Phantasmascope

RMIT Communication

Grad Show 2025

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GRAD SHOW 13–14 NOV
RMIT BA & MA 2025
COMMUNICATION DESIGN





RMIT School of Design
423/411-423 Swanston Street,
Building 12, Level 5

Exhibition Team:
Tracey Wong
Sadie Li
Orion He
Hàley Nguyen
Simarpreet Kaur
Tiankun [Hayley] Gu
Mateo Sepúlveda García
Kelvin Li

Leads:
Neal Haslem
Noel Waite
Russell Kerr
Ziga Testen
Lloyd Mst
Hope Lumsden-Barry

Contributors:
Nicola St John
Yoko Akama
Peter White

Industry Partners:
Studio Round
Today
Dominic Hofstede
Mecca

Special thanks to the Communication Design Makerspace Student Assistants for their support in production and printing.

This Phantasmascope showcases the creative processes of more than 150 students from the Bachelor and Master of Communication Design programs at RMIT University. Their works are presented across nine categories that capture the core intentions driving their design practices: Inquiry, Transformation, Craft, Expression, Connection, Play, Narrative, Identity,

This Phantasmascope showcases the creative processes of more than 150 students from the Bachelor and Master of Communication Design programs at RMIT University. Their works are presented across nine categories that capture the core intentions driving their design practices: Inquiry, Transformation, Craft, Expression, Connection, Play, Narrative, Identity, and Resolution.

Etymologically, Phantasmascope derives from the Greek phantasma, meaning “to make visible,” and -scope, referring to “an instrument for observing.” A Phantasmascope is, then, a device for revealing what is ordinarily unseen. A designer’s practice can be understood as a convergence of ideas; theories, techniques, experiences, and influences. These ideas often remain static without context. Through the lens of a Phantasmascope, we aim to make the tacit explicit. Practice develops like a silent spinning wheel, repeating and gradually evolving into something new. Phantasmascope reveals the individual frames of this loop, inviting reflection on the themes that inform our work and extend our practices into the world. Design links us all in its continuous unfolding. It is through this ongoing dialogue between practice and reflection that we expand our sense of what design can be, and how each practice contributes to this shared, living conversation.

RMIT School of Design
423/411-423 Swanston Street,
Building 12, Level 5

Exhibition Team:
Tracey Wong
Sadie Li
Orion He
Hàley Nguyen
Simarpreet Kaur
Tiankun [Hayley] Gu
Mateo Sepúlveda García
Kelvin Li

Leads:
Neal Haslem
Noel Waite
Russell Kerr
Ziga Testen
Lloyd Mst
Hope Lumsden-Barry

Contributors:
Nicola St John
Yoko Akama
Peter White

Industry Partners:
Studio Round
Today
Dominic Hofstede
Mecca

Special thanks to the Communication Design Makerspace Student Assistants for their support in production and printing.


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Acknowledgement of Country

The RMIT Communication Design programs acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise their ongoing connection to Country. This Country has always been a place of teaching, learning, and knowledge sharing, and that continues today, one that allows us to design, think, and create in dialogue. As designers, it is our ethical responsibility to recognise the land from which our work emerges, creating in ways that reveal connections, foster shared meaning, and remain attentive to the ongoing dialogue between people, place, and nature.