PETAL Magazine Vol. 1, Down the Rabbit Hole, includes Dylan Samphire’s short story Purgatory’s Last Terrace.
It begins quietly and builds to an eerie end. I designed the spread to support that pacing through calm hierarchy and considered whitespace, then layered in hand-drawn details to let the unease creep in. The title lettering and motifs throughout are illustrated by me.
Cosmo’s Kitchen is a pasta packaging concept I designed at TAFE, positioned as an affordable brand with a sharper point of view. The system is typography-led and built for shelf rhythm, balancing bold colour blocks with a strict information hierarchy and a slightly mischievous tone. A custom bitmap star becomes the recurring motif, used as both stamp and pattern to hold the range together and make the packs feel immediate, collectible, and unmistakably Cosmo’s.
