Russell Lee



From branding projects to book covers, I am a designer passionate about creating experiences that meet client and user needs through well-considered design choices.

My weird wish is to sing Whitney Houston and hope that the signage in Tokyo’s subways slightly improve.
Brand ExperienceSingapore  
Vintage Supply
Australian Disability Rights Network
Experience DesignImproving Sydney’s Bus Stops The Balinese DeityMotion IllustrationReimagining TimeBook DesignA Very Short Introduction Playground
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Highlighted Projects  

Australian Disability Rights Network

Client Branding


Brief
This university brief saw me placed in a random team and a client. The client needed us to create a new brand for their organisation: the Australian Disability Rights Network
Credits
Russell Lee (team lead)
Apurva Surendran
Jess Collishaw
Lachlan Coorey
Yibei Chen
Kate Dilanchian (university studio leader)

What I did
Brand identity
Team leading

When
2024
What’s happening for people with disabilities? Giving a voice to disability law advocacy and justice

The Australian Disability Rights Network is a group of community lawyers advocating for law reform to achieve justice for people with disabilities. Their primary goal is to raise awareness about legal changes in the disability space.

The client wanted a brand that felt inviting, approachable, and friendly—steering away from the typical corporate law firm or public legal service aesthetic. The challenge was creating visuals and imagery that accurately represented people with disabilities without reinforcing stereotypes, which significantly limited our design choices. On top of that, we needed to build a simple, user-friendly system on Canva, as the client had no in-house designer or experience with design software.

We worked closely with the client, collaborating as a team to define the Network’s core values and showcase our weekly progress.

In hindsight, one thing I’d do differently is better contextualise the logo in relation to disability.

The logo is made up of symbols representing the Network’s values: inclusiveness, equality, and conversation/advocacy.
The visual language of apostrophes and speech bubbles to visualise the Network’s aim of advocacy.