Julia Plavina Julia Plavina is a Melbourne–based jewellery designer. Her work draws on nature, other cultures, history, and her own travels. Describing her work as “70’s folk”, Julia creates her jewellery by weaving, bending, soldering, and sewing her materials of alpaca wool, silver, gold, Shibuichi, amethyst, cotton, copper, quartz, opal, pearl, beads, and mohair… to name just a few.
The mark of the maker’s hand is strong in all of Julia’s work, and because of this, a “stitch” shape (a square or rectangle in its simplest form) was introduced to the typography by squaring the curves of the J, U and P. The typeface in use is modern, yet harks back to the time Julia is drawing her inspiration from.
Further playing upon the handmade element of Julia’s work, a secondary “stitch” symbol was created. This worked as a lone graphic element on the fronts of her business cards, and later, as a social media icon. The colour palette is varied, much like the colours of the materials Julia uses in her work. It is also a direct reference to the 1970’s.
Julia Plavina Julia Plavina is a Melbourne–based jewellery designer. Her work draws on nature, other cultures, history, and her own travels. Describing her work as “70’s folk”, Julia creates her jewellery by weaving, bending, soldering, and sewing her materials of alpaca wool, silver, gold, Shibuichi, amethyst, cotton, copper, quartz, opal, pearl, beads, and mohair… to name just a few.
The mark of the maker’s hand is strong in all of Julia’s work, and because of this, a “stitch” shape (a square or rectangle in its simplest form) was introduced to the typography by squaring the curves of the J, U and P. The typeface in use is modern, yet harks back to the time Julia is drawing her inspiration from.
Further playing upon the handmade element of Julia’s work, a secondary “stitch” symbol was created. This worked as a lone graphic element on the fronts of her business cards, and later, as a social media icon. The colour palette is varied, much like the colours of the materials Julia uses in her work. It is also a direct reference to the 1970’s.