your first year, you will take 8 courses, each
Select one Select one Select one Select one
Explore what it means to be a university worth 15 credits. That is 120 credits in total, Lens Lens Lens Lens
student. Find your feet. Choose your path. which is full time at Massey. Full-time study Art Place Imagine Art Place Imagine
equates to about 40 hours per week, including Space Art Lab Space Art Lab
Dress Material Dress Material
class time and independent work.
200 LEVEL / DEVELOPMENT Screen Screen Object Screen
Core Major Courses: Object Type Type Type
Become more familiar with the practices
and processes of design or contemporary Depending on the course, you might create
art production. Experiment. site-specific art, photographic images, objects,
garments, performances, new materials, video
or graphics.
300 LEVEL / EXPANSION
6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks
Extend your art and design practice and hone Shared Core Courses: 15 credits 15 credits 15 credits 15 credits
your critical skills further. There are two compulsory courses,
Communication for Makers and Conversations Communication Conversations in
for Makers Creative Cultures
in Creative Cultures, where we introduce you
400 LEVEL (HONS) / INNOVATION to ideas and people that shape the creative
237.130 237.131
Push the boundaries of your design arts and develop skills for communicating
process or art practice with a significant your work. You discuss, blog, read, listen, and
research-led independent body of work, communicate in a whole range of ways.
and celebrate your growth into a fully-fledged 12 weeks 12 weeks
creative arts graduate. Elective Courses: 15 credits 15 credits
Examples include: fashion construction, Elective Elective
printmaking, painting, contemporary sculpture, 100 level 100 level
drawing the body, introduction to computer
animation, photography as an agent of change
and digital fabrication. You can also take
electives from other parts of Massey. Check out
all options online. 12 weeks 12 weeks
15 credits 15 credits
The Yellow Book programme guide provides
more details about all degree content and
elective options, download it from:
creative.massey.ac.nz/apply
If you are wondering which core studio courses
are right for you check out our two-minute
videos about each first year studio course
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MĀOR I
VISUAL AR T S
Toioho Ki Āpiti
Bachelor of
Selected entry
Māori Visual Arts
Four years full time
Manawatū BMVA
Immerse yourself in the only university- WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT THE
based four year degree in Māori Visual BACHELOR OF MĀORI VISUAL ARTS?
Arts in Aotearoa.
This four-year degree is kaupapa Māori-
Staff and students engage creatively in a based. Engage in te reo Māori, tikanga and
culturally rich environment where te reo, whanaungatanga, and become a conceptual
tikanga and whanaungatanga are fundamental and critical thinker and creative maker.
to growing creative processes and practices
in toi Māori. Students will have access to staff Mana Whakapapa
who are acknowledged Māori artists, both Open your senses to Māori visual culture
nationally and internationally, in their areas of and explore your identity through a Māori
expertise. worldview. Become part of the whānau.
Established in 1995 by Professor Robert Jahnke Mana Tiriti
ONZM, Toioho ki Āpiti (Māori Visual Arts) is Awaken your responsibility to Te Tiriti o
based at Te Pūtahi-a-Toi on the Manawatū Waitangi. Become aware and engage with
campus in Palmerston North. The programme the political context.
caters for all levels of proficiency in te reo Mana Whenua
whether you have grown up through kohanga Carve your own pathway within the landscape
and kura or are an absolute beginner. of contemporary Māori art.
Students and staff start each study year with a Mana Tangata
stay on a marae where whakawhanaungatanga Take leadership and responsibility for your
begins, and continues to be fostered through creative practice. Pursue artistic excellence.
collective experiences throughout the degree. He toi whakairo, he mana tangata!
Exposure to contemporary visual arts, both
mainstream and indigenous, is facilitated
through visits to galleries, hui, wānanga
CAREERS INCLUDE:
and exhibition openings. Previously this has Artist, designer, academic/researcher,
included travel to marae and exhibitions in curator, museum and art gallery collections
Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, Tokyo, Korea, manager, gallery director, gallery assistant,
Hawai’i, Paris, Tahiti, as well as New Zealand. iwi development officer, Māori cultural
adviser, teacher, lecturer, archivist, historian.
