VCA DESIGN & PRODUCTION
GRADUATE SHOWCASE
The University of Melbourne

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

University of Melbourne (Australian University)

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Molly STANKO

Gambling with Nature, Instant Scratch-cards, 2025
Gambling With Nature explores society’s obsession with profit and its detachment from the realities of climate change. Echoing the maximalist, hyper-saturated visual language of instant scratch-cards and lotteries, the project employs playful commentary surrounding concepts of greed, compulsion and accountability. Kitsch, energetic compositions become tools of critique, re-contextualising gambling systems as metaphors for environmental risk. Using real-world data and statistics, irony and compulsion are juxtaposed. It is only through the promise of profit and reward that we are confronted with our collective losses, drawing attention to what we choose not to see.

Reef Riches (Gambling with Nature), Instant Scratch-cards, 2025

Reef Riches (Gambling with Nature), Instant Scratch-cards, 2025

Type Specimen for Auger Mono, wire-bound booklet, 2025. To capture the utilitarian feel of Auger Mono, I constructed the specimen in the format of a receipt-sized zine. This choice literalises the typeface’s association with receipts as functional documents, but also extends into a more conceptual territory: in contemporary digital vernacular, “receipts” have become synonymous with proof, evidence, and the act of screenshotting and archiving. Auger Mono’s connection to typewriters, letters, and coding
makes it a natural bridge between these historical roots and the modern circulation of posts, messages, and DMs. Through a loose emoji/receipt archive catalogue concept, ARCHI-TYPE underscores this dual focus on archiving and technical aesthetics.

Spreads from Type Specimen for Auger Mono, 2025

Fish Tales Sardine Packaging, 2025. Packaging designed to look like books to tell the tale of ethical fishing.

Designed with Nuria Carbonell-Rivela.

Fish Tales Sardine Packaging, 2025. Consume It Brief where we designed packaging for an ethical tinned fish company. "We are an ethical Australian tinned fish brand reimagining a pantry classic for a new generation. We bring together transparency,
authenticity, and sustainable practices with playful, design-forward packaging to make tinned seafood feel fresh, fun and social. Our contemporary refresh turns everyday eating into something aesthetic, ethical, stylish, indulgent, and joyful."

Designed with Nuria Carbonell-Rivela

I’m a designer working across a double major in Graphic Design and Landscape Architecture, with a background in Visual Arts (Drawing and Printmaking) from VCA. I often find that my work in each discipline informs one another, exploring how visual and spatial design can shape the way people experience, perceive and understand the world around them. I’m interested in research-led, material-driven projects that connect culture, ecology, and narrative, exploring the intersections between visual communication, typography, and storytelling across a range of print and digital media.

Bachelor of Design
Graphic Design
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Bachelor of Design
Specialisation
Graphic Design
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