Take a bright idea to put fairy lights inside a plastic dummy from an ex-shopfitting supplier, dress it up with some copper wire and you have "Vintage Louis", the ingenious reply to the second-year project on colour and light for an upmarket retail store by three QUT interior design students.

'Colour my world' and 'light up my life'. It's no accident these phrases are used to describe intense feeling because colour and lighting evoke emotion and influence behaviour, says QUT interior design lecturer Marisha McAuliffe.

A design consultancy company staffed mostly by Queensland University of Technology graduates recently won a prestigious design award.

No country should go to war with weapons when attacking a country's IT infrastructure and creating cyber chaos is so much cheaper and easier, says world-leading internet security researcher Professor Basie von Solms, who is visiting QUT's Information Security Institute this week.

When Pat Stevens turned up for his first day at work at the Queensland Institute of Technology in 1965 it was as a temporary laboratory attendant and one of his jobs was to make the tea for the lecturers.

Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed a set of 13 Safety Effectiveness Indicators aimed at reducing fatalities and injuries on building sites.