Christine Ruth Teoxon

Communication Design

As a designer, I aim to create a final product that best suits the functional and visual needs of the client and/or brief. I believe it is important to create meaningful design that factors in how the people will interact with it. Fostering the need to truly care for the user and the final product, I think designing should always be done with passion and good intent. The desire to help others is important, and therefore is the backbone of how I want to pursue my practice.

Hiking Victoria Festival

The Hiking Victoria Festival is annual event sponsored by the Greater Geelong Council and AllTrails. The Festival hosts a 3 day event that consists of a range of outdoor activities for people of all ages to enjoy.

Aeon Bakery

Aeon is a Melbourne bakery that sells high quality pastries, cakes, and loaves. With a streamlined user friendly online ordering system, customers can easily receive Aeon’s products from all over Melbourne.

State Library Annual Report

The annual report is an important document for institutions to analyse their financials and yearly review. The State Library Victoria encourages community and diversity, which encompasses the visual identity of this year’s annual report design.

MoveWell

MoveWell is a dynamic user-friendly app that specialises in personal tracking and social connection with like minded individuals. The effortless interface allows for users to easily navigate the app, highlighting MoveWell’s objective to help individuals with their health journey.

Canteen Sounds

Canteen Sounds is a music collective that hosts Melbourne events and houses DJs. This printed publication showcases their brand values and achievements as an underground music group.

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.