The Toioho ki Āpiti community has extensive
professional relationships with curators, public
and commercial galleries, and artist networks
both nationally and internationally. You will be
able to access and develop connections with
these networks to help further their chosen
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VISUAL AR T S
MATA AHO COLLECTIVE
The Mata Aho Collective is a group of four
Māori women artists who produce large
scale fibre based works and work with a
single collective authorship.
The artists are lecturer at Toioho ki Āpiti
Māori visual arts, Erena Baker, of Te Atiawa
ki Whakarongotai and Ngāti Toa Rangātira,
Toioho ki Āpiti graduates Bridget Reweti, of
Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi, and Sarah
Hudson, of Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tūhoe, and
Whiti o Rehua School of Art graduate Terri
Te Tau, of Rangitāne ki Wairarapa.
They credit Toioho ki Āpiti as giving them a
foundation of visual arts practice. “It helped
us to see the relevance of mātauranga
Māori in the work we create for the current
contemporary art landscape and to push for
innovation within our work.
AKA is a 14m high hand-woven work made
from 25mm thick marine rope, situated in the
rotunda of the National Gallery of Canada.
IMAGES: NATIONAL ART
GALLERY OF CANADA
PUAWAI TAIAPA-APORO
BACHELOR OF MĀORI VISUAL ARTS,
2015
Puawai says her BMVA gave her the “The amazing lecturers have open minds
confidence to express herself and has about different whakaaro, different types of
helped take her to places not even she work and you’re appreciated for your ideas.
imagined at the beginning of her studies. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the
“When I started I was really passionate BMVA… the skills to express myself and the
about painting but the course offers other confidence and passion I’ve gained in my art
art forms like photography and media and in where I come from, in my pepeha.”
studies. Over the years my passion
A woman of many talents, Puawai was one
changed as I started creating videos.”
of the artists involved in the hit te reo song
After graduating Puawai became one of the Maimoatia which pushed Justin Timberlake
presenters on iconic youth TV show Pukana off the top of the NZ iTunes chart in 2016,
and has a growing online audience for her and also performed at the national kapa
Hey Puawai videos. She credits her success haka championships with the Hatea team
to the course that awakened her passion for from Whangārei.
performance art.29
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VISUAL AR T S
Māori Visual Arts
Degree Structure
YOUR FIRST YEAR: Te Reo Whakahoahoa: Year One
Take a language paper at the level appropriate
MANA WHAKAPAPA to you. You may also choose to do the next level
Semester 1 Semester 2
Weeks 1–12 Weeks 1–12
As part of the Toioho ki Āpiti Māori Visual in semester two.
Arts whānau, you will participate in a range Mata Puare Mata Puare
Critical and Contextual:
of collective activities such as kapa haka, Studio IA Studio IB
In this distance course, you will learn about 150.107 150.108
exhibitions and wānanga. The programme aims
customary Māori visual arts. This includes
to encourage and challenge you to push the
a contact course at Te Papa Tongarewa that
boundaries of contemporary Māori art.
takes you into the storerooms to learn from
The University year is divided into two 12-week taonga tuku iho.
semesters between February and November,
Elective:
with mid-semester and mid-year breaks. Please
You may be interested in other courses offered
check online for a full calendar of important
by the College of Creative Arts, the School
dates and university holidays.
of Māori Studies, or from other parts of
In your first year, you will take five courses Massey. Examples include digital fabrication,
that add up to 120 credits, which is full time fashion construction, printmaking, painting,
12 weeks
at Massey. Full-time study equates to about contemporary sculpture and drawing. 30 credits
40 hours per week, including class time and
The Yellow Book programme guide provides Ngā Hanga
independent work.
