RMIT Communication Design

The Gradient of Growth — RMIT Communication Design Field Guide 2025 More than a handbook — this guide was designed to grow with its owner. Bound with exposed Chicago screws, the modular structure means students can reorder pages, add their own materials (Instax photos, project work, notes), or move frequently-used sections to the front. It’s meant to be marked up, collaged into, lived with. A working document that reflects each student’s unique path through their studies. We selected uncoated paper that invites annotation, layered typography for easy navigation, and embedded bilingual content and First Nations perspectives throughout — making inclusivity part of the book’s DNA, not an afterthought. Design: @designedbyshuai @jiayu.design Client: @designrmit @rmitcommdesign @rmit_mcd Editors: Dr Nicola St John, Dr Noel Waite, Russell Kerr Photography: @designedbyshuai @jiayu.design Content edit: @candi_sun #communicationdesign #designeducation #fieldguide #rmitdesign #agdaawards #indiepublishing #editorialdesign #studentresources #publicationdesign #rmituniversity

We‘re proud to share The Gradient of Growth — RMIT Communication Design Field Guide 2025, a project close to our hearts and recognised as an @agdagram AGDA Awards 2025 finalist. This guide was created for first-year design students navigating the beautiful chaos of finding their place in the discipline. First year is when you're forming your creative identity, meeting your people, figuring out if this path is really yours. It's vulnerable, exciting, overwhelming — and it deserved more than just another orientation booklet. So we made something that grows with you. Part survival guide, part creative companion, part love letter to the messy, non-linear journey of becoming a designer. Student voices at the center. Bilingual sections. First Nations knowledge. Space for your own notes, sketches, and beautiful chaos. A huge thank you to RMIT School of Design for trusting us with this work, and to every student and educator who contributed their voice and perspective. This guide exists because of you. Design: @designedbyshuai @jiayu.design Client: @designrmit @rmitcommdesign @rmit_mcd Editors: Dr Nicola St John, Dr Noel Waite, Russell Kerr Photography: @designedbyshuai @jiayu.design Content edit: @candi_sun #communicationdesign #designeducation #fieldguide #rmitdesign #studentresources #indiepublishing #graphicdesign #melbournedesign #designcommunity

sign/ 🚀 PHANTASMASCOPE RMIT COMM DESIGN GRAD SHOW Dev: PRW Studio

Come see the PHANTASMASCOPE spinning. Visit us today from 4:30 pm. Building 12, Level 5 PHANTASMASCOPE RMIT COMMUNICATION DESIGN GRAD SHOW, 13-14 NOVEMBER SEMESTER 2, 2025.

Phantasmascope reveals the individual frames of the loop between practice & reflection Opening this Thursday 13th Nov. 4:30pm PHANTASMASCOPE RMIT COMMUNICATION DESIGN GRAD SHOW, 13-14 NOVEMBER SEMESTER 2, 2025. RMIT Building 12, Level 5. 🎨 @disiecta.membra

Between Practice & Reflection PHANTASMASCOPE RMIT COMMUNICATION DESIGN GRAD SHOW, 13–14 NOVEMBER SEMESTER 2, 2025.

Meet out final speaker: Eugenia Lim ✨ Eugenia Lim is an artist, researcher and filmmaker of Chinese–Singaporean ancestry whose work with moving image, performance, sculpture, installation and social practice is informed by histories – and counter-narratives – of migration, capital, labour, materiality, ecology and the politics of space. Working between documentary, speculative, and poetic modes, Lim’s image-making and installations explore how the diasporic condition can engender ways of seeing in resistance to the colonial gaze. Stemming from an emplaced, relational and collaborative approach – from gig economy workers to sewage treatment plants – Lim’s art-making platforms places and communities that are otherwise unseen or undervalued in dominant culture. See more of her work at / Join Eugenia and two other brilliant speakers at Design Agency 4: Uncommon, where design meets storytelling, care, and cultural resistance. When: Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT Where: @thecapitolrmit , 113 Swanston Street, Birrarung-ga (Melbourne) VIC 3000 Event is free and in person — no bookings necessary! #design #designagency #rmit #designtalk #socialdesign

