Anar Baasanbat

Anar is a final year student studying Bachelor of Design at Swinburne University of Technology with a specialisation in Communication Design.

In 2019, she won Adobe’s Top Talent Design Achievement Awards with her Swinburne uni project: Paris End (Welcome to Collins Street). And most recently, in 2020, she was awarded Frankie Magazine’s Good Stuff Awards under the nomination of People’s Choice by her entry: Monsters on the Internet - online child abuse campaign.

Besides her study, she worked at Merah Malaysian restaurant as a social media designer and food photographer for 6 months before the pandemic strike. Now she is finishing her 3 months internship program at TomYo EdTech this December.

She is passionate about utilising her design skill for good social wellbeing and impact. One example can be her active volunteering activity where she sent postcards to aged care residents during lockdown by hand lettering each receiver’s name.

Online Child Abuse Campaign

Handletterings for Aged Care Residents

Photography and Editorial Design

Tourist Guide Publication

Web App Design and Logo Animation

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.