Ruby Healey


I’m a multidisciplinary designer and sometimes photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne. I work from Idle Time, a studio space that I co-founded and manage. 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 currently work in a freelance capacity and at social impact organisation, YLab. Get in touch if you’d like to collaborate on a project.


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.

Merantau: stories of Indonesian food and migration

Brand identity and publication design, 2024–ongoing.



Merantau is an upcoming book project set to launch in 2025, funded by Creative Australia.

Merantau (meaning to explore, wander or impermanently migrate in Bahasa) seeks to capture the experience of the Indonesian diaspora community in Naarm/Melb, telling stories with food as the conduit.

Stay up to date with project on Instagram

Going Down Swinging #44: Longshot

Publication design and typesetting, 2024.



The 44th edition of Going Down Swinging, Longshot, features eight looong works from eight Australian writers: Alex Bennetts, Sonal Kamble, Scott Limbrick, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Patrick Hunn, Sofia Sabbagh, Kylie A Hough and Alex Philp.

In Longshot: fiction, non-fiction and comics, including – the most unexpected place to find love. A form of bloodletting. A small-but-internationally-significant thermonuclear bomb. And more.

Edited by Georgia Coldebella

YLab

Brand identity, publication design, website design & promotional assets, 2024.



YLab is a social impact organisation specialising in co-design, strategy and creative services. In 2024, YLab spun out from parent org, the Foundation for Young Australians and required a fresh brand to welcome in their new era.

RONA.

Single artwork, 2023–24.



RONA. is the music project of Kaytetye DJ and producer, Rona Glynn-McDonald.

Charlie Ivan Band

Album artwork, 2024.



Where the Dogs Go to Die is the debut album of Mparntwe group, Charlie Ivan Band.

Preorder the album on vinyl here

MAG DRAG Magazine

Publication design, artist and cover photography, 2023.



MAG DRAG is a collaborative project initiated in 2023 with Eilish Hazell and Em Finucane. MAG DRAG documents the practice and pathway of 12 Naarm-based tattoo artists. The project 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 the indie-pop duo of Elsie Lange and Luke Henriques-Gomes based in Mpartnwe.

Listen to their single Bad Side here

Photo by Elsie Lange

Going Down Swinging #43: Hell & High Water

Publication design and typesetting, 2023.



Going Down Swinging’s 43rd 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.

  • 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

Event posters and promotional material, 2020–24.



Posters for various events:

  • Idle Time Palestine Fundraiser, 2024
  • Minus Four Degrees, Mparntwe doof, 2022
  • Going Down Swinging, 41:EXTRA!, 2022
  • Life drawing at Idle Time, 2022
  • Grafis Huru Hara tetra pak printmaking workshop, Jakarta, 2020
  • Strange Matrix double book launch at GUDSKUL, Jakarta, 2020