Bernard Carlon
Divisional Director | Sustainability Programs
NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
For 25 years Bernard has led sustainability policy and programs in community and Government organisations, including Health, Community Safety and the Environment. In his role as Divisional Director, Bernard is responsible for the NSW Environmental Trust, the NSW Climate Change Fund and the delivery of sustainability programs for State and local Government, community organisations, business, and households.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au
Alan Saunders
ABC Radio 'By Design' | MC and panel chair
Alan Saunders was born and educated in London. He studied philosophy at the University of Leicester, where he was also president of the students' union, and Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He came to Australia in 1981 to pursue research in the History of Ideas Unit at the Australian National University and was subsequently awarded a PhD.
Having joined the Science Unit of ABC Radio National in 1987, Alan Saunders founded The Food Program. From 1997 to 2004, he was the presenter of Radio National's The Comfort Zone, a weekly review of architecture and design, landscape and food and in 2005 he was co-presenter of Saturday Breakfast. He now presents By Design and The Philosopher's Zone for the station.
Alan has written about food and other topics for various publications. He is the author of A is for Apple (Random House) and his first novel, Alanna, was published by Penguin in 2002. He is in demand as a public speaker and has been a judge for many food, architectural and design awards.
In 1992 Alan Saunders was awarded the Pascall Prize for critical writing and broadcasting.
www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/about
David Berman
Described as the “David Suzuki of of design”, David’s 25 years of experience and technique have helped hundreds of organizations get great things done.
The combination of his inspiration and techniques motivate people to create unique and ecologically-responsible strategy, events, branding, design, ethics, and communications solutions.
His career as an expert speaker, facilitator, communications strategist, judge, and graphic and environmental designer has involved him in developing dozens of events in over 18 countries: Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Slovenia, UK, and USA.
His clients include IBM, International Space Station, World Bank, Norwegian Design Council, the Aga Khan Foundation, Environment Canada, Health Canada, Parks Canada, Statistics Canada, and Treasury Board.
In 1999, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada named him a Fellow for his eco-friendly Code of Ethics. David was elected V.P. Ethics of the Society in 2000, and since has served as Ethics Chair. In 2005, he became a Vice-President of Icograda, the World body for graphic design, which organizes global conferences.
His opinions have been featured on CBC, in Financial Post and Marketing. David is a National Professional Member of CAPS and the International Federation for Professional Speakers.
www.davidberman.com
Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is a writer on design, media and visual culture. He was the founding editor of Eye magazine, and is a contributing editor and columnist of Print magazine in New York. In 2003 he co-founded Design Observer, which rapidly became a leading design weblog. He lectures internationally on design matters and has been a Visiting Professor and a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2002 he researched and edited a special issue of Eye about Australian graphic design. Poynor’s books include Typographica (2001), Obey the Giant (2001), an essay collection, No More Rules (2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, and Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (2004) to accompany the “Communicate” exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, which he curated. His most recent book is Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008), a study of the radical Dutch designer.
Andy Polaine
In 1994, Andy Polaine co-founded the award-winning new-media collective Antirom in London and worked with clients such as the BBC, The Science Museum and Levis Strauss and Co. (for which they won a D&AD Silver Pencil) as well exhibiting several interactive installations and performances around the world.
Andy was also a producer at dotcom giant Razorfish in the UK before moving to Australia where he started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic. He was a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at the College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Head of the School of Media Arts.
Now living in Germany, Andy has been a Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University and continues to work as a lecturer (both online and face-to-face), interaction designer and writer and is completing a PhD examining interactivity and play. He is the founder and Editor of The Designer's Review of Books: http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com and has published over 160 articles and papers as well as his own blog, Playpen: http://www.polaine.com/playpen. A regular speaker at a range of conferences and institutions he was recently a jury member for the Art Directors Club Interactive Awards in New York.
Thanks to all of that he no longer has any time to play anything other than the fool and the saxophone, sometimes simultaneously.
www.polaine.com
David Lancashire
David’s standing in the design community is reflected in his membership of Alliance Graphique Internationale. His work has been recognised with many awards and has appeared in numerous Australian and international graphic design publications. Originally from the United Kingdom, David studied fine arts there before settling in Australia.
After working in advertising and design he set up his own practice in 1976. He is still a practicing fine artist. With more than 25 years in the design industry, David’s experience encompasses a wide range of design disciplines including corporate identity programs, packaging, publication design, exhibition and environmental design. His clients have included Air New Zealand, Berri Estates, Kraft, Sportsgirl, Oberoi Hotels, Mitre 10, Parks Victoria, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Melbourne Museum, the Koorie Heritage Trust, APPM, Safeway and SOCOG. His ability to lift design solutions beyond the ordinary has produced many exciting and innovative projects.
A former Victorian President of the Australian Graphic Design Association and President of the Melbourne Art Directors Club, David has served as a judge on many Award Committees and has also been a member of many Advisory Committees.
