Nicolette Axiak

Graphic Designer
Sydney Business Insights

Nicolette Axiak is an illustrator and graphic designer with Sydney Business Insights. She has a Master of Design (majoring in animation) where her award-nominated films have been officially selected for festivals nationally and internationally. Nicolette has worked on various shows for the Vivid Lights and Ideas Festivals including branding SBI’s Love/Machine in 2019.

Nicolette is interested in creating stories which explore subtlety in the way that humans emote and interact with each other. This is expressed in her character design and motion, and world building.

From this author

Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.