SENSING ENTITIES
Installation
This project creatively interrogates human experiences of sensing, imagining the body’s sensations as the primary way we witness global events. As humans drift from their connection to the environment and stop trusting internal sensation, they become “a set of memorised behaviours, emotional reactions, beliefs and perceptions, functioning just like a computer program” (Dispenza, 2020). In a world that can be unsustainable and unjust, fear, stress and anxiety keep the nervous system in a sympathetic state, leaving us in “lack and separation” (Dispenza, 2020) and unable to let the body speak, which shapes how global issues are perceived. A new approach to the body and landscape, perceiving the world with the whole body, offers a way to avoid a numbing future and become sensing entities that relate to what we cannot otherwise sense. This idea shaped the ‘Sensing Entities’ brand and built environment, a socially responsible brand strategy and coherent branded environment grounded in the Venice Biennale 2022 ‘Milk of Dreams’ prompts on what constitutes life, how the human is changing, what life would look like without us, and our responsibilities to the planet and other life. Organic paper sculptures unify the environment, appearing alive, responding to actions and behaviours, and bearing witness to global events through the sensations of body and landscape.
PAPE INFO POINT MODULAR STAND
SHORTLISTED BUILDNER COMPETITION
Wayfinding
‘Variable Expressions’ – A modular information stand design in which each piece relies on the others to stand, inspired by the mosaic of ecosystems that make up Pape Nature Park, Latvia. Created for the Pape Info Point competition, run by Buildner in partnership with Pape Nature Park and WWF, the brief called for a modular, transportable education stand to promote the park and its conservation efforts. The park is a 10,886-hectare biodiversity hotspot of bogs, meadows and dunes around Lake Pape, and the stand was to use architecture as a form of storytelling, conveying the park’s message through its design as much as through the content displayed on it. The design therefore needed to be visually appealing, modular, secure and mobile, built from sustainable materials, and easy to assemble and disassemble.
SITE MAP EXPLORATION
Wayfinding
A site exploration project translating the narratives of two chosen locations into an abstract, motion-based map — exploring themes of icon, ritual, and movement through the Black Madonna pilgrimage in Viggiano and California’s Discovery Tree.
TRAM STOP DISPLAY CONCEPT
A site-responsive tram stop display design exploring texture, atmosphere, and movement through captured images of the site — printed, scanned, and repurposed.
ROYAL BOTANICALGARDENS PAVILION
Model Making
This project uses drawings and model-making to develop three interconnected spaces for the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne, exploring how light and space shape the occupant’s experience and affect visitors emotionally and aesthetically. Sited beside the central lake, where the view, ample seating and vast grass area attract diverse visitors, the design offers a place to relax, take in the view and connect with the gardens. Its structure balances open and enclosed spaces with distinct light and shadow experiences, creating an intimate, comfortable seating area with a unique contrast, surrounded by trees, plants and flowers yet still part of the larger garden. Multiple connecting paths keep the site accessible, and the gradual incline gives visitors a clear point of interest, encouraging them to interact and share their experiences.
SPATIAL DIVIDERS
Model Making
This spatial divider for a public space began with paper experimentation, folding and layering forms to test structure and shadow, and evolved into a design inspired by the tangled, interlocking shapes of mangrove roots. Its organic forms filter and shape light, casting shifting patterns of light and shadow that define zones while keeping the space open and connected.
NIKE DNA: “WINDOW INTO AIRMAX”
Experience
Nike DNA holds a vast archive of sketches, photographs, design drawings, marketing material and products, but its abundance makes stories hard to share. This project reinterprets the archive through The Concept of Air, acknowledging the past, recognising the present and reimagining the future of Nike retail. ‘Window into Air Max’ does this through five pop-up, concept-store-style spaces, each focused on a specific Air Max and displaying artefacts and Nike DNA material on its stories, design, history and appearance, alongside limited edition merchandise and raffle tickets for upcoming releases. Housed in unused inner-city spaces chosen for their atmosphere, location or architectural features, these temporary store-gallery hybrids let Nike enter cities where it has no retail presence and localise the experience, echoing the movement at the core of Nike and the continuous evolution of Air Max. Inside, intersecting boxes of varying sizes reflect the stability and movement of the Air Max BW, transparent plastic draped over repurposed Nike retail rails and hooks projects illuminated imagery and videos inspired by air, and cabinets, tables and shelving display smaller artefacts with the minimal curation and scarcity of a concept store.