David has built an enviable reputation designing everything from a postage stamp to three dimensional exhibition spaces, but it is the more recent work in the area of interpretive design that has been awarded and praised by his peers. His vast experience in the interpretation of environmental, cultural and natural values and especially his collaboration with Indigenous cultures, has resulted in world class visitor centres in remote parts of Australia, including Bowali Visitor Centre and National Park Headquarters in Kakadu (N.T.), Warradjan Cultural Centre in Kakadu and the Karijini Visitor Centre in the Pilbara (W.A.). He is also responsible for the Bunjilaka Visitor Centre at Melbourne Museum (Vic).
His experience in this area derives from his own extraordinary interest in forms of cultural diversity and capacity for understanding the natural environment.
Most recently, David was asked to join the board of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).
David has had two sell out painting exhibitions prior to this show and his work is in private collections in France, UK, USA and Australia. He also has limited edition posters in the collections of V&A Museum in London, the Olympic Museum in Switzerland, and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.
www.davidlancashiredesign.com.au
Rick Bennett
Rick is a Senior Lecturer from the School of Design Studies at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales. He is also a visiting professor at De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts in Manilla and the founder and Director of The Omnium Research Group.
Raised in South London, and following ten years as a special effects designer in the UK film and TV industry, Rick Bennett joined the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales in 1993 as a member of academic staff based within the School of Design Studies.
In 1998, Rick founded Omnium, an ongoing research initiative that explores online collaborative creativity (OCC) in the visual arts. Five years later he was also appointed head of COFA Online: a newly formed academic unit established to design, produce and host fully-online education courses across a range of art and design disciplines. He is currently completing his PhD thesis at the University of Sydney, titled ‘Drawing on The Virtual Collective.’
Over the last decade Rick's work through Omnium has evolved from directing numerous global online creative projects, (including some in collaboration with ICOGRADA) to a recent series of community outreach projects to help artisans and craftworkers in less fortunate parts of the world.
Such projects have included designing visual public awareness campaigns of critical health issues for villagers in Kenya and Uganda, as well as producing contemporary designs for urban installations and home-ware products made by embroiderers and woodworkers in remote, rural regions of the Philippines.
www.omnium.net.au/oop
Digital Eskimo
David Gravina is the founder of Digital Eskimo and currently acts as Principal and Creative Director. He has spent fifteen years in the design and digital media industries, building a career and portfolio that are notable for their balanced contributions to both the commercial and activist domains.
After studying Information Systems at Monash University in Melbourne, in the 1990s Dave worked with Fairfax subsidiary BigHand as lead creative producer of a youth culture CD-ROM magazine and freelanced for various leading design agencies such as Extro Design and Rhythm Media (now Jack Morton). He also spent time in London at brand agency OTM Brand and at Ogilvy & Mather’s digital arm, NoHo Digital.
He returned to Australia in 2000 with a greater political awareness and began to work on social change projects in the evenings while freelancing at a dot com startup. Unolympics used satire to highlight human rights and social and environmental issues during the Olympics. The projection of a tall ship with the words Boat People onto the Opera House took on the Government’s atrocious refugee policy and gained front-page coverage.
Dave established Digital Eskimo in 2001 with the intention of creating social change using sustainability principles and the power of Design and digital technologies. Under Dave’s direction, the agency has developed design strategies for companies as large as Telstra Bigpond and as small as independent media outlets such as newmatilda.com. Highlights have included award-winning campaigns for Your Rights at Work and Raise The Bar, and groundbreaking projects for Amnesty International, WWF Australia and the Sydney Symphony.
Michelle Gilmore joined Digital Eskimo in 2007, bringing with her 7 years of experience in Industrial and User Centred Design, Digital Strategy and Marketing. After graduating from Swinburne’s National School of Design with a Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design, Michelle received a UMAT government grant to spend a year in Malaysia implementing sustainability principles and methodologies within university infrastructures.
Good design changes lives and Michelle saw the impact that Digital Eskimo’s work was having in regards to a number of social issues at the time and was attracted to Digital Eskimo as an agency that took responsibility for its actions. Working as a Senior Experience Architect, Michelle has been responsible for the successful delivery of a range of projects such as UNSW and WWF. Michelle is interested in user centered design, user experience, digital strategy, industrial and service design, facilitation and user research.
http://digitaleskimo.net
Jaqueline Gothe
University of Technology Sydney
Jacqueline Gothe is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication Design, University of Technology Sydney and has a background in communication and information design. Her research practice has two strands - collaborative visual communication design research projects and an ongoing commitment to a visual practice. The research projects include a long-term partnership with indigenous communities in Cape York through the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways Project (www.tkrp.com.au) focusing on how visual communication design can support traditional land management practices, particularly in relation to fire and water; and interdisciplinary engagements with catchment management authorities in order to build transdisciplinary approaches to the decision making about our environment.
Her interest in traditional indigenous knowledge systems and land management has led her to begin an investigation of the secular sacred in relation to notions of sustainability through a visual process that allows a recognition of connection to place, country and the relational. Her recent exhibitions at Perfomance Space, Carriageworks and DAB LAB Research Gallery UTS include drawings, prints and paintings and immersive new media environments.
www.dab.uts.edu.au |
