JAMIE OLIVER
Jamie Oliver is a senior lecturer in the Illustration Programme and also continues to work as a freelance designer and illustrator for many of the major publishing houses. Previous clients include: Pearson Education, John Brown Group, Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC publications, Collins, Heinemann Books, Time Out, Mail on Sunday, Royal Society of Medicine, Dorling Kindersley, The Independent and The Times.
CHRISTOPHER ROANTREE
Christopher Roantree is a Lecturer in the department and Year One lead, specialising in drawing and traditional acid etching in the field of print. Studio is based in the east end of London where work shifts between commercial and speculative/curatorial projects for galleries and publications. Working with the illustration faculty to help coordinate and develop Drawing & Process across the 1st yr program with a specialism towards print, publications and drawing. To help organise residential visits and develop further the ongoing 2nd and 3rd program. He has a MA Fine Art Printmaking from the The Royal College of Art, has achieved a 1st Prize in the Emerging Talent Category at the Cheltenham Illustration Awards in 2008, and was awarded (ARE) Associate Royal Engraver at Royal Society of Painter Printmakers 2003. He also Annually teachES masterclasses in Etching at The Ropewalk Contemporary Arts and crafts, Barton Upon Humber.
ROWAN GATFIELD
Rowan Gatfield is a Senior Lecturer, teaching on BA (Hons) Graphic Design Course, in the School of Architecture and Design, College of Arts. Rowan has 25 years experience within the print, publication, design and advertising industry, having served as a Junior Art Director at Matthews and Charter/ Olgilvy and Mather, and then as a partner at Gatfield and De Freitas/ Polyhedron Advertising. Later he became Co-Creative Director of Citigate Advertising, a member of the Incepta Group, working on accounts such as the Third World AIDS Conference, the International Convention Centre; Metrorail, Sanitas, Mooi River Textiles and Technikon Natal. Rowan studied Graphic Design at Technikon Natal, and then later completed a BTech (Hons) in Graphic Design at the same institution – renamed Durban Institute of Technology and then completed a Masters in Graphic Design also at the same institution, renamed Durban University of Technology.
During his studies he was awarded the Marcus Starfield Award (Top Diploma graduate in Graphic Design), the CREDO Award (Top Graphic Design graduate in KwaZulu Natal) and the Emma Smith Overseas Scholarship (Top graduate in the Faculty of Arts and Design).
Rowan completed a PhD in Visual Anthropology, at the School of Social Sciences, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Until mid 2015 he served as the Programme Leader of the BTech Honours Graphic Design degree course, within the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Durban University of Technology.
Rowan is the co-founder of Workspace, Work Integrated Learning Design Studio established in 1999, as part of an internationally partnered research project with the University of East London, England, which served as the official advertising agency of the DUT in 2011 and in 2012 resulting in the student-staffed studio winning six MACE Awards for the rebranding and strategic marketing of the Durban University of Technology, while competing against top University’s marketing campaigns within South Africa.
During this three year period Rowan successfully led projects such as the development of Build-A-Burger Restaurant, The Kasturba Gandhi Exhibition entitled ‘Stalwarts of Peace’, the COPS 17 Satyagraha Exhibition, the South African Food and Nutrition Guide for the LOA of the United Nations; and directed the production of numerous Annual Reports, Magazines, Books, Websites, Radio, Television, Cinema, Outdoor, Point of Sale, and airport branding and advertising campaigns. Most notable of these campaigns was the rebranding, advertising and marketing of Durban University of Technology, for which Workspace won 24 MACE National Awards.
Rowan also founded the Durban Rickshaw Restoration Project and various craft and beadwork interventions in the KwaNyuswa Region of KwaZulu Natal. Rowan has academically published and has presented at various South African and international conferences.
WAYNE LOCKWOOD
Wayne Lockwood is Senior Lecturer teaching on the Illustration BA (Hons) course at the University of Lincoln, Level 3 Leader and the co-company director of Ping Creative ltd. With his colleagues he organises the third year for students to enable them to gain a greater insight into industry practice and convention and to enable as smooth a transition as possible from student life into professional practice.
In his everyday practice he is an illustrator/designer working on editorial illustration for newspapers magazines, surface pattern, homeware, paper engineering projects and licensing for most of the major UK supermarkets and department stores such as John Lewis & Harrods, Greetings Cards manufacturers such as Special Editions and US Greetings as well as US decorative homeware outlets and superstores such as Papyrus, Crate & Barrel, Walmart & Target.
His practice has enabled him to gain insight into the workings of the design processes and business practices of many design studios throughout the world. It’s enabled him to interact with some incredible creative business people at the top of their game directing multi-million dollar projects in which he is an integral part.
He is privy to lectures, briefings and trade shows across the world such as Blueprint in New York and Evolution in Amsterdam, detailing international trends and palettes, style setting the commercial design industry for the next year and allowing him to form a global picture of the commercial design market.
His intention in teaching the students, particularly in their final year, is to give them as much advantage over the competition as possible and to foster in them an entrepreneurial and competitive spirit through workshops, visiting lecturers and Q&A sessions external to taught lectures.
ARIANA AMACKER
Ariana is a Senior Lecturer. She completed a PhD in Design at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship on a research project entitled Aesthetic Expertise in Design Work. As a researcher and practitioner, she is focused on designing exercises that help designers generate new sensory and emotional vocabularies in their creative practice. She draws from Pragmatist philosophy and a range of somatic methods and is exploring ritual, folklore, shamanism, and meditation as a framework for embodied creative capacities. Ariana teaching on the Contextual Studies Modules in the programme.