Brick Lane

As we enter the new year, Brick Lane requested new designs for their staff uniforms. To best reflect the business,
the designs were to reflect the location
of Melbourne’s green laneway, the great atmosphere, food, and coffee the café excels at, with a fun and fresh design.

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Illustration

Typography

Shirt design




Working Our Wall: Grad Show Identity

In designing the RMIT Communication Design Graduate Showcase of 2022, we were tasked with exploring the physical, visual, and emotional requirements of conceptualizing and developing the show. We had the opportunity to experiment and create
unique design solutions that engaged
the CD graduates, industry professionals,
and City of Melbourne audiences.

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Motion & Animation

Content Creation

Project Management




StickItUp

Stick It Up is a publication of a collection of stickers found in the
City of Melbourne that shows the small
acts of vandalism, rebellion,
and how people leave their mark on
the ever-changing landscape of
the urban environment.

The project focuses on how people leave their mark, temporary design, mark marking, the seen and unseen, and the small acts of rebellion that fill laneways like graffiti.

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Publication Design

Copywriting & typesetting

Website design

Photography

Videography & Editing




‘Life of the Party’, Olivia Gatwood

Upon initial glance of the cover, the audience can see the title and laugh
(a little grimly) at the irony of the words ‘Life of the Party’ hovering above a dying rose. Let the rose represent the girl who is, “silent and dead and still the
life of the party
”.

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‘Womerah Lane’, Tom Carment

The telegraphs woven throughout the series designs are inspired by Carment's essay 'Telegraph Poles'. Carment writes,
“I’ve always liked telegraph poles, especially the Australian variety..." 



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‘clean hands’, Bowen Street Press


With the design of'clean hands', we strived to highlight the content of the anthology without overshadowing it. In order to create cohesion and capture the mood of
the book, soft, transitory imagery and colours were used throughout. 


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Publication design

Layout template design

Typesetting




project/fallenstars

Around the world, transgender and
gender diverse people are marginalized, stigmatized, and often criminalized. Because of this, members of the community are at an increased risk of violence by strangers, partners, family members,
and law enforcement.

This project aims to draw awareness to the issue of gender-based violence against the transgender and gender diverse community, and to depict the lives and stories of the hundreds of people from the community who are victims of violence every year.

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Fashion activism

Brand identity

Photography

Projection


Kira Johnstone

Graphic Designer based in
Melbourne, Victoria.