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.

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