BIOGRAPHY

Isabella Brown a queer designer, publisher and artist working on unceeded Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Since graduating from the UTS School of Design in 2017 she has worked as a freelance designer and educator, as well as running a zine publisher, Goodnight Press and continuing a textile based art practice.

She currently works as a Content Producer at Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

CV 

EXPERIENCE

Greenpeace

Content Producer

2024–Present

Pedestrian Group

Freelance Designer

2020–2024

The Rizzeria

Board Member

2023–Present

Volunteer

2017–23

Fluid Thinking Magazine

Assistant Editor

2022

University of Technology, Sydney

Design Tutor

2018–2023

University of Sydney

Design Tutor

2021–24

University of Technology, Sydney

Freelance Designer
School of Design

2020–Present

JMC Academy

Design Tutor

2021

Ashurst

Consulting Designer

2020–21

The Studio

Social Media Manager
and In-house Designer

2016–18

Vertigo Magazine

Art Director

2017

PUBLICATIONS 

Diy ‘til we Die

Budlife Magazine Issue 6

2023

They Skate

SBS 

2023

Airwalk

Astrophe Magazine

2022

Sleep dust

Fluid Thinking Magazine Issue 1

2022

Geraniums for Joan

Geranium Miscellany
by Saints Press

2022

Soft Streets

Into Thin Hair Zine 

2019

EXHIBITIONS

YES Exhibition

Ambush Gallery

2024 (upcoming)

Err and lean forward

Puzzle Gallery

2024

Inside/s

no. 23

2023

Abundant

The Waiting Room Project

2023

213422 Impressions

Joynton Avenue Creative Centre

Co-curated with Ella Cutler

2023

YES Exhibition

Ambush Gallery

2022

Fluid Thinking Issue 1 Launch

Tiles Gallery

2022

Mardi Queer 

Goodspace Gallery

2022

Soft Artifacts

Goodspace Gallery

Co-curated with

Annie Huang
2021

Good to be back

Goodspace Gallery

2021

Kaldor Public Art Projects

Art Gallery of NSW

2019

A Chair is Still a Chair

Goodspace Gallery

Collaboration with Kim Phan
2017

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CLIENTS

Greenpeace
Pedestrian Group
Topham Guerin
Totemo
Wes Shaw Design
Ashurst
Impact Studios
NSW Health
U by Kotex

UTS School of Design
UTS Law Society
Design Innovation Research Centre

Reformation (Feature Film)

Tamara (Feature Film)

EDUCATION

University of Technology, Sydney

B. Design in Visual Communication

2015–17

University of Technology, Sydney

B. Creative Intelligence and Innovation

2015–18

Danish School of Media and Journalism

Graphic Design, Spring/Summer Semester.

2017

ACHIEVEMENTS & APPEARANCES

50 years of Vertigo

Panelist 

2023

‘A Chair is Still a Chair’

Highly Commended
by The City of Sydney

2019

AGDA Student Award
Finalist (Print)
2018

Toynbee Wilson
Typography Prize
2017