(Aalia Jhaveri)
Combining words and
images to create a visual representation of her ideas comes naturally to the
bubbly Aalia Jhaveri who recently graduated cum laude in her National Diploma
in Graphic Design from the Durban University of Technology (DUT).
Jhaveri was at
first surprised but elated to hear of her latest academic achievement. “It's an
amazing feeling (to hear about the cum laude). Design work is never actually
complete but rather a constant work in progress. A lot of people don’t realise
the amount of time and work that goes into creativity, nothing just happens,
you have to work for it,” she said. Her first love had always been to study Graphic
Design as she liked how it combined many of the fields she was interested in
such as photography, editorial and web designing.
Besides winning DUT
awards such as Best History and Theory Student, 2014 Top Student Award, 2014
Top Drawing Award and 2015 Student of the Year, Jhaveri found time to make her
time studying at DUT thoroughly enjoyable. The fun part about her being a
student is that she found herself working with people that have the same
interests as her even though they all have their own aesthetic.
She was tempted to
get into the industry immediately after obtaining her National Diploma in
Graphic Design and was even offered a few jobs at the end of last year (2015).
However, she turned them down in order to do her BTech in Graphic Design at DUT
this year (2016), even pitching in to tutor first and second year Graphic
Design students.
When asked what
advice she would impart to the students she is tutoring, she said they have to
give it their all or nothing. “Remember to embrace your strengths and run with
them. How far you go and how well you do all depends on your mindset and the
amount of heart you give it,” she said.
Jhaveri hopes to
pursue a job in the editorial and publishing industry involving website
creation and development after obtaining her BTech degree. This would be her “dream
job".
For more
information contact Sinegugu Ndlovu at sinegugunp@dut.ac.za/ or on 031 373 2845.
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