Lara Selzer

Communication Design

Lara Selzer is a recent graduate Communication Designer in Melbourne who is excited to start working alongside small businesses to create successful brand identities.

Lara is a Swinburne University of Technology graduate with relevant training and experience through her three years of study and graduate year internship. The internship was through Swinburne’s Work Integrated Learning Program where she created television advertisements and catalogues for the company. She holds a Bachelor of Design with a major in Communication Design. Lara specialises in branding, publications and illustrations. During her time at Swinburne, and the fact that she is from a small country town, Lara has found that she wants to become a designer for small businesses and people starting up. She believes that her clients can achieve their goals through a supportive client and designer relationship.

She progressively wants to push her creative thinking and process, and is excited to see where her future in design takes her. Lara can be contacted through her social links provided.

The Amity Space

Invisible Women

You & Me Campaign

Take A Dip

Black Summer Bushfires

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.