Callum Saxby

Communication Design

Callum Saxby is a designer and image maker completing the final year of his Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) at Swinburne University of Technology. With a penchant for storytelling, Callum specialises in brand identity systems, publication design and image generation.

His work ranges from campaign design highlighting important social issues, to semi-satirical tourist guides, identity systems for the restaurants of the future to narrative vessels designed to generate excitement for previously published books. He understands the effect of illustration and image in design and uses them to reinforce modern typography and sensitive colour treatment.

Callum’s approach to design draws on many different mediums to acutely develop design solutions. A minor in visual effects has expanded on an already wide range of knowledge gained through the Swinburne Communication Design major, allowing the incorporation of 3D elements and compositing knowledge into his design projects.

A wide range of subjects studied at Swinburne University of Technology have prepared Callum to intern with Sunjive Studios film production company, creating web-based interactive marketing collateral for the company itself and feature films currently in production.

Barren Ground - Verity Borthwick

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Not Someone Else's Child - Pill testing campaign

Lane Change - Sustainable dining

Latte, No Sneer - Tourist guide to Melbourne coffee

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.