Kristin Cooke

Communication Design (Honours)

Kristin Cooke is finishing up her Bachelor of Design with Honours at Swinburne University of Technology this year. From a young age she has always loved being creative and through high school, she found graphic design and discovered the future it could hold.

Through studying at Swinburne she has had some amazing opportunities to work with and alongside industry people. In her third year, she along with her group worked with a company called HardEdge to create a campaign addressing road safety and received a commendation for the project. As part of her internship, she had placements at True Characters and Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and enjoyed seeing the different aspects of a commercial practice and educational intuition. Kristin has also freelanced over the years one project standing out was creating branding for a garden maintenance company called ’Gardens by Day’.

Kristin has always been active in enjoying the outdoors, hiking, camping or going to the beach. She has been lucky enough to travel wildly and regularly draws on her experiences for inspiration. She looks forward to continuing to develop her design ideas and new creative ways to meet client expectations and enhance their various briefs.

Maths Dictionary

Campaign on Road Safety

Campaign on saving the Great Barrier Reef

The Language of Dance

Branding of a Bakery/Cafe

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.