2008 Winners - Diversity Week Design Competition

Lachlan McIntyre - Winner

Interconnections was created to show how people, despite their differences share many things in common. This sharing builds a web that holds a functioning society together. Faces were used because they are the primary way in which people identify each other and the fact that the faces share crucial elements; noses, eyes, and mouths signifies that the interconnections are crucial. I chose the primary colours because they blend easily to form secondary colours. I didn’t use the clichéd colours of brown, black and white as this would have limited the applicability of the underlying message. I wanted it to be able to refer to the myriad of differences across the whole human spectrum be it ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, culture or simply whether you prefer Star Trek to Star Wars; drink coffee or tea; use Windows or Mac.

Michelle Simpson - Highly Commended 

Acceptance, peace and unity is the theme of my piece. Each class, gender and culture around the world displays their personalities and believes in some way and in most, it’s through what they wear. Jewellery can be worn by anyone but can also tell a lot about someone. Who they are, and what they believe, what they like, how much money they have and where they come from. In this piece all types of jewellery from around the world, some expensive some simple are worn on the same hand which is doing a peace sign. The outline of the hand is not gender specific nor does it depict a certain race. The theory behind this drawing is that everyone has different tastes, beliefs, living situations, cultures and basically different ways of life, but they can all represent these differences in the same way. United on one hand, indicating peace between everyone from different boundaries around the world.

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