Open Day 2026

We’re excited to welcome you to LCI Melbourne’s 2026 Open Day!

Join us at our Collingwood campus for a day of creativity, connection, and discovery. Whether you’re set on a career in the creative industries or still exploring your options, this is your chance to experience life at LCI Melbourne.

What’s Happening on the Day

Collect Your Passport & Win

On arrival, grab your Open Day Passport from the registration desk. Each activity you participate in earns you a stamp, explore all disciplines, collect every stamp, and show your completed passport at the front desk to go in the draw to win a prize.

Experience Every Discipline

Step inside our studios, chat with mentors, meet current students, and get hands-on in activities across:

• Fashion & Costume Design
• Graphic & Digital Design
• Interior Design
• Visual Arts
• Business & Innovation

Special Highlights

• Fashion Exclusive: Sneak a behind-the-scenes look at our students working on a top-secret project set to be revealed very soon.
• Intermission Exhibition: Wander through curated displays of student work from multiple disciplines, showcasing creativity in action.
• Portfolio Room: Check out the extraordinary work of our students who are about to hit the ground running in industry.

Activities by Discipline

Fashion & Costume Design – Red Carpet Ready and view a Top-Secret Project in Progress
Add your own creative touch to a one-of-a-kind red carpet gown. Choose from a selection of embellishments and apply your surface detail to a collaborative gown — watch it transform piece by piece throughout the day. While you’re here. get a first look at students working on garments for a project not yet revealed to the public!

Graphic & Digital Design – Create Your Type
Create a mini “logo” or visual identity using 5 pre-cut abstract shapes. Arrange, glue, and add a word that represents you. Take your artwork home and earn a passport stamp.

Interior Design – Mood Board Moment!
Curate a mini mood board from colour samples, swatches, and décor images that reflect your personal style.

Visual Arts Fine Art – Piece by Piece
Help build a collaborative puzzle artwork piece-by-piece, adding your own creative touch.

Visual Arts Photography – The Portrait
Step into a live photo shoot with props, studio lighting, and creative direction from our students. Pose, select your lighting mood, and capture a portrait to remember.

Visual Arts Printing - Ink & Impression
Mono Printing Fundamentals Discover the magic of one-of-a-kind printmaking as you roll, press, and pull your own unique mono prints, layering ink and texture to create artwork that can never be repeated.

Business & Innovation – Start-Up Playlist / Fix This Product
Fix a terrible product, add your song to the Entrepreneur Playlist, and collect your passport stamp. It's a hands-on taste of the creative problem-solving and innovative thinking at the heart of studying Business & Innovation at LCI Melbourne.