Brylee Hill

Hi! I’m Brylee, a Naarm based emerging communication designer with a passion for print and social impact driven design solutions. I discovered my love of design for social impact whilst creating my capstone project, Flock, a non-profit youth birding initiative aiming to improve youth mental health and interpersonal connections through the world of birdwatching. I aspire to work with like minded creatives, non-profits, and impact-led design studios to create a positive impact on our world through design.

Whilst completing my Bachelor of Design at Swinburne, I also discovered my love for publication and print design. I believe that print is still well and truly alive, and find it to be an incredibly rewarding design process. Two of my student publications, ‘Founding the Future’ and ‘Bad Feeling at Work’ were recognised by the Australian Graphic Design Association, becoming finalists for the 2025 AGDA Awards.

I currently take on a Freelance Junior Designer position, collaborating with senior designers and design/marketing agencies to assist on a range of jobs. In my free time I volunteer as a brand identity designer with LGBTQIA+ non-profit, Oot and Aboot Outdoors. Interested in collaborating? Let's connect!

Flock

Campaign brand identity, publication design, and packaging design for a non-profit youth birding campaign, Flock. A playful and engaging visual identity transforming the seemingly unstylish hobby of birdwatching into a fashionable community.

Bad Feeling at Work

A 28-page publication exploring the concepts of emotional labour, hiding bad feelings, and performing authenticity under the weight of economic precarity.

Save a Dog Scheme

A snapshot of the brand guidelines for animal shelter, Save a Dog Scheme. The key objectives for the refreshed brand identity are to highlight Save a Dog’s values and key points of difference through a contemporary logo. Iconography of a ‘Pet’ and ‘Heart’ repositions Save a Dog’s strict ‘no kill’ ethos in a more positive tone through a friendly and inviting visual language.

Founding the Future

A 24-page annual report publication expressing the values of ‘better understanding our past, informing our present, and inspiring our future’.

Gingham Gardens

Brand identity, 14-page festival guidebook, and promotional poster for Gingham Gardens. A playful and bold visual language was developed to capture the vibrancy of the festival.

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.