Aliya Shaholli

Aliya Shaholli is a Melbourne based design and media student. She grew up in Shepparton, Victoria and moved to Melbourne to pursue her studies in 2017 as a computer science student, but found her calling in design and media. Aliya loves the connection between both of her study disciplines as she sees digital advertising and digital design as the future, especially in a post-Covid world.

Aliya completed an internship as a graphic designer at Entrust ICT, a wholesale networking company (don't worry she doesn't quite know what that means either). She now works there part-time as a graphic and web designer, and just got promoted to their social media manager. She also manages to do freelance work on the side.

When Aliya isn't working or studying she can be found at the Melbourne Cheer Academy training with her two cheerleading teams! Aliya currently is on the Swinburne Cheerleading and Dance executive committee as their marketing and social media coordinator and would love to continue mixing her passions for design and media with her passion for sport (particularly cheerleading and AFL).

Aliya is in her final year of her Bachelor of Design (Communications Design) and Bachelor of Media and Communications (Digital Advertising Technology) degrees at the Swinburne University of Technology and hopes to find a job in digital design or social media content creation when she graduates.

This is a mockup of a few spreads from a publication about society deeming minorities as “monsters”. The theme was propaganda, to go with the article's idea that society paints people a certain way to vilify them.

This spread plays with the typography, skewing it to emphasise the crookedness of the themes in the article.

This spread is a title spread, I manipulated the typography to merge the title, emphasising the title itself which is that the two things are the same.

This spread plays on the article mentioning the belief that certain types of people will kill and fight for their struggles, which is very animalistic in nature.

This spread uses a more literal interpretation of the title, incorporating the TV graphic into the spread, and using the text paragraph to mimic this shape.

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.