Jack Dorgan

UX Interaction Design

I am a designer who majored in Communication Design & UX Interaction during my study at Swinburne University to attain my Bachelor of Design, the reason behind my following this area of study is because of how it allows me to be able to creatively challenge myself by communicating my own internal positive to the rest of the world. My current biggest passions are illustration and publication with both of them appealing to me through how I love engaging with these mediums that connection gives me hope to impart similar feelings to people viewing my work.

I have worked with Echuca Regional Health and Swinburne Co-Ground to create engaging artwork to enhance the existing brand, his work with ERH was focused on illustrations and has helped establish his working identity. Jack is currently training to gain his Bachelor Of Design with majors in both Communication and UX from the Swinburne University of Technology, he has also won the Swinburne NAIDOC artwork competition in 2022 with the theme of 'Get up! Stand up! Show up!'.

Mityuk

Illustrated publication that revolves around my indigenous heritage with content written about my life.

Rhythm

Mobile application designed and developed by myself that acts as a geo-location narrative based around the music culture of Melbourne.

Chimera

Branding of multiple touch-points to create a engaging and consistent brand.

Surreal

Communication of emotion though design in posters to invoke the same feeling in viewers.

Cradle

Product package design focused on multiple iterations of a singular item.

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.