Jonan Lau

Hiya, I'm Jonan!

I'm a Motion Designer (with some User Experience sprinkled in!) based in Melbourne and love the idea of bringing life to information and design through motion graphics. Reliable, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for storytelling, I've always been interested in visual design, and am particularly partial to animation and animated mediums. I love seeing a project through with an emphasis on collaboration and feedback, and am grateful to have been able to do so many times across a wide variety of industries during my year-long placement at The Bureau design studio. Though I primarily work in 2D software, I've greatly enjoyed breaking into the world of 3D as well.

Over the past few years I have come to work by the mantra that anything cool can only be made even cooler in motion, and I hope to be able to continually fulfil it.

Cannes In Cairns Title

30 second bumper titles were created for chosen events. I did one for Cannes in Cairns, a marketing and media conference hosted in Queensland. I wanted to emphasise the retreat-like framing and tropical hallmarks of the conference through a combination of motion graphics and digital compositing, which kept in line with the focus of the project brief.

Into Decision Prototype and Promo

Both a user experience prototype and motion graphics outcome were created for IntoDecision, an app that aimed to track and help users reflect on their decisions in the hopes of fostering decisiveness and alleviating potential anxiety when it came to making choices.
A motion graphics video was produced to accompany the prototype as a mock advertisement.

Peter MacCallum Genetic Testing Primers

Series of videos created to help patients and customers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre better understand the ins and outs of genetic testing. An assortment of motion graphics were mixed into a video of talking heads live footage which also had to be recorded on-site.

SAEGX Branding

A visual identity had to be created from scratch for the first Swinburne Anime Esports and Gaming Expo. Tasked with developing the brand identity and logo. Further produced animated assets to be used for an event livestream.

Flux 2023 Promo

Created animated elements and promotional video for GradX 2023, utilising branding centered around the idea of "Flux"- the constant change and growth of students from the past year.

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.