Emily-rose Grech

I’m Emily-rose Grech, a Melbourne-based Communication Designer driven by ideas that make an impact. My work blends conceptual thinking with bold, expressive design to create outcomes that are both strategic and human.

I’m passionate about collaborating with social justice initiatives, not-for-profits, and small brands, using design to amplify voices and drive positive change. I love crafting simple, hard-hitting design carried by impact; work that feels intentional, authentic, and clear.

Hard-working and self-driven, I approach each project with curiosity, empathy, and precision, designing with purpose and always aiming to connect people with ideas that matter.

Lions Club

A rebrand revitalizing one of the world’s largest community service networks. Bright, modern design and unified messaging reconnect the club with new generations, celebrating service, social connection, and lasting impact, breathing new life into Lions Club.

Butterbar

Butterbar is a boutique, small-batch baking business that blends handcrafted charm with retro flair. Inspired by 70s diner nostalgia, the identity pairs bold typography and playful illustration to create a feel-good brand that’s as sweet as its cakes; perfectly aligned with the client’s vision.

QuietMind

QuietMind reimagines Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper as a modern pharmaceutical brand, exposing the illusion of care within the narrative. Through clinical design, layered materials, and controlled precision, the project blurs the line between wellness and manipulation—where treatment becomes confinement—created in response to a brief to recontextualise a classic text through contemporary publication design.

SYNC

SYNC embodies calm confidence and active passion. This supplement gummy brand merges natural wellness with modern, feminine design—supporting women to feel grounded, energised, and in sync with themselves. Developed for the brief of a cohesive set of three product packages within a unified brand system.

Test It

Test It is a social awareness campaign designed to address the brief of creating a solution around a social issue. Designed to cut through stigma and misinformation, the campaign flips the narrative on drug use by focusing on harm reduction, making safety and education visible, relatable, and accessible through bold, attention-grabbing design.

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.