more details about all degree content and Whakairo
Mata Puare Studio: elective options, download it from: 150.106
You will spend two full days a week in the creative.massey.ac.nz/apply
studio making, experimenting, discussing and
developing ideas. All lecturers are exhibiting
artists and so depending on their experience 12 weeks 12 weeks
15 credits 45 credits
and skills you might create a conventional or
unconventional painting, sculpture, photographic Te Reo Whakahoahoa Te Reo
or design work, video or performance piece or 300.110 Kōnakinaki
a mixed media installation. 300.111
12 weeks 12 weeks
15 credits 15 credits30
CR E ATIVE
MEDIA PRODUC TION
GAME DEVELOPMENT
ANIMATION AND VFX
FILM AND TELEVISION31
CR E ATIVE
MEDIA PRODUC TION
Bachelor of
Creative Media
Open entry
Production
Three years full time
Wellington BCMP
Future-focused, this degree emphasises WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT CREATIVE YOUR FIRST YEAR
originality, innovation and critical MEDIA PRODUCTION AT MASSEY? The University year is divided into two 12-week
thought, and is led by practising semesters from February–November, with mid-
Learn from the experts
academics and industry experts. semester as well as mid-year breaks. Please
Developed and taught by award-winning
industry professionals and academics, who’ve check online for a full calendar of important
The BCMP aims to give you the skills and
worked on projects including Avatar, The dates and university holidays. In your first year,
creativity to realise your vision in interactive
Hobbit, Iron Man 3, Planet of the Apes, Babe, you will take 8 courses, each worth 15 credits.
and digital media production. With an
Ocean Girl, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea That is 120 credits in total, which is full time
emphasis on production skills, you’ll take
and Daffodils. with Massey. We expect you to spend 40 hours
creative media projects through development
per week on your studies, including class time.
of initial concepts and narratives to a
Industry connections
completed, distributable work. Using industry- The Yellow Book programme guide provides
Staff are well connected in the screen industry,
standard production facilities, studios and more details about all degree content
and include former staff of Weta Digital,
labs, you’ll respond to briefs that combine and elective options, download it from:
Weta Workshop, Park Road Post, TVNZ,
creative studio practice, linear and non-linear creative.massey.ac.nz/apply
SKY and the BBC.
storytelling, professional practice and portfolio
development. Cross-discipline collaboration
Embedded in an internationally recognised Year One
BCMP PATHWAYS INCLUDE: art and design school, which fosters creativity
and innovation. Semester 1 Semester 2
> Animation and VFX Weeks 1–12 Weeks 1–12
> Creative Technologies
Graduate job-ready
> Film and Television Select two: Select two:
Builds on Massey’s strong track record of
> Game Development Animation Audio
training graduates for successful careers
> Immersive Media Digital Video 3D Modelling
in the screen sector. Games Film & Video
(subject to regulatory approval)
Producing & on Location
> Producing and Directing Directing Prototyping
CAREERS INCLUDE Visualisation for Creative Tech
Web & Mobile Programing
GET CAREER READY Producer, director, visual effects producer,
for Interactive
special effects technical director, virtual
Immerse yourself in the screen industry. Time-based
producer, sound designer, sound recording Editing
Assemble a robust and diverse portfolio.
engineer, camera operator, lighting technician, VFX
Develop a unique production through
editor interactive/ creative technologies
a mentored final-year project, with an 12 weeks 12 weeks
producer, app developer, concept artist, 15 credits each 15 credits each
opportunity to have your work seen by the
storyboard artist, art director, animator, 3D
industry sector. Introduction to Creative Working with
modeller, rigger, games art director, games Media Production Scripted Material
developer, web and mobile games producer, VR/ 289.100 289.120
AR developer, audio producer, CG artist, motion
capture animator, digital effects artist.
12 weeks 12 weeks
15 credits 15 credits
HONOURS
Elective Elective
Extend your study, develop your research and 100 level 100 level
create outstanding creative media in the BCMP
Honours programme. For more information, go
to the Postgraduate section on page 43.
12 weeks 12 weeks
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