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GRAPHIC DESIGNER

NAARM

Versatile graphic designer who loves to create

(Motion design by Tash Sparke)

  • PACKAGING DESIGN | ILLUSTRATION | 'Festive Florals' for Royal Australian Mint

  • STORE GRAPHICS FIT-OUT | Pop-up shop for Royal Australian Mint

  • PACKAGING DESIGN | AFL for Royal Australian Mint

  • ILLUSTRATION | ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR BRUSH CREATION | Lino-cut style Aussie animals for personal project

  • Animated GIF shows a variety of posters created for various Canberra Refugee Action Campaign's rallies and events

    CAMPAIGN DESIGN | Palm Sunday Rallies for Canberra Refugee Action Campaign

  • ILLUSTRATION | PRODUCT DESIGN | BRAND DESIGN | SCREEN-PRINTING | 'Shibui'

  • PUBLICATION DESIGN | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 2024-25 Annual Report for Royal Australian Mint

  • APPAREL DESIGN | 'Wodenstock' for The Woden School & 'Out Of This World' for Royal Australian Mint

Some portfolio highlights below

Some portfolio highlights below

Festive Florals

Packaging design | Illustration

Client
Royal Australian Mint

Year
2025

This project is the third in a series titled ‘Festive Florals’, which highlights a different Australian flora each year that blooms around Christmas time. The brief for this project called for a festive, art nouveau inspired design. I collated several moodboards, researching different art directions. In collaboration with the coin designer, design lead, and product development, we landed on an appropriate art direction.

I sketched, and then digitally illustrated, the art nouveau components that were foiled on the finished products. The foiled components on the front of the proof packaging mimic the shape of a Christmas tree.

The colour palette for the polypropylene tree decorations needed to fit within the more traditional Christmas theme (i.e. red, green, white), whilst having room to add colours that reflected Australian Christmas/linked back to the Australian flora highlighted on the coin. The flower on this years’ coin was the Queensland Christmas Orchid, so a bright yellow was selected to link to the flowers’ inner colour. A deep mulberry was selected to reflect some celebratory Christmas imagery (e.g. wine, summer cherries).

All product imagery shown is credited to the Royal Australian Mint, displayed here with their permission.

A purple carton with decorative purple and gold foils in an art nouveau style is shown. The foiled text reads: "2025 Christmas. Festive Florals. 2025 50c Coloured Fine Silver Proof Coin".
The back of a purple carton shown with purple and gold foiled illustrated art nouveau style elements. Foiled text reads: "Merry Christmas" there is a then a panel to write on, and it says "To:" and "From:"
Image shows 5 polypropylene dodecagon shapes with a space in the middle where a 50c coin sits. The decorations are different colours: white, green, yellow, red, and a deep mulberry purple. Gold foiled artistic elements are around each decoration.
A close-up shot of some of the flower/vine illustration details from the proof packaging carton are shown here in a gold colour.

Preston House Party

Digital poster design | Typeface design

Client
Unconscious Molotov

Year
2025

The brief for this job was a digital poster design to advertise an upcoming house party in Preston, Naarm. This design called for some emo-inspired graphics - think of scrapbook ‘cut-and-paste’ aesthetic - as this matched the theme of all the artists playing in the line-up. Unconscious Molotov sent me some aesthetic references they liked, and I created some moodboard and artwork iterations from there. The typefaces I was searching through weren’t quite hitting the mark, so I instead created some custom letters to make up the band names.

I crafted the typeface used in the band line-up in Adobe Illustrator, drawing from emo/punk references. The goal was a scratchy, sharp looking aesthetic to fit the vibe of the music.

Adding in a bunch of scrapbook elements (some manually scanned in, others acquired digitally), textures, and some scraggly digital illustrations helped tie it all together.

Canberra Refugee Action Campaign

Client
Canberra Refugee Action Campaign

Year
2017 - 2024

Campaign designs

The Canberra Refugee Action Campaign is an organisation campaigning for a just and humane refugee policy. They are part of a non-partisan network of concerned citizens around the country seeking fair and humane treatment of refugees in Australia.

