Staff profile

Mr David Nightingale

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Room 102, Mildura

 

Qualifications

Bachelor of Visual Arts Graphic Design (Hons-La Trobe), Grad Dip in Education (La Trobe), Master of Visual Arts (La Trobe) current.

Area of study

Graphic Design

Brief profile

Throughout his design industry career, David has been creating promotional displays, advertising materials and signage, including magazine production, writing and editing. His current professional practice focuses upon the creative presentation of typographic information and its consequential visual impact. David is a recipient of the DM Myers University Medal for his research focussing upon creative word communication.

Research interests

Visual Communication

- Perception

- Typography

- Visual Communication

Teaching units

VPA1DS1/2 - Design Studies. VPA2DS3/4 - Design Studies. VPA3DS5/6 - Design Studies. VPA2AD3/4 - Applied Design. VPA3AD5/6 - Applied Design. VPA2MWC/D - Media Workshop. 

Recent publications

Nightingale, D 2009, White With One. Group exhibition: Creative Imperatives. Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

 

Nightingale, D 2009, Block Letters. Group exhibition: Murray Darling Palimpsest #7, La Trobe University theatre foyer, Mildura.

 

Nightingale, D 2008, Who Shot the Serif?, Group exhibition: Visual Arts and Design 2009 Calendar page. Bendigo.

 

Nightingale, D 2008, Ce n'est pas un mensonge blanc. Group exhibition: Crosstalk. La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo.

 

Nightingale, D 2008, Oh! Group exhibition: Disclosure. La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo.

 

Nightingale, D 2003 and 2008, Dunolly Cycle Tracks. An extensively detailed, large format, folded map of tracks in the goldfields region of central Victoria. Included design of track signage.

 

Hulls, J 2006, So Beautiful Our Journey, self-published: Bendigo. Writing, editing and design.

 

Nightingale, D 2006, You Are Here. Group exhibition: Signs and Symbols, Gallery 25, Mildura.

Research projects

David is a recipient of the DM Myers University Medal for his research focussing upon creative word communication. He continues to explore how we read typographic form in all its diversity, application and accidental placement. His current research analyses how art making and advertising relate to the communication of word messages. He considers the relationship of conceptual creativity between the deliverer/designer and the receiver/interpreter.