YEAR 3
Collaboration & Professional Associations 01
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: to stimulate in the student an innovative response to a brief selected from a wide range of options, which set out to provide creative solutions to many of the design challenges in contemporary life and develop students’ understanding of design in a socially and environmentally responsible context.

Personal Project & Final Project
ASSISTANT TUTOR
Aim: these modules allow students to formulate and develop their own personal response to projects of their own devising. The resulting outcome should reflect a deep personal interest in an area or topic, underpinned by an advanced knowledge and understanding of the discipline of graphic design and or image making, and should communicate compellingly to the chosen audience. 

YEAR 2
Intermediate Graphic Design & Illustration 01
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: the module offers a range of practical projects for informed selection by students at the early stage of their personal and professional development. The selection aims to facilitate their direction towards a general, broad based programme, or a greater degree of specialism in the field of graphic design.

Intermediate Graphic Design: Publication Design
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: to develop and strengthen the students’ sensitivity to typography, layout and composition; skills that are applicable in every genre of the subject.

Graphic Communication in International and Social Contexts
ASSISTANT TUTOR
Aim: to provide students with the opportunity to understand the role of design and the designer in a wider cultural, political or social context. 

YEAR 1
Introduction to Graphic Design
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: to expand the students’ awareness of the scope of contemporary Graphic Design and build on basic principles and practices which underpin the role and practice of the designer and introduce the notion of Graphic Design as a conceptual, intellectual and problem solving discipline. 

Production Processes for Graphic Design
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: for students to gain an understanding of the application of screen print techniques as a production method for visual communication design and establish good print workshop practice.

Pitch Project
LEAD TUTOR
Aim: to expand and synthesise typographic, photographic and image-making elements together in a design project. Students must visually demonstrate intellectual engagement and development towards a final project.

History and Influences of Graphic Design
ASSISTANT TUTOR
This module aims to introduce students to the history of graphic design and its influences in the wider culture developing visual and critical skills. Students explore how the work of the graphic designer is shaped by technologies of production and the cultural contexts within which graphic communication is created and consumed.

STUDENT PROJECTS

Collaboration & Professional Associations 01

• Indika Jayatilake, ISTD 2015 (Awarded Pass)

• Azmah Nihar, ISTD 2016 (Awarded Pass)

• Nayan Ganegoda, JKR Juice 2016 (Winner)

Intermediate Graphic Design & Illustration 01

• Hannah Pickering, 2014
  In collaboration with Saaraketha Organics

• Zayana Ahmed, 2015
  In collaboration with Spa Ceylon

• Janith Lekamwasam, 2015
  In collaboration with Spa Ceylon

Intermediate Graphic Design: Publication Design

• Premuditha Perera, 2015

• Zayana Ahmed, 2015
  

Graphic Communication in International and Social Contexts

• Zayana Ahmed, Sushanthi Dissanayake & Amrit Paulraj, 2015

• Gimhani Galagedera & Natasha Tikirimali, 2014

Introduction to Graphic Design Three

• Ravisha De Silva, 2015
  Inspired by IDEO's Refugee Education Challenge

• Sasha P J, 2014

Pitch Project

• Malika Jinadasa, 2015
  In collaboration with Colombo Municipal Council

Production Processes for Graphic Design

• Ranan Wallace, 2014

• Azmah Nihar & Mohamed Maanihu, 2014

Sustainable Design Practices

• Premuditha Perera, 2014
  In collaboration with Island Craft

• Sushanthi Dissanayake, 2014
  In collaboration with Island Craft

• Group Project - Photo Essay, 2015

• Group Project - Fuse It, 2015
  In collaboration with Netherlands Embassy in Colombo

Sustainable Design Practices
LEAD TUTOR
As a school, AOD envisions the future of Sri Lankan design as one that involves innovation along with sustainable development of its indigenous craft industries. The Sustainable Design Practices module is held after the completion of Year 1 of the BA (Hons) Graphic Design program over a course of 8 weeks. I structured the course to facilitate direct interaction with local artisans from across the island to allow students to reflect on their rich craft and cultural heritage. These insights were later communicated in innovative formats such as product packaging, game design concepts, and exhibition design to name a few. 

Creativity & Play

Pink Lemonade, Bangalore India. November 2016. 
Interactive workshop exploring playfulness as an intrinsic part of the design process with particular focus on ideation. 

Information Design

MDes Strategic Design & Brand Leadership. September 2016.
Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology
Introducing students to the notion of design as a conceptual, intellectual and problem solving discipline using the medium of infographics. At the end of the workshop, students demonstrated the ability to present, evaluate and interpret qualitative and quantitative data in order to present original insights to a select target audience.

Planting An Edible Garden

February  2011 – July 2012
An interactive workshop designed and facilitated as an offshoot of my undergraduate thesis project introducing food sustainability to urban children in venues across Bangalore, India.