Tikirau Jermaine-Rhyd Neavin Hathway (centre) and friends
It was the opportunity to meet and spend time with the “cool and welcoming” lecturers at our Open Day that confirmed for the then aspiring graphic designer, Tikirau Jermaine-Rhyd Neavin Hathway, that he’d found the place that suited his learning aspirations.
Discovering that the lecturers wanted to help students one-on-one and that they wanted to assist without being overbearing was refreshing for Tikirau, having just completed high school – Unitec was offering an approach that better suited him.
He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Enterprise and says that the community-focused
Pages from Tikirau Hathaway’s publication ‘Rauora’ – a pocket guide to some of Aotearoa’s native medicinal flora
practice provided the inspiration for one of his pieces of work which has been entered in the Design Institute of New Zealand’s Best Awards – a pocket guide to some of Aotearoa’s native medicinal flora, Rauora= created using his local expertise of the Coromandel region.
You can read more about Tikirau in ‘The Big Idea’ article, Knowledge is in your hands, which also features Creative Industries Lecturers Emma Smith and William Bardebes. The article was written in partnership with Unitec, 8 July 2020.
Open Day 2020
Our Open Day is coming up again, Saturday 5 September, 9.00am – 3.00pm. We need volunteers to help support our students on the day as well as a range of other activities to ensure the event runs smoothly. If you’d like to help out, please register here, by Friday 31 July, so we can roster you into our schedule, and ensure you have a Unitec t-shirt and lunch on the day – our koha to you. Rostered on School staff also need to register to ensure your lunch requirements are captured.
Congratulations Tikarau, on your achievements thus far. You are a an extraordinary talented guy and will do very well in your future endeavours.