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Allira SMITH
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Hi! I'm Allira (she/her) - a graduating Graphic Designer from the Bachelor of Design here at The University of Melbourne! Throughout my degree, I have enjoyed demonstrating my passion for illustrated graphics and flexible branding systems, utilising my adjacent skills in theatrical lighting and event design to create a suite of fully integrated, real world solutions to graphic design problems. I always want my work to have meaning and purpose - whether that's a greater social commentary like my reflections in Forbidden Fruit, or a more familiar mission grounded in properly representing a person or project's values and personality. I am passionate about theatre, arts, design, and culture, and finding ways to reflect that passion in both analogue and digital ways!

Bachelor of Design
Graphic Design
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Circus of the City, 2025.
This mockup demonstrates the culmination of my market research and brand development of a flexible festival branding system for a fun, inclusive, and innovative new Melbourne Performing Arts Festival focused on modern circus arts.

Little Sips, 2025.
A cute, approachable product design for original kids tea brand Little Sips. Combining adorable illustrated mascots with sleek, yet colourful layouts and interactive, sustainability-minded puzzles, this tea brand appeal to kids and parents alike!

Collaborators: Eliza Jasper & Yasmin De La Rosa

Forbidden Fruit, magazine, 2025.
Forbidden Fruit is a parody magazine that attempts to repackage the design of 2000's women's magazines and in doing so critique the harmful messaging towards and exploitation of women in publication design in the early 2000's.

Forbidden Fruit, magazine, 2025.
Forbidden Fruit is a parody magazine that attempts to repackage the design of 2000's women's magazines and in doing so critique the harmful messaging towards and exploitation of women in publication design in the early 2000's.

VIDA Latin Festival Event Design, 2025.
This design proposal illustration places VIDA Melbourne Latin Festival 2026 in Alexandra Gardens and uses design elements of native south american flora and fauna to connect with themes of identity and place.

Collaborators: Osha Barrett, Ashley He

Footnote, book, 2024.
This piece explores the idea of a blank page in a figurative way. It represents exploration into analogue transfer printing methods to create tangible and meaningful outcomes.

Focus, javascript program, 2025.
Focus is a short interactive typography experience exploring the theme of Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative disorders. The experience was coded from scratch in the p5.js javascript extension.

Course
Bachelor of Design
Specialisation
Graphic Design
Theme
Process
Message
Interest
Colour
Illustration
Place
Melbourne
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