Gabrielle Fetalvero

Communication Design (Honours)

Gabrielle Fetalvero is a communication designer with a passion for illustration. As an artist and communication designer she is drawn to traditional image-making methods and enjoys integrating this in her designs to create solutions that are visually pleasing and meaningful.

Gabrielle worked at the National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP) for her industry placement. She demonstrated her high adaptability working through the transition of the NRSPP from the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) to the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and then the COVID-19 lockdown.

Her work for the NRSPP helped modernise their brand as part of their transition refresh which has been captured in case studies, quick facts, Q&As and more. She also directed the NRSPP's first organisational road safety campaign on Distracted Driving titled “What’s on your mind? No distraction” in collaboration with MUARC, Fleet Strategy, Uniting Care Queensland, Australia Post and Queensland Urban Utilities.

During her placement she was heavily involved in the creation of infographics and dabbled in motion graphics for the NRSPP social media channels, which she has grown a keen interest in alongside her love for illustration.

Outside of design Gabrielle enjoys other creative outlets such as drawing, painting, playing piano, visiting the latest exhibition at the NGV and cosplaying.

Game Proposal: Paradiso, Canto 33

Zine and 3D Model: Kiwi

Gatefold Album Package: Ordinary Songs

Exhibition Design: Another Angle

Brand Collateral: Mind the Bubble

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.