Dan Truong

Communication Design (Honours)

Hi I'm Dan, I'm a diligent designer by day and a dance-floor assassin by night!

I've been studying a Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) (Honours) with a minor in advertising at Swinburne. I'm currently based in Fitzroy, Victoria, living my best life with my cat Kaya. My style is bright, expressive and highly conceptualised. I fell in love with design in high school, editing photos and drawings on my iPad. Since then it's been a snowball of skill-building and self-discovery. I especially love illustration, typography and I've been starting to get my hands dirty with animation.

As an ambitious go-getter and an aspiring morning person, the creative cogs of my mind are always turning. Design is an outlet to me and I’m always looking to push my aesthetic style and diversify my work. Falling in love with my projects is key to producing my best work. A result-oriented team player who enjoys both the journey and the outcomes. Collaborative and responsive, I want to work together to create the best possible design solution. I love what I do and I hope my works speak for themselves.

My inspirations are the bold illustrative compositions of Malika Favre, the creative mixed media skills of Sasha Velour and the visual elegance of Derek Zoolander. I’m completely open-minded and accepting of peoples differences and indifference. I think as a graphic designer, it's my responsibility to use my talents to shape the world for the better.

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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.