Bianca Gjuric

Bianca is an inspired graphic and communication designer driven by conceptual thinking, design solutions and strategy-led planning. She aspires to create meaningful, and impactful digital experiences through her applied knowledge of design principles and elements. As a designer Bianca is visionary, as a creative she is a dreamer. She has the ability to create compelling visual design content to inspire, inform, and engage and audience. Bianca is a multidisciplinary designer who specialises in the development of visual campaigns across digital and print platforms, brand identity, publication design, experimental image making and more. Her passion for exploring colour and pattern reflect in her design execution as she strives for excellence. Her skills to combine creativity and communication in her work allows her to take risks and explore possibilities whilst remaining purposeful.

Bianca is a certified designer with a Certificate IV in Design and now holds a Bachelor of Design – Communication Design Major from Swinburne University of Technology.

Sensory

Sensory experiences are described as the aftereffects of stimulation or overstimulation. These experiences can be reflected through the movement that colour and pattern can create. The concept behind the poster designs was to explore experimental image making techniques and project emotion through its exploration. Photo manipulation and conceptual knowledge allows the outcome to evaluate the communicative imperative of visual forms. The idea is to feel like you are dreaming, a state of consciousness characterised by sensory and illusive occurrences.

The Cultural Politics of Gender Performance

The publication examined the cultural politics of gender performance regarding the conditions of intelligibility in Chinese society. There is no room within the community for one to be true within their own sexuality if it does not follow the ideological expectations embedded within the culture itself. The reimagining of the publication explores distorted photo manipulation and a cold colour scheme to project the shunned and suppressed identities.

Meso Delicatessen

The rebirth of the deli is crucial with the rise of fast-casual restaurants. Meso required a brand identity that reflects a modern, diverse and welcoming attitude - an identity that promotes a no-fuss kind of outlook on life. To achieve this, the development of the brand utilised a monochromatic and restricted colour palette, a simplistic use of pattern, and bald typography to remain direct and purposeful.

Bio Bib

Bio Bib is an Australian brand that focuses on providing sustainable necessities for a nursery. The brand identity provides a sentimental and positive direction whilst focusing on human connection. A simplistic design direction that reflects the brands core values and taps into your inner child through the subtle use of illustration, and a gender-neutral colour palette that directly mirrors the Australian environment.

Lailonie Reimagined

The reimagining of Lailonie combines the exploration of traditional media with digital communication. The concept was to dive into life experiences that form the person we are becoming. It is about embracing the monumental moments in our lives and accepting the outcome. Lailonie, a progressive house album explores feelings of healing and spiritual power. The artwork explores movement through organic forms and there is an emphasis on a cool and calming colour palette. The typography placement is subtle and carefully thought out to compliment the design and create a beautiful balance of cohesion and informative direction.

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.