Anthony Bufalo

Industrial Design

Anthony is an Industrial Designer with a passion for design and motorsport. He is finding the best intentions towards style, branding, and architecture towards conveying a meaningful design.

The best design incorporates imagination and engineering concepts, corresponding with values and a practical approach towards the audience. His process of design is the development of synthetic imagination and critical thinking. He is applying visuals and planning to covey a stage where the project can be challenged. Learning new technical skills mixed with what has learned to build an idea from thought to existence. He has been involved with Music in high school, which has been another self-expression. Design can be art, but it depends on perspective. Photography is another passion for design, where creativity is seen through another lens of perspective.

He is grateful to be involved in Team Swinburne FSAE. In this club, learning the concepts of engineering and understanding through design provided the love of motorsport, conveying the two together is empowering to get involved.

Participating in FSAE Competitions against other universities and driving the electric race car gives a different aspect of the project that comes to life.

Backcountry Portable Backpack Stretcher

FSAE Team Swinburne - Steering Wheel Project

FSAE Team Swinburne Livery Design

Analog Infused Digital Car Sketches

INFUSO - Coffee & Tea Machine

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.