Matthew Goljanin

Communication Design

Hi there, I’m Matthew Goljanin.

Currently I’m a Junior Visual Communication Designer who works with clients to create branding, illustration, and design needs. I believe that the more design work I can experience, the better creative outcomes I’ll be able to provide for people, offering clients a stronger outcome, and myself a moment of happiness and an ego boost which will last about 5 minutes.

I’ve worked with clients such as NICA and the salvation army throughout my uni experience.

I’m a trained designer, who has the ability to adapt and use countless design programs, both in the Adobe suite and other single design tools, allowing me to create graphics, multimedia, animation, film, video and more. Currently I’m exploring Adobe XD and asking myself “Can this please replace Dreamweaver, I don’t want to code html and css, I’ve suffered enough.”

I'm about to complete the Bachelor in Design from Swinburne university, and have completed a Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design as well as a Certificate III in Screen and Media.

Values that resonate with me are dedication, persistence and exploration, each of these allow me to learn about my clients and understand what they want, as well as getting work finished even in mundane moments. Outside of work, I absorb myself in hobbies such as illustration and gaming, spending countless time surfing the Internet looking at artwork, and enjoy basic cooking.

Experimental Album Covers

Playing Card Packaging

NICA BrandMark

Red Cross Blood Service Calendar

Acquaint - App Prototype

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.