Lexi Turner

Communication Design

My design journey began with a strong passion for visual art. After receiving an art scholarship in high school, I discovered graphic design as a powerful medium for storytelling — leading me to study Communication Design at Swinburne University.

My creative process often combines hand-drawn illustration, photography, and composition to produce work that aims to be emotive and concept-driven. I gravitate towards monochromatic or fun colour palettes, expressive portraiture, and emotionally resonant narratives that forge a connection between image and viewer.

I believe the most powerful outcome is produced when design is guided by feeling as much as form.

My favourite units have been Experimental Image-Making, Storyboarding, and Photography — subjects that gave me the freedom to work intuitively and explore layered narratives. While one of my biggest challenges has been translating ambitious ideas into refined outcomes within tight timeframes, it has sharpened my problem-solving and creative resilience.

I am often most inspired by a shared vision rather than working independently and thrive in a creative environment. I aspire to work alongside other artists, musicians, or fashion designers.

Looking ahead, I hope to work in a creative studio or collective — bringing bold, heartfelt ideas to life across a range of media.

Creative Album Re-design

This project involved designing a Special Edition 12” gatefold vinyl package for Australian electro-pop artist Vera Blue.
The design aimed to translate her atmospheric sound which is ethereal and powerful into a strong visual identity.
The project uses experimental image-making techniques of digital image layering, AI generative imagery, metallic spray painting, and typography.

Eye of the Sea -Photography

This project demonstrates the power of image-making in building immersive narrative worlds.
A photographic series of imagery work together to tell the story of the mermaid myth. This particular photo uses image layering to depict the mermaids connection to the beach in an eerie yet beautiful way.

Underwater- Album Debut Billboard

This billboard uses photography and custom type to promote a music artist in releasing a new album.
The concept was adapted using imagery taken in another project where I explored the myth of the mermaid.

Coloured Contacts- Branding

This project showcases a blend of strategic branding, illustration, and technical precision in packaging design, tailored for a boutique brand of coloured contact lenses inspired by leopards.
The outcome includes a cohesive identity system that utilizes spot colours.

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.