Jasmin Burns

Jazz is an aspiring photographer and graphic designer with a passion for commercial photography and brand identity. She enjoys combining photography and design to create engaging visual content across both digital and print platforms.

Through her studies and creative projects, she has developed skills in studio photography, visual storytelling, and branding design. She is particularly interested in commercial photography, advertising campaigns, event photography, short-form videography, social media content creation, and publication design.

With a strong interest in creating meaningful visual experiences, Jazz aims to build a creative career that brings together photography, videography, and graphic design. She is dedicated to refining her craft and producing work that connects with audiences while supporting clear communication and brand objectives.

The Weekender Magazine

Showcases controlled flash photography techniques used to emphasise personal treasures through portrait and still life imagery. Through careful experimentation with lighting direction and refined post-production, the outcome is a cohesive and polished magazine series that highlights detail, storytelling, and emotional tone.

Naught Gin

A translucent photography project combining technical precision with visual storytelling to create a polished advertisement. Soft lighting and organic elements establish a clean aesthetic that enhances the brand identity, while refined post-production enhances colour, detail, and sharpness for a professional billboard-scale finish.

Flavours of Malaysia

This magazine cover celebrates Malaysian cuisine through styled photography that highlights texture, colour, and cultural authenticity. A dark editorial aesthetic and bold typography creates a refined composition that elevates the dish while maintaining strong hierarchy and clarity.

Australian Border Force Detector Dog Program

The Australian Border Force (ABF) Detector Dog Program trains labradors to detect prohibited items at Australia’s borders. Through the Detector Dog Foster Program, members of the public can foster puppies from nine weeks to twelve months, supporting their early training and socialisation in a home environment. This project aims to raise awareness of the program through a series of advertisements and new brand identity.

State Library Annual Report

The State Library of Victoria annual report uses research-driven publication design to translate its physical and digital presence into a cohesive visual narrative. A flexible grid, clear typography, considered imagery, and a forward-looking colour palette creates a contemporary identity.

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.