Tag: industrial design
With a prolific output of 30 to 40 new prototypes ready for manufacture each and every year, Nick Rennie is a busy man at the vanguard of Australian product designers.
"My career in design was somewhat an accident," reveals Tom Fereday, in this insightful Q&A – the first conversation in a series highlighting the talented shortlist in Zenith's Emerging Designer category at IDEA 2016.
When it comes to Australians doing well overseas, mainstream thinking seems to stop at the mega-stardom of Marc Newson. The global product design sector is, however, alive with a swathe of Australian designers – as Gillian Serisier writes for inside.
Sometimes a simple idea evolves into a versatile product range. In this case, it was the Asterisk Table and Stool range – the little star on your computer keyboard that is used to communicate that something is special and deserves extra attention.
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