Australian Design Radio

In this episode, we speak with each other and reflect on the first two seasons of Australian Design Radio.

in this episode, we spoke with Matt Jackson, owner of Drawing Book Studios and Founder of Affectors and Affectors Academy. Affectors facilitate highly interactive workshops with organisations and individuals to lift performance and inspire action. We dig deeper into his businesses and the difference between an effect and an affect, and why creatives need to be thinking more about the difference. M...

In this episode, we spoke with Buzz Usborne Product Lead at Prevue. Buzz (real name Pete) is well known in the digital design and user experience sectors having worked for digital giants such as Campaign Monitor, Mentally Friendly and Skype. He’s also the founder and product lead on Prevue, a much-loved presentation tool in many digital agencies. In this conversation we discuss the conception of P...

In this episode, we spoke with Rich Davy, Design Director of Lowe Profero. Rich is a well-known entity in Australian digital agencies with his LinkedIn page reading like a who’s who of the industry; DT, Deloitte Digital, Reactive, Isobar to name a few. Since recording Rich has taken a new position as Associate Creative Director at Huge in NYC. In this conversation, we spend a lot of time talking t...

In this episode, we spoke with Jenni Doran, Design Director of Landor Associates. Jenni has over 12 years experience in consumer brand identity and FMCG design. At the time of recording she was working with Landor Associates in Sydney and since then has Co-Founded Creative Agency Our Revolution. We spoke about packaging, mainly talking about home brands, and schools not really teaching packaging a...

In this episode, we spoke with Tim Kotsiakos, Creative Director & Founder of Mass. A studio based in Melbourne, Mass designs rational and expressive digital experiences through design thinking. Before starting Mass, Tim K worked with the folks at Reactive (part of Accenture). In this conversation, we discuss why he decided it was time to start his own thing, how he came up with the name and what i...

In this episode, we spoke with Matt Hopper, Director and Founder of Melbourne based video content studio Compulsive. Over the past decade, Matt has produced creative projects across both big and small screens for international brands, boutique creative teams as well as government & institutional clients. This work includes television commercials, branded content, original web-series, and education...

In this episode, we spoke with Nathan Leong, Founder and Managing Director of The Distillery and Rockstar Memoirs. The Distillery is well known by just about every designer in Sydney and many interstate Australian designers. Nathan is also the Founder and owner of Rockstar Memoirs who caters specifically for high school graduate yearbooks. We spoke about how great things happen with initiative, th...

In this episode, we spoke with Nick Gower Co-Founder and Director of Mentally Friendly. Nick founded Mentally friendly in 2004 with Jon Christensen and since then it has grown to over 50 staff based in Sydney and London. Today they help companies design and grow profitable digital businesses through planning, UX/UI design, product development, product growth and content & community. We spoke with...

In this episode, we spoke with Ian Haigh computer guy/video guy/bon vivant from motion graphics company Ketchup. Ian runs his own business Ketchup which is a small company that uses film and animation to tell stories of brands – and the people behind them. He also wrote the script for Ease and Wizz. This episode was recorded live on stage at an event in Sydney called Jacky Winter Gives You The Bus...

In this episode, we spoke with each other. We kick the conversation off by listing off the designers we would love to chat to during the next season before heading into the Hillary Clinton logo meme - it’s making World news at the moment and if you haven’t already read the stories then Milton Glaser’s piece on the AIGA blog is well worth a look. We discuss the Apple Watch and why Matt bottled out...

In this episode, we spoke with Julie Faktor freelance design writer and Co-Founder/Creative Director of Yonder. Along with her business partner, Benjamin Gay Yonder creates a hybrid service bringing advertising and design together under one roof. This is a good analogy for Julie as well who throughout recent years has sought to bring more awareness to each side in the advertising/design divide thr...

In this episode, we spoke with Amy Sheppard the Digital Creative Director of Australia Post. Amy has had a long history of working both in and out of client-side so she’s the perfect person to give both sides of the story. As you’ll guess from her accent, Amy has only been in Australia for about two years. Previously working for Deloitte in both Sydney and Melbourne she hails from New York where s...

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Billing Founder and Director of the Foundry. The Foundry, a start-up collective devoted to bringing a larger spotlight to the creative communities of Tasmania. In this discussion, we spend some time looking at the Tasmanian design scene and the good and bad of being an island. We talk about the ‘main-brain-drain’ where creative talent feels the need to move to...

In this episode, we spoke with Tim Buesing, Executive Creative Director at Reactive. Tim has over 20 years experience in digital design and has worked for agencies such as BBDO, Publicis, Razorfish and MetaDesign. For the last three years, he’s been known as a Creative Director of Reactive, editor of Adverblog contributor to Australian in Front and speaker at numerous events around the World. Tim...

In this episode, we spoke with Jason Little, Co-Founder of For the People. Jason is known for a lot of things but mostly branding, in fact he’s been featured by D&AD multiple times for his branding and even been picked to be in the Graphis Branding annual. He’s been the Creative Director of Landor, not just here but also in Paris, still is AGDA NSW Chairman and up until recently was heading up Re:...

In this episode, we spoke with Mark Stott of Common Creative. Stott started Common in 2005 as a boutique design agency concentrating on brand and visual solutions. Mark originally started out in London working for the Designer’s Republic – the poster studio for a whole generation of designers. In ’97 Mark moved to the Attik before immigrating to Australia to set it up over here. 11 years ago thoug...

In this episode, we spoke with Kevin Finn Founder of TheSumOf, DesignNerd, and Editor and Founder of Open Manifesto. For fans of lateral thinking and The Six Thinking Hats, Kevin talks about what it was like to have de Bono Global as a client and how, Collaborating with Amanda Mobbs (CEO of de Bono Global) he developed a brand and visual language around Edward de Bono's life's work. If you haven’t...

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Doyle of Christopher Doyle and Co. In 2009 Christopher was named one of InDesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces before going on to set up his own studio: Christopher Doyle & Co. His work has won numerous awards both in and out of Australia and he regularly speaks on the design industry. Among the many topics covered Christopher talks about seeing Sons & Co. as part o...

In this, the very first episode of Australian Design Radio, we talk with Frankie Ratford Founder of The Design Kids. Frankie is one of the most active people in the design industry, having founded TDK in 2009 she's worked all over Australia including traveling tours in the TDK bus and more recently jumping from city to city for the TDK Fourplay exhibitions.