AUSTRALIA POST
Branding
Project 1: Australia Post Flagship Store, Collingwood
This project envisions a modern-day image for Australia Post, exploring how it can cultivate enduring relationships with its customers and community across its retail and delivery networks through a new concept design and rebrand for a flagship store at 12-16 Peel Street, Collingwood. The store combines retail and postal functions with face-to-face service, a 24-hour self-service area and an upstairs community space of movable structures for workshops and events exploring communications past, present and future, with a focus on Indigenous Australian history. The rebranded logo interprets the “P” through microscope textures of stamps, envelopes and packaging embedded into an ink stamp base, which can be projected onto walls and ground as dynamic wayfinding or used as physical stamps, with textures that change alongside community events. In the garden, a feature wall of metal poles inspired by message sticks and the postal tube carries decodable symbols from Australia Post’s history, accompanied by sounds such as bells, mailboxes and transport, to educate the community on Indigenous communication history.
Project 2: Australia Post Mobile Post Office, Buchan
Responding to the isolation of communities and loss of essential services during the 2019 and 2020 bushfires, this project reimagines Australia Post’s delivery network for regional Victoria through a mobile post office offering a “recovery service” for the East Gippsland Fire District, sited at John Flynn Memorial Reserve in Buchan. The modular design, built from lightweight recycled plastic and plywood, packs into a standard 40ft shipping container and can be trucked and unpacked anywhere, from Buchan’s existing infrastructure to open land. Its agile frames can be reconfigured as offices, benches, chairs, shelves, storage, retail spaces, post office boxes and mail services. Through a partnership with Seed Paper Australia and Greening Australia, bushfire-affected individuals can write their thoughts and concerns on seed paper, then plant it with guidance, a hands-on restoration experience that fosters community engagement and merges the Australia Post brand and service during a sensitive and vulnerable time.
EXHIBITION DISPLAY CONCEPT
Ten artefacts were sourced from my home and locally, chosen because they have spent time in the world and show signs of wear, with a mixture of large (25 cm max) and small, old and new, heavy and light, and differing materials. They include vintage buttons, a Japanese sake vessel, a 1950s vessel from Naples, a second-hand book about collage, an antique brooch, a 1970s Italian romance magazine, a 1970s glass pear, 1970s picnic salt and pepper shakers, a Tibetan sound bowl and a 1920s cake dish. Each was investigated, documented and compiled into an orthographic projection series inspired by the Italian designer Bruno Munari. A display was then created to exhibit the artefacts at the chosen site, capturing the essence of stacked boxes, layers and overlaps. It represents objects that were once packed away and neglected, but are now gradually emerging and exposed to touch and light.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN: “AO MINDSET”
Experience
The Australian Open is a two-week Grand Slam held each January at Melbourne Park, and has grown into a festival-style experience for local and international fans. This project responds with ‘AO Mindset’, a sub-brand offering a 14-day health and wellness precinct at Total House car park on Russell Street, a rare example of Japanese Brutalist architecture close to Melbourne Central station, Chinatown and Melbourne Park. Drawing on athlete practices, self-care and Total House’s Japanese heritage, it fuses traditional and holistic mindfulness through yoga, breathing and visualisation workshops, meditation, Pilates and H.I.I.T, live music from sound therapists, guest speakers, tournament screenings, and food and drinks. White-fabric totem poles on Russell Street guide visitors to the entrance, where Torii-inspired scaffolding gates lead them to the elevator or stairs. The signature event pavilion, built from scaffolding and white fabric on the concept of ‘ma’ (self, space and boundary), uses four floating structures, tatami flooring and fluid boundaries to encourage rest and pause. By day it reflects sunlight and moves gently in the breeze, and by evening the transparent fabric glows as a beacon for passers-by on Russell and Little Bourke Streets.
