ELLEN WAITE AU/NZ

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EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN

Exhibition Graphics / Wayfinding / Spatial Design / Curation


PUBLICATION DESIGN

Experimental Publishing / Artists’ Books / Exhibition Catalogues


GRAPHIC DESIGN

Event Collateral / Infographics / Misc.


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Ellen Waite
 AU/NZ
︎︎︎ About

︎︎︎ Exhibitions / Publications


EXHIBITIONS


Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2025

     Exhibition wayfinding & signage lead


Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2025

     Exhibition wayfinding & signage lead


Melbourne Design Week 2025, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2025

Exhibition graphic design lead (brand identity developed by TCYK)


Melbourne Art Book Fair 2025, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2025

    Exhibition graphic design lead (brand identity developed by TCYK)


Yayoi Kusama, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2024

    Exhibition graphic design assist
    Exhibition graphic design lead for Gallery Kitchen and Retail spaces


Cats & Dogs
, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) Australia 2024

    Exhibition graphic design lead
    Label design lead


La Terre est bleue: L’art de Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Australian Embassy, Paris (in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria and the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Center) 2024

    Exhibition graphic design lead
    Label design lead


Africa Fashion, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International (in partnership with V&A, London) 2024
Shortlist: Installation Design, Australian Interior Design Awards (2025)

Exhibition graphic design lead
Label design lead


Melbourne Design Week 2024, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2024

    Exhibition graphic design lead (brand identity developed by U-P)


Melbourne Art Book Fair 2024, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2024

 Exhibition graphic design lead (brand identity developed by U-P)


Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense (exhibited as part of Triennial Extra) 2023

    Signage co-lead (Graphic Design, production)


Triennial, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2023

    Exhibition graphic design co-lead for Rififi: Jean Julien for Kids
    Exhibition graphic design lead for Tiff Massey’s work, I got bundles and flewed out (2019)


Permanent Collection Changeovers, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2023–24

Label design lead


Permanent Collection Changeovers, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) Australia 2023–PRESENT

    Label design lead


Takahiro Iwasaki: Reflection Model (Itsukushima), NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) International 2023

    Exhibition graphic design lead


Pieter Huveneers: Beyond Borders, Woolmers Estate 2023

    On-site project manager
    Install assistant


Melbourne Now, NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) Australia 2023

    Label design lead
    Exhibition graphic design lead for the exhibition design of Atong Atem’s works



EVENT WAYFINDING


French Impressionism Friday Nights 2025

Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)


Kusama Friday Nights 2024

    Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)


Bowery Ball 2024
Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)

Triennial Extra 2023
Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)

Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense signage co-lead (Graphic Design, production)


Bonnard Friday Nights 2023

    Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)


NGV Gala 2022

    Signage lead (Graphic design, production)


NGV Kids Summer Festival 2022

    Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)


McQueen Friday Nights 2022

    Signage lead (Graphic Design, production)


ARTICLES


Looking In Looking Out: Student Experiences of the RMIT Design Archives Gallery Window, co-written by Mei Leong and Ellen Waite – published in RMIT Design Archives Journal, Volume 12, No. 2 (2023)

Waite, E., & Leong, M. (2023). Looking In Looking Out: Student Experiences of the RMIT Design Archives Gallery Window. RMIT Design Archives Journal, 13(2), 73-81. (Read the article HERE)



PUBLICATIONS


Reflection Texts – An investigation of publication-as-object and tyoesetting-as-practice, 360pp 2024

Program, Diagram, Epigram, Engram – A subjective encyclopaedia of publication design, 244pp 2022

Prior Art – A dissection of Simon Sellar’s 2014 essay, Journey to the Centre of Google Earth, interwoven with expired patents (from 1879 to 2014), 218pp 2022

Anatomy of a Book – A book about books, collaborative project directed by Stuart Geddes, 12pp (per person) 2022

InterConnected – A collaborative multi-discplinary exhibition in the form of a publication 2020

    Issue 01: What Strengthens You?