Ruyi Bell

Communication Design

Ruyi Bell is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Melbourne. She has completed a double degree at Swinburne University of Technology in Business and Design, majoring in Marketing and Communication Design. These two majors, in combination, help inform creative processes and work in both areas.

Apart from completing assigned university projects over the past 4 years, she is a coffee maker, and works on personal design projects in the meantime to expand her portfolio and create work which evokes passion and enjoyment.

She utilises her skills in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to create fun, interesting and effective design. Ruyi works on graphic design, specialising in branding, social media, and publication design. The love for both areas allow for engagement through both digital and classic outcomes of design, illustrating skills in a vast range of areas. Ruyi enjoys using non-digital media to create art, combining traditional media with digital media to create strong, engaging and dynamic designs.

With core values of timeless creativity, positivity, inclusivity, playfulness and fun, these are reflected through her actions and work, opening up a range of different aspects of design to be engaged.

Apart from design, she spends her free time learning about coffee, and making coffee at a North Melbourne café, baking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

Monothematic Publication on Andy Miah’s 2000 Essay on Re-evaluating the Societal Significance of the Internet, 2020.

Annual Report for the Royal Botanic Gardens Board in Victoria, 2020.

'Mini Coffee Tour of Melbourne' iGuide Publication & Website, 2020.

Perry St. Studio Brand identity and Extensions, 2021.

The Devil’s Dictionary: Classic Reboot, 2021.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.