Australian Design Radio

This episode we did a house call and visited Tarra van Amerongen, Group Director of Fjord, to talk about her role and how she thinks about the future. A massive shout out to Streamtime, as it’s with our new travelling recording kit that we were able to do this. Tarra has recently had a baby boy so we started there, talking about the change a baby brings and how she wants to redesign the complete h...

In this episode, we spoke with Jordan Stokes, Design Director at Born and Raised. We spoke about Jord's extensive stint doing internships back in the UK (Flyn goes on a short rant) about this, before talking about his experiences at some amazing studios in the UK including The Case and Music, Riding BMX’s over posters to create work, and working with other talented designers like Craig Oldham. Jor...

In this episode, we spoke with Ben and Paul from UK’s Design Studio. We spoke about their history growing up in the same small town in Englands’ north and moving to London to start their careers to working at small and large studios to finally getting together to create DesignStudio. DesignStudio are a powerhouse with clients such as Twitter, Airbnb, EPL and Deliveroo to name a few. Their philosop...

This episode was recorded late 2017 on the morning after Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree's AGDA talk in Sydney, just after the solar eclipse – which was pretty pointless in Australia, as we couldn’t see it. Still, that didn’t stop us having a lively and far reaching conversation about the couple, being both married in life and work. Discovering they are both huge Anime fans led us down a dark an...

In this episode, we spoke with Designer, Director and Animator Tim Clapham of Luxx. Motion Designers rejoice, we sat down with Tim Clapham of Luxx. If you’ve searched for a tutorial for motions design chances are you’ve heard Tim’s voice guiding you through some new feature or process. Tim is an industry heavyweight so we brought own on motion expert Ian Haigh along to ask some pointy questions. W...

In this episode, we spoke with Beck Feiner, Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Beck is an illustrator as well as a high-concept Art Director, with a work history with some of the top agencies in Sydney, today Beck follows her true passion, Illustration. We spoke about award school, the importance of connections and relationships in her career, her experience moving to London at the be...

In this episode, we spoke with Kitiya Palaskas, Craft-based Designer from Melbourne. We spoke about podcasting goths, goth dads and being a goth in the United Arab Emirates, yep, with Kitiya Palaskas you never know where the conversation will go. This episode was recorded at the Adobe Make It conference in Sydney. Ian Haigh sits in for Flyn, who was busy helping run the event. Kitiya has long been...

In this episode, we spoke with Nicole Tung Photographer and Photojournalist. Warning, we talk about people and experiences in war zones and PTSD which may be triggering for some listeners. We were lucky enough to be at the Australian Adobe Make It conference and managed to get some time with Photographer, Nicole Tung. Flyn was involved with running the conference so we grabbed our good friend Ian...

In this episode, we spoke with Nuno Silva, Vice President of Product at Stocksy United and Commercial Photographer. We caught up with Nuno at The Design Conference Brisbane earlier this year and talked about his background in graphic design and how he transitioned into photography, we spoke about Stocksy and how Stocksy saw an opportunity to lift the whole profession it’s set up very much in the a...

In this episode, we spoke with Lauren Carney, Freelance Illustrator and Artist from Brisbane. Lauren’s playful approach to her work is in stark contrast to her work savvy and approach to promotion and business acumen. She has an appreciation for all things arty, crafty and vintage which shows through her work. We spoke about Lauren’s approach to treating social media followers well by trying to re...

In this episode, we spoke with Graham Barton, creative director of Folk. Folk is a 30+ strong independent brand identity and UX design consultancy in Sydney. Graham’s focus is on brand strategy and its creative expression. Thoughtful design. Ideas and keeping things simple. Searching for the surprisingly obvious. Prior to his now six years at Folk, Graham was seven years as design director at Prin...

In this episode, we spoke with Mark Gowing interdisciplinary artist working across communications, publishing and visual art and Founder of Formist. As big fans of Mark Gowings work over the years, we giddily spoke about his membership to AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and the impact it has had on him, publishing, inspiration and art objects, changes at Formist, working without clients an...

