We are hiring: Graphic Designer

We are currently looking for a new Graphic/Communication Designer to join our team, this role is a one year fixed term.  We need someone that is excited about contributing to a collaborative and mixed disciplined team. The role requires compassion, empathy and strong relationship building skills as you will be interacting with hospital staff, patients and families.

Down to the nitty gritty of the role!

Must haves include:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign

Ideals for the role:

• After effects
• Web/coding
• Film/photography

If interested in social design and want role that helps benefit the community, while having the opportunity to work on various projects which include:

• Wayfinding
• Branding
• Information design
• Typography/Iconography
• Public design
• UX/UI Design
• Print design
• Film

If you have a couple years of Graphics/Communication design experience, have a sharp eye for detail and want a role that has the feel good factor this is for you!

Please visit the AUT careers site today! 

Applications close on Friday 29th April 2016, 5.00pm.

Researcher Profile: Jaye Buchbinder

Our newest member of the lab is Jaye Buchbinder, coming from California to work on research towards the opportunities and stakeholder understanding of the DHW lab. She’s currently a Master's student at Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, looking at the intersection between management effectiveness and efficiency as well as entrepreneurship and scaling innovation. During her undergrad (also at Stanford), Jaye studied Sustainable Design and Engineering, where she spent a lot of time in the engineering department and design school studying sustainability not only in the environmental sense but also in longevity of design and impact on people.

Her experience with design is a wide range between sustainable engineering at Emeco, an American furniture manufacturer, to materials engineering at BMW, product launch design at Victoria’s Secret, teaching design thinking across Asia, and innovation scaling at the Stanford Hospital for her most recent research project.

She is incredibly excited to be in the land of the Kiwi’s, already addicted to the coffee here, absolutely loves picking up new slang, and always looking to make her trip chockablock of adventures!

Governor General Visits the Lab

Last week AUT was fortunate to have the Governor General, Jerry Mateparae visit the university for the first time.  As part of his visit the Sir Mateparae came to the DHW Lab to find out a bit more about the lab and what we've been doing!

The Governor General had the opportunity to hear from our students,  our team at the lab and also the Co-Directors.

Antonio Wan, presented his redesigned neonatal baby bath and Charlotte Dickson went through her interactive picture books for starship outpatient clinics. Both Antonio and Charlotte successfully completed their Bachelor of Design (honours) qualifications in 2015.

Reid Douglas and Byron Thornhill presented on projects that the DHW Lab has worked recently, including the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) relapse guide and the level 8 overbridge concept design at Auckland City Hospital.

Both Co-Directors, Stephen Reay and Justin Kennedy-good focussed on the vision and purpose of the collaboration between the AUT and Auckland District Health Board and their vision for the future of this initiative.

2016

Here we are ready tackle another year at the DHW Lab, based in Auckland City Hospital. 2015 was punctuated by some real successes, including recognition at the New Zealand Best design awards. 

We are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities in front of us in the new year.

We have 5 summer studentships currently up and running with some graphic and spatial designers, and a couple of our previous full time workers embarking on masters level study. This makes room for some new blood in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! You can follow us here on our blog for project updates and events.

Designing Together Symposium

Thanks to everyone who made our Designing Togther event a real success yesterday. The morning session was inspirational for all that attended, and the lab would like to extend its thanks to all the speakers- and all the participants who helped make this happen.

The presentations were an opportunity for people both inside and outside the lab to share their vision for a hospital design lab- now and out beyond 2020. Stay tuned for the talks that will be published on our website very soon, along side the illustrations that were created during the event:

The second event of the day consisted of a DHW Lab open home. The lab exhibited some of its more recent design projects and both staff and students were available to talk through their work.

Best Awards 2015

Recently the Best Awards finalists were announced, showcasing the top New Zealand spatial, graphic and product design outputs for 2015. The Lab was recognised as a finalists in two categories - 'Best Offices and Workplace Environments' and 'Best Public Good.'

Embedded in the world of health at Auckland hospital, it has been one of the lab goals for 2015 to increase our visibility amongst the design community.  These award nominations have served as a great platform for sharing our vision amongst fellow designers.

We look forward to entering some of our current design projects in the 2016 Best award competition!