Darcy FitzRoy

Designer wanting to work in branding and identity. My biggest passions are music and fashion, and when these fields coincide with design. I particularly like exploring contrast in my work; between light and dark, aggressive and pretty, or edgy and elegant. My designs express childlike imagination and are similarly informed by my sweet tooth; displaying playful colours, suggestive imagery and a punchy, DIY attitude.

Vespa Essenziale

Summery Riviera themed packaging for the Italian scooter brand, Vespa. Summery and joyous ice cream themed packages, with a cone ice cream encasing a watch and a tub holding sunglasses.

Philosophy of Tim Burton

Suitably gothic publication design for an essay on the film director. Sketches and edits were purposefully rough and dangerous, and colours were limited to gothic purple, white and black; mimicking the directors limited palette.

Queens of The Stone Age

A compilation for the 30th Anniversary for American Rock band Queens of The Stone Age. Included CD, Vinyl, Digital, Posters. Black, silver, and gold are used heavily to signify the celebratory and limited quality of the release. The design is dark and sexy like the bands sound.

Lily Lafayette

Elegant and classy branding for Melbourne based French patisserie, inspired by the Wes Anderson film Grand Budapest Hotel. Included signage, packaging, menus and stationery.

Dope

Figurines for underground UK rappers, Rejjie Snow, Jesse James Solomon and Lee Scott for the fictional company WackToys. Nostalgic and innocent appearing, but mature enough in its graffiti elements and urban themes for its adult audience.

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.