Kiriaki Gilinas

Branded Environments

I'm Kiriaki and am a passionate designer on the verge of graduating with a Bachelor of Business and Design from Swinburne University of Technology, where majoring in Marketing and Branded Environments. With a keen interest in creating impactful brand identities and memorable experiences, I have developed skills through diverse projects and freelancing opportunities.

My skills span across logo design, graphic design, content development, branding, interior design, and photography. Each of these areas have allowed me to create a blend of creativity and strategic thinking, which I apply to all my works. I'm driven by a desire to connect with audiences and evoke emotions through thoughtful design.

As I prepare to enter the professional world, I would like to expand my network and explore new career opportunities within the design industry. I'm eager to learn from experienced professionals and contribute my ideas to collaborative projects. I believe that continuous growth and learning are essential to thriving in a dynamic field.

With a commitment to excellence and a passion for impactful design, I am thilled about the future and look forward to leveraging my skills and creativity to make a meaningful contribution to the design landscape.

Mobile Post

Creating a mobile post to aid those in the East Gippsland fires, working in collaboration with Meals on Wheels. The mobile post hub will allow the community to connect and gather and send mail as well as share a meal. Housing all the necessary areas such as a checkout and meal area.

The Jewellery Library

The rebrand of KikiDees Jewellery was done to be more reflective of the brand’s core values to reach a larger audience. The brand exists to make people feel great about themselves and look fantastic while doing so. A brand that curates jewellery meant to tell a story and hold memories, such as a library is a collection of stories.

Loreful Myth

Developing coding abilities through web design and brand creation. Creating a site that is easily accessible to the public and for those interested in mythology and folklore and allows them to learn something new.

Melbourne Metro

Poster and logo design for the new Metro stations. Mixing the nostalgic heritage of what the metro was and modernising it through the use of geometric shapes and lines. The lines throughout the poster mimic the train lines within the suburbs of Melbourne, with an embedded artifact found on the site of the metro.

Paper Plait

Paper Plait envisions a world where paper transcends its traditional uses, woven into the fabric of creativity, artistry, and everyday life. Our store will serve as a haven for individuals to explore, create, and connect through the versatile medium of paper.

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.