The creativity, the opportunity, the space to make beautiful things. The sheer breadth of the opportunities. When you say print, people immediately think “newspapers” or “printed books,” – but there is so much more to printing. And to be blunt, graphic design for printing is a specialised skill all on its own. Learning how to create beautiful things digitally is the tip of the iceberg.

I absolutely love the fact that in this industry, you could one day work for a signage company that wraps Class One speedboats competing in the USA and then fly home to paint a wall with custom artwork the next on the Gold Coast. Or you could travel across the country with a supercar racing team, fixing up and replacing artwork and decals on the car as it competes on the supercar circuit. From motorbikes to cars, trains and boats – if it moves, it can be wrapped. Textile designers end up working on the cutting edge of fashion, creating fabrics that are one of a kind for fashion designers. They consider things like not just the print on the fabric but how that print will shape and fold when cut into a garment pattern and how the light will fall on it when worn. That’s the breadth of working in the Printing industry that is often not front and centre in the view of students and grads. It’s thrilling to me to see what the industry produces, and without a doubt, in every issue of the magazine, there’s at least one surprise that I find so exciting.