From 2017 - 2024 I volunteered my skills to design campaign materials that spanned across print and digital mediums for many of their events. I worked on event activations with them (for example - the ‘Welcome Space’ in 2017 - an art exhibition/48 Hour Vigil set up in Civic Square that I designed promotional materials and infographics for), as well as numerous rallies and protest events. Sometimes these designs would then be templated for use across nation-wide refugee action groups, especially for the Palm Sunday rallies.

Each campaign design would span across several different digital and print formats such as corflute roadside signage, local magazine and newspaper advertisements, social media, website advertisements, posters, and flyers.

Poster lying on the ground reads "Enough is Enough! 2019: All off Manus and Nauru" it then lists details for a rally. The '!' is quite large and makes up most of the design, alongside an image of a woman holding her child.
A poster hung up on the inside of a shop window - it has a light purple background with white fine line drawings depicting different community activities. "Refugees in Canberra need our support" then lists details of charity dinner.
A speaker at a rally stands in front of a banner that reads: "Enough is Enough! 2019: All off Manus and Nauru"
a poster that reads "Refugees: Permanent Protection For All!" then lists details of the rally.
A poster stuck to a noticeboard that reads: "Five Years on Manus Island and Nauru" then shows a crowd of arms held up in a 'X' position. "Five Years Too Long" then lists details on the protest.
Corfulte road sign reads: "Enough is Enough! 2019: All off Manus and Nauru" then lists details of the rally.
A poster stuck up on an advertisement concrete pole that reads "Refugees: Alternatives to Cruelty. What a decent Australian refugee policy would look like." Then lists details of the rally.
An image of a poster that advertises a lecture called "Climate Refugees: Why we need different policies on Climate and on Refugees"
A poster on a noticeboard that reads: "Palm Sunday Rally for Justice for Refugees!" the image shows two people walking through a barren land with seemingly all their belongings in bags they're carrying on top of their heads and over their shoulders.
Two posters sit side-by-side and read "Justice for Refugees: Permanent Visas Now" then lists rally details. The design is bold and uses red and cream.
A poster stuck up on the side of a pole that reads "Save Medevac for Refugees. Allow sick refugees treatment in Australia - Public Meeting" it then lists details of the event and speakers.

Australian Football League

Client
Royal Australian Mint

Year
2024

Packaging design

This was a packaging project designed for the Royal Australian Mint’s second collaboration with the AFL. The brief was to design a line of packaging for a twenty-coin collection folder and tube, 18 individual team coin wallets, and cartons for two different proof finish coins. 

I used abstract, sharp-edged coloured shapes to represent the movement and high intensity of a match. I wanted to highlight the story of how watching a match makes someone feel - full of energy and excitement - and how the rich history of the sport has made viewers feel this way since the 1800’s. I used a halftone texture and commentary excerpts from matches to tie the history into the design.  

Each team has their own distinctive branding, which lends itself well to creating recognisable packaging for each of the individual team coins. The shapes and halftone vector were used to create cohesion between these individual wallets and the main packaging components.

This product line was released through partnership with Australia Post outlets.

All product imagery shown is credited to the Royal Australian Mint, displayed here with their permission.

Tuned by Sam

A stack of business cards, you can see the top card and its' logo. It's a shape that looks like two piano keys (with the smaller, black key in the middle) and the negative space between them looks like a tuning fork. Text reads "Tuned by Sam"

Client
Tuned by Sam

Year
2025

Logomark

Tuned by Sam is a small piano tuning business based in Hobart, Tasmania. Sam wanted a logo developed to promote his business - initially to be used on business cards, then on different mediums as his business grows. I worked with Sam to explore future branding options for him down the line, to ensure the logomark could adapt easily to suit his evolving design needs.

Sam wanted his logomark to communicate professionalism in a simple, elegant, yet approachable way. I conducted some research on his closest competitors to ensure his logomark would stand on its’ own. A lot of the piano tuners in Hobart are slowly aging out of the profession, and it lended us well to design a mark with a more contemporary feel - increasing its’ longevity.

The final logo chosen represents keys on a piano and a tuning fork within the negative space.