Ms Cynthia Boyle

Ms Cynthia Boyle

Position: Conjoint Lecturer in Visual Communications and Design, Drawing and Specialist Programs
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School of Design, Communication and Information Technology
Telephone: +61 2 4921 6367
Facsimile: +61 2 4921 5896
Email: Cynthia.Boyle@newcastle.edu.au
Location: Design Building - D220
Campus: Callaghan
Qualifications:
  • Certificate of Advertising Design (The Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts now known as the Centre for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, USA).
Research Areas: The relationship between visual and verbal communication - the learning of design language.
Research Grants:  
Honours, Distinctions, Societies:
  • Board of Studies Enabling Programs
  • Faculty and School Committees
  • Faculty Research Committee
Teaching Interests:

Lecturer and subject coordinator:

  • DESN1200 Visual Communication Drawing 1
  • DESN1450 Design Drawing
  • DESN1210 Visual Communication Drawing 2
  • Lecturer DESN2220/3220 Interpretive Illustration

Subject Coordinator (Enabling Programs):

  • UNIP1900 Design Drawing
  • UNIP1910 Graphic Design Fundamentals
  • UNIP1920 Design in Society
Supervision of Students:  
Professional Positions:

Cynthia Boyle was born and educated in the USA. Since 1969 she has lived and worked in Australia. Her specialties are drawing and illustration. For many years Cynthia worked as a freelance illustrator as well as producing artworks for exhibition and running a small gallery business. Her career at the University began with the Newcastle College of Advanced Education in the Wildlife Illustration discipline.

Teaching is the main focus of her activities. Outside the University Cynthia continues to produce a limited amount of artworks for exhibitions and some freelance illustration work. Currently, she is drawing images of the "trad jazz scene' in the Newcastle/ Hunter/ Central Coast region with the eventual aim of producing a book. In addition, since 1994, Cynthia has kept informal sketch and photographic notes of the rock reef at Cabbage Tree Bay, Norah Head NSW.


Publications: Link to: Researcher Report
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