Many external bodies span a range of disciplines and welcome designers from other areas to their events. Most have Queensland or Brisbane chapters. Levels of access to resources, membership and cost vary, some are free whilst others have heavily reduced rates for students. Some bodies specifically cater to students developing into professional practice, whilst others are more focused at those already in professional practice.
Aimed at Visual Communication students, The Design Kids ‘bridge the gap between studying and working in design, by providing an online resource and offline community’ https://thedesignkids.org/
The QUT Creative Lab is at the forefront of building high impact, transdisciplinary research and creative practice at QUT: https://twitter.com/QUTCreativeLab
These are led by staff and or students, some supported through the QUT Student Guild, whilst others are established around research collaborations or popular themes, such as the Sketching group, or hubs for entrepreneurship.
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