HILARY DODD
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Hilary Dodd is a graphic designer working across editorial and spatial practices predominantly within arts and cultural contexts. With a background in visual art and education, her work spans publications, exhibitions, and public learning environments.
Hilary’s work has been recognised through exhibitions and national design awards, including the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) and the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA).
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SELECTED WORK
2026_DOGMILK FILMS
WEBSITE
Website design for Dogmilk Films, an independent filmmaking collective dedicated to alternative and ambitious cinema.
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2026_SURGING THROUGH EXITS WHEN THE BELL GOES
EXHIBITION | RESEARCH | PHOTOGRAPHY
An extension of the research project and book, “Aesthetics of the not so hidden curriculum,” with critical design approaches, archival images, photography, and speculative video and design work.
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2025_AESTHETICS OF THE NOT SO HIDDEN CURRICULUM
PUBLICATION | RESEARCH | PHOTOGRAPHY
A design-led research publication examining how digital infrastructures aestheticise and normalise control in schools, shaping the hidden curriculum through platforms, interfaces, and everyday design cues.
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2025_WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE OPERA
CAMPAIGN | IDENTITY | STRATEGY
Proposed campaign repositioning Pinchgut Opera for new audiences through bold, street-level visuals and a playful, contemporary tone.
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2025_BACKYARD STORIES: A CURATED SELECTION
PUBLICATION | PHOTOGRAPHY
A publication bringing the live Backyard Stories event to print.
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2025_FACELESS
FILM POSTER
Poster design and stills photography for “Faceless”
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2026_NEW26
EXHIBITION IDENTITY (early stage concepts)
A speculative identity direction produced in response to a short-form interview brief for ACCA’s emerging artists exhibition.
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2024_NONE OF THIS IS VISUAL
RESEARCH JOURNAL | EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY
An interactive experimental type specimen book tracing how the unseen is articulated as participants describe letterforms with and beyond their mind’s eye.
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2024_IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S THEM
POSTER SERIES
A poster campaign exposing the systemic exploitation of international students in Australia, using government-style visuals and direct messaging to empower students and connect them with support services.
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2024_BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PLACES
RESEARCH JOURNAL | EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY | PHOTOGRAPHY
A research journal of experimental typefaces mapping State Library Victoria's spaces through its architecture and diverse communities.
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2024_CRITICAL ESSAYS: ON (MOSTLY BOOK) TYPOGRAPHY
PUBLICATION
Layout design & critical essay on the typographic approach to the exhibition catalogue “Daria Martin: One of the Things that Makes Me Doubt“
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2024_14 DAYS TO GO
EXHIBITION
A co-curated exhibition with students of the RMIT Master of Communication Design program, at the Old Melbourne Gaol—a site deeply tied to Australia’s colonial history.
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2024_CODE (CENTRE OF DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS)
IDENTITY
Posters from a proposed visual identity that channels the language of game design and real-time data to support collaborative interventions in complex, entangled systems.
2024_U>N>I>T>E>D/CHUNKY MOVE
EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY
Proposed type design concept—blending themes of machine mysticism, experimental sound and dance.
2024_MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE
RISO POSTER | EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY
A visceral typographic response that subverts the accessibility warning for "Tanz," transforming it into a raw reflection of the show's brutal, high-energy performance.
2017_TINNING STREET PRESENTS | NO VACANCY GALLERY
VISUAL ART
Selected exhibitions, exploring early experiments in spatial practice, composition and materiality.
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2015〉2016_SEVENTH GALLERY +
VISUAL ART
Selected exhibitions, exploring early experiments in spatial practice, composition and materiality.
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