Good design is beyond aesthetics. It can change the way we see things in the world.
Our courses cover different design disciplines to allow you to harness your imagination and influence and change the way we live. From Graphic Design to Multimedia Design, our design courses are tailored to provide graduates with high levels of industry engagement and essential skills, so that you’re ready for today’s ever-changing design scene.
Design helps us see the world in ways we could never imagine. A design course could lead to a future in advertising, animation, web design, graphic design and beyond.
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Professionally accredited by the Malaysia Board of Technologists
1 of 20 Adobe Creative Campus in the world and the only one in Malaysia
Strong industry linkages with Borneo Convention Centre Kuching, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation, Microsoft, Sarawak Multimedia Authority and Sarawak Tourism BoardDo you need to go to university to be a designer? For Rahf, studying design at Swinburne gives her the understanding of the theories, creative methods & technical skills used in the design industry today.
Using design as a form of self-expression, Swinburne was the start for Shane in transforming a passion he loves into his work & stories.
Akademi Maritim Nusantara
Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK)
Brooke Heritage Trust
Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT)
RJ Realty Sdn Bhd
Sarawak Convention Bureau
Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation Bhd (SDEC)
Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (TEGAS)
Tanjung Manis Integrated Port Sdn Bhd
Yayasan Sarawak
We are the first Australian university and the only 20 worldwide to achieve the Adobe Creative Campus status. Our students have full access on all devices to Adobe Creative Cloud.
Our Design students are trained to develop and deliver a range of digital media applications including projects for web, digital film and television production, interactive digital media and handheld mobile devices.
Swinburne Sarawak has invested millions in the best design tools, graphic design suits, photography, video editing and web development software, in order for our students to gain skills and knowledge using the latest software and technology in industry.
As the future experts in the industry, our Design students uses iMac in their learning and teaching, whose hardware popular among designer for its excellent color accuracy and uniformity.
The latest addition to our design facilities, the Green Screen studio is used by our students to create floating effect or masking of an object’s background.
Swinburne’s Head of School of Design and Arts Associate Professor Dr Ida Fatimawati bt Adi Badiozaman has recently won the 2020 UN Women Malaysia Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Award for the Community and Industry Engagement Category.
Swinburne multimedia design graduate Joanne Lai Ing Jing made her first international debut in the recently concluded International Thai Film Festival 2020 (ITFF 2020) Film & Entertainment Industry Awards.
On 28 October 2017, a group of Bachelor of Design students, taking DDD10001 20th Century Design unit went for class excursion: “A stroll through Kuching Historic Architecture” in collaboration with friends of Sarawak Museum.
