Rebekah Wood


Work

In this Case
89 Seconds
TasteBuds
Twenty Typefaces
Moving Parts
Mānawatia a Matariki
Sound Waves


rebekah.wood0401@gmail.com
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About Me
Kia Ora! My name is Rebekah, and I’m a 22-year-old, Wellington based graphic designer. I have recently graduated from Massey University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Design (honours), majoring in Visual Communication Design. Outside of my love for design, I enjoy staying active in the gym and taking dance classes where possible to keep myself moving.
I specialise in digital design, with advanced skills in Adobe Indesign and Illustrator and proficiency in Photoshop and Figma. I also have experience using Adobe After Effects and enjoy the occasional illustration project. While I have worked with a range of media such as web design, print making and moving image, I particularly enjoy working with type. I found this love for typographic design while at Toi Rauwhārangi, and in my last two years I discovered an particular interest in the history of type. 
I particularly enjoy designing typographic layouts, whether that be on printed material, editorial publications or moving image. Throughout my degree, my favourite projects have involved combining a digital media with print, such as informative posters or hand-bound books.

In this Case 


Honours Project — Self Directed Research Project — Editorial — Typography2025

In this Case is, at its core, a type specimen that aims to engage design students with the historical contexts and attitudes behind the more well-known and commonly used type styles. It contextualises typeface classifications within their respective periods by drawing parallels with architectural styles. This presents typefaces as a sort of ‘time capsule’, that reflect their historical contexts.


89 Seconds


Best Design Awards Finalist — Editorial — ISTD Student Brief — Fourth Year University Project2025

This project is a response to the 2025 student brief “Milestones” from the International Society of Typographic Designers. 89 Seconds is an editorial and typographic exploration of the concept of the Doomsday Clock, the metaphorical symbol for our proximity to the end of the world as we know it. It is a confronting public service announcement, warning of widespread global consequences if nuclear risk increases and our climate worsens, set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.


TasteBuds


Collaborative Project — Web Design — Branding2024

TasteBuds is a collaborative project from my third year at university. We developed a brand that aimed to facilitate connections between recently graduated and yo-pro friends. We developed the brand and visual system collaboratively, and then each took the lead on a touchpoint that we could apply our skills to. Print advertising and video commercials, including social media were done by my group members, and I took the lead on the website.


Twenty Typefaces


Editorial — Typography — Print2024

This third year project was a significant turning point in my creative practice, it developed my strong interest in the history of type and my already established love of typographic design. I designed and hand-made a book of twenty typefaces that have “changed the world” in some way. 


Moving Parts


Print — Informative — Moving Image2024

Moving parts is a hypothetical design conference focused on working cross-discipline in the design industry. For this project I worked primarily in Indesign and After Effects, with some Photoshopping involved in wayfinding outputs.


Mānawatia a Matariki


Typography — Print2023

This poster series was a second year project working with the fundamentals of typographic design and type layouts. It involved creating four posters, type based, type and image, expressive type, and a calendar. These were primarily made in Indesign with some use of Illustrator. The system was then applied to an informative mobile based micro-site in Figma.


Sound Waves


Print — Typography — Web — Moving Image2023

This project was a collaborative project with my classmate, Tamon, in third year. We created posters, a mobile website and animations for a hypothetical music series for O week at Massey university. Sound Waves is a concert series for O week at Massey University.