Bruno
King
1. A Gathering of Tenderness
A Gathering of Tenderness began as an exploration of how design can hold emotion, an attempt to collect fragments of text, memory, and reflection that speak to love and the quiet beauty found in the everyday. The project comprises a series of four book cover redesigns, each responding to a selected literary work through visual form. Together, they create a cohesive body of work that translates poetic gestures into design, meditating on ideas of care, intimacy, and attention.
The visual language draws inspiration from natural rhythms, the flow of water, reflection, and light, mirroring the emotional cadence of the texts themselves. A companion publication serves as both an archive and a reflection, bringing these reinterpretations into conversation with one another. It is a gentle celebration of the ordinary, and of design’s ability to translate feeling into form.
2025 Capstone Project
Book Cover & Publication Design
The visual language draws inspiration from natural rhythms, the flow of water, reflection, and light, mirroring the emotional cadence of the texts themselves. A companion publication serves as both an archive and a reflection, bringing these reinterpretations into conversation with one another. It is a gentle celebration of the ordinary, and of design’s ability to translate feeling into form.
2025 Capstone Project
Book Cover & Publication Design
2. Flâner Fragrances | Social Media Management
After starting at Flâner Fragrances as a Retail Consultant in January 2024, I was given the opportunity to step into the role of Social Media and Design Manager during my final semester of study. Moving into this position allowed me to expand my practice into brand storytelling and digital communication, curating both still and video content while refining the brand’s visual identity and ensuring consistent growth and engagement across social channels.
In this role, I developed structured content pillars, created an extensive social media calendar system to streamline scheduling and approvals, colour graded images and edited video, as well as balanced creative ideation with the organisational needs of a small brand. Working across both strategic planning and hands-on content creation strengthened my ability to craft thoughtful, design-driven communication within a real brand environment.
2025 Social Media Management Role
Adobe After Effects, Lightroom, & Premiere Pro
After starting at Flâner Fragrances as a Retail Consultant in January 2024, I was given the opportunity to step into the role of Social Media and Design Manager during my final semester of study. Moving into this position allowed me to expand my practice into brand storytelling and digital communication, curating both still and video content while refining the brand’s visual identity and ensuring consistent growth and engagement across social channels.
In this role, I developed structured content pillars, created an extensive social media calendar system to streamline scheduling and approvals, colour graded images and edited video, as well as balanced creative ideation with the organisational needs of a small brand. Working across both strategic planning and hands-on content creation strengthened my ability to craft thoughtful, design-driven communication within a real brand environment.
2025 Social Media Management Role
Adobe After Effects, Lightroom, & Premiere Pro
3. Unresting Froms | Fashion on Fire
This experimental publication titled Unresting Forms chronicles my exploration into motion typography and using type as a means of disruption and act of defiance. The final project, Fashion on Fire, uses a combination of analog and digital techniques that aim to confront the enviornmental destruction caused by the fast fashion industry. Alongside this study are examples of furhter exploration usign a variety of both analog and digital mediums.
Using bold typographic forms and vibrant motion, the piece intentionally mirrors the visual language of fashion advertising, glossy, seductive, and fast-paced, to draw viewers in before revealing the darker reality of overproduction and waste. The work reflects on the instability and chaos that underpin this industry, inviting viewers to question their own participation in a system driven by excess and exploitation.
2025 Design Studio Exploration
Adobe After Effects, Blender, & Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects, Blender, & Premiere Pro
4. Bathing as Ritual
This work explores place as refuge, my relationship to the bathtub as a sanctuary and an intimate space where water becomes both a literal and metaphorical embrace. I examine the dynamic between moments of delicate stillness in the bath juxtaposed against chaotic and anxious thoughts throughout my everyday. The bathtub acts as a vessel to pause, to breathe, and to return - a moment to intentionally let go of overwhelming thoughts.
Bathing as ritual is an act which replenishes both the mind and the body, a practice of self care. Ornamentation of space, the soft flicker of candles which cast away shadows of anxious thoughts, or of flowers gently resting within their vases, become an intentional act of caring for self. You will notice a calmness emanating as you navigate the artist book, what begins as a busy and overwhelming ensemble of thoughts and ideas becomes distilled into clear and direct layouts, reflecting with intention the clarity of mind found in the bathtub.
I aim to tell the stories found in each droplet of water, the shedding of fears, burdens and worries from the day. The sacred importance of the bathtub as place, as escape from the anxious mind that follows me throughout the day. My time bathing becomes one of the only waking moments I can truly rest, truly release.
This book is a love letter to the water that holds me and to the bath that holds the water.
I aim to tell the stories found in each droplet of water, the shedding of fears, burdens and worries from the day. The sacred importance of the bathtub as place, as escape from the anxious mind that follows me throughout the day. My time bathing becomes one of the only waking moments I can truly rest, truly release.
This book is a love letter to the water that holds me and to the bath that holds the water.
2024 University Publication
Adobe InDesign, Bookbinding, Risograph Printing
Adobe InDesign, Bookbinding, Risograph Printing
5. Bookmarks as Business Card
Acting as a tool to introduce myself and my practice, I was tasked with creating a design outcome to be given to prospective employers showcasing a high sense of personal identity and creativity. Considering a balance of both personal expression and professional ambition, this project ensured both a thorough and vigirously reflective approach. I sought to build a strong foundation and robust identity that felt curated to a clear avenue and target audience. A nod to my love for publication and book design, I decided to situate my introduction within a bookmark, a hopefully useful tool to be carried around on person should they be avid readers like myself.
My resolved outcome delivers high consideration to typography and layout, with experimental approaches being made through my printmaking and craft techniques. This creates an engaging work, establishing a connection between myself and the employer. It showcases elements of my personality through a friendly, inviting, professional, and exciting visual language. I chose to have my object act between a direct and indirect approach to introduction, the wprl imbued with qualities that make it less intimidating for employers to hold on to.
The final design uses language deliberately to extend an offer for mentorship, and the object itself feels more of a personal project they can take home rather than a business card because of it’s secondary use as a bookmark.
2024 Personal Branding
Adobe Illustrator, Typograhy & Layout
He has a strong passion for typography, publication design, branding, and printmaking, employing both analogue and digital techniques to create unique and impactful visual experiences. Known for his dedication and work ethic, Bruno graduated with distinction, holding a 3.7(/4.0) GPA. Eager to enter the design industry, he is excited to continue developing his design practice and contribute his skills to meaningful projects.