RAcreate — Rachel Anning

Strategic communication design for organisations whose messages must move people to care – and to act.


My career has been built differently.

I've spent more than three decades asking one central question: what moves people to care, and then to act?

I didn't arrive at design through art school. I came through business – sales, account management, product management – before I ever picked up a creative brief. I later studied advertising, when the discipline was still fundamentally about one thing: the emotional journey from indifference to action.

I honed my craft in top agencies in New Zealand and later in the UK, working on campaigns across Europe and signing off print runs in the tens of millions. That work taught me the discipline of communication where every detail matters – from the idea to the typography and production.

After moving to Australia, my work shifted increasingly toward nonprofit and cultural organisations, where communication often carries real human stakes.

Later, I trained as a relationship coach, deepening my understanding of the human dynamics behind every brief. Together they shape how I think about communication and the people it needs to move.

When I come into a project I listen for what sits underneath the problem – the need that hasn't yet been articulated, the tension that hasn't yet been named. I take those raw challenges and shape solutions that clarify the real issue at hand.

I work end-to-end – from early strategic thinking through to concept, design and production – ensuring the work is both compelling and technically exact.

Because the goal isn't simply to make communication look good.

It's to move people to care – and to act.

Organisations I've been proud to work with

  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
  • Foodbank Victoria
  • Stroke Foundation
  • Environment Victoria
  • Alannah & Madeline Foundation
  • Red Nose
  • Very Special Kids
  • Australian Conservation Foundation
  • The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
  • Penrith Regional Gallery
  • Eastern Health
  • North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN)
  • Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN)

Creativity, in service of your mission.

Member: AGDA, SCCA.


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