Magic in words that move people... Stir emotions to connect with purpose.
Welcome to OzDsign - Simon Red
Magic in words that move people... Stir emotions to connect with purpose.
Welcome to OzDsign - Simon Red
Writing is the centre of my creative life. I write to notice: to sit with feeling, contradiction, and complexity. My work spans corporate communications strategy, poetry, articles, and novels, focused on the moments that quietly move and change us.
Creative Writing - I write about the forces shaping our moment: the headlines, cultural shifts, and emerging trends that touch every one of us. Driven and emotionally grounded, my articles explore contemporary life with intimacy and restraint.
Poetry - My poetry is modern and spare, shaped by breath and silence as much as language. These poems explore love, grief, memory, desire, and the fragile act of staying open in the world.
Novel - Long-form fiction allows space for slow transformation. My novels follow characters over time, honouring contradiction, growth, and the unfinished nature of being human. (159 Ivy Street by S.Red)
Alongside my creative work, I bring over a decade of experience in communications and marketing leadership. I’ve helped organizations communicate clearly on sustainability, ESG, and social impact; improving engagement while protecting trust and integrity.
Let’s make something meaningful. I collaborate on writing, photography, video, and strategic communications projects, as well as speaking engagements.
Work with Me...
If you’re looking for someone who works with care, clarity, and intention - whether creatively or professionally, I’d be glad to connect.
A quiet contradiction: a man-made pond designed for rest and balance, holding the weight of what we’ve discarded. The disposable bins floating on the water mark a human presence without people - evidence of convenience left behind, absorbed by an environment that never truly forgets. I’m drawn to this tension between beauty and neglect, stillness and disruption, because it reflects how easily responsibility can feel distant in familiar spaces. The image does not accuse; it pauses. It asks the viewer to notice, to feel the unease of something that doesn’t belong, and to consider care not as an abstract ideal, but as a daily, human choice, one that begins simply by paying attention.
A quiet but urgent reflection on kindness, liberty, and responsibility in an age of noise and division. This piece reminds us that we are not meant to live by fear or convenience, but by care for one another, for truth, and for the world we share.
“We lost the art of caring...” (Click Image)
Two stars drifted through the universe, lost and purposeless, until fate, with a cruel sense of humour, forced them into collision. Braden, a restless force of chaos, and Joséphine, a seeker of peace, are drawn together in a love never meant to endure. Their union burns too brightly to survive, a stolen season that stripped the darkness from the sky before dawn, leaving devastation in its wake.
This was not a tale of death, but of living on without the one heartbeat that once made life make sense, of crowds that felt empty, songs that turned to noise, and memories sealed forever inside a Pandora’s box.
Yet between the silence before and aſter, there was wonder. In a suspended moment where time stood still, a glance, a word, a kiss of the hand ignited something extraordinary. Braden and Joséphine danced through hidden nights while the world slept, found in each other both reason to live and something worth losing everything for. Their love, fleeting and incandescent, asks the question few dare to answer: is it better to love and lose, or never to burn at all?
What is love? This is the story of Braden and his Joséphine.