{"id":54691,"date":"2025-10-01T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54691\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:36:10","slug":"melina-k-draws-the-beauty-of-nature-into-her-tactile-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54691\/","title":{"rendered":"Melina K draws the beauty of nature into her tactile design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"y4k7w\">Melina K is a freelance designer from Singapore and now based in Brisbane, Australia. She\u2019s focused on visuals for the music community, having designed for cult indie-rock band Peach Pit as well as dance musician Brothertiger\u2019s 2024 tour. Tailoring her design for musical expression, it comes as no surprise Melina loves to experiment. \u201cI\u2019m drawn to layouts that feel a bit experimental \u2013 mixing bold, loud type with softer scripts, or adding tactile details to digital work so it feels more alive,\u201d Melina says.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"aov34\">Melina brings in the decay and wear of nature and blends it with human touch, marks of faded ink and and text skewed on a slight diagonal. In a recent project, she created textured letterforms captured through water on concrete. Her intuitive approaches are informed by stillness, observation, and nature\u2019s unexpected beauties. \u201cLife feels like it\u2019s shifting a lot right now, and I\u2019ve been leaning into mindfulness as a way to stay grounded,\u201d she says. \u201cThat naturally draws me to the beauty of nature, where I notice textures, colours, and small details \u2013 weaving those into my work whenever I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melina K is a freelance designer from Singapore and now based in Brisbane, Australia. She\u2019s focused on visuals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-54691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}