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Visual communications lecturer Gene Bawden is enjoying his third stint at
Caulfield campus.
His first time was in the mid-1980s when he came from Mt Isa to study graphic design. He recalls returning home at the end of each year to design Christmas cards, as well as the Santa float for Mt Isa Mines.
After graduating, Gene was employed as an editorial graphic designer for The Age, where he worked alongside cartoonists such as Leunig, Tandberg and Spooner.
He returned to Caulfield as a lecturer in 1994, but newspaper work beckoned again, this time at the Herald Sun as senior designer in the features department, which included preparing celebrity obituaries.
In 1997, he again returned to the Faculty of Art and Design, where he is currently first-year coordinator in visual communications. "I love working with first-year students," he says. "They take more risks and have tremendous energy and enthusiasm."
He is also involved with delivering the first practical distance subjects, which presents a challenge for a curriculum that is so visual.
Gene spends weekends at his Melbourne home or at a fibro weekender near Daylesford, both of which he is renovating with his partner.
- Lisa Pawlicka
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