Ruby Bergmeier

Communication Design

Hi, I'm Ruby! I'm originally from a farm in regional NSW and moved by myself to Melbourne to complete my studies. I started in the industrial design sector then merged into communications as I found I enjoyed graphic design. My design process is strongly influenced by the music I listen to, I love that music can unlock my creativity because I’m constantly listening to different things, and it has helped me to produce some of my funkiest works. If you ask me id be able to tell you what type of music I was listening to when designing my different works!

Basline Studios

Baseline is a studio company that helps new upcoming DJ’s brand themselves on social media for success.

Basline Studios

Baseline create templates that can be altered to suit an artists image, they are designed to attract the artists target audience.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice is an initiative to save the polar bears, it uses juxtaposition to create a contrasting effect on viewers and evoke a response action to feel as though they should care about the cause.

Soundwave

Soundwave is a edm festival that is held in Melbourne involving some of the biggest names in the industry. The chrome used throughout the advertising presents prestige and exclusivity.

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.