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 #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