Connie Chin

Communication Design

Connie is a dedicated and creative individual currently pursuing her education at Swinburne Sarawak. Her journey through the world of design has been a captivating blend of creativity and innovation. With a keen eye for visual aesthetics and a deep passion for the digital arts, her work reflects a fusion of multidisciplinary skills, spanning illustration, branding strategy, marketing theory, typography, and 3D design. She constantly seeks to blend technology, design, and storytelling into captivating and engaging multimedia experiences.

Wallace: The Prince

A 3D character model of an anthropomorphic animal designed by Connie. It is a species of frog found in the jungle of Borneo known as Wallace’s flying frog. The character is a young Dayak warrior which design in a cartoonish aspect, with his costume inspired by the Sarawak Dayak culture.

Ways to Learn a Language

Connie’s creativity shines in a short animation video designed for Pertama Tuition Centre Kuching. This engaging video presents four fun ways to learn a language, targeting teenagers with its cartoonish vector visuals, making language learning a delightful experience.

Sarawak Esport Expo

An opening title video, with a bumper video and another video for social media with different video lengths and different resolutions, was created for the Sarawak Esports Association event in 2023. This project showcases Connie’s strong design concept, storyboarding skills, and proficiency in applying video effects (VFX) using Adobe After Effects.

BreadTalk Patisserie Branding

The BreadTalk Patisserie brandbook guidelines document the process of branding from scratch for a patisserie. The brand’s goal was to design a mascot for their brand and include it in their logo. Undergoing the development process of understanding a brand, developing a brand and documenting a brand with a satisfying final outcome.

Irma Boom: Creative Master

Discover through various design concept, layout, typography and color scheme that suits Irma Boom’s characteristic. Follow Connie’s journey as she creates a brochure that introduces Irma Boom, a successful Graphic Designer specializing in bookmaking while staying true to her unique design style.

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.