BRANDING PROJECTS
Illustration
Various branding and illustration projects completed for freelance clients across the IT, hospitality, celebrant, horticulture and fashion industries. The work includes brand marks, invoice design, invitations and stationery, and poster design, each tailored to the client’s identity and audience.
ANYWAY CLUB
Poster Design
Two collage-based poster designs for Anyway Club, a tattoo and tooth gem business in Brunswick, created for the exterior and interior of the space.
EXPRESSIVE CUBES
A series of paper concepts exploring how different techniques can express different emotions. Through folding, cutting, layering, scrunching and other manipulations, each piece uses form, texture, tension and shadow to translate a feeling into a physical, tactile expression.
WORKSHOP BOOK SERIES CONCEPT
Ideation
This concept is a series of up to six small-format books (13 x 19 cm, 60-90 pages), each a “Note” that works as an invitation to observe and play with the world around us with an expansive gaze, staying in the here and now. Part notes, exercises and inquiries, part play, imagination, texture and observation, the books use collage, photographs and drawings to read the world in our own way and imagine it as it might become. The series encourages us to stay in touch with the sensitivity discovered as a child and to build from what is already around us. The books can be read together or independently and share one cover style, with only the name changing: Beach, Words, Light, Skin, Walking and Repurposing.
SABINE_NOTES
Collage
Mixed Media
Observation
Sabine_notes is an explorative and undefined space where projects, experiences, observations, and reflections — drawn from curiosities around the body, public space, design, architecture, objects, memory, landscape, books, research, and more — become field notes. It is a space for trial and error, mistakes, questions, and ongoing learning. While these notes may not have a direct purpose or outcome, they serve as sources of inspiration and understanding.
I am a multidisciplinary designer from Melbourne/Naarm, now based in London.
I work with paper, texture, tactile making, documentation, everyday observation, research, and experimentation to create graphic, site-specific, and brand-specific design outcomes. My practice takes ideas beyond the visual, translating them into three-dimensional built environments, approached through understanding the everyday experience of people — through psychology, culture, and human behaviour.
My work is grounded in an ongoing exploration of interconnectedness: how living systems interact, evolve, and leave traces through exchange. Deeply curious about the mind–body connection, contrast, shape, proximity, texture, and perception, driven by a desire to discover new ways of seeing and making through life's subtle details.
Please feel free to get in touch to explore potential collaborations, project enquiries, or to request a tailored portfolio.
2018-2022: Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Design (Branded Environments) / Bachelor of Media and Communications (Advertising)
(with distinction)
2019: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Semester Abroad – Methods of Illusion: La Mise-en-Scène from Drama to Fiction and Visual Arts, The Female Character in Italian Contemporary Literature, and The Discovery of Italy through its Culinary Traditions
Experience
2024 - present: Feelance Designer, VIC
2026 - present: Spatial Planning / Visual Merchandising
2025: NCFE Level 3 Teaching Assistant Award Course, Government Certificate, DMC
2025: Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certificate (Hypnotherapy Mastery) Certification, Steven Burns
2024-2025: Beginner / Intermediate Piano Lessons, Allegri
2024-2025: Reiki Level I, II, and Master/Teacher Traditional Usui Reiki Certification, Lisa Powers
2024: Red Rose Cube Arrangement Workshop Tokyo, Nicolai Bergmann School of Floristry
2024: Pottery Workshop, Atelier Little Tokyo
2024: Project Management Fundamentals Certification, PM-Partners
2024: Level 1 Workshop Accreditation, Australian Bush Flower Essences
- ANTA (Australia): 15 points
- ATMS (Australia): 8 points
2023: ‘Take A Seat With Us’ Upholstery Program, Holmesglen
2023: Furniture Making Fundamentals, Melbourne Polytechnic
2022: Crystal Singing Bowls Workshop, Rainbow Sounds
2018: Introduction to Ceramics, Footscray Community Arts Centre
Exhibitions
March - July 2018: Top Arts, National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, VIC
Panel Discussions
KickstArt, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
Awards
Pape Info Point, International Competition (shortlisted)
Commendation in Design, Capstone Project, issued by Professor Jane Burry, Dean
Frankie Good Stuff Awards (finalist)
Top Arts, National Gallery of Victoria (finalist)