QCA student looks to creative future after Games emblem

With her honours degree in Design Futures on the cusp of completion, Queensland College of Art student Janet Turner is also celebrating the unveiling of the Games Village emblem by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
The emblem is the brainchild of Janet, from Inverell in northern NSW, who is majoring in Visual Communication at Griffith’s South Bank campus.
It was revealed to the world when the Premier officially handed the Parklands Development over to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) for its transformation into the Commonwealth Games Village.
“A very cool experience” is how Janet summed up the journey which started with an email from a tutor asking if she’d like to be involved in the creation of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Village emblem and which ended with GOLDOC chair Peter Beattie “putting me on the spot” and asking her to explain the emblem’s creation to the Premier before a

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