Bringing your vision to life and telling your story through illustration.
I’m Rachel, an illustrator, visual communication designer, and author with a passion for storytelling.
I’m a designer and illustrator who helps brands and organisations tell their stories in a creative and engaging way. With over 15 years of experience, I know how to bring ideas to life, whether that’s through branding, illustration, or design that connects with people.
I work with purpose-driven businesses, design studios, and agencies to bring ideas to life, whether in books, public art, branding, or editorial projects. Let’s make something amazing together!
Here’s what I do:
Illustration
Need a custom illustration?
I collaborate with publishers, agencies, businesses, and non-profits, tailoring each project with a wide variety of visual language suited to your audience.
Custom illustrations for:
Picture books • Branding • Packaging Magazines • Book Covers • Games • Signage • Murals • Character design and more.
Art direction
+ graphic design
Let me take your project from concept design to finished artwork.
I thrive on collaboration and bring a strong creative vision to every project. I’ve worked with agencies, businesses, corporations, and non-profits.
Services include:
Art direction • Visual identity • Marketing digital & print collaterals design • Packaging and labels • Posters • Infographics • Signage & more.
Book
illustration + design
Whether you’ve got a manuscript for a book or have a document that needs images, typography, charts or illustration, I can help.
Let’s bring your book to life together!
I can create:
Book covers design & Illustration •
Book design, illustration and layout • Prepress
Get my stock images
Don’t have the budget for a custom illustration?
Use one of my ready to use creations to add that bit of magic to your project.
Folks I have worked with:
Worked with:
Affirm Press, Tasmanian Government, Queensland Rail, Taswater, Hobart City Council, State Library of Queensland, CSIRO Publishing, Five Mile Publishing, University of Queensland Press, University of Tasmania, Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Libraries Tasmania, Queensland Teacher Union, Primary Health Tasmania, Connecting Care Tasmania, PAHSMA, ABC Open, Mona, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Before Creative, Futago, Redjelly, The Wilderness Society, The Splendid Gin, Multicultural Council of Tasmania, Goodlife Permaculture... and many more.
Illustrated for:
The Taste of Tasmania, James Boags, Pagan Cider, Willie Smith's Cider, MACq01, Queensland Teacher Union, Taswater, Huon Aquaculture, and many more.
Happy clients
“Rachel Tribout’s illustrations for One Remarkable Reef transport young readers into another world. Her flair for visual storytelling and keen sense of design beautifully complement Kellie Byrnes’ text to create a delightfully engaging book about the creatures of the Great Barrier Reef.
Rachel’s also a delight to work with – we had extremely tight deadlines for this project, but Rachel was so easy to communicate with and always delivered on time and to the highest standard. She’s a consummate professional, but she also brings such joy and enthusiasm to the process.”
“I’ve had the pleasure of working on several large festival projects with Rachel as the designer. She works so quickly, with such high quality and great attention to detail. She’s always happy to chat about concepts and how to get the right feeling of an event captured in her beautiful illustrations. Nothing is too hard, and her professional swift responses to questions makes her one of the easiest designers I’ve worked with. I look forward to working with her more in the future.”
“Extinct in the wild on mainland Australia, Tasmania is now the only stronghold for eastern barred bandicoots in the world. But with increasing urbanisation comes increasing threats, and the City of Hobart needed an illustrator who could capture the spirit of these endearing creatures in an urban/bushland environment to help inspire people to become guardians of Hobart’s bandicoots. We turned to Rachel Tribout for help and she delivered more than we could hope for. Her illustrations are the perfect depiction of place and sanctuary.”
“Whether it’s designing educational artwork for giant billboards, brochures or inspirational posters, Rachel has been a deadset pro in bringing my dreams to life and is always an absolute pleasure to work with.”
My story
I’m a Brisbane-based illustrator and graphic designer, with strong ties to Hobart, Tasmania—but I work with clients across Australia.
As a designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience, I bring a blend of conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, and craft. I help brands and organisations connect with their audiences by creating design work that’s meaningful and emotionally resonant.
I specialise in distilling ideas into compelling visuals, building brand narratives through illustration, and shaping identities that feel alive and unique. Whether it’s designing an engaging campaign, illustrating a children’s book, or developing a visual system from the ground up, I approach each project with curiosity, strategic thinking, and care.
Clients value my ability to balance big-picture storytelling with attention to detail, my versatility across media, and my friendly and collaborative approach. I work best with people who care about their message, their audience and the impact their work has on the world.
With a background in art direction, I take projects from concept to completion, delivering high-quality work on time with a strong creative process.
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