In this episode, we spoke with Ian Anderson Founder of iconic design studio The Designers Republic™. tDR is a graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips, best known for Electronic Music logos and album artwork. Flyn spoke to Ian about visiting Australia for the speaking tour through AGDA, his influences and methods towards design, breaking...

In this review, roundup...whatever... we spoke a bit about The Design Conference in Brisbane where we ran Q&A, our excitement that Damien Aistrope of Australian InFront is coming back to Australia, friends leaving (Mark Stott), some AGDA events in Australia, VIVID, UX Australia, Paper suppliers KW Doggett and BJ Ball merging and whatever happened to Desktop Magazine? Show notes Graphic Design Docu...

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This is the first episode of a new style of the show where we can catch up and talk about what's going on in our design world. We're still producing the guest episodes, but we want to do more. If you hate this idea or love it let us know!

In this episode, we spoke with Nick Bannikoff, Design Manager of Brand Culture. Starting as an industrial designer, Nick moved into environmental design and saw the transition from that slightly confusing name into how it is now known, as experiential design. Yep, nothing to do with sustainable green environment work with Greenpeace. As an experiential designer (the first we’ve had on the show), N...

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Laws, Managing Director of Born & Raised. Born & Raised, an agency that sits comfortably within branding, design and campaign driven projects. Enduring brand strategy and design craft underpins commercially-driven brands, campaigns, content and experiences. We spoke with Chris about his journey from backing himself through Award School and learning the graphic...

EP52 Nick Rudenno on Subscribing to Life Nick is now Senior Designer at Interbrand Sydney after four years of running Nowhere Famous with business partner and best pal Mig Sicari. Nowhere famous is known for their tactile and craft based approach from a book about delivering content online for google to physical anamorphic projections. We spoke about not sleeping when you have a kid, how Nick went...

In this episode, we spoke with Illustrator, Letterer, Artist and Designer Gemma O’Brien. Gemma is one of the most well known illustrators in Australia right now. Over the past five years or so, she has been constantly in demand for her murals, illustrations, artwork and speaking gigs here in Australia and also around the world. Her work takes on a variety of forms, from calligraphic brushwork, ill...

Episode 50 with Frankie Ratford on The Road Less Traveled In this episode, we catch up with our very first guest and good friend, Frankie Ratford from The Design Kids. We interviewed Frankie in our very first ADR episode and since then, Frankie has been on a mammoth two-year trip, covering New Zealand, the United States and Canada, connecting designers, building TDK cities and spreading the Aussie...

In this episode, we spoke to designer, author, illustrator, artist, experimenter Timothy Goodman from New York. Recorded during the second day of the Adobe MAX conference in San Diego we took some time away from activities to sit with Tim and talk through his recent projects and his thoughts on design as a practice, not a profession. Tim is well known for his collaborations with Jessica Walsh on t...

EP48 with Dan Stiles on Letting Things Unfold   In this episode, we spoke to designer and illustrator Dan Styles from Portland, Oregon.   This was recorded during the Adobe MAX conference where we were surrounded by some international superstars, so we broke some of own rules and made Dan our first non-ANZ guest. We also took the opportunity to give a quick run down of what we were seeing on the f...

In this episode, we spoke with James K Lowe a Fashion Photographer from New Zealand. James is the first New Zealand creative to come on the show. We met James while visiting San Diego for the Adobe MAX Conference and found the time to sneak away for a chat. James is often referred to as a technical photographer and his work speaks for itself. We spoke about photographers that James gets inspiratio...

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Panzetta, Managing Director and co-founder of S1T2. S1T2 today stands for Story 1st Technology 2nd which is an apt name for a company that tinkers with new technology to tell stories. S1T2 operates from Surry Hills in Sydney and we focused on the Virtual Reality and emerging technology side of the business. We spoke about experiential technology and how people...