Ruby Healey
I’m a multidisciplinary designer and photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne, working out of Idle Time, a studio space that I also run. My practice sits at the intersection of communication design and image making with a focus on documenting, interpreting and making sense of our world. I’m interested in collective practice, co-design and independent publishing.
I acknowledge the Custodians of the land in which I live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
MAG DRAG Magazine
Publication Design + Artist and Cover Photography, 2023
MAG DRAG is a collaborative project with Eilish Hazell and Em Finucane. We interviewed 12 Naarm-based tattoo artists about their practice and pathway to tattooing. MAG DRAG aims to demystify the artist and bridge connections between artists and clients outside of the limitations of the Instagram algorithim.
Local Derby
Single Artwork, 2023
Local Derby is an indie-pop due based in Naarm.
Listen to Bad Side here
Going Down Swinging #43: Hell & High Water
Publication Design and Typesetting, 2023
Going Down Swinging’s #43 edition featuring fiction, comics, non fiction and poetry from new and established voices of the Australian literary scene.
Includes work by Declan Fry, Elena Gomez, David Ishaya Osu, Jack Vening, Hasib Hourani, Ouyang Yu and more.
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Edited by Hollen Singleton
- Cover illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole
- Illustrations by Leon Truong
- Environmental consulting by Sarah McConnell.
108pp printed on FSC Certified 100% recycled paper.
Pick up a copy via the GDS website
Assorted Events
Posters 2021–23
Posters for various events:
- Minus Four Degrees
- 41:EXTRA! Going Down Swinging
- Life Drawing at Idle Time x 2
- Strange Matrix launch at GUDSKUL
- Grafis Huru Hara tetra pak printmaking workshop
- Mundane Mondays
RONA.
Single Artwork, 2023
RONA. is the music project of Kaytetye artist, Rona Glynn-McDonald.
Listen to Aperleye here
Going Down Swinging
Brand Identity 2023
Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital, print and audio anthologies since 1979.
Think Forward
Brand Identity 2023
Think Forward is a non-for-profit working towards centreing issues of intergenerational fairness in Australian politics.
vox populi
Publication Design 2022
vox populi is a non-fiction anthology of Melbourne voices, edited by RMIT Masters of Writing and Publishing students and featuring the work of 20 contributors.
108pp, published by Bowen St Press.
Idle Time
Brand Identity 2021
Idle Time is a shared studio space located in Brunswick. Em Finucane and I co-founded the space in 2021 and we also developed this brand together. Em and I developed different letterforms and merged them to create the logo.