Hello! My name is Jen, I'm a designer and artist working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People of the Kulin Nations. My creative practice here is underpinned by a fascination with the tenuous line between ‘ART’ and ‘DESIGN’, with regard for both their conceptual and formal qualities. Within the field of design my interests lie most prominently in the realms of publication, typography, illustration, and a recently acquired obsession with Risography. I also run a small Risograph printing collective called 'good friend press'.
I Wish I Knew
I Wish I Knew compiles responses from final year design students regarding their experience studying Communication Design at Monash University. The book acts as a resource of information for any individuals interested in what design education looks like in the present day, but specifically aims to provide insight for people looking to study design, or for those who are early in their design degrees.
I Wish I Knew
The book’s emphasis on reflection and a desire to share knowledge for the benefit of others aims to generate a sense of care and community — not only within its contents and the people directly involved in its making, but for the reader, too.
Entropy
Entropy is a modular typeface inspired by Melbourne’s Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union Building, designed by the late Graeme Gunn in collaboration with Ellis Stones in the late 60s. The typeface explores the building’s irregular yet compelling form in its top heavy design and abundant use of obtuse angles to create a structure that exudes gravitas and a feeling of immutable structural integrity. Shifts in formation for each letter through constant rearrangement of simple geometric modules aims to reference the ever changing nature of all materials, including that which seems indestructible or immune to decay.
Entropy
Entropy's type specimen shows the shape frameworks underlying each glyph as they were composed through the design process to give insight to the iterative processes behind each — perhaps deceptively simple — form.
The specimen is 160 x 140mm in size, 112pp, chain stitch bound with waxed black sewing thread, and Risograph printed on Envirocare 115 & 150gsm.
GD Serif
GD Serif is a medium weight typeface inspired by suburban signage in immigrant neighbourhoods. Aspirations of the Australian dream lay the Eurocentric groundwork of the typeface, which are then transformed through organic bleeding of letterforms — referencing the inevitable deterioration of signage lettering through the passage of time.
Poor Things Posters
Risograph printed posters based on the 2023 Yorgos Lanthimos film 'Poor Things'. Several alternate prints showcasing various colour combinations and overprints with existing designs produce a series of varied, playful outcomes, all centered around the core poster design.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
