I think the great thing about design is that it's ever evolving, and with every problem solved, a new problem is created, which leads to newer, more creative ways of designing. For me an ethos i'd like to take into my professional career is to 'do the most with the least'.
Drink Natural - ish
Drink natural - ish is a campaign designed to try and level out wine pretentiousness in Melbourne. Being abroad with the Monash Italy program has allowed me to see wine drinking through a new lens, one with way less strings attached. Often wine pretentiousness discourages from people freely enjoying wine, in fear of being perceived as a 'wine wanker', the aim of this campaign is to get people to take it, and themselves, less seriously, so an emphasis can be placed back on the the social interaction that lies at the heart of wine's purpose.
Drink Natural - ish
Along with the 'it's not going anywhere' poster, 'don't get caught up' is another one liner that pushes the same point of not getting caught in the traps , the aim of this project is to approach the issue in a playful manner so it imposes more introspection within the viewer as opposed to directly telling them what the problem is and why, getting people to actively think about it.
Dunce Cap (Drink Natural - ish)
Humiliation and knowledge superiority are key weapons of these contemporary ‘wine wankers’, key weapons which through the ‘dunce cap’ have been reflected back onto them. A timey method of highlighting ones educational ineptitude, can in this sense be adapted in a playful manner. I’m hoping to implement the dunce cap as a wearable item people can find alongside the posters, typically next to bars where the campaign poster is situated, to get people to call out their friends, and be a funny prop for the evening of drinking whenever someon
3D printed ceramic lamp
3D printed ceramic lamp using voreij clay extruder, design was patented through the grasshopper program and coded to allow for failure to create drooping in the clay, creating holes for light to permeate through.
3D printed ceramic lamp
Radical Commune dwelling
Engaging with a pre existing structure, the 'Bath Haus' acted as bathing house for our proposed commune, it made use of found materials for the renovation, including milk crates, pallets, mdf sheet scraps, recycled timber, stone, recycled windows, polycarbonate and recycled bath tubs. The end result created a structure, that whilst using all these materials, still incorporated elements from both communes we have been working with.
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