Let's Talk Design

Medical design/manufacturing, advanced material science, clinician-to-designer interactions, ergonomics On this week's episode, we have Lincoln Black. Lincoln started his career off at Avantech, exposing himself to a range of projects in a consultancy environment. Then moving on into the field of orthopedics design, then to tiller Design in Syndey. Recently he has established V

This week on Let’s Talk Design I met with Ed Ko. Ed’s career has spanned an interesting balance of Design practice as well as education. He started off his career working for prestigious Sydney consultants such as Vert Design and Alquemy. Then he moved to work as a tutor/lecturer at UNSQ, working under his company name Ed KO Designs. In the podcast, Ed discusses the trends of n

This week on Let’s Talk Design I met with René Linseen and Elliot Bastianon from Furnished Forever. René and Elliot 6 years back now joined forces with a common passion for furniture, combining their backgrounds in Art and Design to create unique and visually stunning Australian-made pieces. Apart from Furnished Forever, René works as an industrial designer at Formswell Design

This week on Let’s Talk Design I met with Bojan Smiljanic. Bojan has beat a different drum with his design career focusing on guiding start-ups towards success through strategic and physical design. In the podcast, Bojan discusses his time living in China and how it changed the way he looked at design. He also discusses his experience moving to Australia and pursuing a design ca

This week on Let’s Talk Design I met with John Klinkenberg. John has worked for a range of big-name organisations such as Rhino-Rack, Orica, Design Anthology, and currently the Melt in Newcastle. On the podcast, we discuss John’s experiences where he mentions the variety of organisations has worked for. He discusses the challenges he has had when pursuing a career primarily in

This week on Lets Talk Design I met with Spencer Nugent, founder of the widely popular ‘Sketch-a-day’ educational channel. Spencer's passion for sketching has led him to write a range of popular books as well as become an educator on Hector Silvas's Offsite online design education course. On the podcast, we discuss Spenser’s design philosophy where he considers the de

This week on Lets Talk Design I met with Dan Armstrong, Founder of Formswell Design in Canberra. Dan paved his career at his time working for Breville, after moving to Canberra and starting his consultancy Formswell. In the Podcast, we discuss Dan's career as an industrial designer where he lays out the key changes he has noticed over his time in the industry. We discuss Dan&#

This week I met with Jonathan Tighe, Head of Industrial Design at Intellidesign. At Intellidesign Jonathan works on a range of commercial-grade products for the Agricultural, Defence, Medical, and other key commercial segments. Intellidesign operates out of Brisbane, manufacturing a large portion of their products in-house. Thus, they operate as an Australian electronics manufactur

This week I met with Sara Pontoppidan, Design Director at Clandestine Design Group. Sara moved to Australia from Europe to start her career in design. She moved from CMD Strategy Design & Innovation and then moved on to Counterspace Design in Melbourne. Over the last 6 years, she has worked her way up to design Director at CDG in Brisbane. In addition, Sara also recently became

This week I met with Henry Shaw. Henry is an upcoming Adelaide-based Industrial Designer who recently was awarded the Industrial/Product Design Graduate of the Year Award for SA/NT by The Design Institute of Australia. Following his recent graduation Henry has moved on to working for Schneider Electric in an in-house design role. During the podcast, we discuss how we have experienc