Dan Downing

Coming from a Graphic Design background, Dan explored non-commercial packaging design as art for his Honours project. Through this work he attempted to break out from what he perceived was a creative prison, and while his escape was successful, it left him with a hunger for more experimentation. Dan’s Honours work also revealed a prevalent duality and the realisation that, through art, this duality became a valuable tool-set – often asking unexpected questions and striking an interesting balance between opposing factors: form and function, science and spirituality, interior and exterior, chaos and order.