Meet our second speaker: Renae Flanigan 🌟 @mymind.myvoice works in Naarm with her lived experience in both research and community settings. Having completed a Bachelor of Communication Design at RMIT and, more recently, a Master of Social Work, she bridges creative practice and social advocacy. Her work champions lived experience as a form of expertise, using creative, participatory approaches to build collective wisdom and reimagine how care, community, and research intersect. Connect with her at /in/renae-flanigan/ Join Renae in dialogue with two other practitioners at Design Agency 4: Uncommon, as we trace the uncommon stories that emerge when design listens deeply to place and community. When: Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT Where: @thecapitolrmit , 113 Swanston Street, Birrarung-ga (Melbourne) VIC 3000 Event is free and in person — no bookings necessary! #design #designagency #rmit #designtalk #socialdesign

Meet our first speaker: Holly O’Neil ⭐️ @hollyohneil is a multimodal researcher and anthro-artist. Trained in both reportage illustration and anthropology, she now works to combine her two disciplines in experimental and informative ways. Currently, she is exploring the role of audio and visual storytelling as research methodology to engage the public with the climate crisis. See more of her work at /projects Hear from Holly and two other inspiring voices at Design Agency 4: Uncommon, a gathering that asks how design can hold difference, resist flattening, and make space for plural ways of knowing. When: Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT Where: @thecapitolrmit , 113 Swanston Street, Birrarung-ga (Melbourne) VIC 3000 Event is free and in person — no bookings necessary! #design #designagency #rmit #designtalk #socialdesign

Ｐｈａｎｔａｓｍａｓｃｏｐｅ RMIT COMM DESIGN GRAD SHOW S2/2025 13–14 NOVEMBER

Echoes of Elsewhere has officially come to a close 💫 
A huge thank you to everyone who visited, supported, and shared in this celebration of migrant creativity and multicultural design within Naarm’s design community. The conversations, connections, and stories exchanged throughout the exhibition have left lasting echoes, and we couldn’t be more grateful. 
 Deep gratitude to our incredible designers, curators, and collaborators who brought this vision to life. Curatorial Team: (Addie) Yan Chai Cheung @addiecheung_9589 (Sadie) Yuxuan Li @augleouo_ Tsui Tze Tracy Wong @wongtsuisze__tracy Manav Paul @manav.paul0714 Rashi Dawar @rashiidawar Tanisha Mehta @tanishamehta094 Quang Nguyen @qgng98 Ning Ding @vvindgoeson Qian Dai @bdqts (Lynn) Yuwei Zhu @lynn_yuwei (Sunny) Zening Sun @zhijiu0724 Aaron Kumar @aaron.rakuu Sergio Ramirez Llamas @sergio.ramirez.llamas Siddhant Prabdu Dharwadkar @siddhantdharwadkar_8 Professors: Dr. Fayen d’Evie @fkxde Dr. Noel Waite @noelnsaid Prof. Miek Dunbar Photographers: Jamie Xiao-Ru Sun @sun2926 Disha Sheoran @dishasheoran Special Mention:
@rmitmakerspace and all other students who supported us throughout the making of this event. #EchoesofElsewhere #Designexhibition #multiculturaldesign #DesigninNaarm #DesigninVictoria #RMITevents #RMITCommdesign

We’re thrilled to bring you the fourth edition of Design Agency, gathering an inspiring line-up of designers whose work reimagines how we connect with and care for place. What don’t we have in common? How are designers making and sharing uncommon stories with peoples and places? How might we resist the flattening or homogenising tendencies of design practice? Moderated by Bec Nally (@publicjournal_ ), Design Agency 4 considers design case studies that unfold beyond the commons. From Country-responsive kinship in urban spaces to the design of lived experiences, this session celebrates feminist design methods and modalities that resist extraction and centre reciprocity. Staying true to its namesake, this Design Agency invites you to slow down, lean in, and join a more community-focused gathering. A free daytime event open to RMIT students, staff, and alumni. ***** Holly O’Neil (@hollyohneil ) is a multimodal researcher and anthro-artist. Trained in both reportage illustration and anthropology, she now works to combine her two disciplines in experimental and informative ways. Renae Flanigan (@sansvetica ) works in Naarm with her lived experience in research and community settings. She uses creative approaches to empower lived experience expertise in research spaces and build collective wisdom. Eugenia Lim is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker of Chinese–Singaporean ancestry whose work with moving image, performance, sculpture, installation, and social practice is informed by histories — and counter-narratives — of migration, capital, labour, materiality, ecology, and the politics of space. When: Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT Where: The Capitol Theatre, 113 Swanston Street, Birrarung-ga (Melbourne) VIC 3000 Event is free and in person — no bookings necessary!