Britney Angelia Kusuma

Communication Design

Britney Angelia Kusuma is a graphic designer and illustrator from Melbourne. She’s studying communication design at Swinburne University of Technology and is almost finished with her degree. Britney is really good at branding and publication design, where she comes up with cool ideas that people like. People know her for being honest and always trying her best. She loves learning and wants to keep getting better at design. Britney hopes to do important stuff in the design world and make things that are super creative and useful. With her talent and hard work, Britney Angelia Kusuma is going to make a big impact in graphic design.

Gatefold Album

For this project, I was assigned the challenge of creating a gatefold album inspired by my favorite music genre and artist. I decided to utilize the Photomontage technique because of its ability to seamlessly blend various elements together in an artistic manner.

Sensasi Rasa Guide Book

For this project, I developed a printed festival guide for the fictional Sensasi Rasa Festival, a vibrant Indonesian food festival set in Bali. The festival guide showcases original illustrations specifically crafted to highlight the diverse events of the festival. The designs incorporate a color scheme inspired by the Indonesian flag, adding a patriotic and culturally rich touch to the overall aesthetic.

La Fleur - Packaging

La Fleur is a made-up brand that focuses on hand cream. In this project, I’m designing three boxes that reflect the beauty of flowers, targeting people who love floral scents. La Fleur’s hand cream embodies the essence of flowers, as the brand name translates to “the flower” in French.

Annual Report

Annual Report design for State Library Victoria 2023-2024, entitled “Embracing Diversity”. The designs incorporate various shapes in a spectrum of colors, symbolizing individuals of different shapes and sizes. This idea aligns with one of their core values, namely ‘respect.’

Es Teh Indonesia Mascot

For this project, I’m redesigning ‘Es Teh Indonesia’ and creating a mascot along with other brand collaterals. Es Teh Indonesia is a ice tea store in Indonesia. The mascot is a fun way to engage with customers, which matches one of their brand values—connecting with customers. The mascot features the brand icon, a tea leaf on its cheek and head, to represent the brand. I’ve also chosen green as the main color to represent the freshness of the tea leaves, which are key ingredients in the beverage.

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.