Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia

our past in their future

Read about your fellow graduates and share your story with everyone.

If you are a Whitehouse alumnus we would love to hear your story, please email it to
library@whitehouse-design.edu.au

2005 - Geoff Nicholson

Geoff came to Whitehouse Institute of Design hoping to expand and evolve his technical knowledge about Interior Design, to strengthen his creative knowledge. Studying at Whitehouse taught him that he would always need to be working on that, because the technical aspects of the design industry keep growing and evolving themselves, making it an ongoing process. Read More...

2005 - Kellie Wright

As the new Graphic Designer for the men’s, women’s and children’s wear at Between the Flags, Kellie Wright is a very young successful businesswoman. She only graduated in 2005 from the Whitehouse Institute of Design and immediately after graduation she was offered a job at Between the Flags as an Office Manager. Only three months into working as an Office Manager, Kellie received a promotion to Graphic Designer. Read More...

2005 - Peta Portelli

Peta Portelli graduated from Whitehouse Institute of Design in 2005 with an advanced Diploma of Fashion Design. Peta has been very active in the Fashion world and she has been busy making her name known in Australia. She has won first place in the Australian Wool Fashion Awards, Second place in the Cutting In Youth Fashion Design Awards, she has very successful designs and collections and she already has had several magazine articles featured on her. Read More...

2005 - Dewi Wangsa

After graduating from Whitehouse, Dewi decided to go back to her home country, Indonesia. She started working there with a newfound confidence she thanks Whitehouse for. Her first job was as a designer for IO & CO, a Fashion Design company. Her main goal was to start up her own company and working as a freelance designer was the first step towards achieving this. Read More...

2005 - Alina Tadevosyan

In her last year at Whitehouse, Alina received a partial scholarship to study in Florence for her Master’s. She is now working in retail to save up for her trip overseas which she will be starting next year. Alina is grateful to Whitehouse for teaching her that Fashion isn’t just about creativity and preparing her for the ‘Real World’. Read More...

2005 - Mia Lake

Mia Lake began her journey with Whitehouse Institute of Design in 2000 when she attended a high school workshop in fashion drawing and design run at her school. In 2003 Mia did a complete about face and decided that she did not want to continue with fashion and instead enrolled in Whitehouse’s Advanced Diploma in Interior Design. Read More...

2005 - Nikki Penny

I graduated in 2005 after completing an advanced diploma in fashion and textiles. I immediately went into a full time role in CUE as a design room junior and progressed over the year and a half I was there into assistant designer/patternmaker for Veronika Maine which is CUE's other label. Read More...

2004 - Louise Hong

During her time at Whitehouse, Louise won several awards for her Fashion designs, including a full scholarship to study for her Masters at the Academia Italiana in Florence Italy, and an AFAW award from the National Retailers Association. Read More...

2004 - Penny Morgan

Penny started at Whitehouse Institute of Design with a single goal in mind: to work in the Fashion Industry and be a success in that industry. Now working with Gareth Moody on his new labels ‘Chronicles of Never’ and ‘FRNKSTN PRJCTS’, she feels she has accomplished her goal and feels happy in the Industry. Read More...

2003 - Jeddah Ryan

Next on the menu: New York or Paris, one of these fabulous cities is to be the next goal for Jeddah Ryan, a 2003 Whitehouse Institute of Design graduate. Working as the Assistant Brand Manager for Champion, Jeddah sees herself traveling the world within the next few years. Read More...

2003 - Lucy Proud

Lucy was inspired by the many cultures and different people to start her own design process while travelling Europe. She is a designer for womens wear and creates individually hand painted garments. Thanking Whitehouse Institute of Design for letting her know early on in the game that the industry really is all about hard work, she is very happy with having been to school there, because of the good preparation it gave her. Read More...

2003 - Bernadette Allen

Bernadette Allen launched her own pet wear label at an exclusive event hosted by former Miss World, Belinda Green and Dr Chris Brown of Channel 9’s Burkes Backyard. Bernadette’s designs were a huge success, with the likes of Deni Hines and Mathew Newton requesting special orders for their four legged friends. Bernadette will be starring in an upcoming reality TV show on Channel 9 that is expected to air this August. The TV show will be entirely based on Bernadette and her fiancés wedding! Read More...

2003 - Daniel Avakian

Graduating in 2003, he was awarded a 1st prize scholarship to complete a Masters programme at Accademia Italiana Arte Moda in Florence Italy, where he refined his skills in tailoring and couture, graduating with 1st class honours in 2005 Read More...

2001 - Peta Baldacchino

While studying at Whitehouse, Peta only wanted one thing: to win the scholarship to Italy that was offered. Peta won the scholarship and moved to Italy to study for her masters there. Peta recently got a promotion to head designer at Decjuba and is enjoying it immensely. She helped create the new look for Decjuba at the 2006 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week, which was very successful. Read More...

2000 - Aimee Handsaker

Aimee completed the Bachelor of Technology Education in affiliation with Southern Cross Aimee completed the Bachelor of Technology Education in affiliation with Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbour mid 2004 as the first Whitehouse student. Since gaining her teaching Degree, Aimee has been teaching design at Whitehouse Institute of Design specialising in illustration, colour theory and textiles. Based in Sydney, her involvement in the high school programs takes her to regional NSW and interstate. Read More...

1999 - Jillian McKay

After an internship at Alex Perry, Jillian was offered a fulltime job as a couture and ready to wear assistant. After her time at Alex Perry, she decided it was time to do something completely different and went back to the Whitehouse Institute of Design, this time as a teacher instead of a student. Jillian is currently working on completing a Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Art Education at the College of Fine Arts. Read More...

1994 - Kate Medved

Kate Medved graduated from Whitehouse Institute of Design in 1994 with an Associate Diploma in Fashion Design. Since then, she has completed a Master of Design at UTS, worked in several fashion companies and started teaching herself. Kate started up her own company Kata Design, a freelance design company. Read More...

1994 - Lucie Trinco

Lucie Trinco was the first student in Whitehouse history to receive a full scholarship to study for her Masters in Italy. She spent a year in Milan at the Marangoni institute and finished her Masters in Product management there. She is a currently a Design Manager at Oroton. Read More...